ABN AMRO Bank N.V. Introduces "Active Alerts" - a New Credit Card Service Using EFI's Unimobile Messaging Technology

Business Wire, Sept 18, 2002

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2002

Electronics For Imaging (NASDAQ:EFII), has announced that ABN AMRO Bank N.V in India is offering new wireless and email services to its credit card customers using the advanced Unimobile messaging platform.

Unimobile's technology gives ABN AMRO's credit card customers Active Alerts, an innovative feature that keeps cardholders informed by e-mail / mobile phone (SMS) of vital card transactions. With this offering, EFI(TM) significantly extends its presence in the financial services market as the premier mobile messaging platform provider.

The Unimobile solution delivers secure and reliable Active Alerts to ABN AMRO credit card customers, providing them with up-to-minute information on transactions such as Risk Alerts informing them of multiple purchases and Maintenance Alerts when they are nearing their card limit. These Interactive alerts, which help customers monitor expenditure, are delivered instantly through Unimobile's powerful platform to cell phones, pagers, Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) and email accounts.

Unimobile technology is integrated into the bank's infrastructure, giving ABN AMRO Bank the ability to independently create new applications to further enhance customer service. Additionally, Unimobile's Mobile Messaging Platform (MMP) gives the Bank the ability to customise and control the interactive alerts for each customer.

Nitin Chopra, Head-Consumer Bank, ABN AMRO Bank, India said "ABN AMRO Bank has always provided its customers with innovative value added products and services. Our tie up with EFI's Unimobile service helps our customers to remain informed about all transactions made through their card, allowing them to monitor their expenses regularly. By adding the Unimobile platform to our credit card offering, we can now deliver additional world class, industry-leading services to our credit card customers."

Unimobile's scalable platform allows enterprises and carriers to provide interactive, mobile messaging solutions for their customers, partners and employees through a secure and reliable, two-way, global data delivery network. Unimobile's open architecture can process thousands of messages per second, giving the ability to deploy the technology for multiple programs and handle heavy message volume. It also provides flexibility of billing and service packaging and anti-spam filters.