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S. African minister of finance to open ATMIA conference

September 4, 2003

CAPE TOWN, South Africa· - Trevor Manuel, South Africa's minister of finance, has agreed to open the ATM Industry Association's (ATMIA) first African conference and exhibition, "ATMs in Africa," which is scheduled for March 25-26, 2004 at Cape Town's Waterfront.

Manuel, who has steered the South African economy to consistent growth, was selected in 1994 by the World Economic Forum as a Global Leader for Tomorrow and awarded the Africa Prize by the German Africa Foundation in the same year. He has been a governor on the Board of the World Bank, African Development Bank Group and Development Bank of Southern Africa as well as chairman of the South African Development Community Finance and Investment Sector.

Manuel was chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund at annual meetings in Prague in September 2000 and served as special envoy to the Secretary-General, United Nations, for the Conference on Financing for Development, held in Monterrey, Mexico in 2002. He is currently chairman of the Development Committee, International Monetary Fund.

Confirmed participants at "ATMs in Africa" include: First National Bank; Absa Bank; Nedbank; Namibia's Bank Windhoek; LINK Interchange Network (UK); Gulf Bank of Nigeria; the South African Fraud Prevention Services; Cashcard Australia; the South African Banking Risk Intelligence Centre; CR2 (Ireland); SmartPay Nigeria, a consortium of more than 30 banks in Nigeria; ATM Solutions, an independent deployer in South Africa; NCR; Triton; Retail Banking Research Ltd (UK); Mosaic Software; Tom Harper, president of ATMIA and NetWorld Alliance, publisher of ATMmarketplace (U.S.); Lyle Elias, chairman of ATMIA (U.S.); and AST Financial Solutions.

According to a news release, speakers from three African countries, as well as Europe, the U.S. and Australia, will give the conference a balance of African and international content.

The conference will afford attendees the opportunity to enjoy special discounted tourist excursionsanywhere within South Africa, such as game park safaris, golfing, trips to Table Mountain by cable car, visits to Robben Island to see the cell where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for almost three decades, and wineland tours.

"ATMs in Africa" also includes a Payments Forum looking strategically at the payments landscape in major markets of the world and technology user groups to discuss technologies like Bluetooth and biometrics.

Several new ATM technologies will be exhibited at the conference. A cocktail reception at the end of Day One will create further networking opportunities.

"We aim to produce the best ATM trade show Africa has yet seen," said Mike Lee, ATMIA's international director. "It will be a showcase for ATMIA Africa, which was established in June last year. Anyone interested in current and emerging ATM markets in South Africa and the rest of the continent ought to be there."

For more information, please contact Mike Lee at mike@atmia.com or Amanda Hardy at  amanda@atmiaconferences.com

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ATM Industry Association (ATMIA)

The ATM Industry Association, founded in 1997, is a global non-profit trade association with over 10,500 members in 65 countries. The membership base covers the full range of this worldwide industry comprising over 2.2 million installed ATMs.

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