Yodlee Announces Partnership With Nedbank

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Yodlee Announces Partnership With Nedbank

PR Newswire REDWOOD CITY, California, Sept. 6, 2012

-- Leading South African Bank Provides Personal Financial Management Tools Powered by Yodlee's Account Aggregation Technology REDWOOD CITY, California,Sept. 6, 2012/PRNewswire/ -- Yodlee today announced a partnership with Nedbank to power personal financial management (PFM) solutions for their customers throughoutSouth Africaand in their offshore locations. Nedbank's MyFinancialLife™ online offering is now available and, via Yodlee's account aggregation technology, consumers can calculate their net worth, analyze spending, budget, save for goals and more. Nedbank is Yodlee's first financial institution partner inSouth Africa, breaking new ground in providing personal financial management solutions to customers directly from a bank. "PFM is a relatively new concept inSouth Africa, but we have seen rapid adoption and consumer acceptance of aggregation-powered money management services," said Bill Parsons, head of global sales at Yodlee. "Through partnerships with leading institutions like Nedbank, we're getting significant traction inSouth Africaand are thrilled to bring smart PFM tools to over five million more consumers." Yodlee's account aggregation technology links account information from banks and non-banking service providers in a highly-secure environment. Nedbank's MyFinancialLife is a flexible, free PFM solution for individuals, families and micro-businesses. At launch, MyFinancialLife™ provides six main functions to users, who can customize their dashboard in line with their individual financial interests & requirements:

'net worth calculation'– consolidated view of your financial position, based on financial accounts linked or non-financial assets added manually; for Nedbank clients this will be pre-populated for most Nedbank accounts. 'spend analysis'- graphical depiction of spend based on the categorized card and electronic transactions. Initially a manual intervention, the system will automatically recognize all your transactions repeated with the same supplier. 'budgeting'– budgeting functionality that allows you to track your actual spend against your planned spend. 'saving for a goal'– a goal-save tool that allows you to set goals, categorise them, choose an amount you would like to save during a specific timeframe - and then calculates how much should be put aside to meet your goal – such as saving for a holiday, education or buying a new car. 'alerts'- alerts, set on budgeting or goal-save functions according to individual needs, to besent via e-mail or SMS. You can, for instance, set up alerts when 50% of your allowed credit card limit has been reached or when you have exceeded a budgeted amount on a specific spend category 'calendar view'– allows you to track debit orders against payments that need to be made, making it easy to view weekly, monthly or yearly transactions, ensuring that you have always planned to have sufficient funds available.

"At Nedbank, we're committed to empowering South Africans to achieve their financial goals. Secure, easy-to-use PFM tools that provide insight into one's full financial picture are essential to consumers' financial fitness," said Ingrid Johnson, Group Managing Executive Retail and Business Banking at Nedbank. "Yodlee helps make PFM a seamless, highly-secure experience for consumers at all stages of financial life." About Yodlee Yodlee created the industry's first, patented, personalized finance platform for global money management. Powering services for 7 of the top 10 U.S. financial institutions and more than 35 million consumers, Yodlee removes the friction from financial management, making it a more insightful, interactive, and actionable experience for consumers while delivering retention, engagement, and revenue for financial providers. Yodlee is driving the new era of digital banking - anywhere, anytime, on any device. Yodlee is headquartered inRedwood City, California. For more information, visit www.yodlee.com. About Nedbank Nedbank Group Limited is a bank holding company and one of the four largest banking groups in SA measured by assets, with a strong deposit franchise. Its principal banking subsidiary is Nedbank Limited. The company's ordinary shares have been listed on JSE Limited since 1969 and on the Namibian Stock Exchange since 2007 The Group provides wholesale and retail banking services, insurance and asset management and is headquartered in Sandton,Johannesburg. Yodlee is a registered trademark of Yodlee, Inc. Yodlee Interactive and Yodlee FinApps are trademarks of Yodlee, Inc. Any other companies, products and/or services mentioned may be registered trademarks or trademarks of, and are the property of, their respective owners.