Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
[Operator Instructions]
We'll go first to the line of Kartik Mehta with FTN Midwest. Please, go ahead.
Kartik Mehta - FTN Midwest
Good morning. I wanted to ask you a little bit about the eFunds acquisition. As you looked at your customers that you currently have, were they asking for a products that eFunds has to offer. So I guess what I'm trying to get to, is that going to make a cross sale easier to accomplish with the eFunds acquisition?
Lee A. Kennedy - President and Chief Executive Officer
I think there has always been a high demand for eFunds products and services, especially as it relates to debit switching, debit card processing, prepaid card services, keep in mind that we have not traditionally owned and operated our own prepaid card capabilities. We've always outsourced those to a third party. And because of that we really haven't actively pushed the product even though there has been strong demand.
So I think both domestically and internationally our customers have asked us for the products that eFunds has in place, and we do believe that by picking up those products and integrating those products into our core processing capabilities for practical. We will create a very strong demand and it will be high cross-sell opportunities, so across the board, absolutely.
Kartik Mehta - FTN Midwest
What would you say the organic growth for the... for eFunds is as you look at the Company the way it’s structured now?
Jeffrey S. Carbiener - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
I think that they’ve had a lot of noise in their numbers because of acquisition activity and divestiture activity and also, certain contracts that were bound to exit once they spun off from deluxe. But if you strip all that activity out, their organic growth rate over the last 3 years has been around 6%.
Kartik Mehta - FTN Midwest
So Jeff, I'm assuming that you believe that that organic growth you will be able to improve that organic growth because of the cross-sale opportunities that present themselves.
Jeffrey S. Carbiener - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. I think what we've said is, we still have a lot of work to do to nail down the 2008 numbers. But we don't think that including eFunds in our results will make us back off our prior communications on growth for 2008. There is some pretty good strong upside, once we get the two companies put together and the sales organizations integrated, so, yes.
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