Irish payment software group Trintech has announced a new deal with Alphameric, as the retail solutions provider has selected Trintech's Smart 5000 PINPad for its EPOS implementations across a number of retailers in the UK and Ireland, including Clinkards, Giles Sports and Slater Menswear.

Worries about the potential for a drawn out war in Iraq weighed heavily on the London market today as blue-chip shares took a pounding.

Confidence on the London market was in short supply today as traders around the world took fright at the prospect of a prolonged Iraqi war.