Ad-hoc | 9 November 2000 10:11

Ad hoc-Service: Brainpower N.V.

Ad hoc-Mitteilung verarbeitet und übermittelt durch die DGAP. Für den Inhalt der Mitteilung ist der Emittent verantwortlich. —————————————————————————— November 9th, 2000 Swiss Life chooses fast track solution Brainpower NetXceed for the website of its new integrated financial portal redsafe.com Brainpower today announced that Swiss Life, the most experienced and largest life insurance company in Switzerland, selected Brainpower NetXceed to power the website of their new announced online bank redsafe.com with sophisticated investment analysis tools. Swiss Life will use solutions supplied by Brainpower to provide private clients of the new e-bank with analysis and investment decision support tools similar to those currently only available to professional investors. Brainpower products will allow customers of redsafe.com to select, screen and analyze investment funds according to a large number of indicators such as investment return, risk indicators and tracking statistics. “For our new financial portal, we were looking for a user-friendly tool which allows our web visitors to access state-of-the-art internet investment decision tools”, Volker Gerlach, CEO of redsafe.com said. “In Brainpower we have found the ideal partner to supply us with innovative technology in very short timescales. This will enable us to deliver new functionality to our clients and allow us to leapfrog our competitors in terms of gaining valuable market share.” Claudia Hauser, Country Manager for Brainpower Switzerland commented: “Swiss Life is a major client acquisition for Brainpower. It is a great example of how a traditional company with a strong pedigree is able to harness technology to deliver the kind of services being demanded by clients today. With products such as Brainpower NetXceed – which has been designed to integrate easily with existing system environments – adding analytical investment tools and functionalities to a website can take just a matter of weeks.” ———————————- November 9th, 2000 Self Trade selects Brainpower NetXceed to enhance website content for private investors Brainpower (Neuer Markt code BPW), provider of investment analysis and decision-support software tools for the investment community, is to supply Brainpower NetXceed to the UK arm of European online broker Self Trade. NetXceed is a web-based family of applications designed to enhance the services offered by online banks, e-brokers and online financial services. NetXceed delivers sophisticated analytical functionality to private online investors similar to that currently only available to investment professionals. Self Trade UK Marketing Director Peter Boucher said: “We chose Brainpower for their good pedigree and experience in fund management. They understand the requirements of the private investor and have applied their technology well to this sector.” Mark Wells, chief operating officer at Brainpower said: “At Brainpower we believe that for online brokerage sites content is king. Clients will keep coming back to a site that gives added value, and this is the technology that we will be providing for Self Trade.” Ende der Mitteilung