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To: kendall harmon who wrote (79471)	6/15/1999 2:04:00 PM
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DCTI news just out: (go see netclearing.com ) News June 15, 1999 13:46 Digital Courier Technologies, Inc. Announces Equity Investment From Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. Digital Courier Strengthens Alliance With Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. PARK CITY, Utah, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Courier Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCTI) announced today that it has received anequity investment of $6,500,000 from Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSAI). TSAI purchased 1,250,000 shares of Digital Courier common stock and warrants to purchase an additional 1,000,000 common shares with an exercise price of $5.20 per share, subject to adjustment. TSAI and Digital Courier have previously announced a strategic distribution alliance and a software licensing transaction. "We are pleased with the alliance we have formed with Digital Courier. Our equity investment in Digital Courier is an indication of our confidence in Digital Courier's ecommerce technology and expertise, and our ability to jointly become a worldwide e-commerce payments processing leader," said Jeffrey S. Hale, Senior Vice President of Strategic Business Development for Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. "Our investment in Digital Courier enables them to further expand their capabilities in providing some of the most sophisticated Internet payments processing technology available in the marketplace today," Mr. Hale added. Digital Courier has recently announced several major initiatives in the e-commerce payments processing arena. Recent announcements include the acquisitions of Access Services, Inc. and Secure-Bank.com, each successful payment processing companies with merchant and financial institution portfolios, as well as the pending acquisition of DataBank International, SKB. Digital Courier has also signed an agreement with ACI, a division of TSAI, to license its proven BASE 24(R) software and with ACI Worldwide to have its netClearing product marketed and distributed by ACI's worldwide sales and marketing team. "The agreement with TSAI reinforces our position in the e-commerce payments processing industry. We are fulfilling our commitment to become a leader in this sector. TSAI's investment in Digital Courier bolsters our ability to achieve that goal," said James Egide, Chief Executive Officer of Digital Courier. "The combined force of the netClearing technology and ACI's payments processing solutions and worldwide marketing and distribution capabilities should catapult Digital Courier and the netClearing product to the forefront of e-commerce payments processing. We are working hard to expand the netClearing product and make our product a household name within the Industry. It is a very exciting time for us and we are encouraged that an industry leader such as TSAI has chosen to partner with our netClearing product," he added. Digital Courier will file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 60 days covering all the shares of common stock sold to TSAI, as well as the shares of common stock underlying the warrants. Digital Courier supplies financial institutions, businesses and major web portals with sophisticated e-commerce, payments processing and content delivery software. Its integrated netClearing product provides an end to end Internet payment gateway to the credit card networks, provides payment processing management, and combines real-time access with sophisticated fraud prevention features. Transaction Systems Architects' software facilitates electronic payments by providing consumers and companies access to their money. Its products are used to process transactions involving wire transfers, credit cards, debit cards, smart cards, home banking services, checks, as well as automated clearing and settlement. Transaction Systems' solutions are used on more than 3,200 product systems in 75 countries on six continents. SOURCE Digital Courier Technologies, Inc. /CONTACT: Eileen Iguchi, Investor Relations of Digital Courier Technologies, Inc., 435-655-3617, eiguchi@dcourier.com/ /Web site: gate.dcourier.com /Web site: netclearing.com /Web site: dcourier.com