MCM Launches e-MCM.com: Internet-Based Professional Market Analysis Service.

Real-Time Interactive Portal Expands Accessibility to MCM's Enhanced

Market Analysis

NEW YORK, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

McCarthy, Crisanti & Maffei (MCM), the leading provider of real-time global fixed-income, foreign exchange and equity information, today announced the launch of e-MCM.com: a real-time financial markets analysis portal available via the Internet. The new service consolidates MCM's products, which are currently distributed via private networks, onto an MCM-branded portal that offers enhanced content, expanded data and greater functionality.

"Financial markets move quickly, "said Andrew Oliver, Senior Vice President of e-Commerce of MCM, "so market professionals require value-added market information and expert analysis that's easily accessible whether on the trading floor or off-the-trading floor. With e-MCM.com, clients now have a tool to view and interrogate MCM market analysis to more effectively identify opportunities and avoid deteriorating situations that impact investment performance."

The key features of the new e-MCM.com site are:

-- Expanded, multiple asset class coverage:

-- Corporate Securities

-- Foreign Exchange

-- Government Securities

-- Emerging Markets

-- Equities

-- Real-time streaming updates rather than auto-refresh

-- New data and analysis sources supporting the sales and

trading decision process

-- "Headline" and "Bulletin Board" commentary formats

-- Enhanced database search capabilities for newly issued securities

-- "Key Word" search on headlines and stories

-- Personalized display and content filtering

The e-MCM.com service is immediately available to all existing MCM customers as a supplemental subscription. As an added benefit, in addition to their current vendor access, MCM customers may also access the MCM service anywhere, anytime over the Internet on e-MCM.com.

Visit http://www.e-mcm.com for more information. MCM subscribers may continue to use the MCM service over their current market data vendor platform. For a free 30-day trial of the MCM's service, submit the Request form on the e-MCM.com Home Page.

About McCarthy, Crisanti & Maffei: MCM, an Informa Financial Services company (http://www.informa.com), is a leading provider of real-time global fixed income, equity and foreign exchange commentary and analysis. MCM provides a full range of services with particular expertise in the analysis of the corporate securities, government securities, and currency markets to over 2,400 financial institutions in 57 countries. MCM's real-time product portfolio available over proprietary networks includes: CorporateWatch, MoneyWatch, MTNWatch, CurrencyWatch, FX OptionWatch, EuroWatch, KinriWatch, NihongoWatch and Structured FinanceWatch, High YieldWatch, EquityWatch and LatAm Funding Watch. For more about MCM, go to http://www.mcmwatch.com.