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New York, March 2004 - 12th User Conference to be held in Europe. For the first time CSI-BankTrade, leading provider of trade finance solutions, will hold its 12th Annual User Conference in Europe, on the 26th and 27th of May 2004 in Madrid, Spain. Location will be confirmed. Please join us and start makingyour reservations! For more information please contact: ccuevas@banktrade.com

New York, September 2003 – CSI-BankTrade to Exhibit at SIBOS 2003 Singapore. Continuing a 12 year tradition, CSI BankTrade will be exhibiting at the 2003 edition of SIBOS to be held in Singapore from October 20th trough the 24th. Renowned as the leading forum for debate within the banking sector, SIBOS annually attracts the industry’s most influential figures and institutions. In a year that marks CSI-BankTrade’s 25 years automating banks and their clients worldwide, participation at SIBOS 2003 is a testimony to CSI–BankTrade’s unwavering commitment to providing world-class trade finance solutions to the banking industry. To see the latest in Trade Services Automation ant Technology please visit us at BOOTH 4057.

New York, September 2003 – Commercebank in Miami signs for BankTrade and ClientTrade. Commercebank signed an agreement for BankTrade and ClientTrade to be installed in Miami, Florida. The bank is planning to provide ASP services to Banco Mercantil Venezuela for BankTrade and ClientTrade via this single installation. Both solutions will be installed under a multi-bank configuration and ClientTrade will simultaneously be integrated to both banks’ portals with single sign-on to each.

New York, September 2003 – SMBC to implement BankTrade, ClientTrade and DocPrep. CSI-BankTrade announces that Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, subsidiary of the SMFG Financial Group and ranked as one of the top five banks in Japan, has selected BankTrade, ClientTrade and DocPrep to automate its trade finance operations in its Asian branches.

Following the completion of the bank’s merger and emergence as one of the leading trade finance operators in the Asian region, SMBC is keen to update its IT strategy in order to strengthen its trade finance operations across its Asian branches while delivering optimal customer service, improving operational efficiencies and reducing costs.

New York, August 2003 – CSI-BankTrade’s Europe/Middle East/Africa Regional Support Office Relocates. CSI –BankTrade announces the relocation of its Europe, Middle East & Africa support office to accommodate for growth in the region. The new office is located at: Hoogoorddreef 9, 1101 BA Amsterdam Zuidoost, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31 20 312 0434

CSI–BankTrade’s many recent successes and expansion of its client base in the EMEA region underscores the company’s dedication to servicing banks and their clients regardless of geographical distance, system disparities and language differences.

New York, August 2003 – Banco Popular Puerto Rico signs for ClientTrade. CSI–BankTrade announces an agreement with Banco Popular Puerto Rico to install and implement ClientTrade for the processing of Import Letters of Credit and Standbys. With ClientTrade the bank aims to be the first bank on the island-nation to offer trade services over the web.

New York, August 10, 2003 - EFG Bank-Greece signs for BankTrade and ClientTrade. CSI-BankTrade is delighted to announce the recent decision by EFG Bank to implement both BankTrade and ClientTrade. With this agreement EFG, Greece’s second largest bank, takes an important step in fully automating their Trade Finance operations.

New York, August 08, 2003 - BankTrade successfully implemented at PSG Trade Finance. CSI-BankTrade is pleased to announce the recent successful implementation of BankTrade at PSG Trade Finance, South Africa.

In line with CSI – BankTrade’s unparalleled commitment to customer service, the installation was completed and fully functional well within the three month time frame set for the project.

New York, August 04, 2003 - Bangkok Bank Limited to implement BankTrade upgrade, ClientTrade & GPS. CSI-BankTrade is to implement a BankTrade upgrade, ClientTrade and Global Processing System at Bangkok Bank Limited following a recently signed agreement.

With this agreement, CSI – BankTrade is delighted to add Bangkok Bank Limited to a rapidly growing list of banks worldwide benefiting from CSI - BankTrade’s functionality, flexibility and technical innovation.

New York, June 20, 2003 - Fortis Australia Goes Live with BankTrade. CSI-BankTrade is pleased to announce that Fortis Australia has successfully completed its first live transactions with BankTrade creating a direct processing link with the bank’s operations in Singapore.

