Stewart's SureClose® transaction management system shatters half-million online transaction mark

HOUSTON (Aug. 16, 2003) - Stewart Realty Solutions (SRS), a leading provider of transaction management solutions to the real estate, closing and mortgage industries, announced that the company's SureClose transaction management system (TMS) recently crossed the half-million online file mark.

"We're now seeing more than 50,000 new transactions per month managed online, a half-million documents digitized monthly, and more than 10 million Web page views monthly in our SureClose TMS platform," said Travis Wright, SRS president.

"This continued growth further establishes SureClose as the only TMS platform that's truly delivering today on the promise of paperless file management," said Wright. "Other vendors are talking about it, but our customers are already managing a high volume of formerly hard copy files in a fully paperless environment right now, today."

SRS also is responsible for deployment of the SureClose platform internally within the Stewart Title agent network, where the platform is taking title operations paperless in more than 600 offices nationwide.

About Stewart Realty Solutions

Stewart Realty Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Stewart Information Services Corp. (NYSE-STC) The company's flagship product, SureClose, delivers breakthrough simplicity for the digital transformation and management of real estate files. For more information, call 800-86-TOOLS or visit the company's Web site at http://www.sureclose.com.

About Stewart Information Services Corp.

Stewart Information Services Corp. is a technology driven, strategically competitive, real estate information and transaction management company. Stewart provides title insurance and related information services through more than 7,700 issuing locations in the United States and several international markets. Stewart meets the needs of the real estate and mortgage industries through the delivery of information services required for settlement using e-commerce. These services include title reports, flood determinations, document preparation, property reports and background checks. Stewart also supplies post-closing services to lenders, automated county clerk land records, property ownership mapping and GIS for governmental entities. Stewart provides expertise in tax-deferred exchanges. More information about Stewart can be found at http://www.stewart.com/.

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