INTERNET SECURITIES NOW OFFERS INVESTEXT®
INTERNATIONAL COMPANY AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS THROUGH ITS FLAGSHIP EMERGING MARKETS
INFORMATION SERVICE
Alliance Enhances Insight and Expands Coverage of Emerging Markets Research.

New York, NY, August 01, 2002 - Internet Securities, Inc., the pioneering publisher of Internet-delivered emerging market news and information, today announced that it has chosen the respected Investext database as the exclusive provider of analyst reports on the Internet Securities Emerging Markets Information Service. Investext is a product of Thomson Financial, an operating unit of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE:TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community. The strategic partnership with Internet Securities reflects customer demand for greater breadth and depth of reports.

Through the Investext database, Internet Securities subscribers will gain access to the full-text research reports gathered from more than 850 of the world's leading brokerage firms, investment banks and research providers. Emerging markets coverage from the major global firms will be available along with insight from regional and local firms such as Grupo Bursatil Mexicano, Fator Doria Atherino S/A, Larrain Vial, Troika Dialog Research, Raiffeisen Zentralbank Vsterreich AG, UBS Warburg Asia, GK Goh Research, and Samsung Securities. Internet Securities subscribers will have access to the latest company report and the latest industry report, updated daily, for all of the countries represented by the Internet Securities database.

"This collaboration with Thomson Financial further solidifies our position as the premier information resource for emerging market business information. It was an obvious choice to offer our customers reports from the immense collection that makes up the Investext database in order to give them more of the company and industry information that they need without sacrificing timeliness or reliability," said James Hammond, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Internet Securities.

"Our strategic partnership will benefit Internet Securities' clients, who will find expanded insight and in-depth analysis through Investext research reports. It will also help to increase Investext's reach by making both this unique emerging markets reports subset and reports from the complete collection available to Internet Securities' broad customer base," said Jerry Moskowitz, Senior Vice President of Thomson Financial Third Party Distribution.

About Internet Securities Inc.

Internet Securities (www.securities.com) provides hard-to-get information through its network of 20 offices in 19 countries, covering 35 national markets in Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Its flagship product, the Emerging Markets Information Service aggregates and produces unique company and industry information including financial, economic and political news, for delivery to professionals over the Internet. The subscription-based service enables users to access and search through a comprehensive range of unique business information derived directly from over 5000 leading local and international sources.

Internet Securities products have continually earned outstanding recognition and product reviews, including "perfect scores" in all categories and a "must have" ranking from Information World Review, a first place ranking by the Wall Street Journal Europe among business web sites, and repeated 'Best of the Web' ratings from Forbes Magazine.

Headquartered in New York, Internet Securities Inc. is a Euromoney Institutional Investor company.
Other Internet Securities products include:

• EmailAlert., a customizable alert service for emerging market business information
• iSearch., an intranet information solution designed for deployment across corporate networks.
• IntelliNews. Electronic Newsletters, a suite of daily reports designed for fixed income analysts covering Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East North Africa
• The Corporate Mexico Newswire., Mexico's most complete business news briefs
• InfoStream., content solutions for general access web sites.

About Thomson Financial

Thomson Financial is a US$1.6 billion provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community. Through the widest range of products and services in the industry, Thomson Financial helps clients in more than 70 countries make better decisions, be more productive and achieve superior results. Thomson Financial is part of The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), a leading provider of value-added information and technology to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation reported 2001 revenues of US$7.2 billion and its common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).