Customisable, web-based market data solutions for retail banking

Interactive Data Managed Solutions AG at E.B.I.F. 2006

FRANKFURT, Germany – September 21, 2006 – Interactive Data Managed Solutions AG, an Interactive Data (NYSE: IDC) business and a leading provider and operator of customised financial market information systems, will be present at this year’s European Banking and Insurance Fair (E.B.I.F.), 14 - 16 November, Frankfurt, Germany. The company will show web-based solutions for retail banking in hall 5.1, stand B27, following this year’s theme “Add Value – Solutions for Financial Information”. The focus will be on funds. As part of Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors, Interactive Data Managed Solutions (formerly IS.Teledata) can now offer even more value through the expanded range of data on its Market Data Gateway platform.

Expanding the Funds Business with Retail Clients

Interactive Data Managed Solutions develops customised financial market information systems which use the company’s own market data platform, a wide range of content and various product modules for the display and analysis of various asset classes. This year Interactive Data Managed Solutions’ focus for the fair is especially geared towards financial service providers in retail banking, who seek to advise private investors by using customised Internet solutions, many of which will be on display at the E.B.I.F. stand. Among the services to be exhibited are IS.Statistics Funds, a tool to analyse the fund market by individual criteria, the financial market terminal IS.Slider in its various editions, TraderMatrix 3.0, and IS.Developer Solutions.

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 time-sensitive pricing, evaluations, dividend, corporate action and reference data for more than 3.5 million 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, FT Interactive Data, ComStock, CMS BondEdge and eSignal, Interactive Data has approximately 2,200 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, and is headquartered in Bedford, MA. Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO; LSE: PSON), an international media company, whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group, owns approximately 62 percent of the outstanding common stock of Interactive Data Corporation.

ComStock is a leading provider of real-time global market data to financial institutions, redistributors and online financial portals worldwide. ComStock's suite of services includes PlusFeed, a consolidated, low latency data feed. Also managed as part of the ComStock group is Interactive Data Managed Solutions, a leading provider and operator of customised financial market information systems. For more information about Interactive Data and its businesses, please visit www.interactivedata.com.