Monday, December 1, 2003

Wells Fargo Selects Calypso for Interest Rate Derivatives Business

San Francisco, 01 December 2003 – Calypso Technology announced today that Wells Fargo has selected the Calypso system for trading and processing of their interest rate derivatives business.

"We explored a variety of options for the new system, including vendor offerings and building a solution in-house. We found that Calypso had rich functionality that would serve our business needs well and give us a fast time to market," said Adrian Kayari, Head of Financial Products at Wells Fargo. "The ability to consolidate a significant number of stand alone applications into a single turn-key trading platform should improve our productivity, and enable us to take our business to the next level, both in terms of trade volume and sophistication."

Technology and support also played an important role in the system selection.

"Calypso has a strong technology platform that can handle special requirements well - for example, the ability to integrate our own analytics is a key benefit. We also evaluated the company's support processes carefully and feel confident that we will get support of a high quality from Calypso," added Kayari.

"We are excited about Wells Fargo joining us as a customer," said Charles Marston, CEO of Calypso. "They are well known for their focus on innovation in technology. Their selection of Calypso as the technology vendor for a key business validates our efforts in building the right system for the market."

About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $391 billion in assets, providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer finance from more than 5,900 stores and the Internet (wellsfargo.com) across North America and elsewhere internationally. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. is the only "Aaa"-rated bank in the United States.