GFKL Financial Services AG / Christian Weber appointed new chief financial officer of GFKL Financial Services AG processed and transmitted by Hugin AS. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. 

  * Christian Weber has been named the new chief financial officer of GFKL
    Financial Services AG effective April 1, 2010
  * Tom Haverkamp, GFKL executive board member, is leaving the company


Essen, February 24, 2010: The supervisory board of GFKL Financial Services AG, a
leading provider of claims management and software, has appointed Christian
Weber to the executive board effective April 1, 2010. In addition to other
duties he will head the finance, controlling and accounting sections. Mr. Weber
has many years of related career experience and most recently served as CFO of
DISKO, a subsidiary of GE Capital.

Tom Haverkamp, executive board member, is leaving the company due to differences
of opinion regarding the future strategy of the company. The supervisory board
of GFKL has relieved Mr. Tom Haverkamp of his duties and position as executive
board member effective immediately. His duties will be performed by Jürgen
Baltes, executive board member, until the new CFO is in place.

"We are glad that were able to recruit Christian Weber, a very experienced chief
financial officer, for the post of CFO of GFKL Financial Services AG. With
Jürgen Baltes and Christian Weber GFKL has a top team that will continue to
pursue the successful strategy of the company," Wilhelm Plumpe, chairman of the
supervisory board of GFKL AG, said.


About GFKL Financial Services AG
GFKL is a financial services provider for modern collection services with the
divisions Collection and Software. The Group's expertise in the debt recovery
segment ranges from the trust management of commercial and credit receivables
through to evaluating, taking over and handling personal loans and mortgages.
Servicing receivables worth EUR23 billion, GFKL is one of Germany's leading debt
recovery providers. In the area of technology, GFKL offers modern software
solutions for the entire bank lending process and all links of the insurance
value chain, rounded out with solutions for automated collection procedures for
industry and the public sector.


Press officer:

Katrin Schwarz
Head of Corporate Communications
and Investor Relations

Tel.: +49 (0)201/102-1192
Fax: +49 (0)201/102-1102-462
E-mail: katrin.schwarz@gfkl.com
www.gfkl.com



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