TheMarkets.com Named Finalist in 2008 CODiE Awards

Nominated for Best Online Professional Financial Information Service 


NEW YORK, Feb. 14  /PRNewswire/ -- TheMarkets.com, a leading provider of research, estimates and workflow solutions to the buy-side, today announced that its flagship research platform, http://www.themarkets.com/, has been named a finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association's 23rd Annual CODiE Awards competition.  The CODiE Awards recognize outstanding achievement and vision in the software, digital information and education technology industries, and are the only peer-judged awards of their kind.

TheMarkets.com was nominated as Best Online Professional Financial Information Service.  The platform features real-time, global research and estimates from hundreds of contributors, including proprietary content from the brokers that own the Company.  TheMarkets.com uniquely offers commingled analyst earnings models in Excel format and contextual hyperlinks from its platform into the award-winning research portals of the world's leading broker-dealers.

TheMarkets.com was selected as a finalist from among more than a thousand nominations, according to the SIIA.  "Competition is tough this year and that makes selection as a CODiE Finalist a real achievement," said Ken Wash, SIIA president.  "All the companies on this year's list should feel justifiably proud of their recognition."

"In 2007, we have continued to enhance our flagship product in our mission to be the research partner of choice for the buy-side," said David Kim, Vice President of Product Management for TheMarkets.com.  "We are thrilled to have once again been named a finalist in the CODiE Awards competition.  This accolade further highlights what our continued growth in market share has shown:  we offer a unique, time-saving solution that has become a critical part of the workflow of thousands of institutional investors worldwide."

CODiE Awards winners will be announced at a gala on May 20th, 2008 in San Francisco, CA.

About TheMarkets.com

TheMarkets.com is a leading provider of research, estimates, and workflow solutions to over 1900 institutional investment management firms worldwide. TheMarkets.com is owned by: Banc of America Securities, LLC (NYSE:BAC), Citi (NYSE:C), Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS), Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB), Dresdner Kleinwort, part of Dresdner Bank AG and a member of the Allianz Group (NYSE:AZ), The Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS), JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH), Merrill Lynch (NYSE:MER), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), UBS Investment Bank (NYSE:UBS), and Reuters (NASDAQ:RTRSYNASDAQ:LSE: RTR).

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