VeriFone CEO Rings Opening Bell at New York Stock Exchange; VeriFone Stock Listed Today Under the NYSE Symbol ’PAY’

NEW YORK--April 29, 2005--VeriFone Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PAY) Chairman and CEO Douglas G. Bergeron and other company executives rang The Opening Bell(TM) Friday morning at the New York Stock Exchange to commemorate the first day of trading of the company’s stock under the symbol "PAY"


Mr. Bergeron has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VeriFone since July 2001 when he led the leveraged buyout of the company from Hewlett-Packard Company.

About VeriFone, Inc. (www.verifone.com)

VeriFone, Inc. (NYSE: PAY), a global leader in secure electronic payment technologies, provides expertise, solutions and services for today with a migration strategy for tomorrow. VeriFone delivers solutions that add value to the point of sale, resulting in improved merchant retention and the generation of new sources of revenue for its partners and customers. VeriFone solutions are specifically designed to meet the needs of vertical markets including financial, retail, petroleum, government and healthcare. VeriFone has shipped over eleven million electronic payment systems since inception in 1981.

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