NEW YORK, Aug. 4 /EMWNews/ -- TheMarkets.com, a leading provider of

research, estimates and workflow solutions to the buy-side, announced today

that David Krzemienski has been appointed Head of Contributor Products and

Operations.



    For the past five years, the Company has distributed research from

hundreds of brokers to leading investment management firms worldwide. While

this research has largely been distributed under third-party distribution

agreements, the Company recently announced that it has begun receiving

content directly from brokers other than its eleven owners. Based in the

Company's New York headquarters, Krzemienski and his new team are charged

with building the organization and maintaining the software that will

support the brokers in integrating their content sets into the Company's

suite of products for investment managers.



    TheMarkets.com has long been a leader in providing unique services to

the sell-side, including being the industry pioneer in establishing

user-level research entitlements control over seven years ago.



    "TheMarkets.com is looking forward to expanding the group of

contributors we serve through our unique broker-friendly services," said

Krzemienski. "We already have in place a pain-free feed integration process

to get new contributors up and running as quickly as possible. I look

forward, through this new role, to expanding the benefits of our system to

additional contributors," he said.



    Since its founding, TheMarkets.com has been an active participating

member of RIXML.org (Research Information Exchange Markup Language), the

consortium of buy-side and sell-side firms that established an open

standard for investment and financial research. Jack Roehrig, Executive

Director of RIXML.org, said, "From its inception, TheMarkets.com has been

an important member of RIXML.org and an active contributor in advancing our

research standard, making it an ideal choice for brokers seeking a leading

research distribution partner."



    TheMarkets.com is also an active member of the industry's Research

Entitlements Consortium. "Our entitlements system provides the flexibility

and transparency the contributor community has been asking for," said

Krzemienski. "Through our system, contributors can completely manage which

clients have access to which content. And this enables TheMarkets.com to

better serve our buy-side clients by delivering premium content such as

earnings models in Excel via a fully entitlement-compliant, online

platform."



    Krzemienski has served as Vice President of Technology at the Company

since he joined in 2003. Prior to that, he was the senior project manager

on the TheMarkets.com project during its incubation at Sapient Corporation.



    David Eisner, CEO and President of TheMarkets.com, said, "Dave has been

a significant contributor to TheMarkets.com since our founding. We are

delighted that he has stepped up once again to a large new leadership role

in our service to our broker partners. He and his team will guide our

efforts as we continue to lead the industry in building and enhancing

broker tools that significantly exceed standards for tagging, entitlements

control, and other broker requirements, while we work to establish direct

relationships with content providers."

    About TheMarkets.com



    TheMarkets.com is a leading provider of research, estimates, and

workflow solutions to over 2000 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 Thomson Reuters

(NYSE: TRI; TSX: TRI; LSE: TRIL: Nasdaq; TRIN).




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    TheMarkets.com

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