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                     NATIONSBANK RENEWS CARD PROCESSING CONTRACT
                           WITH TOTAL SYSTEM SERVICES
                Company Signs Long-term Agreement for Card Processing

     Columbus, Ga., October 25, 1995 - Today, Total System Services, Inc., (NYSE
- -TSS)  (TSYS),  announced the renewal of a long-term  contract  with  Charlotte,
North  Carolina-based  NationsBank  to  continue  processing  their  credit card
portfolio. NationsBank has been a customer of TSYS since the early eighties.

     "We have enjoyed a very rewarding  relationship  with  NationsBank over the
years,  and we are  extremely  excited that it will continue with the signing of
this new contract," said Philip W. Tomlinson, TSYS President. "NationsBank is an
aggressive  customer,  and the TSYS team is  committed  to helping  them achieve
their objectives by providing outstanding customer service and support."

     NationsBank  Card  Services,  with more than $6.2  billion  in  outstanding
loans, is one of the largest issuers of Visa and MasterCard  credit cards in the
United  States.  Headquartered  in  Charlotte,  N.C.,  NationsBank  has a retail
banking  franchise in nine states and the District of Columbia.  As of September
30, 1995, NationsBank had total assets of $182 billion.

     Headquartered in Columbus,  Ga., TSYS is one of the world's largest credit,
debit and  private-label  card  processing  companies,  serving 139 primary card
issuing and acquiring  institutions located throughout the United States, Puerto
Rico, Canada and Mexico,  representing  approximately 57 million  cardholder and
600,000 merchant  accounts.  TSYS offers a comprehensive  on-line system of data
processing  services  marketed  as THE  TOTAL  SYSTEM (Trade  Mark).  TSYS' 1994
revenues totaled $187.6 million. The company is an 80.8 percent owned subsidiary
of Synovus Financial Corp. (NYSE -"SNV"), a $7.6 billion asset,  multi-financial
services  company that also incudes 34 banking  affiliates in four  southeastern
states and a full-service brokerage firm.
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