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SEC FORM 3 SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person^*

Thawley Philip M

(Last)

(First)

(Middle)

11601 N. ROOSEVELT BOULEVARD

(Street)

ST. PETERSBURG

33726

(City)

(State)

(Zip)

2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
05/13/2004

3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
CERTEGY INC [ CEY ]

4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)

	Director	10% Owner
X	Officer (give title below)	Other (specify below)
Corporate Vice President

5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)

6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)

X	Form filed by One Reporting Person
	Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Common Stock	7,500	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares	4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Employee Stock Option (right to buy)	⁽¹⁾	12/31/2011	Common Stock	15,000	34.95	D

Explanation of Responses:

1. The option vests in four equal annual installments beginning on 12/31/04.

	Marcia R. Glick, as attorney-in-fact for Philip M. Thawley pursuant to a Power of Attorney on file	05/20/2004
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned constitutes and appoints Walter M. Korchun, Marcia R. Glick and Pamela A. Tefft, and each of them, with full power to act alone, his/her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to execute and acknowledge Forms 3, 4 and 5 (including amendments to them) with respect to securities of Certegy Inc. (the "Company"), and to deliver and file them with all exhibits, and all other documents in connection with them, to and with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the national securities exchanges and the Company pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations under that Act, granting to those attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do i
n person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that those attorneys-in-fact, or any one of them, or his/her substitute or their substitutes, lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. The undersigned agrees that each of the attorneys-in-fact may rely entirely on information furnished orally or in writing by the undersigned to them.

The validity of this Power of Attorney will not be affected in any manner by reason of the execution, at any time, of other powers of attorney by the undersigned in favor of persons other than those named herein.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

EXECUTED on May 13, 2004.

Philip M. Thawley

STATE OF GEORGIA

COUNTY OF FULTON

SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED BEFORE ME on this 13th day of May, 2004.

Notary Public

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