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November 18, 2003

LEVEL FOUR AND NCR PARTNER TO OFFER CUSTOMERS REDUCED TIME TO MARKET OF NEW ATM FUNCTIONALITY

London, Tuesday 18 November 2003 - Level Four Software, the leading provider of ATM test and development software, today announced that it has joined NCR's APTRAxpress Partner Program.

The companies have aligned to enable Level Four to provide accurate simulation tools of NCR's current and future solutions so that mutual customers will benefit from reduced development project timescales when introducing new and upgraded ATM content.

Level Four's ATM Channel Development Suite enables ATM content to be modified quickly using a simple graphical interface. Testing is automated by a set of pre-defined simulations, reducing human error and increasing certainty before deployment. The software also helps banks to migrate their ATM networks to support EMV smart cards, increasing security and reducing the potential for fraud. Mutual customers embarking on ATM upgrades to support EMV will benefit from this collaboration.

"NCR is the global leader in the self-service industry and Level Four is very excited to be able to offer our rapidly expanding customer base improved service through the collaboration," comments Martin Macmillan, CEO, Level Four Software.

"Level Four's ATM tools align with NCR's proven global software solutions, so we recognise the advantage of collaborating and adding benefits to our customers. Reduced time to market of deploying new ATM functionality is a valuable offering in an industry that is highly competitive and coming into an era of increasing pace of change. Preparing for EMV and other industry mandates is a resource-intensive process, so financial institutions will see increased benefits from our collaboration," comments Jim Piggot, Vice President of software and services for NCR's Financial Solutions Division.

For more information on NCR visit www.ncr.com.

About Level Four
Level Four’s development and testing products have been built to address the needs of ATM deployers seeking to maximize their investment in the ATM channel.

BRIDGE:test is targeted at banks and ATM deployers who are running, or seeking to run, a modern ATM network based on the industry-wide CEN/XFS open standard.  BRIDGE:test provides an enterprise regression test platform to test CEN/XFS based applications in a controlled environment. Customers gain benefits of the breadth of testing and improved quality assurance as well as reduced time to market due to increased testing efficiencies.

ATM Developer is targeted at banks and ATM deployers who are running states & screens protocol controlled applications such as those based on NDC or 912. ATM Developer provide a graphical environment in which customers can maintain the configuration file from creation to validation.

Since 1995, Level Four has built an impressive global customer base of banks and payments processors including, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB, Bank of America, CIBC, VocaLink and Standard Bank of South Africa. Headquartered in Dunfermline, Scotland, Level Four has offices in Dubai and Charlotte, NC, USA. http://www.levelfour.com  

Level Four’s online ATM industry resource: www.atmindustryinfo.com 

For more information, please contact:
Nicola Koronka
Hotwire
+44 (0) 20 7608 4673
levelfour 'at' hotwirepr.com