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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
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DATE OF REPORT: JUNE 24, 1999
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CHECKFREE HOLDINGS CORPORATION
(EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)
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Delaware 0-26802 58-23603335
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(STATE OR OTHER (COMMISSION FILE NO.) (IRS EMPLOYER
JURISDICTION OF IDENTIFICATION NUMBER)
INCORPORATION OR
ORGANIZATION)
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4411 East Jones Bridge Road
Norcross, Georgia 30092
(678) 375-3387
(ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, AND TELEPHONE NUMBER
INCLUDING AREA CODE OF REGISTRANT'S
PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)
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Not Applicable
(FORMER NAME OR FORMER ADDRESS, IF CHANGED SINCE LAST REPORT)
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ITEM 5. OTHER EVENTS.
On June 24, 1999, the Company issued a press release announcing it
would not close on its 3.8 million share follow-on stock offering, priced at $39
per share after market close on Monday, June 21, 1999. The press release is
included as Exhibit 99 to this Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by this
reference.
ITEM 7. EXHIBITS.
(c) Exhibits.
Exhibit No. Description
99 Press Release, dated June 24, 1999, entitled
"CheckFree Withdraws Secondary Offering."
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
CHECKFREE HOLDINGS CORPORATION
Date: June 24, 1999 By: /s/ ALLEN L. SHULMAN
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Allen L. Shulman, Executive Vice
President, Chief Financial Officer
and General Counsel
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No. Description
99 Press Release, dated June 24, 1999, entitled
"CheckFree Withdraws Secondary Offering."
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EXHIBIT 99
Media Relations Investor Relations
Laurinda Wilson Tina Moore
678-375-1608 678-375-1278
[email protected] [email protected]
COMPANY PRESS RELEASE
SOURCE: CheckFree Holdings Corporation
CHECKFREE WITHDRAWS SECONDARY OFFERING
ATLANTA, June 24 -- CheckFree Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq: - news) announced
today that it would not close on its 3.8 million share follow-on stock offering,
priced at $39 per share after market close on Monday, June 21. Yesterday three
banks announced the formation of a venture, tentatively called "The Exchange,"
that would attempt to create a directory and routing server to support them in
delivering electronic bills. Although the announcement was followed by a
conference call in which the participating banks stated that they would continue
to use CheckFree services, the value of CheckFree's shares fell by almost 24
percent.
Pete Kight, Chairman and CEO of CheckFree said, in announcing the decision,
"None of these banks ever spoke to CheckFree about this effort nor indicated the
formation of this group, nor gave any indication they intended to make an
announcement of such an organization. In any case, there is nothing new about
the commercial side of some banks wanting to find a way to participate in
electronic billing. We have been very successfully competing for billers against
the commercial departments of banks for more than a year now, and our success
has not been due to the banks' lack of a server."
"All of that aside, the market made it an easy decision to withdraw CheckFree's
share offering. We are, of course, deeply disappointed that the market did not,
in our view, properly assess the importance of yesterday's announcement. Much
more so, though, we were stung by implications that CheckFree somehow managed to
time the secondary offering to beat the banks' announcement. Last week CheckFree
executives sat across the table from more than 50 institutional investors, many
of whom requested an allocation of stock. I don't ever want to walk back into
the offices of these analysts and portfolio managers and have to think that they
might be wondering whether we had been honest with them. Our credibility with
our shareholders is more important than any offering."
Kight concluded, "If speculation is going to remain uninformed, withdrawing the
offering is the only solution. We stated in all of our analyst and investor
meetings over the past week that CheckFree did not need the funding from the
secondary to complete our expanded Internet distribution strategy, and this
decision won't slow us down a single day. We have sufficient resources to
execute our plans, and we'll do so with force. Anyone thinking that the timing
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of these events is going to freeze the market is mistaken, and as good as this
company is, and as powerful as our opportunities are, I am not going to permit
us to be distracted by a senseless controversy."
About CheckFree
Founded in 1981, CheckFree (www.checkfree.com ), the operating subsidiary of
CheckFree Holdings Corporation, is the leading provider of financial electronic
commerce services, software and related products. CheckFree designs, develops
and markets services that enable nearly three million consumers to receive and
pay bills over the Internet or electronically through a variety of bill
aggregation points, including banks, brokerage firms, portals and interactive
content sites on the Internet, and personal financial management (PFM) software.
CheckFree's range of services and products are focused on enabling customers to
make electronic payments and collections, automate paper-based recurring
financial transactions and conduct secure Internet transactions.
After more than a year of beta testing, CheckFree launched the nation's first
fully integrated electronic billing and payment solution, CheckFree E- Bill, in
March of 1997. Today, the Company has multi-year contracts with more than 50 of
the nation's top billers to provide online billing and payment through the
CheckFree distribution network.
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