Market Data Gateway (MDG) is Interactive Data Managed Solutions' powerful, open platform on which the customizable managed solutions are based. The platform allows customers to harmonize market data of different content suppliers and to distribute, display and analyze them in a coherent data model. By separating contents, functionality and layout, MDG is designed to be both fast and very flexible.

The Object Server at the heart of the platform delivers data to customizable solutions via Java, .NET and PHP interfaces. MDG combines market data from various asset classes and distributes it in real-time to all users with customer-controlled entitlements. Select an asset class left for more information on Interactive Data Managed Solutions' comprehensive financial database underlying the MDG.

On average*, Market Data Gateway

• powers more than 200 different customizable applications supplying up-to-date financial market information in seven languages
• runs the financial web sites of 10 of Europe's 14 largest online brokers
• contains data for all asset classes from about 60 different suppliers which can be delivered to individual users with custom user rights
• processes up to 100,000 data updates per second by 75 different markets and exchanges
• on average answers approximately 200 million requests every day
• serves more than 64,000 financial advisors throughout Europe
• logs 400 million page impressions in web sites per average month
• covers more than 120 different exchange and market models worldwide
• holds about 150,000 retail derivatives waiting to be analyzed by different parameters
• is designed to allow customers to browse and search 22,000 news items daily, provided by 30 international news agencies