Interactive Data Enhances UK Funds Data

Through Financial Express, Interactive Data Managed Solutions can provide data on more than 15,000 UK funds

Frankfurt, Germany, January 24, 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 further enhanced its funds data offering with information supplied by Financial Express, a leading UK-based data supplier. The offering, which comprises data for more than 15,000 funds licensed in the UK and covers all funds classes, is available via Interactive Data Managed Solutions’ Funds Suite product. Fact sheets and analytics are included.

“Thanks to the new relationship with Interactive Data Managed Solutions, we have gained a higher presence in Continental Europe,” said Michael Holland, managing director at Financial Express.

The funds data includes prices, dividends, histories and corporate actions. Also available are fact sheet data such as holdings and sector or region weightings, as well as ratings for evaluations that are based on alpha, volatility and continuity of performances. In addition, comprehensive research and analysis data are included.

Users can access this information via the Market Data Gateway, Interactive Data’s open market data platform. The data is available for all PrimePortal clients and is accessible via PrimeDeveloper. The Financial Express funds data is also expected to be made available via the PrimeTerminal Professional Edition financial terminal in the coming months.

“The new relationship with Financial Express allows us to significantly enhance our offering for the UK market, thus providing customers with even broader information,” said Stephan Wolf, managing director, Interactive Data Managed Solutions. “We are looking forward to a long-lasting and successful relationship.”

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 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 customised financial information systems. The group builds and manages Web-based financial market data portals and terminals for a range of organisations 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 optimise their business processes and realise efficiencies. The Interactive Data Managed Solutions group 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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Financial Express

Financial Express is the largest distributor of fund data in the UK, and is the main or sole supplier of data to many of the leading data vendors, including Bloomberg, Reuters, Thomson Financial and Telekurs. Financial Express also provides data and web based fund analysis products to the UK’s leading fund supermarkets, life and wrap platforms, product providers, financial advisers and networks, software houses, financial portals and private investors.