TheMarkets.com Expands Customization Capabilities Through API

Enhances API to offer full set of research, tagging, and search capabilities

NEW YORK, November 23 - TheMarkets.com, a leading provider of research, estimates and workflow
solutions to the buy-side, today announced enhancements to its application
programming interface (API), enabling clients to directly access the content
and core technologies that drive the Company's award-winning product,
TheMarkets.com. Clients have the option of programming with the API directly,
or working with TheMarkets.com's consulting arm to design and develop custom
research applications.

Through the API, client applications can incorporate TheMarkets.com's
content, search functionality, and tagging technology on a
component-by-component basis. Client firms can choose to integrate some or
all modules, designing a custom package of content and functionality.
TheMarkets.com's web-based research platform is used by over 2400 investment
management firms in 51 countries worldwide.

Custom applications built on the API service can leverage the complete
research catalog available on TheMarkets.com, including real-time equity and
fixed income research, analyst earnings models in Excel format, economic and
strategy reports, industry and sector coverage, and initiations of coverage,
among others. The Company's global network of contributors includes over six
hundred brokers — covering thousands of global companies, from micro- to
large-cap.

"We have increasingly seen that our clients want to build systems that
suit their individual investment styles, and want to save their teams the
trouble of going to multiple software platforms throughout the day," said
Rick Treese, Chief Technology Officer of TheMarkets.com. "This is true for
both our largest multi-national clients with hundreds of investment
professionals and for our hedge fund start-up clients with only a handful.
With the API, we're empowering clients to securely leverage our content and
our search expertise in the way that works best for them. To help, we have a
dedicated team to provide support through every step of the process — from
business evaluation to technical implementation."

Custom solutions built using the API can include the ability to publish
and tag a client's internal research, data, and proprietary files using
TheMarkets.com's tagging engine, for secure integration of broker and client
content and one-stop searching. Other possible implementations for clients
include the ability to customize their own tagging methodologies, enabling
rules-based semantic searching to support specific investment mandates. "What
clients can do through API technologies is virtually unlimited," said Treese.

"Our service satisfies the needs of both business and technology
professionals at client organizations. The business-side users are happy
because they get exactly what they want, the way they want it. Technologists
value the ability to provide a true value-added service with the flexibility
that can only be achieved using an API," Treese said.

About TheMarkets.com

TheMarkets.com is an award-winning provider of research, estimates, and
workflow solutions to over 2400 institutional investment management firms in
51 countries worldwide.

    CONTACT:
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    Jasmine Swann
    TheMarkets.com
    +1-212-812-4631
    jswann@TheMarkets.com

Jasmine Swann, TheMarkets.com, +1-212-812-4631, jswann at TheMarkets.com