VocaLink Partners with BBP Service Bureau to Offer Comprehensive SWIFT Connectivity Services

LONDON, December 3 - VocaLink, the international payments specialists, today announced that it
has partnered with BBP AG the leading Swiss SWIFT Service Bureau, to deliver
a comprehensive SWIFT connectivity solution to banks and their corporate
customers throughout Europe.

The growing SWIFT network is the secure choice of the global banking
community for routing payments and this new service, which is an extension of
VocaLink's Service Bureau, will provide a viable, low cost, hosted
connectivity service to SWIFTNet. The service removes banks' in-house
operational costs of managing multiple bank relationships whilst enabling
them to benefit from economies of scale. Corporate customers will also
benefit by gaining easier access to their chosen payment service provider and
banks through a single access point for all of their payments, regardless of
the format. This approach allows companies to gain total visibility of their
cash positions on accounts across the globe.

The partnership with BBP strengthens VocaLink's core offering to provide
its customers with high volume, resilient, reliable payments processing in a
cost effective environment. The collaboration will also enable VocaLink to
offer greater flexibility for designing efficient migration and payments
consolidation strategies for banks, allowing them to comply with SEPA rules
and reap the benefits of cost reduction and improved control.

Per Trifunovic, CEO at BBP, comments: "BBP operates the world's number
one SWIFT Service Bureau and has a solid track record of running faultless
outsourced SWIFT services for over 200 customers in more than 30 countries
worldwide. Our partnership with VocaLink allows us to deliver comprehensive
and first class services to all of the major mainland European markets."

Fred Bär, Managing Director for Euro Services and Channels at VocaLink,
comments: "By offering SWIFT capabilities and standards with BBP, VocaLink's
customers will benefit from a single route to SWIFT. This greatly reduces the
operational overhead of managing SWIFT internally by outsourcing to SWIFT
certified specialists, enabling banks to focus on their core business. As a
result, we are able to fulfil the highest requirements in terms of stability,
availability and security at the same time"

About VocaLink

VocaLink is a specialist provider of transaction services to banks, their
corporate customers and Government departments. It processes domestic and
international automated payments and provides ATM switching solutions. On a
peak day, the VocaLink automated payment platform processes over 90 million
transactions and over half a billion in a month. Its switching platform
connects the world's busiest ATM network of over 60,000 ATMs. Its Real-Time
Payments platform provides the central infrastructure for the UK Faster
Payments service. VocaLink is working with BGC to provide outsourced
processing for the majority of Sweden's domestic payments.

Having pioneered electronic payments for over four decades, many of the
world's top banks and their corporate customers rely on VocaLink to meet
their transaction needs. Its processing services offer banks reach throughout
the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) and beyond; and are complemented by
value-added services that leverage industry expertise and technical
capabilities.

Please visit www.vocalink.com for more information.

About BBP AG

BBP AG, a subsidiary of Fundtech, Jersey City, USA, is a software house
specialized in the << integration of interbank applications >> and has earned
an excellent reputation in the banking industry. BBP's most important goals
are product reliability and long-term, successful cooperation with clients
and partners.

The product range includes the IGTplus (Interbank Gateway) software
developed by BBP and encompasses system solutions for the Interbank
Applications SWIFT (FIN, FileAct, InterAct), SIC, euroSIC, SECOM, SWX, virt-x
and FIX-Protocol as well as integration modules for host connections (APIs)
and authentication devices.

In addition BBP operates an Interbank Service Bureau, which provides
banks access to SWIFT, SIC, euroSIC, SECOM, virt-x and brokers as well as to
value added services for transaction filtering and reconciliation (Corona).
With more than 200 customers from over 30 countries and an average above
100'000 SWIFT Messages / day, we are operating the world's number 1 SWIFT
Service Bureau.

Please visit www.bbp.ch for more information.

Further information: Scott McLean, Hotwire, +44(0)20-7608-2500 or vocalinkuk at hotwirepr.com, Deborah Souter, VocaLink Limited, +44(0)870-920-8651 or deborah.souter at VocaLink.com