Ebix Announces its Focus on Singapore & India as Centers of Technology Excellence

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 decided to further strengthen its operations in Singapore & India, towards centralizing the company’s worldwide software development and intellectual property rights in the region.

Ebix announced that it has strengthened its development operations further in India by purchasing another building in the Tax Free zone in Noida, India under the SEZ act of the Govt. of India. This new building will expand Ebix’s development capacity to 620 developers in the SEZ area. Under the SEZ act of the Govt. of India, Ebix has received free status for 5 years till 2014-15 and 50% tax-free status for 5 years after that. The SEZ Company in India is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ebix Singapore.

The company also declared today that it is centralizing all its international accounting operations for all countries outside United States, in India. In addition, the company is also presently finishing an exercise to empower its Singapore Company as the Global headquarters for all intellectual property rights across the company. Ebix’s Singapore operations coupled with its subsidiary development and accounting operations in India, will result in the region becoming the center of excellence for the company, in terms of Ebix’s worldwide intellectual property rights and software development operations.

Making the above announcement, the company also issued a projection for its tax rates over the next few years. The company declared that it expects the tax rate for the company globally, to increase in a gradual fashion, by 3 to 7% over the next 24 months to a global effective tax rate ranging from 8 to 12%. The company has been receiving lots of requests from shareholders over the last few months, to get an overview of the company’s tax projections over the next few years and thus decided to issue a projection on the tax rate.

About Ebix

A leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry, Ebix, Inc., (NASDAQ:EBIX) provides end to end solutions ranging from infrastructure Exchanges, carrier systems, agency systems and BPO services to custom software development for all entities involved in the insurance industry.

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

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