Interactive Data And Il Sole 24 Ore Introduce New Financial Information Service In Italy

Joint product PrimeTerminal 24 designed for Italian financial service providers

Frankfurt and Milan, November, 29 2007 – Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, today announced that its Managed Solutions group and Il Sole 24 Ore Finanza, a leading provider of financial information to the Italian market, have together launched PrimeTerminal 24, a financial information terminal designed for retail advisors, private bankers, wealth managers and asset managers in Italy. PrimeTerminal 24 is a customised version of the PrimeTerminal product group provided by Interactive Data, tailored to fit sales, investment and consultancy processes of professional clients in private banking, wealth management and asset management. Il Sole 24 Ore will exclusively market the new service to the Italian market.

PrimeTerminal 24 offers access to more than 40 international exchanges and exchange groups, in-depth statistical, reference and derived data for stocks, bonds, funds and derivatives, bond ratings, fundamental analysis on Italian and foreign securities, technical analysis via advanced charting modules, and professional tools for derivatives analysis. News feeds include news from the Italian press agency Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor and international news in English. Additional content provided by Il Sole 24 Ore includes indepth analysis of Italian companies, data and news relating to technical analysis, and selected daily news from the Il Sole 24 ORE newspaper.

PrimeTerminal 24 was introduced on Thursday, 18 October 2007 during the 5th Annual Economia & Finanza Conference organised by Il Sole 24 Ore in Milan, Italy.

Giuseppe Donati, managing director, Interactive Data Managed Solutions in Italy, commented: "We are very excited to cooperate with Il Sole 24 Ore, a leading player in the Italian market, and look forward to providing financial advisors in Italy with information designed to meet their specific needs with PrimeTerminal 24."

Matteo Cascinari, multimedia area director at Il Sole 24 Ore, commented: "Il Sole 24 Ore chose to cooperate with Interactive Data as they are acknowledged to be a well-known international market leader. Through this cooperation we expect to be able to provide high quality content as well as fast and continuous delivery of new analysis tools to Italian customers."

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 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, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data Real-Time Services, Interactive Data Fixed Income Analytics, and eSignal, the Company has approximately 2,200 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.

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

About Il Sole 24 ORE Finance

Il Sole 24 ORE Finance is leader on the Italian market within the financial information with an offer of terminals, web solutions, video communication on mobile services. The offer of products and services is addressed to a wide target: banks and financial institutions, dealers, financial promoters, private investors, companies and media.

Il Sole 24 ORE Finance is also able to build up tailor made solutions acting also as content provider. For more information about Il Sole 24 ORE Finance please visit www.ilsole24ore.com/areafinanza.