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About Interactive Data Corporation

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors. The Company's businesses supply real-time market data, time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference data for millions of securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial service and software companies subscribe to the Company's services in support of their trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation activities. Through its businesses, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data Real-Time Services, Interactive Data Fixed Income Analytics, and eSignal, the Company has approximately 2,300 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The Company is headquartered in Bedford, Mass. Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO; LSE: PSON), an international media company, whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group, is Interactive Data Corporation's majority stockholder. Interactive Data Corporation is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2008.

For more information about Interactive Data Corporation and its businesses, please visit www.interactivedata.com.

SOURCE: Interactive Data Corporation

Interactive Data Corporation
Investors:
Andrew Kramer, 781-687-8306
Director of Investor Relations
andrew.kramer@interactivedata.com
or
Media:
John Coffey, 781-687-8148
Director, Corporate and Marketing Communications
john.coffey@interactivedata.com

"eSignal is a global leader in providing financial market information, and we are proud to represent the FutureSource Workstation, LiveCharts, Market-Q and QuoTrek products in Japan," said Oval Next Corp. president Shuji Sakamoto. "This relationship should not only benefit each of our companies but the Japanese trading community that we serve."

"Oval Next has more than 25 years of success in providing market data in the vibrant Japanese market," said Chuck Thompson, president of eSignal. "We look forward to working with Oval Next to take advantage of the strong demand for international market data and related technical analysis tools in the world's second largest economy."

eSignal's innovative suite of products provides Japanese traders with tools and resources designed to help traders as they seek to successfully navigate the world's financial markets. FutureSource Workstation supplies the commodities, financial futures and foreign exchange trading community with real-time market data and decision support tools. LiveCharts is an easy-to-use, java-based application that provides a window into financial markets by presenting streaming charts, portfolios and real-time news on any Web browser. Market-Q is a powerful desktop workstation that delivers quotes, charts and news to financial professionals. QuoTrek delivers global, real-time quotes, charts and news to a software application that users can download to their wireless, Internet-ready PDAs, such as Palm(R), Pocket PC, BlackBerry(R) and smart phones.

"The agreement with Oval Next Corp. greatly enhances our ability to provide highly relevant, localized sales and support services to users in Japan," added Thompson. "This relationship represents an important step in our strategy to expand our business outside of North America by enabling us to cost-effectively deliver a broad range of global market data products and services in Japan."

About Interactive Data:

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors. The Company's businesses supply real-time market data, time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference data for millions of securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial service and software companies subscribe to the Company's services in support of their trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation activities. Through its businesses, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data Real-Time Services, Interactive Data Fixed Income Analytics, and eSignal, the Company has approximately 2,300 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The Company is headquartered in Bedford, Mass. Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO; LSE: PSON), an international media company, whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group, is Interactive Data Corporation's majority stockholder.

Interactive Data(SM) and the Interactive Data logo are service marks of Interactive Data Corporation.

For more information about Interactive Data Corporation and its businesses, please visit www.interactivedata.com.

About eSignal:

eSignal (www.eSignal.com), Interactive Data Corporation's (NYSE: IDC) desktop solutions business, is a leading global provider of financial and business information to professional traders and active individual traders. Building on a legacy of 25 years of delivering time-sensitive financial information, eSignal provides streaming, real-time market data, news and analytics. eSignal's suite of products includes eSignal(R), Advanced GET(R), QuoTrek(R), FutureSource(R), MarketCenter LIVE(SM), QCharts(R), LiveCharts(R), Market-Q(SM) and the Web portals FutureSource.com, Quote.com(R) and RagingBull.com.

About Oval Next Corp.:

Oval Next Corp. provides all real-time Japanese commodity futures exchanges' market data, and is a major Japanese local market news vendor. Forex Margin trading quotation data at TFX are also provided. Oval Next Corp. also provides Back-office systems and software for local FCM entities. e-profit(R) (Quotation, news and analysis desk-top services), real-time quotation data feed service of Japanese local commodity futures markets and Win-Station(R) (Quotation, technical analysis and back-testing simulation) are Oval Next's major product line-ups.

Palm(R) is a registered trademark owned by or licensed to Palm, Inc.

BlackBerry(R) is owned by Research In Motion Limited and is registered in the United States and may be pending or registered in other countries.

SOURCE: eSignal

eSignal
Media:
David Parkinson, 801- 971-2450
davidp@d2pr.biz
or
Investors:
Andrew Kramer, 781-687-8306
andrew.kramer@interactivedata.com

"We are honored to be recognized by Inside Reference Data for this award," said Mark Hepsworth, president, Interactive Data Institutional Business. "Interactive Data is a trusted industry leader with a comprehensive set of financial information, sophisticated analytics and value-added services to help meet a very broad range of customer needs. We recognize the market requirement for full coding and timeliness in our corporate actions data and aim to ensure that our customers receive the full benefit of our expertise, acquired through years of involvement in an ever-changing business environment. We look forward to continuing to help our customers address their needs for financial data and services across their businesses."

In addition to the award, Interactive Data was a finalist in seven other categories including 'Best Data Provider', 'Best Data Provider for Equities', 'Best Data Provider for Foreign Exchange', 'Best New Data Product - DirectPlus', 'Best Reference Data Provider', 'Best Evaluated Prices Service Provider' and 'Best Counterparty Data Provider'.

Nominations for the awards - which aim to recognize industry excellence within market data, reference data and enterprise data management - were made by an Inside Market Data/Inside Reference Data editorial committee. The newsletter's readership voted for the winners in an online ballot and the results were announced on April 29 in New York, on the evening of Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data's North American Financial Information Summit.

