NEXT Biometrics Group ASA - Share Issue/Capital Change 2017

NEXT BIOMETRICS GROUP ASA - REGISTRATION OF NEW SHARE CAPITAL

Reference is made to the stock exchange announcements from NEXT

Biometrics Group ASA ("NEXT" or the "Company") regarding the completed

private placement of 1,167,000 new shares in the Company. The NOK 1,167,000

share capital increase pertaining to the private placement has now been

registered with the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises. The new

share capital of the Company is NOK 16,325,980 divided into 16,325,980

shares, with each share having a nominal value of NOK 1.00.

ABOUT NEXT Biometrics:

Enabled by its patented NEXT Active Thermal principle, NEXT Biometrics

(www.NextBiometrics.com) offers high quality area fingerprint sensors at a

fraction of the prices of comparable competitors. A wide range of product

formats including smartcards, smartphones, tablets, PC's, access control,

time registration systems, wearables, payment terminals, flash drives, USB

tokens, key fobs and many more are targeted. NEXT Biometrics Group ASA is a

publicly listed company headquartered in Oslo, Norway and with sales,

support and development subsidiaries in Seattle, Silicon Valley, Taipei, Prague

and Shanghai.

Media and Investor contacts for NEXT Biometrics:

Tore Etholm-Idsøe,CEO, [email protected] and

Knut Stalen, CFO, [email protected]

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