INTERACTIVE DATA’S PRIMETERMINAL PROFESSIONAL EDITION FEATURES EXPANDED FUND INFORMATION

Broadens Range of Available Data to Include Original Prospectuses for Approximately 20,000 Funds

Frankfurt : 26 August 2008
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, today announced that its Managed Solutions group has enhanced PrimeTerminal Professional Edition, the Company’s financial market terminal, by adding access to original fund prospectuses as an optional service for more than 20,000 funds from various European markets.

As a result of Interactive Data’s collaboration with Austrian funds data supplier software-systems.at Börsensoftware und Datenbankservice GmbH and Italian funds data supplier Blue Financial Communication Srl, users of PrimeTerminal Professional can now retrieve prospectuses for a wide range of funds from the funds’ respective issuers in the German, Austrian, Italian and Swiss markets.

The fund prospectuses are available as printable PDF files and can be accessed quickly and conveniently via PrimeTerminal for use with advisory and sales conversations with customers. This new service can enhance bank employees’ efficiency, since they will no longer need to spend time contacting multiple sources to retrieve and organise fund prospectuses.

Interactive Data has plans to further expand the range of fund information offered by PrimeTerminal Professional Edition in the future. These plans include enhancing the terminal to include fund information for Asian markets and additional information on US funds.

“Asset managers and financial advisors need to be able to access adequate fund information in order to assist their customers,” said Carsten Dirks, managing director, Interactive Data Managed Solutions AG. “Our enhanced PrimeTerminal Professional Edition can now assist with providing quick access to this information from a single source.”

About PrimeTerminal Professional Edition

PrimeTerminal Professional Edition is a customisable financial market terminal from Interactive Data. It can be tailored to the respective investment, advisory and sales processes of users in the private banking and asset management sectors. Data permissioning and cost allocation on a per user basis are designed to facilitate flexible and focused utilisation of the terminal. The PrimeTerminal user can access real-time quotes, historical and master data, risk figures, performance indicators, company data, annual reports and analyst appraisals. Technical and financial mathematical analytics for various asset classes supplement the information. PrimeTerminal can interface with the users’ internal data, such as research results, as well as content management and customer relationship management systems. Significant emphasis has been placed on making the PrimeTerminal user interface intuitive and easy to use. PrimeTerminal is currently deployed in 14 countries around the world.

More information about Interactive Data Managed Solutions is available at: www.interactivedata-ms.com

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 Managed Solutions is a leading provider and operator of customized financial information systems. The group builds and manages Web-based financial market data portals and terminals for a range of organizations worldwide, from retail and investment banks to asset managers, online brokers, stock exchanges and media portals. By aggregating a broad set of financial data and client-proprietary content and offering visually stunning features such as charts, sophisticated search functions, decision-support tools and analytics, these intuitive applications can help customers optimize their business processes and realize efficiencies. Interactive Data Managed Solutions is managed as part of the Interactive Data Real-Time Services business, which provides a comprehensive suite of offerings that includes PlusFeedSM, a consolidated, low latency datafeed.

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

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INTERACTIVE DATA CORPORATION:

Investors

Andrew Kramer
Tel: +1 781-687-8306
Email: andrew.kramer@interactivedata.com

Media

Sue Mitchell (European media)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7825 8076 
Email: sue.mitchell@interactivedata.com

Brian Willinsky (US media)
Tel: +1 781-687-8291