Segment Information

In 2015, FIS finalized a reorganization and began reporting its financial performance based on three segments: Integrated Financial Solutions (“IFS”), Global Financial Solutions (“GFS”) and Corporate and Other. We recast all previous periods to conform to the new segment presentation. Following our November 30, 2015 acquisition of SunGard, the SunGard business was included within the GFS segment as its economic characteristics, international business model, and various other factors largely aligned with those of our GFS segment. As we further integrated the acquired SunGard businesses through March 31, 2016, we reclassified certain SunGard businesses (corporate liquidity and wealth and retirement) that are oriented more to the retail banking and payments activities of IFS into that segment. Certain other businesses from both SunGard (public sector and education businesses, which was divested on February 1, 2017), and legacy FIS (global commercial services and retail check processing) were reclassified to the Corporate and Other segment, as were SunGard administrative expenses.

Integrated Financial Solutions ("IFS")

The IFS segment is focused primarily on serving the North American regional and community bank and savings institution market for transaction and account processing, payment solutions, channel solutions, lending and wealth and retirement solutions, corporate liquidity, digital channels, risk and compliance solutions, and services, capitalizing on the continuing trend to outsource these solutions. IFS’ primary software applications function as the underlying infrastructure of a financial institution's processing environment. These applications include core bank processing software, which banks use to maintain the primary records of their customer accounts, and complementary applications and services that interact directly with the core processing applications. Clients in this segment include regional and community banks, credit unions and commercial lenders, as well as government institutions, merchants and other commercial organizations. This market is primarily served through integrated solutions and characterized by multi-year processing contracts that generate highly recurring revenues. The predictable nature of cash flows generated from this segment provides opportunities for further investments in innovation, integration, information and security, and compliance in a cost effective manner. The business solutions in this segment included the risk and compliance consulting business through its divestiture on July 31, 2017 (Note 15).

Global Financial Solutions ("GFS")

The GFS segment is focused on serving the largest global financial institutions and/or international financial institutions with a broad array of capital markets and asset management and insurance solutions, as well as banking and payments solutions.

GFS clients include the largest global financial institutions, including those headquartered in the United States, as well as all international financial institutions we serve as clients in more than 130 countries. These institutions face unique business and regulatory challenges and account for the majority of financial institution information technology spend globally. The purchasing patterns of GFS clients vary from those of IFS clients who typically purchase solutions on an outsourced basis. GFS clients purchase our solutions and services in various ways including licensing and managing technology “in-house”, fully outsourced end-to-end solutions, and using consulting and third party service providers. We have long-established relationships with many of these financial institutions that generate significant recurring revenue. GFS clients also include asset managers, buy- and sell-side securities and trading firms, insurers and private equity firms. This segment also includes the Company's consolidated Brazilian Venture (see Note 17 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements). The business solutions in this segment included the Capco consulting business through its divestiture on July 31, 2017 (Note 15).

Corporate and Other

The Corporate and Other segment consists of corporate overhead expense, certain leveraged functions and miscellaneous expenses that are not included in the operating segments, as well as certain non-strategic businesses. The business solutions in this segment included the PS&E business through its divestiture on February 1, 2017 (Note 15), commercial services and retail check processing. The overhead and leveraged costs relate to marketing, corporate finance and accounting, human resources, legal, and amortization of acquisition-related intangibles and other costs that are not considered when management evaluates revenue generating segment performance, such as acquisition, integration and severance costs. The Corporate and Other segment also includes the impact on revenue for 2017, 2016 and 2015 of adjusting SunGard's deferred revenue to fair value.

During 2017 and 2016 the Company recorded certain costs relating to integration and severance activity primarily from the SunGard acquisition of $178 million and $281 million, respectively. During 2015 the Company recorded transaction and other costs, including integration activity, related to SunGard and other recent acquisitions and other severance costs of $171 million and severance costs in connection with the reorganization and streamlining of operations in our GFS segment of $45 million.

Adjusted EBITDA

This measure is reported to the chief operating decision maker for purposes of making decisions about allocating resources to the segments and assessing their performance. For this reason, Adjusted EBITDA, as it relates to our segments, is presented in conformity with Accounting Standards Codification Topic 280, "Segment Reporting". Adjusted EBITDA is defined as EBITDA (defined as net income (loss) before net interest expense, income tax provision (benefit) and depreciation and amortization, including amortization of purchased intangibles), plus certain non-operating items. The non-operating items affecting the segment profit measure generally include acquisition accounting adjustments, acquisition, integration and severance costs, and restructuring expenses. For consolidated reporting purposes, these costs and adjustments are recorded in the Corporate and Other segment for the periods discussed below. Adjusted EBITDA for the respective segments excludes the foregoing costs and adjustments.

