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IdenTrust Announces Expanded Partnership with VocaLink for Direct Corporate Access to the VocaLink Euro CSM Service



    IdenTrust, a leader in trusted identity solutions, and VocaLink,
    the payment processing specialist, today announced an expansion of
    their existing partnership to leverage IdenTrust digital identities on
    the VocaLink Euro CSM platform. The VocaLink service provides banks
    and their customers with a platform for all of their euro payment
    requirements and, uniquely, offers corporations direct access to the
    Euro CSM network, controlled by their banks.

    IdenTrust provides a legally interoperable infrastructure for
    validating bank-issued identities worldwide and delivers the
    scalability and interoperability to support VocaLink's expanding
    services for euro payments, allowing banks and their corporate
    customers to originate and manage Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
    transactions seamlessly throughout Europe. This capability expands on
    the trusted services the partnership has delivered in recent years for
    payment submitted through BACSTEL-IP.

    VocaLink is enabling its customers - which include banks, their
    corporate customers and government departments - to use IdenTrust
    certificates to enable sophisticated identity validation and access
    management within their PKI security framework. VocaLink customers can
    leverage IdenTrust certificates for non-repudiation and liability
    limitation assurance, which is critical for banks - and bank customers
    - to minimize their exposure to risk. Additionally, IdenTrust's
    solutions support legal audit trail requirements, simplify
    authentication among participating VocaLink bank customers and expand
    straight through processing.

    "VocaLink is enabling banks to offer their customers trusted
    payment processing services that reduce costs, expedite straight
    through processing and enhance regulatory compliance," said Martin
    Wilson, Chief Marketing Officer for VocaLink. "As we expand our
    services to support SEPA requirements, IdenTrust provides the trusted
    authentication and interoperability across international borders that
    are essential to supporting evolving customer requirements. It will
    also provide our customers with a common identity that can be reused
    with other services that we will be adding to the platform next year."

    "The ability to expand straight through processing and ensure
    trusted identities for financial transactions - regardless of their
    geographic origin - is fundamental to the continued growth of
    electronic commerce. VocaLink is well positioned to take a leadership
    position in providing these combined services," said Joe Norburn,
    Managing Director in EMEA for IdenTrust. "Expanding our longstanding
    partnership with VocaLink illustrates IdenTrust's central role in
    authenticating identities and accelerating electronic payments and
    transactions throughout Europe and globally."

    About VocaLink

    VocaLink is a specialist provider of transaction services to
    banks, their corporate customers and government departments. Having
    pioneered electronic payments over four decades ago, the company has
    been a driving force in electronic transactions ever since. Many of
    the world's top banks and their corporate customers rely on VocaLink
    to meet their transaction needs. On a peak day, the VocaLink automated
    payment platform processes more than 80 million transactions. Its
    switching platform connects the world's busiest ATM network of over
    60,000 ATMs. In 2007 the VocaLink payments network in total will
    process over 8 billion transactions.

    About IdenTrust

    IdenTrust is a leader in trusted identity solutions, recognized by
    financial institutions, government agencies and businesses around the
    world. IdenTrust enables organizations to effectively manage the risks
    associated with identity authentication. The only bank-developed
    identity authentication system, IdenTrust provides a legally and
    technologically interoperable environment for authenticating and using
    identities worldwide. Customer agreements are valid, binding and
    enforceable in more than 175 countries. The IdenTrust Trust
    Infrastructure maintains the privacy of every transaction processed by
    reading only digital certificate information, not the message.
    http://www.identrust.com.