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New LexisNexis® Accurint® Business Provides Due Diligence On Small BusinessCustomers, Vendors And PartnersBOCA RATON, Fla, (September 20, 2005) – LexisNexis, a leading provider of legal, news and businessinformation services, announced the release today of Accurint® Business (www.accurintbusiness.com), aninnovative information portal that provides business intelligence to assess the risk associated with small-to-mid-sizebusinesses. Accurint Business helps companies quickly locate, investigate and verify the validity of potentialcustomers, vendors, contractors, partners and competitors.Information about large or public companies is easily available, but more in-depth and reliable intelligenceis sorely needed on non-public companies. Research studies have shown that there are nearly 25 million smallbusinesses in the U.S., and 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 businesswith” said Jim Swift, chief operating officer of LexisNexis Risk Management. “Accurint Business is a quick, easyand inexpensive tool for due diligence and risk assessment.”Small companies are a critical component to the national economy. According to the President’sManagement Agenda 2 , small to mid-sized companies employ just over half of all private sector workers, pay 44.3percent of total U.S. private payroll, create seven out of 10 net new private-sector jobs in America and account formore than half of the output of the national economy.Accurint Business research provides the following information on companies:--Company information: names, FEINs, phone numbers, Internet domain names registered to that business--Company profile: Doing Business As (DBAs), property ownerships, professional licenses, corporate filings--Associated businesses and network: principals, related businesses, businesses at address--Risk profile: bankruptcy filings, tax liens, UCC filings and civil judgments-- Better Business Bureau membership and company report information, including complaints-more-

About LexisNexisLexisNexis (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and businessinformation 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.For more than 30 years, LexisNexis has been a pioneer in secure data sharing, and information policy.Through its risk management flagship products, Accurint®, Banko®, and RiskWise®, LexisNexis helps to locatepeople and assets, authenticate identity, enable commerce, conduct background screening, and support nationalsecurity initiatives. Customers include almost every federal government agency, top 100 law firms, and Fortune 500companies 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 ReedElsevier Properties Inc., used under license. Accurint is a registered trademark of Seisint, Inc. Other products or services may betrademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.1 According to MasterCard’s TowerGroup research unit in Needham, Mass., reported in American Banker2 The President’s Management Agenda, Results Report U.S. Small Business Administration, August 2004Media Contact:John R. SternalStarmark International954-874-9000jsternal@starmark.com2