Interactive Data And Expansión Host Prestigious Funds Awards Event In Madrid

Interactive Data Managed Solutions joins Spain’s leading financial newspaper in recognising investment companies for their performance over the past year

Madrid, Spain, March 7, 2008 – Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, today announced that its Managed Solutions group will join UNEDISA (Unidad Editorial S.A.), publisher of Expansión, and a leading financial information company in Spain, in hosting the annual funds awards in Madrid on 11 March. The awards event recognises the leading Spanish investment companies for their performance over the past year and is an important occasion for the Spanish funds industry.

The 'Expansión/Interactive Data Funds Awards' event will take place in Palacio de Deportes in Madrid. The speakers will include Jesús Martínez de Rioja Vázquez (editor, Expansión), Carsten Dirks (chief sales officer, Interactive Data Managed Solutions), and Alfredo Rubina (managing director, Interactive Data Managed Solutions, Spain).

Categories for the awards include the best performing funds within 20 sectors, the best performing investment companies (small, medium and large), the best performing pension funds (stocks, bonds and mixed), and the overall best performing funds across all sectors. Around 400 guests, including senior representatives of Spain’s funds and banking industry, are expected to attend the awards ceremony and gala dinner.

"We are delighted to be hosting this awards event together with Interactive Data,” said Jesús Martinez de Rioja Vázquez, editor at Expansión. "This event can be seen as a benchmark for both investors and investment companies."

"The annual fund awards event is recognised as a prestigious occasion in the Spanish financial industry, and it is a great honour for us to act as host," said Stephan Wolf, managing director, Interactive Data Managed 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 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 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. 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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