DALLAS (October 1, 1999)... Customers of banks employing Brinkman Technologies' NextBill electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) system will now be able to receive banking statements and bills via e-mail.

NextBill, which was introduced earlier this year as one of the first turnkey EBPP systems to use e-mail as the mode of bill delivery and the Federal Reserve's ACH system as the means of processing payments, now has the capability to automatically format customer statements into a Word or HTML e-mail attachment.

"Electronic statement delivery has the capability to significantly reduce the printing and postage costs a bank must absorb to produce and mail bank statements," said Bob Kantin, BTI's vice president of marketing. "Both e-billing and e-statements are projected to be among the hottest investments financial institutions will be making over the next few years, and NextBill combines both capabilities into one cost-effective solution."

To distribute customer statements, NextBill takes account data from any mainframe or midrange system at the bank's data center and merges the data into custom-designed statement templates. Once generated, these statements are delivered via e-mail to any customers who have registered for the service.

Depending on the size of the financial institution, a NextBill installation costs anywhere from $25,000 to $250,000 in license fees. If NextBill resides on a bank's NT server, rather than at the BTI service bureau, no ongoing transaction fees are charged.

About Brinkman Technologies, Inc.

Brinkman Technologies, Inc. (BTI) was founded in 1984 in Carrollton, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. In 1986, BTI introduced PowerLine, the first PC-based, multi-tasking cash management system operating in a private network environment. BTI now offers a full suite of banking services for small banks to multi-bank service bureaus, including electronic bill presentment and payment, corporate cash management, home banking, Internet banking, fax reporting, and ACH. In January 1999, BTI became a pioneer in the direct model of electronic billing when it launched NextBill. Please visit www.banksystems.com or www.nextbill.com for more information. All BTI products are Y2K compliant.