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Online Resources Wins Deloitte & Touche “FAST 50” Award

Banking Technology Leader Among Fastest Growth Technology Companies in Virginia

MCLEAN, Va., October 25, 2001

Online Resources Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCC), a leading outsourcer of e-financial services, today announced it has been named to the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50 Program, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Virginia. Online Resources received the honor based on its 1,283 percent rate of growth in revenue from 1996 to 2000, resulting in the Company being ranked 22 overall in the program.

“Achieving this prestigious award validates our mission to bring mega-bank online technology to community-based banks, thrifts and credit unions,” stated Online Resources Chairman and CEO Matthew P. Lawlor. “Leveling the Internet banking playing field has paid-off in revenue opportunities beyond our core electronic banking and bill payment services, to include a broad suite of sophisticated Internet-based capabilities. It’s a great marriage between our technology and the ‘high touch’ power of our 500 community-based clients, who collectively serve over 17 million consumers”.

"The Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50 recognizes and honors the fastest growing regional technology companies whose leaders have the vision and determination to beat the odds and build companies that contribute to the world with long term solutions," said Gary Tabach, Partner in Charge, Technology & Communications Practice, Deloitte & Touche.

To qualify for the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50, companies must have had operating revenues of at least $50,000 in 1996 and $1,000,000 in 2000, must be public or private companies headquartered in Virginia, and be "technology companies" defined as companies that produce technology, manufacture a technology product, or devotes a high percentage of effort to research and development of technology.

Winners of the 21 regional Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50 programs in the United States are automatically entered in the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500 program, which ranks the nation's top 500 fastest growing technology companies. For more information on the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50 or Fast 500 programs, visit www.fast500.com.

About Deloitte & Touche

Deloitte & Touche LLP, one of the nation’s leading professional services firms, provides assurance and advisory, tax, and management consulting services through nearly 30,000 people in more than 100 U.S. cities. The firm is dedicated to helping our clients and our people excel. Known as an employer of choice for innovative human resources programs, Deloitte & Touche has been recognized as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For in America” by Fortune magazine for four consecutive years. Deloitte & Touche is the U.S. national practice of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is a Swiss Verein, and each of its national practices is a separate and independent legal entity. For more information, please visit Deloitte & Touche’s web site at www.us.deloitte.com.


About Online Resources
Online Resources (Nasdaq:ORCC - www.orcc.com) is a leading outsourcer of e-financial services, with over 500 bank and credit union clients. The company's comprehensive QuotienSM suite of services provides Internet banking, electronic bill payment-presentment, and other consumer and small business e-finance applications. The company performs 24x7 customer care and consumer marketing services, giving clients the benefit of a single, integrated solution, backed by a unique end-to-end service guarantee and real-time transaction capabilities. Online Resources processes over 60 million e-finance transactions annually, including $3 billion in consumer bill payments.

This news release contains statements about future events and expectations, which are "forward-looking statements." Any statement in this release that is not a statement of historical fact may be deemed to be a forward-looking statement. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the company's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Specifically factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to: the company's history of losses and anticipation of future losses; the company's dependence on the marketing efforts of third parties; the potential fluctuations in the company's operating results; the company's potential need for additional capital; the company's potential inability to expand the company's services and related products in the event of substantial increases in demand for these services and related products; the company's competition; the company's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the company's reliance on the company's patents and other intellectual property; the early stage of market adoption of the services it offers; consolidation of the banking and financial services industry; and those risks and uncertainties discussed in filings made by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those risks and uncertainties contained under the heading "Risk Factors" in the company's Form 10-K, latest 10-Q, and S-3 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These factors should be considered in evaluating the forward-looking statements, and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements.

Media & Investors Contact: Rob Borella
703.394.5328
rborella@orcc.com