"This new agreement is an extension of a previous agreement Informa had with Intuit," said Adler. "However, under this arrangement, there are expanded income possibilities for Informa Research Services, added functionality for Quicken.com visitors, and customer referral opportunities for our financial institution clients."

According to Informa Research Services, the supplied financial data is objective and updated daily to assure accuracy and frequent repeat visits from consumers shopping for financial products. Financial institutions interested in increasing new account activity at their company web sites may be able to link their product offerings from Quicken.com directly to their company's sites.

"This is a natural expansion of the services we offer to financial institutions," said Adler. "For the past 18 years, we have helped our clients maximize their income. This new service will allow our clients an efficient method of attracting new deposits and loans."

"With this new functionality, consumers visiting Quicken.com searching for great values on banking products may instantly 'click-over' to the bank that is making the offer," said Deborah Parsons, Product Manager of Partners for Quicken.com. "Potential bank, savings and loan, or credit union customers may then conduct business directly at the financial institution's own website, completing an online application or requesting further contact. We expect this added functionality to be quite popular with the financial shoppers at Quicken.com, as well as the participating banks."

In addition to providing links directly to participating financial institutions and supplying credit card, auto loan, home equity, CD, and savings rates to Quicken.com, Informa Research Services also provides these services to many other Web sites including NYPost.com, Excite.com, AOL.com and Edmunds.com.

About Informa Research Services, Inc.
Based 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 5,000 financial organizations nationwide, Informa Research Services, Inc., currently supports the product pricing decisions of more than 2,100 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). Informa Group offers "must have" business-to-business information through 3,500 conferences and seminars and nearly 1,500 print and electronic publications from offices in 19 countries.