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Hibernia Adds Flexibility and Capacity to Online Banking with Latest Corillian Voyager Platform

Hotel Booking NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 2004--Hibernia (NYSE: HIB) announced today that it will upgrade its popular online banking system with the Corillian Voyager 3.1 platform from Corillian Corp. The upgrade will enable Hibernia to respond quickly to new online banking innovations as they develop and offer the best financial-services tools to customers over the Internet.
Hibernia has partnered with online banking service provider Corillian since 1998 when BankOnline@Hibernia.com was introduced. During the past five years, the company has made many enhancements and added features to ensure BankOnline@Hibernia.com is in step with the needs and preferences of customers. More than 200,000 customers actively use the service.

8mong many firsts for the group market, the new technology platform enables consumers to do something that other sites haven k allowed to book travel and accommodations for more than five rooms in a single online session. Featuring more than 56, 000 hotels, including 7, time group rates, Groople is primed to become the industry largest automated solution for unmanaged group leisure travel, a market estimated at $18 billion to $24 billion. Under its hosted inventory and commission models, Groople generates group bookings niche by niche for hotels and plans to add air, car, cruise, bus and rail later this year.

Travel Agency "We've seen tremendous growth in the popularity of our online banking services, and with this growth we recognize that our customers expect us to deliver convenient transaction services and account information in a safe, secure online environment," said Pam Hymel, manager of Hibernia's Online Business Solutions. "The decision to upgrade to the Corillian Voyager 3.1 platform will enable us to not only meet the needs of our customers today but also help us sustain our competitive edge in the rapidly changing marketplace of online banking."

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Flight Booking Hibernia's commitment to improving its online offerings was recognized earlier this year by the Customer Respect Group, an international research and consulting firm based in Bellevue, Wash., that analyzes the online customer experience of the nation's largest companies. In January, the group ranked Hibernia eighth among the nation's 76 largest financial-services companies in its independent Online Customer Respect Study.

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Travel Agent Corillian Corp. (NASDAQ: CORI), based in Portland, Ore., is the No. 1 provider of online banking solutions to leading financial institutions. Corillian Voyager 3.1 is an industry-leading platform that allows financial institutions to deliver innovative online banking applications, including electronic bill payment and presentment, consumer banking and small-business banking.

4oceans has signed an agreement to store CCRA (Computerised Corporate Rate Association) based reservations platform. Under the terms of the deal, 4oceans will process bookings for nearly 15, 000 Hotels from the 30, 000 travel agents who currently participate in the CCRA programme. CCRA` nights annually, representing in excess of $2.56n of revenue. CCRA users will gain access to current hotel rates, availability and confirmation online through the "Plug and Play" multilingual booking channel, in addition to free marketing exposure.

Hotel Chicago Hibernia is on Forbes magazine's list of the world's 2,000 largest companies and Fortune magazine's list of America's top 1,000 companies according to annual revenue. Hibernia has $21.3 billion in assets and 310 locations in 34 Louisiana parishes and 34 Texas counties. Hibernia Corporation's common stock (HIB) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

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