Richard Harris Featured Speaker at Oklahoma IT Symposium

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14000 Quail Springs Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73134 Contact: Great Ink Communications: 212-741-2977 First Financial Network, Inc. Roxanne Donovan – [email protected] Merrie Duncan – 800-245- 8695 Barbara Nelson – [email protected] [email protected] Jimmy Lappas – [email protected] First Financial Network’s Richard Harris to Discuss Design and Implementation of Virtual Disaster Recovery Environments at Fourth Annual Oklahoma IT Symposium Oklahoma City, OK – August 17, 2009 – Richard Harris, Director of Information Technology for First Financial Network (FFN), the nation’s leading full-service financial and loan sale advisor, will be one of the featured guest panelists at the Fourth Annual Oklahoma IT Symposium to be held at the Doubletree® Downtown Tulsa on August 27 th . Mr. Harris will join other IT executives representing 65 of the region’s top organizations and will be part of the panel discussing “Virtual Disaster Recovery,” a hot topic in today’s technology- dependent business environment. A leader in IT infrastructure, Mr. Harris will discuss how First Financial Network designed and implemented a virtual disaster recovery environment without disruption to the company’s overall operations. “As the preferred provider of loan sale advisory services to many top banking institutions and government agencies, we are constantly tasked with developing more advanced systems, while faced with daunting regulatory demands and relentless availability requirements from our customers,” notes Mr. Harris. “Designing and implementing new technologies to better serve our clients’ needs is one of our company’s core strengths and what has helped make First Financial Network the industry leader for more than two decades.” During his presentation, Mr. Harris will highlight some of the issues the firm faced and the decisions made on the road to a successful PRESS RELEASE

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14000 Quail Springs Parkway, Suite 200Oklahoma City, OK 73134

Contact: Great Ink Communications: 212-741-2977 First Financial Network, Inc.Roxanne Donovan – [email protected] Merrie Duncan – 800-245-8695Barbara Nelson – [email protected] [email protected] Lappas – [email protected]

First Financial Network’s Richard Harris to Discuss Design and Implementation of Virtual Disaster Recovery Environments at Fourth Annual Oklahoma IT Symposium

Oklahoma City, OK – August 17, 2009 – Richard Harris, Director of Information Technology for First Financial Network (FFN), the nation’s leading full-service financial and loan sale advisor, will be one of the featured guest panelists at the Fourth Annual Oklahoma IT Symposium to be held at the Doubletree® Downtown Tulsa on August 27th. Mr. Harris will join other IT executives representing 65 of the region’s top organizations and will be part of the panel discussing “Virtual Disaster Recovery,” a hot topic in today’s technology-dependent business environment.

A leader in IT infrastructure, Mr. Harris will discuss how First Financial Network designed and implemented a virtual disaster recovery environment without disruption to the company’s overall operations.

“As the preferred provider of loan sale advisory services to many top banking institutions and government agencies, we are constantly tasked with developing more advanced systems, while faced with daunting regulatory demands and relentless availability requirements from our customers,” notes Mr. Harris. “Designing and implementing new technologies to better serve our clients’ needs is one of our company’s core strengths and what has helped make First Financial Network the industry leader for more than two decades.”

During his presentation, Mr. Harris will highlight some of the issues the firm faced and the decisions made on the road to a successful implementation of two remote replicating Storage Area Networks and describe their environment, before and after.

For more information on the Fourth Annual Oklahoma IT Symposium, please visit the event website at www.efmevents.com.

About First Financial Network Since its founding in 1989, FFN has defined the loan sale industry, selling billions of dollars in loans and other assets in 28 countries. The nation’s leading provider of financial and loan sale advisory services, FFN currently serves more top 25 banking institutions than any other firm in the nation. In addition, the company is a preferred loan sale advisor for agencies of the Federal government, major foreign banks and other lenders. The company’s online Loan Trading Platform and Metrics an integrated transaction management system, are used in conjunction with exceptional marketing techniques to achieve optimal value in today’s secondary market. For further information, call 405.748.4100 or visit www.firstfinancialnet.com.

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