Wall Street Journal Online & Dealogic Launch ``Capital Markets Deal Center''

Business Wire, Jan 11, 2006

NEW YORK/LONDON -- Capital Markets Deal Center Provides Unique Detail on Capital Raising and M&A Worldwide

E[acute accent]The Wall Street Journal Online, the largest paid subscription news site on the Web, and leading investment banking technology and research group Dealogic today jointly announced the launch of the "Capital Markets Deal Center." E[acute accent]The "Capital Markets Deal Center" provides insight into Investment Banking activity by geographical region and industry sector. Users will be kept apprised of the activities of the leading investment banks in each sector and can view summaries of the headline deals from each region around the world. E[acute accent]Deal Alerts allow users to be kept informed of the important deals that matter to them. Users are able to select a region and sector of interest to have the industry-shaping deals emailed to them daily. E[acute accent]Randy Kilgore, SVP of Advertising for WSJ.com, stated, "Many of the senior decision makers in our audience make critical finance decisions for their companies and so we're excited that our partnership with Dealogic allows us to offer those subscribers tools that provide unique insights into daily deal flow around the world. Beyond the searchable database, the alerting feature really leverages what is unique about online." E[acute accent]Jody Drulard, Managing Director for Dealogic Analytics commented "This partnership between Wall Street Journal Online and Dealogic brings together the world's leading online source of business news with the leading supplier of global investment banking analysis to provide an easy to use tool that will allow business leaders around the world to keep up to date with important investment banking trends and deal details." E[acute accent]The "Capital Markets Deal Center" can be accessed at http://online.wsj.com/public/page/Deal_Search.html or through the Markets section of WSJ.com.

E[acute accent]About Dealogic

E[acute accent]Dealogic is a leading supplier of relationship and transaction management software and information systems for the investment banking industry. With long-standing relationships and a history of success, Dealogic is renowned for delivering quality products globally with customers in over 30 countries. E[acute accent]Dealogic Analytics offers global coverage of capital markets and corporate finance activity and allows users to keep informed real time of all deal related activity. Our systems are used extensively for marketing and competitor analysis through league table rankings and allow for detailed analysis of industries, regions, products, pricing trends and transaction structures. E[acute accent]Dealogic IB-RM provides a transaction and event management platform that is used in all stages of the capital raising process from origination through to marketing, bookbuilding, allocation and settlement.

E[acute accent]About The Wall Street Journal Online

E[acute accent]The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com, published by Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ; www.dowjones.com), is the largest paid subscription news site on the Web. Launched in 1996, the Online Journal continues to attract quality subscribers that are at the top of their industries, with 764,000 subscribers world-wide as of Q3, 2005. E[acute accent]The Online Journal provides in-depth business news and financial information 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with insight and analysis, including breaking business and technology news and analysis from around the world. It draws on the Dow Jones network of more than 1,800 business and financial news staff-the largest network of business and financial journalists in the world. The Online Journal also features exclusive content, including interactive graphics on business and world news, and online-only columns about the automotive industry, technology, personal finance and more. E[acute accent]The Online Journal offers three industry-specific verticals: the award-winning Health, Media & Marketing and now Law. Health offers authoritative analysis, breaking news and commentary from top industry journalists. Media & Marketing is designed for professionals in the advertising, marketing, entertainment and media industries. Law is designed to provide law firms and attorneys timely information on events and trends important to the legal market. Subscribers to all also get access to the full content of the Online Journal. E[acute accent]In 2005, the Online Journal was awarded a Codie Award for Best Online News Service for the second consecutive year, and its Health Industry Edition was awarded Best Online Science or Technology Service for the third consecutive year. In 2004, the Online Journal received an EPpy Award for Best Internet Business Service over 1 million monthly visitors. E[acute accent]The Wall Street Journal Online network includes CareerJournal.com, OpinionJournal.com, StartupJournal.com, RealEstateJournal.com and CollegeJournal.com.