ATLANTA, GA – December 7, 2009 — Ebix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EBIX), a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry, today announced that it has signed a term sheet for a new expanded credit line with Bank of America, for a two year period. The credit facility will include three key components –
The Company announced that the revolving credit facility and the term loan adding up to $35 million would carry an interest rate of Libor plus 175 basis points. With Libor presently at 0.24, this at present would translate to an interest rate of 1.99%. The Company also announced that as of 30th November 2009, the company’s cash balances in the bank were approximately $15 million. In addition, the unused portion of the credit facility with the accordion feature, calculated as of 30th November 2009 was $22.2 million. Robert Kerris, CFO of Ebix said, “The expansion of this credit line is a further testament to the strength of our balance sheet and operating results. Our present cash balances coupled with the unused portion of the credit facility, provide us access to $36.2 million of cash to fund any future acquisitions. In addition, the Company continues to generate strong cash flows every month that will result in even more cash funds to fuel the future growth of our business.” Robin Raina, President and CEO of Ebix added, “We consider Bank of America-Merrill Lynch as a true partner to Ebix since our relationship with them is not limited to them being our banker only. Merrill Lynch has been one of our esteemed Exchange clients for many years now and this year we have been successful in bringing Bank of America to join our Exchange platform too. We believe that the signing of this expanded credit facility further strengthens our relationship with Bank of America-Merrill Lynch.” The company also declared today the summary goals that it has laid out for its senior management, till Q4 of 2011. These goals were laid out in the senior management meeting on December 6, at Newark. “As a management team, we have always liked to create short term goals for ourselves and then disclose them to our shareholders, if anything to give them another analytic to measure us by. In 2007, we had announced a short-term goal of trying to get to annualized run rate of $100 million in revenues by Q4 of 2009, with 30 percent or more operating margins. Clearly we will do a lot better than that annualized run rate goal in Q4 of 2009.” Robin said, “We believe that the investor conference in New York today is an opportunity to define a similar new future goal for Ebix.” Robin added, “We are going to target annualized revenue run rate of $200 million by Q4 of 2011 with 42 percent or more operating margins. I will emphasize that this goal is an aspiration that may or may not be finally achieved by the company. Accordingly, it should not be construed as guidance on the company’s future results, by the management.” About Ebix With 30+ offices across Singapore, Australia, the US, New Zealand, India, China, Japan and Canada, Ebix powers multiple exchanges across the world in the field of life, annuity, health and property & casualty insurance, while conducting in excess of $100 billion in insurance premiums on its platforms. Through its various SaaS based software platforms, Ebix employs hundreds of insurance and technology professionals that provide products, support and consultancy to thousands of customers on six continents. Ebix’s focus on quality has enabled it to be awarded Level 5 status of the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model (CMM). Ebix has also earned ISO 9001:2000 certification for both its development and BPO units in India. For more information, visit the Company’s website at www.ebix.com CONTACT: Safe Harbor for Forward Looking Statements under
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performance and financial condition, liquidity and capital resources, acceptance
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and other factors which could cause actual results to vary materially from those
expressed in, or implied by, the forward looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties
and other factors include the extent to which the Company's new products and
services can be successfully developed and marketed, the integration and other
risks associated with recent and future acquisitions, the willingness of independent
insurance agencies to outsource their computer and other processing needs to
third parties, the Company's ability to continue to develop new products to
effectively address market needs in an industry characterized by rapid technological
change, the Company's dependence on the insurance industry (and in particular
independent agents), the highly competitive and rapidly changing automation
systems market, the Company's ability to effectively protect its applications
software and other proprietary information, the Company's ability to attract
and retain quality management, and software, technical sales and other personnel,
the potential negative impact on the Company's outsourcing business in India
from adverse publicity and possible governmental regulation, the risks of disruption
of the Company's Internet connections or internal service problems, the possibly
adverse effects of a substantial increase in volume of traffic on the Company's
website, mainframe and other servers, possible security breaches on the Company's
website and the possible effects of insurance regulation on the Company's business.
Certain of these, as well as other, risks, uncertainties and other factors,
are described in more detail in Ebix’s periodic filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, including the company’s annual report on form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, included under "Item 1. Business—Risk
Factors." Except as expressly required by the federal securities laws,
the Company undertakes no obligation to update any such factors or to publicly
update any of the forward looking statements contained herein to reflect future
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