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April 15, 2002

LEVEL FOUR LAUNCHES NEW DEVELOPMENT TOOLS FOR THE ATM CHANNEL

Banks can now offer personalised and interactive functionality to customers without investing in costly upgrades to ATM networks

London, 15th April 2002 - Level Four Software, a leading provider of best-of-breed ATM test and development software today launched the ATM Channel Development Suite - a comprehensive toolkit which allows financial institutions to develop, test and rapidly deploy new content and applications within their ATM delivery channels. The ATM Channel Development Suite enables financial institutions to offer relevant, personalised and interactive functionality to customers through existing ATM networks.

Banks are under enormous pressure to provide relevant and meaningful applications on their ATMs and turn these 'cost-centres' into a profitable customer service channel. To support this business need, Level Four has created a unique toolkit that creates, prototypes, tests, manages and deploys both exiting ATM downloads and new ATM applications, non-disruptively. The ATM Channel Development Suite enables ATM services to be changed quickly using a simple graphical interface. Testing is automated by a set of pre-defined simulations, reducing human error and increasing certainty before deployment.

Through deploying Level Four's software banks can offer customers dynamic and personalised content at the ATM - such as mobile phone top-up or access to supermarket loyalty card schemes - giving customers more convenient services and enhancing their relationship with the bank. The software also helps banks to upgrade their ATM networks to support EMV smart cards, increasing security and reducing the potential for fraud.

Martin Macmillan, Level Four's CEO, comments: "Banks are really waking up to the opportunities available to them through leveraging their existing ATM infrastructure. A major catalyst is the introduction of the multi application chip card, which will drastically enhance the range of customer options at the ATM. The fact that customers are becoming more accepting of new functionality at ATMs means that banks need to keep pace with customer expectations. Banks can do this quickly, today, without spending on new ATMs. Upgrading ATM functionality has previously been difficult because there were no adequate tools to do this and extensive manual testing was required. With our technology a bank can automatically test and easily deploy new ATM applications and content from a central location."

The ATM Channel Development Suite provides a workstation-based development environment for applications that reside both at the ATM and the network provider's payments switch. Applications can be introduced to existing ATM software architectures, through the creation of new ATM downloads and server-based logic, and migrated painlessly to more sophisticated environments as they are deployed. By using graphical rules-based workflow, the software overcomes many of the complexity log-jams previously associated with the deployment of new functionality across ATM networks.

"Level Four's software empowers banks to develop new ATM applications in-house, drastically reducing timescales and costs. Traditionally, banks have worked with the ATM manufacturers to do this, but as an independent player we are now putting power back into the bank's hands," comments Macmillan. "Furthermore, because our software is not hard coded, or fixed to a certain standard or protocol, it is able to move with the times as the ATM networks change - protecting our customers' investment. This is particularly important as banks are getting ready for EMV compliance."

Informationen zu Level Four

Level Four ist ein hoch spezialisierter Anbieter von Softwarelösungen für Geldautomaten. Die Lösungen versetzen Banken und Zahlungsabwickler in die Lage, das Gewinnpotential ihrer ATM-Netzwerke umfassend zu erschließen. Seit 1995 hat sich Level Four mit seinem Flaggschiffprodukt ATM Channel Development Suite als führender weltweiter Anbieter von Test- und Entwicklungstools für Geldautomaten etabliert. Nach Einführung der Open-Standard-Technologie und im Einklang mit seiner Verpflichtung zu kontinuierlichen Verbesserungen im Geldautomatensektor hat Level Four im Jahr 2006 begonnen, mit Level Four BRIDGE spezielle On-Board-Software für Geldautomaten zu entwickeln. Das Produkt macht sich Level Fours solides technisches Erbe zunutze und liefert die erste, wirklich verteilte Architekturlösung für den Geldautomatenmarkt. Level Four besitzt einen beeindruckenden Kundenstamm an Banken und Zahlungsabwicklern aus der ganzen Welt, z. B. die Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB, die National Bank of Dubai, Rabobank, LINK und die Standard Bank of South Africa. Level Fours Unternehmenszentrale befindet sich in Dunfermline, weitere Niederlassungen sind in Maidenhead, Dubai und Charlotte NC.

Weitere Informationen zu Level Four finden Sie unter www.levelfour.com

Nähere Informationen erhältlich von:

Martin Macmillan
Level Four Software Ltd
Tel: +44 (0) 1383 720 118
E-mail: martin@levelfour.com

Hotwire PR
Nicola Truman / Alexia Ward
+44 (0) 20 7608 2500
E-mail: levelfour@hotwirepr.com





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