Certipost and Clear2Pay sign strategic partnership

Clear2Pay transfers Greenpark-platform to Certipost

Brussels, 26 april 2004 - Certipost, joint venture of Belgacom and the Belgian Post, and Clear2Pay, the Brussels-based software vendor of next generation payment solutions for financial institutions, enter into a strategic partnership. A first move in the partnership is the migration of the GreenPark retail platform to Certipost. The GreenPark services will be integrated into Certipost's JCommerceRetail.com platform. Secondly, Certipost and Clear2Pay will offer each other's solutions to their customers. Finally, both companies will study mutual market opportunities concerning electronic communications, transactions and payments.

In a first phase, some thirty customers connected to Clear2Pay's GreenPark (ex-Tectrade) platform will be transferred to the JCommerceRetail platform, offering parallel functionality and allowing over 800 suppliers to collaborate electronically with European retailers. Certipost and Clear2Pay guarantee a swift transition of all communication services.

Certipost's JCommerceRetail platform (www.JCommerceRetail.com) is the biggest transaction hub in the Benelux region and allows for the easy exchange and integration of trading documents, like purchase orders, despatch advices and invoices, between food and non-food suppliers and European retailers.

Erik Weytjens, CEO of Certipost: "It is our ambition to offer the best solutions available to companies and specific market segments, like the retail industry, enabling the efficient exchange and certification of electronic documents. The collaboration with Clear2Pay perfectly supports that vision."

Michel Akkermans, Chairman & CEO of Clear2Pay, states: "We are delighted that a strategic player like Certipost will be our partner in setting a footprint for the entire industry. Together we aim for more efficient electronic transaction processing, each in our specific segment. Harmonisation is important for our customers, and therefore we kick-off the partnership by moving our services to the larger scale Certipost platform. Clear2Pay's next step will be to create a way forward by adding payments functionality, in order to make it a richer platform for the business community. After all, our strategic focus is being a technology supplier to all players in the financial value chain, rather than being an application service provider."

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About Certipost

Certipost is a market leader of solutions to facilitate and certify electronic communications. Certipost offers organisations high-end solutions to reduce costs, improve customer service and increase efficiency via electronic communications. Certipost enables organisations to communicate electronically with any customer, supplier, citizen and partner in confidence, by streamlining information flows, automating document exchange and by securing and certifying electronic communications. Certipost solutions include electronic counters, electronic invoicing, B2B exchange hubs and the infrastructure for digital certificates. Certipost was founded in 2002 in Belgium and has over 600 cross-industry customers worldwide. Certipost is a joint venture of the Belgian Post Group and Belgacom. Certipost is headquartered in Brussels (BE) and has offices in Ghent (BE), Amsterdam (NL) and Paris (FR).
More information on www.certipost.be.

About Clear2Pay

Clear2Pay is an innovative e-finance company focused on delivering globally applicable solutions for secure, timely electronic payments. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, the company's focus is to facilitate banks and financial organisations in their provision of electronic payments services. Clear2Pay's technology helps to reduce transactions processing costs, and to deliver new, compelling e-payment services in a competitive way. Clear2Pay's payment solutions offer organisations easy, branded ways for their customers to pay online: from complex trade-supporting business-to-business environments, through e-commerce applications, to retail payments and micro payments. Functions embrace payments origination, reporting, linkage with back-office processing systems, clearing, netting and settlement. Clients include global financial institutions such as ING, ABN AMRO, SEB Kort, LuottoKunta, VISA Europe and MasterCard.
More information is available on www.clear2pay.com.

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Contacts for More Information:

Clear2Pay NV/SA
Conny Dorrestijn - VP Marketing and Communications
Zikkelstraat 64, 1970 Brussel (Wezembeek Oppem) - België
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M: +31 651 067201

Certipost
Tina Vandenbosch - public relations officer
Willebroekkaai 22, 1000 BRUSSEL - BELGIUM
E:
T: +32 2 209 99 15
M: +32 476 96 04 97

Michaël Custers - marketing manager
Willebroekkaai 22, 1000 BRUSSEL - BELGIUM
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T: +32 2 209 99 32