MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 2, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- First Horizon National Corp.'s technology group has earned double national recognition for innovation. The group earned its fourth consecutive spot on the InformationWeek 500, which recognizes innovative technology, and the group's leader, Patrick Ruckh, is featured on the cover of Bank Systems and Technology, which highlights Ruckh and five other chief information officers as Banking's Most Innovative CIOs 2006.
The InformationWeek honor spotlights the power of innovation in information technology. First Horizon earned the recognition with a project that has provided measurable improvements in service delivery to customers, partners and investors in areas as varied as the fulfillment of customer sales requests, mortgage delivery and servicing operations, and regulatory and compliance controls. By combining technology and the latest methods with collaboration among business groups, solution delivery times were reduced by up to 40 percent.
Ruckh's interview in Bank Systems and Technology focuses on his leadership style and his group's successes. "The technology is cool and fun," he is quoted as saying. "But where I get my kicks is seeing people grow and provide better service to our customers. You want to enable high-performing people to succeed and make the company successful." The magazine highlights First Horizon's national leadership role in remote deposit capture, which was made possible by Check 21 legislation that allows images of checks to be exchanged electronically in place of paper checks.
The First Horizon recognition appears in the September issue of Bank Systems and Technology and the Sept. 12 edition of InformationWeek. More information is available at www.banktech.com and www.informationweek.com.
About First Horizon
The 12,000 employees of First Horizon National Corp. (NYSE:FHN) provide financial services to individuals and business customers through hundreds of offices located in more than 40 states. The corporation's three major brands -- FTN Financial, First Horizon and First Tennessee -- provide customers with a broad range of products and services including:
-- Capital markets, one of the nation's top underwriters of U.S.
government agency securities
-- Mortgage banking, one of the nation's top 25 mortgage originators
and top 15 servicers, which earned a top-10 ranking in customer
satisfaction from J.D. Power and Associates
-- Retail/commercial banking, with the largest market share in
Tennessee and one of the highest customer retention rates of any
bank in the country
FHN companies have been recognized as some of the nation's best employers by AARP, Working Mother and Fortune magazines. FHN also was named one of the nation's 100 best corporate citizens by Business Ethics magazine. More information can be found at www.fhnc.com.