New LexisNexis Accurint Business Provides Due Diligence On Small Business Customers, Vendors and Partners.

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- LexisNexis, a leading provider of legal, news and business information services, announced the release today of Accurint(R) Business (www.accurintbusiness.com), an innovative information portal that provides business intelligence to assess the risk associated with small- to mid-sized businesses. Accurint Business helps companies quickly locate, investigate and verify the validity of potential customers, vendors, contractors, partners and competitors.

While information about large or public companies is easily available, the same is not true for non-public companies. Research studies have shown that there are nearly 25 million small businesses in the United States, and another 500,000 to 600,000 are opened each year(1).

"In today's business landscape, it is essential to better understand the companies you are doing business with," said Jim Swift, chief operating officer of LexisNexis Risk Management. "Accurint Business is a quick, easy and inexpensive tool for due diligence and risk assessment."

Small companies are a critical component to the national economy. According to the President's Management Agenda(2), small- to mid-sized companies employ just over half of all private sector workers, pay 44.3 percent of total U.S. private payroll, create seven out of 10 net new private-sector jobs in America and account for more than half of the output of the national economy.

Accurint Business research provides the following information on companies:

--Company information: name, federal employer ID number (FEIN), phone numbers, Internet domain names registered to that business

--Company profile: parent/subsidiaries relationships, current and previous property ownerships, professional licenses, corporate filings

--Associated businesses and network: principals, related businesses, businesses at address

--Businesses that are registered with and verified by the Better Business Bureau

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LexisNexis(R) (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored applications. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc (NYSE:ENL)(NYSE:RUK) (www.reedelsevier.com), the company does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide. In addition to its flagship Web-based Lexis(R) and Nexis(R) research services, the company includes some of the world's most respected legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender, Butterworths, JurisClasseur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac.

For more than 30 years, LexisNexis has been a pioneer in secure data sharing, information policy, and personal privacy. Through its risk management flagship products, Accurint(R), Banko(R) RiskWise(R) and PeopleWise(R), LexisNexis helps to locate people and assets, authenticate identity, enable commerce, conduct background screening, and support national security initiatives. Customers include almost every Federal Government agency, the top 100 law firms, and Fortune 500 companies in the fields of national security, financial services, collection and recovery, insurance, telecommunications, e-commerce and retail.

LexisNexis and the Knowledge Burst logo are registered trademarks and LexisNexis Risk Management is a trademark of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used under license. Accurint is a registered trademark of Seisint, Inc. Other products or services may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

(1) According to MasterCard's TowerGroup research unit in Needham, Mass., reported in American Banker

(2) The President's Management Agenda, Results Report U.S. Small Business Administration, August 2004.