US Expansion

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Intercede Group PLC

12 December 2011

Intercede Group plc

Intercede Continues US Expansion

Company Secures E2 Treaty Investor Status

Leicestershire, England, December 12, 2011 - Intercede Group plc, the developer of the Intercede MyID(R) Identity and Credential Management System today announces its has been approved as a United States Treaty Investor (E2) by the US Embassy in London.

The company is now able to send qualified executives and employees who are UK citizens to work for Intercede MyID Inc., subject only to them meeting the requirements appropriate to E2 status. Intercede MyID Inc is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Intercede Group with offices in Reston, VA.

Treaty Investor employees qualify for E-2 work visas. These are non-immigrant visas for nationals of a country with which the United States maintains a treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation who wish to go to the United States to develop and direct the operations of an enterprise in which the Treaty Investor is investing a substantial amount of capital.

Richard Parris, Intercede Chairman and Chief Executive said; "I am delighted Intercede has been recognized as an E2 Treaty Investor. This is the result of an extensive application process. We now have the flexibility to more easily outpost key UK staff to our US business in order to accelerate its growth. This will enable Intercede to strengthen its US infrastructure, transfer technology, recruit and train more US staff, extend the Intercede corporate culture to a wider team and provide US opportunities and experiences to our UK staff. I believe this is a key milestone in the corporate development of the Intercede Group and will be instrumental in enabling increased revenues to be generated from the North American market."

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About Intercede:

Intercede is the producer of the MyID Identity and Credential Management System and MyID Management Agent for Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010.

Intercede MyID technology is being used around the world by large corporations, governments and banks to manage millions of identities for employees, citizens and customers. Notable deployments in the US include 14 federal agencies, two million smart cards in support of the US Transportation Worker Identity Credential program (TWIC), four US financial institutions and 340,000 smart corporate identity badges for Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton and Lockheed Martin. In Europe, Australasia and the Middle East, Intercede MyID is being deployed in support of government identity, financial services, health and corporate employee ID security projects.

Intercede MyID is the only IDCMS software product that enables organizations to easily and securely manage the identities of people and their associated identity credentials within a single, integrated, workflow driven platform. This includes enabling and managing secure registration, biometric capture, application vetting and approval through to smart card personalization, issuance and management.

Intercede MyID was the first electronic personalization product to achieve compliance with the US FIPS-201 Personal Identity Verification (PIV) standard and is widely deployed by federal agencies, government contractors and other commercial entities. In particular, it supports the latest standards applicable for all PIV, PIV-Interoperable and PIV-Compatible deployments.

It can issue and manage a wide variety of identities and credentials, providing customers with a platform that can meet their needs now and in the future. It is a fully supported commercial off-the-shelf product that can be quickly deployed for thousands or millions of users.

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