Real-time, global news and information service developed for Islamic investors

Notes and media contacts

*Dow Jones Islamic Market Indexes includes business that are compatible with Shari'ah Law. A Shari'ah Board of Islamic scholars has been created to counsel Dow Jones on matters relating to the Shari'ah compliance of the indexes' eligible components.

Companies not considered suitable for Islamic investing are excluded. Incompatible lines of business include: alcohol, pork-related products, conventional financial services (banking, insurance, etc), entertainment (hotels, casinos/gambling, cinema, pornography, music, etc). Shari'ah scholars also do not advise investments in tobacco manufacturers or defense and weapons companies.

About Dow Jones Newswires
Dow Jones Newswires is the world's leading independent, real-time financial news provider. It delivers more than 7,000 items daily covering economic, financial and market-moving political news from around the world to 326,000 financial professionals (including traders, brokers, fund managers, investment and commercial bankers) in 66 countries. Hundreds of millions of additional users have access to selected Dow Jones Newswires content via various Internet sites, including bank and brokerage web sites, electronic exchanges, corporate intranets and business information services.

Founded in 1882, Dow Jones Newswires has more than 770 real-time editors and reporters, part of Dow Jones & Company's network of nearly 1,700 news staff - more business reporters than any other news organization in the world. It also draws on the resources of the Associated Press, giving Dow Jones Newswires access to a combined total of more than 3,650 reporters and editors in more than 230 news bureaus - the world's largest news-gathering network.

About Dow Jones and Company
Dow Jones & Company (NYSE:DJ) publishes the world's most vital business and financial news and information and has been serving the business community since 1882.

Dow Jones publishes The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Asian Wall Street Journal. It also publishes The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com, which since its launch in 1996, has become the largest paid site on the Web with more than 609,000 subscribers. Dow Jones' other publications include Far Eastern Economic Review, SmartMoney and Barron's magazine.

In addition to Dow Jones Newswires and the online Journal, Dow Jones' electronic information services include Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones STOXX indexes, a set of European benchmark indexes.

Dow Jones is also co-owner with Reuters group of Factiva and with NBC of the CNBC television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the United States. Worldwide, CNBC reaches more than 164 million people in more than 100 countries. Factiva provides business news and information to companies and consumers direct to their desktop.

About iHilal Financial Services
iHilal Financial Services is an online service specializing in Islamic financial products and services. As a regulated and global company, its current offerings include an online Islamic stock trading service, as well as an Internet platform to invest in Islamic mutual funds provided by leading financial institutions.

iHilal Financial Services aims to become the destination for Muslim investors worldwide enabling them to conduct Sharia'ah-compliant financial transactions in a convenient and easy-to-use manner.

Founded in April 2000, the company is a joint investment between Accenture Technology Ventures, the venture capital unit of Accenture and Rasmala Islamic Finance Ltd., a subsidiary of Rasmala Private Equity Group, a consortium including Deutsche Bank, Saudi American Bank (a Citigroup affiliate) and a number of prominent institutional and private investors. The company has offices in London, Guernsey, Dubai (Dubai Internet City - the world's first free trade zone for IT and e-Business), and Minneapolis, Minnesota USA.

For further information, please contact:

Dow Jones Newswires:
Melanie Spencer, Dow Jones & Company, Tel + 44 (0) 20 7842 9685.

iHilal Financial Services:
Wallis Marketing Consultants
(Attn Michael E. Wallis, Nawfal Al-Jourani)
Tel: + 971-4 332 3225.