FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, February 13, 2002

Paul S. Heirendt, TradeHarbor President & CEO to present at the FSTC 2002 Winter General Meeting

 

St Louis, MO, February 13, 2002 – TradeHarbor announced today that Paul S. Heirendt, TradeHarbor President & CEO to present at the The Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) 2002 Winter General Meeting, February 26-27, 2002, at the Sheraton Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta, GA.

 

Mr. Heirendt will present a New FSTC Project Presentation - Interoperable Voice Authentication Registry on Tuesday, February 26, 2002.

 

About the FSTC 2002 Winter General Meeting 

 

Financial Services industry leaders, colleagues and peers will attend the FSTC Winter General Meeting, February 26-27, at the Sheraton Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta, GA. FSTC Winter General Meeting will focus on applications, technologies and environmental factors impacting financial institution capability in the e-commerce marketplace. The Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) is a consortium of leading North American-based financial institutions, technology vendors, independent research organizations, and government agencies. 

 

About the FSTC

 

FSTC sponsors collaborative technology development-pilots, proofs-of-concept, tests, and demonstrations-supported by member financial institutions and technology companies. Its aim is to bring forward interoperable, open-standard technologies that provide critical infrastructures for the financial services industry. 

 

FSTC members use these same infrastructures to bring their own products and services to the market place, stimulating customer interest and earning consumer confidence, and enhancing the position of financial services institutions in the marketplace. 

 

FSTC provides a project-oriented collaborative research and development environment where members can:

 

• Compare technologies to determine which ones really do what they promise. FSTC sponsors side-by-side comparisons of emerging technical solutions in the laboratory and in actual field operations. FSTC-sponsored tests reduce your individual costs and, under FSTC project management, provide you with NIST-lab certified results. As an added benefit, you can compare notes on vendors and products with other financial institutions.
  

• Validate specifications to determine if they work and can they be implemented. Industry groups turn to FSTC to validate early implementations of emerging industry specifications, confirming that each adheres to specifications, does what is claimed, and can be deployed. FSTC quickly determines the quality of each specification and its readiness to be adapted to new products in the marketplace.
  

• Prototype new infrastructures for financial transactions. Through initial design and iterative 90-day implementations, FSTC members prototype interoperable infrastructures. This work often provides a foundation for new products and services, and opens up new markets to financial institutions. 

 

Members choose to participate in specific projects of interest, which they then fund and staff. FSTC provides project management and an intellectual-property framework that protects the interests of its members. 

 

This approach, along with FSTC's support structure and Advisory Council, creates an environment in which member companies work together, share costs, and quickly come up to speed on the technology issues affecting the entire financial services industry.

 

About TradeHarbor 

 

TradeHarbor, Inc. (www.tradeharbor.com) has been established as the premier Voice Signature Service^SM company on the Internet or telephone networks. TradeHarbor’s Internet based service offering, The Voice Signature Service^SM system enables user authentication by providing Voice Signature capabilities as a direct replacement or adjunct for hand-written signatures.

 

This press release contains statements of a forward-looking nature relating to future events or future financial results. Investors are cautioned that such statements are only predictions and actual events or results may differ materially. In evaluating such statements, investors should specifically consider various factors, which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated from such forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

 

CONTACTS:

 

For TradeHarbor, Inc. info@tradeharbor.com

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