Software Solutions at the Heart of Your Financial Value Chain

XRT Business Exchange Receives

IdenTrust Compliant Certification

Paris - La Défense, February 20th, 2008 - XRT, the French developer of software packages covering the entire Financial Value Chain, today announced that its XRT Business Exchange 2008, a global platform for exchange and secure payment management, has achieved certification as IdenTrust Compliant, ensuring it meets the industry’s highest standard for security and trust assurance.

The certification builds on the successful partnership launched in October between XRT and IdenTrust, the global leader in trusted identity solutions. XRT becomes one of the first independent European software vendors to obtain this certification. IdenTrust Complaint certification is awarded to products and technologies that comply with the IdenTrust Rule Set, ensuring that partner solutions meet real business needs for strong authentication compliance and securing identities against fraud. IdenTrust solutions are valid, binding and enforceable in more than 175 countries.

The 2008 XRT Business Exchange version provides a reinforced security level and includes a new module for an international, multi-bank standard signature which complements the new features linked to SEPA.

"The increasing number of exchanges between companies and their trading partners creates a growing need for comprehensive identity management and electronic signatures solutions,” José Texeira, Senior Product Manager at XRT explains. “We had to provide our clients with a trustworthy and adapted solution. We chose IdenTrust based on its renowned and global infrastructure. It is the partner that can offer the high level of trust that corporations and large international groups require."

“The treasury function is evolving rapidly to support new business opportunities and comply with regulations that mandate detailed accountability tracking,” said Andre Klein, Chief Marketing Officer at IdenTrust. “IdenTrust and XRT are working together to meet this emerging need. XRT Business Exchange, which is now IdenTrust Compliant, provides comprehensive identity tracking, which reduces risk and facilitates compliance for corporations using it. As important, IdenTrust certificates used in XRT Business Exchange transactions are interoperable, non-repudiable and valid in more than 175 countries to facilitate trusted global commerce.”

About XRT Business Exchange

XRT Business Exchange is a secured universal exchange platform to enter, transfer, validate, route, convert and share financial information. It covers the needs of corporations that wish to build payment and collection factories, and banks wishing to provide additional electronic channels for their customers.

XRT Business Exchange is an innovative and evolutive solution offering control and security procedures, in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley and new international recommendations. Through its certification IdenTrust Compliant, it ensures a high security level which is crucial for large international companies.

XRT Business Exchange is SAP R/3 certified and interfaces with major ERP solutions. It includes the major international protocols as well as the FIN and FileAct connectors for SWIFTNET developed in partnership with Swift.

About XRT

With 25 years of expertise, XRT creates innovative treasury management software used by 6,000 enterprises in 55 countries.
XRT solutions have a value–centered approach to working capital management and cover all areas of the financial value chain: cash flow, liquidity, risk, collections, payments and financial communication.
In 2006, XRT generated EUR 32.7 million in revenue and was named the “Best Treasury Management Software” in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Global Finance Magazine.

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. The IdenTrust Trust Infrastructure is predicated on a proprietary framework that combines policies, legal framework, trusted operations and technology (P.L.O.T.) to create a comprehensive environment for issuing trusted identities. IdenTrust is the only company to provide a solution incorporating all four of these elements. Customer agreements are valid, binding and enforceable in more than 175 countries. IdenTrust identities are globally interoperable under uniform private contracts recognized in countries around the world. Additionally, the IdenTrust Trust Infrastructure maintains the privacy of each and every transaction processed by reading only digital certificate information, not the message itself. For more information, visit http://www.identrust.com.

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