NEW YORK and HONG KONG, September 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Volante add-ons reduce development cost and speed deployment with 
predefined modules that support various translations and validations
against any SWIFT Standards syntax and semantic rules

Powering finance with data management innovations, Volante today
announced new add-ons to SWIFT's Alliance Integrator to ease SWIFT deployment
and ensure correct message formatting. The Volante SWIFT Validation and
Translation Services leverage Volante's proven and comprehensive support of
SWIFT messaging dictionaries and functions to reduce the effort involved in
connecting to the SWIFT network, while helping users avoid network rejections
of important financial transactions.

The new products were announced today at Sibos, the annual SWIFT
community conference held this year in Hong Kong.

"As the highest-scoring SWIFT vendor partner certified in SWIFTReady
Messaging Data Services, we are uniquely qualified to assist users in linking
more seamlessly to SWIFT," said Vijay Oddiraju, CEO of Volante. "The Volante
Validation Service has been thoroughly tested in customer environments to
ensure messages are correct before release to the network. The Translation
Service adds predefined support of a broad range of message types, with
interoperability between MT and MX formats, and other major messaging
standards."

Functionally, the Volante services operate as a middleware refinement
over Alliance Integrator, which provides integration services between the
user's back-office applications and Alliance Access, SWIFT's prime messaging
interface. Volante's enhanced user interface provides access to all features.
Among the industry standards supported are BAI, BAI2, FIX, FPML and EDI, as
well as all SWIFT formats.

"Volante clearly provides added value with its business-oriented
interface and pre-packaged SWIFT functions," said Eric Meirlaen, business
development manager at SWIFT. "Users of Alliance Integrator gain the benefits
of Volante's traditional strength of simplicity and reusability in
integration and message transformation, while addressing the important
challenge of validating SWIFT messages to avoid failure of malformed payment
orders."

Volante is smoothly installed and configured over the Alliance
Integrator, which provides an open SOA framework enabling partners to easily
add software components that provide business and operational features to the
financial workflow of SWIFT users. Partner add-ons may range from message
validation and transformation, to payment message verification against
black-lists (AML), and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM).

"As we wanted to test the integration of third-party components with
Alliance Integrator, we turned to Volante, our SWIFTReady certified partner.
It took us only a few hours to connect the Volante solution to Integrator and
run it without any problem, using standard Web Services," said Alex
Coutsouradis, manager of Integration Services at SWIFT. "As always, Volante
has come through with a robust and user-friendly solution to common
challenges faced by firms that depend on the SWIFT network for
mission-critical business activities."

The Volante SWIFT Validation and Translation Services are available now.
For more information, contact Volante at info@volantetech.com.

About Volante

Since 2001, Volante Technologies has been accelerating data management
for the financial services industry, while slashing development time and cost
of ownership. Volante provides integration solutions for low-latency
environments, service oriented architectures, vendor data consolidation,
complex event processing, SWIFT message integration and other complex data
challenges. Its metadata-based technology that enables enterprise data
governance and model-driven data initiatives has been granted the SWIFTReady
label for the last five years in a row.

Volante solutions are employed by top-tier buy-side and sell-side
institutions around the globe, as well as industry utilities. For more
information, visit www.volantetech.com.

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    Kathleen Hawk
    +1-845-687-2222
    kathleen@volantetech.com