Fool.com selects Informa Research Services to provide consumer focused bank product data.

CALABASAS, CALIFORNIA (August 12, 2003) -- -- Informa Research Services, Inc. today announced a two-year agreement with The Motley Fool to provide a real-time feed of consumer bank product data for the Fool.com Rate Center. Under the agreement, Informa Research Services (www.informars.com) will provide banking data to help consumers increase earnings or minimize costs on banking products, identify the best offers for them, and apply directly online.

“The Motley Fool is one of the premier financial sites on the Internet,” said Michael E. Adler, president and managing director of Informa Research Services, Inc. “We are thrilled that they are choosing Informa as their rate table source.”

"The Motley Fool's new rate center provides our members with access to current rates in their area for a variety of products, including mortgage, home equity, and auto loans. They can also view rates as they correspond to their individual FICO® score range," said Tracy Sigler, Vice President of Web Operations at The Motley Fool. "With this information at their fingertips, Fools will be able to save money when shopping for a loan or banking services. Informa Research Services is a valuable partner in helping us make sure our members can make knowledgeable financial decisions."

Unlike their competition, Informa Research Services does not operate a consumer targeted website. Informa does not seek consumer traffic and they do not compete with their portal partners for consumer visitors.

“This is the second major portal to switch to Informa in the past month and we have several more that will launch over the summer,” said Adler. “Our partners prefer Informa’s approach to increase their traffic using our high quality and popular financial content. We don’t compete with them for Internet traffic. Our goal is to keep the traffic on our partners’ sites and not ‘steal the eyeballs’ by drawing visitors to the Informa website.”

About Informa Research Services, Inc.

Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Calabasas, CA, Informa Research Services, Inc., provides the financial industry's most extensive array of market research and decision-support information.

Conducting daily surveys of the retail and business products offered by more than 10,000 financial organizations nationwide, Informa Research Services, Inc., currently supports the product pricing decisions of more than 2,500 clients, representing all 50 states and including the top 25 financial institutions. This electronically transmitted competitive pricing intelligence effectively generates profitable responses to continual market changes, enables clients to effectively position deposit and loan products within local markets, maximizes interest income, and manages interest expense. Informa is the premier provider of fee and feature studies used to determine the competitiveness of fee-based services. In-depth studies are also available on cash management services, trust products, mystery shops, and other specialized services.

Informa Research Services, Inc., is a division of London-based Informa Group plc (LONDON:INF). Collectively, the business units of Informa Group plc sell to more than 121,000 delegates and 80,000 subscribers, generating annual revenues of over $283 million.