New York, May 27, 2003 - Banco de Costa Rica signs with BankTrade. CSI-BankTrade has announced an agreement signed with Banco de Costa Rica to implement BankTrade.

New York, May 15, 2003 - ING Singapore Goes Live with BankTrade. CSI-BankTrade has successfully implemented its signature web-based back office solution, BankTrade, at ING Singapore. Following the company’s tradition of completing projects on, or ahead of schedule, BankTrade for ING Singapore went live in March 2003.

New York, May 9, 2003 - CSI-BankTrade Brings ClientTrade Benefits to Banorte. In a recent interview, Letters of Credit Manager at Mexico’s leading trade finance bank, Banorte, talked about the benefits ClientTrade has offered the bank and its corporate clients.

What has been the major benefit from the use of ClientTrade?
“The major benefit is being able to offer clients a user friendly tool which brings together the elements necessary to make the credit letter process easier. The system also provides a centralized control for handling information available at any moment and in one place, supporting and making their international commercial activities more efficient.” ClientTrade is also recognized as a powerful marketing tool giving banks a powerful sales edge as they demonstrate to clients the advantages of processing their trade finance transactions on line in real time.

How has ClientTrade supported foreign commercial business strategy for Banorte?
“It has allowed us to offer a cutting edge service, resulting in us maintaining existing clients and winning new customers.”

What has been the reaction of clients to this technology?
“They have been amazed and satisfied by the simplicity of sending and handling of information, and also by the speed of the process, making them more efficient in their international business activities.”

May 2, 2003 - CSI-BankTrade, has been congratulated by the U.S. Council for International Business on its 25th anniversary. In the following announcement, Council for International Business Senior Vice President and COO Peter M. Robinson recognizes CSI-BankTrade’s 25 years of meeting the constantly evolving demands of the banking industry.

“Congratulations to CSI-BankTrade on its 25th anniversary! The U.S. Council for International Business applauds CSI-Bank Trade’s quarter century of leadership and excellence in the field of trade finance software. As the U.S. affiliate of the International Chamber of Commerce we have had the pleasure to work together with CSI-BankTrade and to witness your innovations in electronic documentation and process improvement. We look forward to continued cooperation in the years ahead.”

New York, April 25, 2003 - CSI-BankTrade SWIFTReady Gold 2003 Accreditation. CSI-BankTrade is proud to announce that BankTrade has again received SWIFTReady Gold accreditation for an unprecedented seventh year in a row.

March 1st, 2003 - PSG Trade Finance, South Africa Signs with CSI-BankTrade

NEW YORK, Feb. 19, 2003 - CSI-BankTrade Celebrates 25-Year Anniversary of Providing Innovative Global Trade Finance Solutions CSI-BankTrade, a leading provider of trade finance solutions, proudly announces the celebration of its 25-year anniversary of automating global trade for the banking industry and their customers. More...

February 18, 2003 - Bolero congratulates CSI-BankTrade on its 25th Anniversary: "The Bolero initiative is built on the vision of integrating the entire trade chain into a common platform for secure transactions. Effective integration of applications is an essential for the delivery of efficiency though bolero.net backed bank services.

CSI BankTrade has been delivering its Bolero solutions to banks since the inception of Bolero and made investments to become the first Trade Finance Solutions provider to be Bolero Enabled for both back office and front-end.

As BankTrade celebrates its 25th anniversary this year we take this opportunity to congratulate BankTrade and its employees, and look forward to continuing and strengthening the Bolero-BankTrade partnership in the years and decades to come."

Said Mr. Peter Scott - Commercial Director - bolero.net

February 03, 2003 - ABN Amro - Philippines Live!! As part of the global trade system implementation of ABN Amro and the progress of their global processing center in Chennai (India), powered by BankTrade, the bank has now gone live in the Philippines.

January 30, 2003 - CSI-BankTrade announces its Users Conference Meeting to be held in New York City by June 18, 19 and 20 of 2003, location to be confirmed.
For additional details please contact sales@banktrade.com

January 16, 2003 - ClientTrade exceeds Banco Santander Mexicano’s business expectations when one of the most important corporate customers in the country processed Trade-related transactions for over USD10 million. "We have found that Client Trade is an excellent product. CT has become in an excellent tool for Business Officers. In demos to customer we show how they can issue an LC in a really easy way. We show them how they can process an LC from their office and received a response (including the debit advice and the MT700 message) in less than 5 minutes!!” Said a spokesman from the bank.