About Interactive Data Corporation

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors. The Company's businesses supply real-time market data, time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference data for millions of securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial service and software companies subscribe to the Company's services in support of their trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation activities. Through its businesses, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data Real-Time Services, Interactive Data Fixed Income Analytics, and eSignal, the Company has approximately 2,300 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The Company is headquartered in Bedford, Mass. Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO; LSE: PSON), an international media company, whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group, is Interactive Data Corporation's majority stockholder.

Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data provides global securities pricing, evaluations and reference data designed to support financial institutions' and investment funds' pricing activities, securities operations, research and portfolio management. Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data collects, edits, maintains and delivers data on more than 6 million securities, including daily evaluations for approximately 2.5 million fixed income and international equity issues. Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data specializes in 'hard-to-get' information and evaluates many 'hard-to value' instruments.

Pricing, evaluations and reference data are provided in the U.S. through Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Inc. and internationally through Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. and Interactive Data (Australia) Pty Ltd.

Interactive Data and the Interactive Data logo are service marks of Interactive Data Corporation.

For more information about Interactive Data Corporation and its businesses, please visit www.interactivedata.com.

SOURCE: Interactive Data Corporation

Interactive Data Corporation
Investors
Andrew Kramer, +1 781-687-8306
andrew.kramer@interactivedata.com
or
Media
(European media)
Sue Mitchell, +44 (0)20 7825 8076
sue.mitchell@interactivedata.com
or
(US Media)
John Coffey, +1 781-687-8148
john.coffey@interactivedata.com

Interactive Data is a leading independent provider of daily evaluations for fixed income securities. With over 30 years of experience, Interactive Data offers daily evaluations for approximately 2.5 million fixed income and international equity issues. Over 5,000 financial institutions worldwide, ranging from central banks to large investment banks, subscribe to Interactive Data's bond evaluations. The evaluations include corporates, high yields, governments and agencies, securitised debt issues, ABS, CMBS and CMOs, US municipal securities, hybrid securities and money market securities.

Holger Wohlenberg, managing director, Market Data & Analytics, Deutsche Borse, said: "The bond evaluations from Interactive Data will be an important additional service via WSS. Through this batch data system, Deutsche Borse offers reference, corporate actions and pricing data on more than 400,000 securities listed in Germany and abroad. The information is supplied once every trading day in processed, machine-readable form or made available via the Internet as a download."

Roger Sargeant, managing director, Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd, added: "We are very pleased to offer our evaluated services to Deutsche Borse's clients. With increased regulation and the volatility in the financial markets, firms are focused on the need to have a firm grasp on the value of their holdings - especially thinly traded fixed income securities. Our teams of experienced evaluators incorporate the available transaction data, credit quality information and any apparent market movements into the evaluated pricing applications and models. We place emphasis on building relationships with a broad range of market sources that can offer insight into market activity."

About Interactive Data Corporation

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors. The Company's businesses supply real-time market data, time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference data for millions of securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial service and software companies subscribe to the Company's services in support of their trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation activities. Through its businesses, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data Real-Time Services, Interactive Data Fixed Income Analytics, and eSignal, the Company has approximately 2,300 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The Company is headquartered in Bedford, Mass. Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO; LSE: PSON), an international media company, whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group, is Interactive Data Corporation's majority stockholder.

Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data provides global securities pricing, evaluations and reference data designed to support financial institutions' and investment funds' pricing activities, securities operations, research and portfolio management. Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data collects, edits, maintains and delivers data on more than 6 million securities, including daily evaluations for approximately 2.5 million fixed income and international equity issues. Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data specialises in 'hard-to-get' information and evaluates many 'hard-to value' instruments.

Pricing, evaluations and reference data are provided in the US through Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Inc. and internationally through Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. and Interactive Data (Australia) Pty Ltd.

For more information about Interactive Data Corporation and its businesses, please visit www.interactivedata.com.

About Deutsche Borse Group

Deutsche Borse Group is one of the world's leading service providers for the securities industry with a product and service offering for issuers, investors, intermediaries and data vendors. The Group covers the entire process chain from trading, through clearing, to settlement and securities custody. Furthermore, Deutsche Borse is a service provider for the development and operation of IT systems.

Market Data & Analytics compiles, distributes and markets independent capital market information, such as price data, trading statistics, and back office information for banks and financial institutions. Market Data & Analytics calculates and publishes more than 2,100 indices in total. Deutsche Borse thus ranks among the world's major index providers.

Market Data & Analytics offers products that provide targeted support for the middle- and back offices of banks and financial services providers. The product range comprises individual analyses on the basis of historical data, the delivery of reference data and services relating to all aspects of mandatory reporting to the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt fur Finanzdienstleistungen - BaFin).

Deutsche Borse Group currently includes Deutsche Borse AG, a DAX company and the world's largest stock exchange organisation, with its wholly-owned subsidiaries Clearstream International S.A. and Deutsche Borse Systems AG. The key markets within the Group are the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, one of Europe's largest stock exchanges, and Eurex, one of the largest derivatives exchanges in the world.

SOURCE: Interactive Data Corporation

Interactive Data
Investors
Andrew Kramer, +1 781-687-8306
andrew.kramer@interactivedata.com
or
Media
Sue Mitchell, +44 (0)20 7825 8076 (European media)
sue.mitchell@interactivedata.com
or
John Coffey, +1 781-687-8148 (US Media)
john.coffey@interactivedata.com
or
Deutsche Borse
Leticia Adam, +49-69-21 11 15 00 (Media Relations)
leticia.adam@deutsche-boerse.com