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CMS BONDEDGE FORMS ALLIANCE WITH AUDIT INTEGRITY, LLC
BondEdge Credit Risk Offering Enhanced via Surveillance Tool for Accounting Anomalies

Los Angeles, July 22, 2003 – CMS BondEdge, an operating division of Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) and a leading provider of fixed income portfolio analytics, today announces a business alliance with Audit Integrity, LLC, a financial service organization that analyzes accounting practices and corporate governance for all publicly listed companies.

Audit Integrity has created a quantitative rating system to help investors proactively evaluate a firm's financial accounting and governance practices. Employing highly sophisticated statistical methods to process publicly available corporate documents such as SEC filings, litigations, and regulations releases, Audit Integrity condenses this information into an accounting and governance ranking score (AGR), ranging from very aggressive to conservative. AGR scores are determined by comparing selected accounting and governance measures of a company to the profiles of firms found in violation of SEC and other regulatory rulings.

Laurie Adami, president of CMS BondEdge, comments, "The Audit Integrity offering will greatly enhance the robust credit and market risk management solution available in BondEdge. The AGR system of assessing accounting and governance practice is truly groundbreaking and unique. Combining this information with the absolute and relative analysis of default and spread risk already available in BondEdge provides corporate bondholders with a truly comprehensive assessment of their credit risk profile."

James Kaplan, chairman and chief executive officer of Audit Integrity, adds, "We are very excited to be able to offer our service through the BondEdge system. Given the impact on bondholders of accounting inconsistencies, having a system in place to actively monitor accounting and governance practices is a crucial aspect of the overall credit risk management process. By partnering with CMS BondEdge, we are able to tap into one of the largest bases of institutional fixed income investors via a superior analytics product that has already incorporated an essential piece of the credit risk management solution."


For further information please contact:
Lisa Herbert, CMS BondEdge
Tel: (310) 479-9715
Email : lisa.herbert@be.ftid.com

Amy Malsin, Audit Integrity, LLC
Tel: (212) 842-5342
Email: amalsin@auditintegrity.com

About CMS BondEdge:
For over 20 years, CMS BondEdge has been recognized as a leader in fixed income analytical software. Long known for the BondEdge system, CMS BondEdge is trusted as an independent source of research, analytics and valuation tools by over 550 institutions in North America and Europe. CMS BondEdge is an affiliate of FT Interactive Data and division of Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE:IDC), a leading global provider of financial and business information to institutional and individual investors. More information on CMS BondEdge is available at www.cmsbondedge.com. Corporate information on Interactive Data Corporation is available at www.interactivedatacorp.com.

About Audit Integrity:
Audit Integrity is an institutional-grade, financial analytics service that provides companies with quarterly accounting and governance reports to assure the accuracy of their financial disclosures. Audit Integrity's reports are based on a cutting-edge data collection and analytics engine, which uses publicly available financial data to yield over 7,000 benchmark metrics per company, per quarter to help its corporate and institutional clients identify and diagnose accounting irregularities, as well as evaluate a firm's financial and governance practices. While Audit Integrity does not detect fraud, the service ensures transparency in financial disclosures and advances the standards for reporting corporate performance. Based in Los Angeles, Audit Integrity was founded by James Kaplan in 2002. For more information about the company and its service, please visit www.auditintegrity.com.