Interactive Data Managed Solutions Awarded Bronze Status With Dow Jones Newswires

IS.Slider users receive Dow Jones News in vendor-certified quality

FRANKFURT, Germany – March, 28 2007 – Interactive Data Managed Solutions, an Interactive Data (NYSE: IDC) business and a leading provider and operator of customised financial information systems, has been awarded Bronze status within the Dow Jones Certification Programme. Customers of Interactive Data Managed Solutions’ financial terminal IS.Slider can now receive news from Dow Jones in vendor-certified quality and with additional functionalities. Users may now be able to perform news searches faster and more easily. They can also customise the news display. Interactive Data Managed Solutions plans to further this cooperation with Dow Jones Newswires to additional certification levels.

To qualify for Bronze status, IS.Slider had to meet several technical requirements specified by Dow Jones such as accurately displaying Dow Jones headline characteristics, highlighting key market information, correct chaining of multi-part news stories and implementing a link to Dow Jones News Plus. Additionally, the financial terminals had to provide quick searches by instrument or code. IS.Slider offers Dow Jones News through its various, country-specific product bundles, as well as options for additional subscription-based Dow Jones News services.

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IS.Slider, Interactive Data Managed Solutions’ customisable financial terminal can be tailored specifically for investment, advisory-, and sales processes in private banking and asset management. Because the data can be permissioned and billed by the individual user, IS.Slider allows for flexible and targeted deployment.

In addition to real-time quotes, historical and fundamental data, IS.Slider provides access to risk figures, performance figures, company data, annual reports and analyst recommendations. Technical and mathematical analysis tools complement the offering. IS.Slider can also integrate internal data, such as in-house research and applications like content management or customer relationship management systems. IS.Slider offers an intuitive user interface and has several thousand users in 14 countries worldwide.

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, owns approximately 62 percent of the outstanding common stock of Interactive Data Corporation.

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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