(COMTEX)     B: GENEVA DIGITAL: Geneva Digital acquired by Xenos Group B: GENEVA DIGITAL: Geneva Digital acquired by Xenos Group    OCT 26, 1999, M2 Communications - Walton on Thames, Surrey -- Geneva Digital, a UK-based supplier of electronic document solutions, has merged with Xenos Group, a North American-based world leader in e-commerce document presentment software.   Xenos Group invested in Geneva Digital because of its blue chip client base, which consists of financial service, telecomms and utility organisations; excellent reputation as a leading electronic document solution provider and integrator; and because of the UK company's outstanding growth and profitability record.   There is a great deal of synergy between the two IT companies as they are leaders in the electronic document sector. For Geneva, the merger gives the company additional financial resources; enables it to expand into other European countries; and provides a world leading e-document technology to its wide, established customer base. Geneva Digital will rebrand as Xenos Europe in due course.   "This is an exciting day for Geneva Digital and its clients and is synergistic with our direction" said Glen Manchester, the company's managing director, who becomes group chief executive for European operations and a board member of Xenos Group. "We anticipate that Xenos' technologies will be in considerable demand as more and more European companies adopt e-commerce strategies incorporating electronic document presentment and EBPP (electronic bill presentment and payment)."        About Xenos Group   Based in Toronto and Dallas, Xenos Group (www.xenosgroup.com) is a leader in software for on-line statements and bills. Using the world's most advanced transformation and presentment technology, Xenos gives companies the ability to convert any high-volume printed document into a personalized e-document. Customers such as Bear Stearns, Bank of New York, Merrill Lynch, Manulife Financial, Bell Canada and the Canada Post Electronic Post Office use Xenos Group software to transform and distribute more than one billion document pages every year. The company was listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol: XNS) on August 11th 1999.        About Geneva   Geneva Digital, based in Walton-on-Thames, Surr ey, has established itself as one of the UK's foremost providers of document enabled e-commerce solutions. The document solutions specialist supplies premium, cutting-edge digital document repository, viewing and Internet billing solutions to many of the country's largest organisations. Geneva's extensive client base - including many of the leading financial services, telecoms and utility companies - are using its technology and services to generate, store, view and deliver very high volumes of documents for applications such as customer services.        Geneva Digital is based at:   Walton Lodge, Bridge Street, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey KT12 1BT. Tel: 01932 252999. Fax: 01932 252288. Email: enquries@geneva.co.uk Web: www.geneva.co.uk   -0-        (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTDCONTACT: Richard Vaux, Cobalt Blue Marketing  Communications  Tel: +44 (0)1252 728040  Fax: +44 (0)1252 728041  e-mail: richard_vaux@cobaltblue.com        *M2 COMMUNICATIONS DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR  INFORMATION PROVIDED WITHIN M2 PRESSWIRE. DATA  SUPPLIED BY NAMED PARTY/PARTIES.*   ***  end of story  ***   |