Summarized financial information for the Company’s segments is shown in the following tables reclassified to conform to the current segment presentation.

As of and for the year ended December 31, 2017 (in millions):



	IFS		GFS		Corporate and Other			Total
Processing and services revenues	$	4,630	$	4,138	$	355		$	9,123
Operating expenses	3,078		2,993		1,560			7,631
Depreciation and amortization from continuing operations	316		270		65			651
Purchase accounting amortization	—		—		740			740
EBITDA	1,868		1,415		(400		)	2,883
Acquisition deferred revenue adjustment	—		—		7			7
Acquisition, integration and severance costs	—		—		178			178
Adjusted EBITDA	$	1,868	$	1,415	$	(215	)	$	3,068

EBITDA								$	2,883
Interest expense,net								337
Depreciation and amortization from continuing operations								651
Purchase accounting amortization								740
Other income (expense) unallocated								(122		)
Provision (benefit) for income taxes								(319		)
Net earnings (loss) from discontinued operations								—
Net earnings attributable to noncontrolling interest								33
Net earnings attributable to FIS common stockholders								$	1,319
Capital expenditures (1)	$	374	$	301	$	22		$	697
Total assets	$	10,664	$	8,366	$	5,485		$	24,515
Goodwill	$	7,662	$	5,898	$	170		$	13,730

(1) Capital expenditures include $84 million of capital leases and other financing obligations.

As of and for the year ended December 31, 2016 (in millions):



	IFS		GFS		Corporate and Other			Total
Processing and services revenues	$	4,525	$	4,250	$	466		$	9,241
Operating expenses	2,998		3,211		1,734			7,943
Depreciation and amortization from continuing operations	270		247		67			584
Purchase accounting amortization	1		6		583			590
EBITDA	1,798		1,292		(618		)	2,472
Acquisition deferred revenue adjustment	—		—		192			192
Acquisition, integration and severance costs	—		—		281			281
Adjusted EBITDA	$	1,798	$	1,292	$	(145	)	$	2,945

EBITDA								$	2,472
Interest expense, net								383
Depreciation and amortization from continuing operations								584
Purchase accounting amortization								590
Other income (expense) unallocated								(9		)
Provision for income taxes								317
Net earnings (loss) from discontinued operations								1
Net earnings attributable to noncontrolling interest								22
Net earnings attributable to FIS common stockholders								$	568
Capital expenditures (1)	$	294	$	317	$	48		$	659
Total assets	$	10,246	$	9,028	$	6,751		$	26,025
Goodwill	$	7,676	$	6,332	$	170		$	14,178

(1) Capital expenditures include $43 million of capital leases.

As of and for the year ended December 31, 2015 (in millions):



	IFS		GFS		Corporate and Other			Total
Processing and services revenues	$	3,809	$	2,361	$	426		$	6,596
Operating expenses	2,472		1,955		1,070			5,497
Depreciation and amortization from continuing operations	223		147		61			431
Purchase accounting amortization	1		3		234			238
EBITDA	1,561		556		(349		)	1,768
Contract settlement	—		—		48			48
Acquisition, integration and severance costs	—		—		171			171
Global restructure	$	—	$	—	$	45		45
Adjusted EBITDA	$	1,561	$	556	$	(85	)	2,032

EBITDA								$	1,768
Interest expense, net								183
Depreciation and amortization from continuing operations								431
Purchase accounting amortization								238
Other income (expense) unallocated								121
Provision for income taxes								379
Net earnings (loss) from discontinued operations								(7		)
Net earnings attributable to noncontrolling interest								19
Net earnings attributable to FIS common stockholders								$	632
Capital expenditures (1)	$	235	$	168	$	21		$	424
Total assets	$	10,022	$	9,508	$	6,669		$	26,199
Goodwill	$	7,676	$	6,605	$	464		$	14,745

(1) Capital expenditures include $9 million of capital leases.

Total assets as of December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015 exclude $2 million, $6 million and $1 million, respectively, related to discontinued operations.

Revenue generated from contracts executed outside of our North American operations represented approximately 26%, 24% and 22% of total revenue in 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Clients in Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, India, France, Switzerland and Australia accounted for the majority of the revenues from clients based outside of North America for all periods presented. FIS conducts business in over 130 countries, with no individual country outside of North America accounting for more than 10% of total revenue for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015.

Long-term assets, excluding goodwill and other intangible assets, located outside of the United States totaled $557 million and $509 million as of December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively. These assets are predominantly located in Brazil, India, Germany and the United Kingdom.