Baltimore wins major deal in Italy

Baltimore Technologies has announced that Actalis, Italy's leading provider of ICT security and PKI (public key infrastructure) services for the Italian banking sector, has chosen Baltimore's PKI to provide the platform for securing interbank B2B transactions in compliance with Identrus(TM) requirements.

In one of the largest Identrus implementations worldwide, four of Italy's major banks will go live with the service by the end of 2002.

The four banks are SAN PAOLO IMI, INTESA-BCI, MONTE DEI PASCHI DI SIENA and BANCA di ROMA and all are members of Gruppo Utenti Identrus Italia (GUII), an organization of seven Italian banks that joined the Identrus network.

Additional banks have already committed to launch the service during 2003 and 2004.