Trintech Announces PayWare EveryWhere, an IntegratedBranding Strategy for Secure Epayment...

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SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2000

Trintech Group PLC (Nasdaq:TTPA)(Neuer Markt:TTP), a leading provider of secure electronic payment infrastructure solutions, today announced the launch of PayWare EveryWhere, a comprehensive and integrated

branding approach to physical and virtual world payment solutions. Trintech's complete end-to-end range of reliable and secure e-payment infrastructure solutions for commerce conducted through multiple payment channels -- physical, virtual or mobile -- will be combined under the PayWare brand.

"Moving to PayWare EveryWhere gives us two important benefits," says John Harte, EVP of Global Sales, Marketing and Services of Trintech. "Firstly, it greatly enhances the clarity of our message to our target audience of financial institutions and dot.com entities. Secondly, it allows us to reinforce and market more powerfully our range of infrastructure solutions. PayWare EveryWhere offers an integrated range of highly secure and feature-rich solutions for financial issuers and acquirers."

"Payment is at the heart of e-commerce, and Trintech has been at the heart of electronic payment since its creation," says John McGuire, CEO at Trintech. "Our vision is that, wherever commerce occurs, be that over the Internet or over the mobile phone, we will have a PayWare solution to securely power the payment transaction. PayWare EveryWhere encapsulates this vision for Trintech."

The PayWare EveryWhere family includes:

--  PayWare eIssuer: PayWare eIssuer -- formerly PayGate NetIssuer --
    is a server-based virtual card distribution solution which enables
    card issuers, telecom operators, service providers and private
    card label organizations to issue branded virtual payment ezCards
    to their online customers. Included in PayWare eIssuer is PayWare
    eIssuer Card Manager which controls the secure distribution and
    management of credit cards in the physical world and the Internet.

--  PayWare eAcquirer: PayWare eAcquirer -- formerly PayGate
    NetAcquirer -- is a payment gateway infrastructure solution for
    financial institutions, payment processors and card organizations,
    including eVisa. It enables them to authorize, capture, route and
    settle all card-based transactions originating from both the
    physical and virtual worlds of commerce, and can handle SSL or SET
    protocols. Included in this family of products is PayWare
    eAcquirer Merchant Manager which allows acquirers to manage
    merchant account handling and settlement of all types of card
    payments.

--  PayWare eMerchant: PayWare eMerchant -- formerly PayWare -- offers
    a variety of sophisticated payment technologies for different
    merchant payment environments: Physical, Virtual and Remote.

          Physical -- In the physical world, PayWare Compact 9000i and
        PayWare eVia 2000 embrace the breadth of Trintech's merchant
        payment devices.
          Virtual -- For virtual environments, PayWare eStore --
        formerly PayWare Net -- provides online merchants with a
        scaleable, secure, multi-currency and multi-protocol payment
        processing infrastructure. Meanwhile, PayWare eHost --
        formerly PayWare NetHost -- provides ISPs, CSPs and ISOs with
        a hosted payment solutions that allows them to offer payment
        processing to merchants using their services.
          Remote - PayWare ERP is a proven technology designed to work
        on SAP R/3 and is appealing to enterprises with high
        transaction volumes that are looking to automate the payment
        functions of their ERP environment. PayWare ERP can also
        handle transactions from any location -- call centers,
        extranets or B2C e-commerce sites. Finally, PayWare Call
        Center is a server-based card payment solution designed for
        processing payments in mail order and telephone order sales
        environments.

About Trintech

Trintech Group PLC is a leading provider of secure electronic payment infrastructure solutions for real world, Internet and wireless transactions. The company, which was founded in 1987, offers a complete range of payment software products for credit, debit, commercial and procurement card applications. Trintech's secure product range is deployed in over 35 countries worldwide and cover the payment requirements of consumers, card issuing banks, merchant acquiring institutions, merchants, eMerchants, telcos, wireless operators, ISPs/CSPs, Portals and large corporations. Trintech's range of scalable, open systems architecture solutions for UNIX(R) and Windows NT(tm) platforms covers consumer, merchant and financial institution requirements for all card-based payments, including e-commerce and the emerging world of mobile commerce. Trintech can be contacted in the U.S. at 2755 Campus Drive, San Mateo, CA 94003 (Tel: 650/227-7000) and in Ireland at Trintech Building, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18 (Tel: 353-1-207-4000). Trintech can be reached on the Web at http://www.trintech.com. Investor information can be found at www.trintech.com/investor.

This press release may contain "forward looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Any "forward looking statements" in this press release are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include the ability to develop, market and sell its e-commerce software, the market acceptance of the SSL or SET standards for e-commerce payment transactions, its ability to effectively respond to future changes in the e-payment software market and, in particular, the market acceptance of eVia 2000 terminals. Actual performance may also be affected by other factors more fully discussed in Trintech's Form F-1 and Form 6-K for the quarter ended January 31, 2000 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.