Multex has signed an IT development and maintenance agreement with Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. The e-marketplace provider will develop and host a website providing global access to DrKB's equity research, fixed income, foreign exchange and economics. The site will include a Japanese language option. Multex, responsible for 104 websites for brokerage and fund management firms, is divided into three areas - an application service provider (ASP), a business-to-business service and a business-to-consumer service. Brooks Gibbins, managing director of Multex.com Europe, said: 'We are delighted to be entering an exciting partnership and we believe that Multex's ASP offering has revolutionised the way fund managers access information.'