The Motley Fool Selects Informa Research Services as Consumer Rate Data Provider.CALABASAS, Calif. -- The World's Premier Multimedia Financial Solutions Company Teams With the Financial Industry's Premier Provider of Competitive Intelligence Informa Research Services, Inc., today announced an agreement to provide The Motley Fool, Inc. (www.Fool.com), with a real-time mortgage and home equity loan search feed. Under the agreement, Informa Research Services created and continues to host a customized website for The Motley Fool with live rate and product information on mortgage loans, less-than-perfect-credit loans, home equity loans, and home equity lines of credit. "The online tool that we provide to Fool.com has the valuable functionality of allowing consumers to search for home loan products," said Michael E. Adler, President and Managing Director of Informa Research Services. "Consumers can search by product, geographic location, and credit score. We are the leader in aggregating consumer loan rates based on credit rate scores and have worked closely with MyFICO.com to ensure the integrity of the data." With nearly four million monthly unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. , The Motley Fool's website (www.Fool.com), is one of the most popular personal finance sites on the Internet. The company distributes investment information and advice through its subscription newsletter services, website, books, syndicated newspaper column, and an NPR NPR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Nepal Rupee. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. radio show. The Motley Fool also provides market news, stock quotes, personal finance information, and message boards. "Informa Research Services delivers timely and relevant mortgage banking data to our customers enabling them to educate themselves about the options available to them in the mortgage lending arena," said Gary Hill Gary Hill (born in 1951, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide (Artfacts 2007). , SVP SVP S'il Vous Plaît (French: Please) SVP Senior Vice President SVP Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss People~s Party) SVP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology SVP Social Venture Partners SVP St Vincent de Paul of Corporate Development of The Motley Fool. "The Informa tool also allows us to integrate our current lending partners and, through Informa's network, expand the marketplace of available lenders to consumers." "Mortgage and home equity rate shoppers will find this online rate tool extremely helpful," Adler continued. "Lenders will find great opportunities to reach the wealth of consumers searching Fool.com for information on mortgage products and lending options. With the ability to generate rate shopping based on credit score, our lending information is of greater value to potential borrowers. This format also offers great opportunities for lenders to reach qualified potential clients." About Informa Research Services, Inc. (www.informars.com) Founded in 1983 and headquartered 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, lending, and business products offered by more than 10,000 financial organizations nationwide, Informa currently supports the product pricing decisions of more than 3,000 clients, representing all 50 states, and including the top 25 financial institutions. They are the premier provider of fee and feature studies, used to determine the competitiveness of fee-based services, as well as in-depth studies on cash management services, trust products, and other specialized services. Informa conducts the finest mystery shopping Mystery shopping is a tool used by market research companies to measure quality of retail service. These companies send mystery shoppers to 'act' as shoppers in return for some combination of cash, store credit, purchase discounts, or reimbursement for the goods or services and market research studies available that deliver accurate and relevant measurements in the areas of employee sales and service, customer satisfaction, closed account research, focus groups, competitive performance, and compliance testing. The company's extensive financial product database is a popular source of licensed editorial content for financial portals Financial Portal A website that provides a variety of financial data and information, acting as an information hub for clients who are individual investors requiring timely financial news and data to make their investment decisions. , websites, newspapers, and magazines, attracting major Internet partners, including Yahoo! Finance, Quicken A popular financial management program for PCs and Macs from Intuit, Inc., Mountain View, CA (www.intuit.com). It is used to write checks, organize investments and produce a variety of reports for personal finance and small business. , CNN.com, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). , MyFico.com, Edmunds.com, and Internet Broadcasting Internet Broadcasting (formerly Internet Broadcasting Systems), or IBS, is a provider of television station web sites. IBS hosts over 70 local stations' sites, and co-produced NBCOlympics. Systems. About The Motley Fool, Inc. (www.fool.com) The Motley Fool, Inc., is a multimedia investing and personal finance company that educates, amuses, and enriches more than 30 million people each month. Since 1993, The Motley Fool has been on hand to help people make smarter decisions about their money across a wide variety of online and offline media channels including: subscription investing newsletter services; its award-winning website at www.Fool.com; its best-selling best·sell·er also best seller n. A product, such as a book, that is among those sold in the largest numbers. best Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster U.S. publishing company. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon (1899–1960) and M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), whose initial project, the original crossword-puzzle book, was a best-seller. and self-published books; a nationally syndicated weekly newspaper column carried by more than 225 publications; weekly radio broadcasts; and frequent public and media appearances. |
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