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November 07, 2007

KAZAKHSTAN BANK TO AUTOMATE ATM TESTING WITH LEVEL FOUR

London, 7th November 2007 – Level Four, a leading supplier of open standards-based ATM software, today announced that Kazkommertsbank, the largest private bank in Kazakhstan, will go live with its automated, end-to-end ATM testing and development software, ATM Developer, in November 2007. Level Four’s solution will enable the bank to design, configure and test new ATM content directly from a desktop PC for enhanced customer experience at the ATM. As a result, the bank will benefit from reduced testing cycles of ATM sequences for faster time to market of new services and drive operational efficiency.

As the first bank in Kazakhstan to deploy EMV (Europay, Mastercard and VISA) smart cards and offer telephone and Internet banking to all of its customers, Kazkommertsbank is leading the region in its customer-centric approach to retail banking. The bank recognises that adding content to the ATM network can dramatically enhance its customers’ ATM experience as well as the bank’s brand image. End-to-end testing of the ATM network is crucial to ensure that customer’s ATM experience is not compromised when content is deployed.

Kazkommertsbank sought to replace its dedicated ATM machines for manual network testing with a more time efficient, cost effective and reliable solution with comprehensive reporting capabilities. In particular for testing new services prior to implementation. The bank selected Level Four’s ATM Developer because it enables automated testing of multiple requirements simultaneously without costly hardware. From a desktop PC, users can develop and test new content prior to deployment. With ATM Developer’s in-built regression testing capabilities, users can test the breadth of ATM transactions more rigorously, which leads to improved ATM network uptime for optimal customer satisfaction at the ATM.

Inessa Yespenbetova, director of bank cards department. at Kazkommertsbank, said: “Our strategy is to maintain our leading position in the Kazakhstani banking market by introducing new banking services to customers as well as improving operational efficiency. We believe that Level Four’s ATM Developer is a solution that goes a long way to helping us meet our strategic goal. Not only does it provide more thorough testing of the ATM network end-to-end but it also reduces our testing cycles prior to rolling out new ATM content to our customers.”

For more information on Level Four’s ATM Developer, please visit: http://www.levelfour.com/developer.htm

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About Kazkommertsbank

Kazkommertsbank is the leader of the Kazakhstani banking sector in terms of capital and assets as well as loan portfolio and deposits. As of 30 June,2007, the bank has 148 branches, Internet-banking, 658 ATM terminals, approximately 6,000 POS terminals and a call centre for banking product sales..

For more information, please visit: http://en.kkb.kz/



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





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