Press release

Valista’s Marketing Director Nominated for 2006 Blackberry Women in Technology Awards

Evanna Kearins is shortlisted for 'Best Woman in Technology (SME <250 staff)' Award

DUBLIN, IRELAND and SAN MATEO, CALIF.— 20th October, 2006 – Valista (www.valista.com), the leading provider of merchandizing, payments and settlement solutions and managed services, today announced that their Head of Marketing, Evanna Kearins has been nominated for the Blackberry Women in Technology Awards, in the category of ‘Best Woman in Technology’. Evanna is one of five nominees in the SME group, with the winner set to be announced at an awards ceremony at on Thursday 2 November 2006 at Old Billingsgate, London. The other nominees include representatives from OPT2VOTE Ltd, Turbo10 Ltd, 82ASK and Arieso..

Now in their second year, the BlackBerry® Women & Technology Awards celebrate the achievements of women using technology, both within and beyond the IT sector, to bring their outstanding contributions to business via the use of technology into the public eye. The Awards look to honour the individual (or company) that has achieved success and competitive advantage through innovation, management and return on investment via technology.

“The awards were a great success last year and this year looks to be just as exciting. We have been overwhelmed by the quantity and quality of applicants, demonstrating not solely the crucial role women play in the technology workplace today, but also how women are using technology to help them get ahead in their work and every day lives,” said Charmaine Eggberry, Vice President and Managing Director, EMEA, at Research In Motion.

For more information on nominees for this year’s awards, please visit:
www.blackberrywomentechnologyawards.com

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For more information, please contact:

Valista®
Evanna Kearins
Director, Marketing.
Email: marketing@valista.com

About Valista® Ltd.
Valista accelerates the growth of digital commerce with comprehensive merchandizing, payments and settlement solutions. In addition to a licensed software option, Valista offers a managed service providing end-to-end payment processing, merchandizing and revenue settlement. The Valista Plus™ suite of solutions enables mobile, fixed line, cable operators, MVNOs, ISPs, portals, media companies and aggregators to support the entire commerce ecosystem including micro and macro-payments; advanced settlement; multi-merchant bundling, discounting, promotions and loyalty programs.

Valista’s technology and services has been proven globally with innovators including: AOL; Vodafone; NTT DoCoMo; France Telecom's w-HA, Orange; 3; mBlox, Hong Kong CSL; Hutch Sri Lanka, Mobilink, Telcel, and GTECH.

Valista® and ‘accelerating commerce™’ and ‘new ways to purchase with multiple ways to pay™’ ‘payments software enabling the purchase of premium services™’ ‘PaymentsPlus’, ‘OffersPlus’, ‘SettlementPlus’ are registered trademarks and trademarks of Valista Limited. All other trademarks and registered trademarks referenced in this document are the property of their respective owners.

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