London, 2 June 2008: CMA, the credit information specialist, today announced that Kempen Capital Management (KCM), a boutique asset manager with offices in Amsterdam and Edinburgh, has appointed CMA  to provide independent price verification data service via DataVision for single-name CDS and indices. The news comes days after CMA announced an enhancement to its credit index valuation services. KCM is owned by Kempen & Co, one of the Netherlands'
leading merchant banks.

Mr. Richard Klijnstra, Senior Portfolio Manager at KCM, commented "Kempen looked at a number of credit data vendors and we were impressed at DataVision's accuracy and coverage as it gave us access to a broad universe of CDS's and Indices. DataVision will enhance the ability of our Credit and Asset Allocation teams to more effectively analyse trends on an index and entity level as we believe CMA's buy-side model accurately reflects true market prices."

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