09/2007
Printec Group to Supply more than 300 De La Rue Teller Cash Recyclers to ProCredit Bank

Printec Group announces the agreement to supply ProCredit Bank with three hundred De La Rue Teller Cash Recyclers (TCRs) in ten countries in South Eastern Europe. According to the agreement, Printec Group will undertake the installation and maintenance of the TCRs in the following countries: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kosovo, F.Y.R.O.Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine.

The TCR, a teller assist unit for storing and recycling banknotes, identifies and verifies banknotes, while allowing the deposited banknotes to be immediately available for withdrawal. The TCRs will enable ProCredit Bank to process cash efficiently and securely, and at the same time, optimize the performance of the branch channel.

Headquartered in Germany, ProCredit Group's core business is the provision of credit to very small and small enterprises. The Group has chosen De La Rue, the market leader in teller automation, in order to automate bank transactions and enhance branch security in a cost effective way.

For more information about De La Rue please visit: www.delarue.com

For more information about Pro Credit Bank, please visit: www.procreditbank.com

04/2007
PRINTEC Croatia and TONBELLER A.G. sign a new agreement for Anti-Money Laundering Solutions

According to the aggreement, Printec Croatia will be providing Tonbeller's Anti-Money Laundering Solutions to the Croatian market.

As Croatia is in the process of EU accession, one of the most important issues the country is facing, is compliance with EU's Anti-Money Laundering Directive. The required legislation involves several issues and is based on "Risk Based Approach" and "Customer Due Diligence" with strong accent on politically exposed persons. In connection to that, the Croatian National Bank has set the guidelines while a new law is expected. This will impose an increased duty of care especially on Croatian credit institutions and financial services providers who will have to adopt their existing solutions to the new regulations.

In order to make compliance to new regulations easier for banks, TONBELLER AG has developed software solutions that reduce the required time and simplify the whole process. TONBELLER AG, established in 1971, has been providing banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions with risk management and compliance software solutions that help with detecting and preventing office and intelligent criminal attempts. Long experience in banking environment and more than 600 clients assure that specific demands, such as functionality, quality and efficiency, will be entirely fullfilled.

Printec Croatia will be offering Tonbeller's turnkey, cost efficient and secure solutions Siron AML and SIRON Embargo in order to help financial service providers to comply with national and international rules on anti-money laundering and terrorism financing as well as monitoring cross border payments. Both solutions support the majority of system software and databases and can be used in almost all common infrastructures.

For more information about TONBELLER, please visit: www.tonbeller.com

09/2007
Printec Serbia is the first to provide Teller Cash Recycler units to the Serbian Market.

Printec Serbia has been awarded a contract to provide ProCredit Bank with 40 De La Rue Teller Cash Recyclers (TCRs).

The TCR, a teller assist unit for storing and recycling banknotes, enables the automated daily cash-in and cash-out operations at the bank teller positions. All TCRs are already deployed and connected to the bank's core banking software application, providing improved customer service, cash security, accuracy, storage and flexibility to facilitate open branch design. This is the first TCR deployment in the country.

ProCredit Group has chosen Printec to install and support De La Rue TCRs for its expertise and strong presence in the transaction automation market in South Eastern Europe. Printec has committed to providing the bank with the most efficient maintenance support that could be offered, through its dedicated service team of more than 200 highly skilled customer services personnel.

For more information about ProCredit Bank, please visit: www.procreditbank.com

01/2007
Printec Slovenia plays a crucial part in Slovenia's Euro Transition

On January 1st 2007, Slovenia became the 13th EU member state to introduce the Euro, replacing its national currency. Migration on New Year's day was executed smoothly without any issues. The network of more than 1.500 ATMs was shut down on December 31st at 21:00, with the first group of ATMs back online few minutes after midnight. Seventy two percent of the ATM network was back online by 04:00, with all 1017 NCR ATMs being online at that time. Overall, all ATMs came online quickly, as scheduled.

Printec Slovenia, as the official NCR partner, played a crucial part in this project, as it had to configure more than 65% of all ATMS deployed in the region. Slovenian banks migrated to the new currency using the "big bang" approach. The ATM network was crucial in providing cash to bank customers, so it was necessary to equip ATMs with the remote download software adapted for Euro cash withdrawals. This was a big task requiring detailed preparation and planning, thorough project work and intense preliminary testing. Despite the difficulty of the project, the task was completed successfully and -most importantly- on time. The first one to withdraw Euro notes was the Slovenian prime minister, who withdrew money from an NCR ATM only a few minutes after midnight.

Detailed preparations, hard work, and the collaboration of all banks contributed to the success of this operation. More than one thousand NCR ATMs of the Slovenian network were online and dispensing Euro notes immediately after midnight. Ninety two percent of the country's ATM network was back on line on January 1st at 15:00 p.m. and by 10:00 a.m. on January 1st, about 11.500 people withdrew money from the Slovenian ATM network.

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