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CreditPointe announces enhancements to its 'next generation' financial modeling services approach designed to help securities research operations scale in uncertain markets

Intelligent application of business process automation technology to the research lifecycle leading to dramatic reduction in time and cost

October 20, 2008, Westwood, MA - CreditPointe, Inc., announced today enhancements to its' financial modeling services for securities research. In addition to providing models 'on-demand,' via its portal, CreditPointe is providing technology leveraged services designed to build and maintain custom models in scale. The service, facilitated through its portal, will provide investment professionals immediate access to a growing database of models on securities of passing interest and to models based on their own custom format. CreditPointe applies an 'intelligent' application of process automation technology to the research lifecycle from sourcing fundamental data to formatting and populating custom formats. The results are custom models delivered in 2 - 3 days at half the typical cost seen today's marketplace.

"Through the use of technology and industry analysts CreditPointe is providing securities research operations of all sizes the opportunity to scale their coverage while lowering costs and shortening time-to-market. Given our technology leverage, we are able to address the endemic issues of data quality, depth and timeliness effectively, The idea is to allow the analyst to focus on truly analyzing the company's fundamentals and to provide a framework that can allow the analyst to efficiently scale their coverage universe," commented Dr. Venkat Srinivasan, the company's CEO.

CreditPointe's mission is to provide Capital markets, Corporations and Financial Institutions around the world with best-in-class fundamental financial models, credit risk ratings and associated products and services.

"The same technology used in maintaining CreditPointe's model warehouse is being applied to maintaining our client's portfolios with models being updated within hours of earnings releases or other material corporate actions. Using our unique knowledge-based technology platform, we have created a scalable model factory, which along with our experienced analyst teams allows us to offer detailed models in a timely fashion on a large number of companies. Our models are bottoms up models reflecting each industry's unique characteristics, including operating and segment data. We focus intensely and uncompromisingly on data quality," said Aashish Mehta, VP of Operations.

About CreditPointe, Inc.
CreditPointe, Inc. is a private company specializing in providing analytical products and services on global public companies for investment analysis and credit risk assessment. An experienced team of industry veterans led by Dr. Venkat Srinivasan launched CreditPointe, Inc. to address the growing need to provide capital market participants, corporations and financial institutions with timely, cost effective coverage of companies around the globe. CreditPointe is a subsidiary of Rage Holdings, LLC, a business incubator focused on incubating capital efficient, process-aware businesses. To learn more about CreditPointe, visit www.creditpointe.com.