Admission to Trading on AIM

Advanced Smartcard Technologies plc

First Day of Dealings on AIM

Advanced Smartcard Technologies plc is pleased to announce the Admission and first day of dealing of its shares on the
Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange. Shares will commence trading today under the ticker of
"SMRT".

AST's operating subsidiary Ecebs Limited (Electronic Commerce Enabled By Smartcards) is a profit making software
business with a rapidly growing base of clients and partners including blue-chip organisations such as Royal Bank of
Scotland and BT alongside local authorities, government departments, passenger transport executives and world leading
technology companies.

Ecebs has developed a revolutionary new smartcard enabling software product branded Multefile. Multefile cards can hold
more than one application and have the flexibility to be easily modified according to each client's requirements. A
unique attribute of Multefile is that it has been designed to allow card issuers to update and manage all aspects of
their smartcards without specialist technical assistance. In contrast with some existing proprietary solutions,
Multefile also allows the functionality of the cards to be dramatically changed in a low cost and time efficient manner
- even after the card has been issued.

The Company currently has a confirmed order book of around £1.8 million. It also has additional strong sales prospects
at an advanced stage worth an estimated sales value of £5 million and a further potential sales prospect pipeline worth
an estimated £10 million.

25,000,000 new Ordinary Shares have been issued at 3 pence per shares. This represents a total of 12.67% of the issued
share capital of the company immediately following the Placing, equating to gross proceeds of £750,000.

David Braddock, Managing Director stated, "Advanced Smartcard Technologies welcomes its admission to AIM. This is an
important step in our plans for growth. Being part of the vibrant AIM community will significantly raise the profile of
the company, enhancing our credibility amongst our blue-chip target customer base in our chosen markets which should
increase the opportunities available. This is an important event in the company's history that we plan to take
significant advantage of."


For further information contact


Advanced Smartcard Technologies plc        01355 272911

David Braddock, Managing Director
Stephen Naylor, Finance Director


SVS Securities                             020 7638 5600

Ian Callaway
Kirsten Aldridge


ARM Corporate Finance                      020 7512 0191

Nick Harriss


cityPROFILE                                020 7448 3244

Simon Courtenay