LONDON, October 14 /PRNewswire/ --     VocaLink, the payment transaction specialist, today announced the
appointment of Alan Scutt as UK Managing Director to strengthen the company's
relationship with its UK customers and develop new business opportunities.

The move reinforces the company's commitment to expanding and
strengthening its senior team with broad business and industry expertise. It
follows the recent appointment of Paul Taylor to the new post of Managing
Director for Europe.

Alan will be reporting to Martin Wilson, chief commercial officer at
VocaLink, who commented, "The rapid growth of our business created the need
for a dedicated UK Managing Director. As we expand into a number of
international markets we want to ensure that our core UK business continues
to receive the highest quality of service. Alan's appointment will bring us
closer to our existing customers. He has an excellent track record of
delivering results and is an excellent addition to VocaLink's team."

Alan joins VocaLink from Metavante, where he was Senior Vice President.
Prior to this, he worked for EFunds Corporation and was responsible for
running the eFunds Payment Solution business across EMEA. During this time he
led the team that worked with VocaLink on the Faster Payments solution.

Alan brings to VocaLink more than ten years experience in the payments
industry and over twenty years UK and international IT industry expertise in
sales management and general management positions. He has a successful and
consistent track record of growing organisations and winning profitable
multi-million pound deals.

Notes to Editors

A high resolution image of Alan Scutt to accompany this release is
available on request.

About VocaLink

VocaLink is a specialist provider of transaction services to banks, their
corporate customers and Government departments. It processes domestic and
international automated payments and provides ATM switching solutions. On a
peak day, the VocaLink automated payment platform processes over 90 million
transactions and over half a billion in a month. Its switching platform
connects the world's busiest ATM network of over 60,000 ATMs. Its Real-Time
Payments platform provides the central infrastructure for the UK Faster
Payments service. It is working with BGC to provide outsourced processing for
the majority of Sweden's domestic payments.

Having pioneered electronic payments for over four decades, many of the
world's top banks and their corporate customers rely on VocaLink to meet
their transaction needs. Its processing services offer banks reach throughout
the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) and beyond; and are complemented by
value-added services that leverage industry expertise and technical
capabilities.

Please visit http://www.vocalink.com for more information

For further information please contact:

    Gerald Cross at The JJ Group,
    +44(0)1865-343100 or vocalink@thejjgroup.com ;

    Kevin Monks at VocaLink,
    +44(0)870-920-8574 or kevin.monks@vocalink.com ;

    Deborah Souter at VocaLink,
    +44(0)870-920-8651 or deborah.souter@vocalink.com .