January 1, 2003 - CSI-BankTrade announces its 25th anniversary creating innovative solutions for Global Trade. "The future for trade finance systems is to provide the our clientswith the ability to expand the scope of services offered to their customers” CSI-BankTrade spokesman says. Lets give a name, its our own company.

December 04, 2002 - Fortis Bank - Taiwan and Guangzhou (China) Live!! As part of the global BankTrade roll out of Fortis Bank of Belgium, CSI BankTrade is proud to announce that Fortis Taipei (Taiwan), Domestic and International Environment, Fortis Guangzhou (China) and a Second location in Hong Kong went live this week.

November 28, 2002 - Congratulations to BankTrade Banks!! CSI BankTrade congratulates banks that make up of our family of 90 financial institutions in 38 countries, which were awarded the “World’s Trade Finance Banks” recognition by the prestigious Global Finance Magazine. ABN Amro (Best Trade Finance Bank in Europe and The Netherlands), Fortis Bank (Best Trade Finance Bank in Belgium), Standard Bank of South Africa (Best Trade Finance Bank in South Africa) and Banco Mercantil (Best Trade Finance Bank in Venezuela) were some of the recognized institutions empowered by BankTrade and ClientTrade.

October 10, 2002 - Banco de Crédito - Peru Upgrades to BankTrade 8.0

August 26, 2002 - RZB Bank - Austria upgrades to BankTrade 8.0: RZB Bank has upgraded to BankTrade version 8.0 which has been fully integrated with ClientTrade, CSI’s e-banking solution for trade finance.

August 20, 2002 - Fortis Bank - Singapore and Shanghai - Live!! Fortis Bank has now gone live with BankTrade in Singapore and Shanghai.

August 05, 2002 - Citizens Bank - Massachusetts - is Live with BankTrade!! Citizens Bank of Massachusetts, one of the east coast’s most prestigious financial institutions t, has now gone live with BankTrade.

August 03, 2002 - Banca Serfin – Mexico is Live with ClientTrade! Banca Serfin has gone live with ClientTrade. The bank has launched a full marketing strategy for trade finance aiming to expand its market share, branding the initiative “Serfin Trade”.

July 01, 2002 - ING London is Live with BankTrade!! ING London is now live with BankTrade as part their global implementation of the BankTrade solution. In a ceremony marking the event, the bank’s representative stated, “This is the first implementation of what will be the strategic platform for processing documentary trade business within ING Group and has been achieved within a very tight deadline”. Regarding the CSI BankTrade team, the representative also commented, “we would like to take this opportunity to thank the Core Project team, including members from both PCM and the vendor (CSI)”. They also commented on their Multi-Bank BankTrade rollout, “The experience gained during the London deployment will be used to help smooth the roll-outs to IBN Netherlands, BBL Brussels and BHF Frankfurt”.

July 10, 2002 - Banco Sudamericano - Peru Upgrades to BankTrade 8.0.

June 8, 2002 - Banorte - Mexico implements ClientTrade 2.0.

June 5, 2002 - Discount Bank - Uruguay implements BankTrade 8.0.

May 23, 2002 - BankTrade Achieves SWIFT Ready Gold Status for its 6th Consecutive Year: CSI BankTrade is proud to announce our achievement of SWIFT Ready Gold Status for the 6th consecutive year. This confirms our commitment to the industry and in particular to the SWIFT organization. No other trade finance application provider has achieved this recognition for so many consecutive years.

September 17, 2001 - Israel Discount Bank - New York chooses CSI-BankTrade to automate its Trade Finance operations.

August 2, 2001 - Santander Central Hispano - Spain goes live with BankTrade’s Letters of Credit Module.

April 4, 2001 - Santander Central Hispano - Spain goes live with BankTrade’s Loans Module.

January 25, 2001 - CSI-BankTrade reinforces its global support infrastructure with the opening of its new office in Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia.

January 23, 2001 - Romanian Commercial Bank - Romania chooses CSI – BankTrade to automate its Trade Finance operations.

December 15, 2000 - CSI-BankTrade expands its global support infrastructure by opening its new office in Amsterdam – The Netherlands.

December 12, 2000 - Santander Central Hispano - Spain, goes live with BankTrade’s Collections Module.