Robert Lin Joins TradeCard as Vice President of Business Development, based in Hong Kong

New York and Hong Kong, April 9, 2003. TradeCard Inc. the leading financial supply chain services and global trade transaction management services provider, today announced the appointment of Robert Lin to Vice President of Business Development. Lin will take over leading TradeCard's team in Hong Kong from Richard Lightbound, to further expand TradeCard's user base in North Asia. TradeCard currently has nearly four hundred users in Hong Kong and in Taiwan alone. Richard Lightbound, who was TradeCard's first employee in Hong Kong and successfully built TradeCard's business in the region, will relocate to Brussels to expand TradeCard's business in Europe.

"Over the past four years, with Richard Lightbound's support we have built a sizeable business in Hong Kong, where TradeCard launched its global trade transaction management platform in early 2000," said Kurt Cavano, Chairman and CEO, TradeCard Inc. "Robert joins TradeCard at a time of major expansion and brings with him just the right experience in the supply chain and financial technology areas to ensure that we continue this growth and help Asian traders to streamline their financial supply chains. He will be a great addition to our team."

Robert Lin comes to TradeCard with eleven years of enterprise sales and management experience at finance and technology companies including NewView Technologies, formerly e-Steel Inc., where he was General Manager of the company's Australia Office, Omnivision Technologies in California and Cargill Financial Markets Group. Lin has extensive experience in Asia where he worked in both Hong Kong,Taiwan and China.

About TradeCard, Inc.
TradeCard is a financial supply chain service provider and manages trade transactions from procurement through to settlement. The TradeCard solution aligns the documentary and financial requirements of a domestic or international trade transaction with the physical movement of goods, eliminating time-consuming and error-prone manual processes. By streamlining and enhancing the steps necessary for purchase order approvals, payment decisions and settlement through a collaborative workflow, TradeCard provides a cost-effective, practical and patented service for financial supply chain management.

TradeCard, Inc. is headquartered in New York City with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul and Tokyo.

TradeCard is a registered trademark in the United States and elsewhere throughout the world. TradeCard can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.tradecard.com.

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