IDC Interactive Data Corp.

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data and analytic tools to institutional investors, active traders and individual investors, today announced that Steven Crane, the Company's executive vice president and chief financial officer, will present at the America's Growth Capital 2006 Business Services and Financial Technology Conference in Boston on Wednesday, May 31, 2006. Crane plans to provide an overview of Interactive Data's business, highlight the Company's growth strategy and review recent financial results. -0- *T America's Growth Capital 2006 Business Services and Financial Technology Conference Location: Boston Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 Time: 10:30 a.m. Speaker: Steven Crane, executive vice president and chief financial officer *T This presentation along with the supporting slides will be webcast live and available for replay on the Investor Relations section of Interactive Data Corporation's Web site, located at www.interactivedata.com. A calendar of the Company's scheduled investor activities is also available in the Investor Relations section of the Interactive Data Corporation Web site. 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, FT Interactive Data, ComStock, CMS BondEdge and eSignal, Interactive Data has approximately 2,200 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, and is headquartered in Bedford, MA. 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. For more information, please visit www.interactivedata.com. The FT Interactive Data business includes FT Interactive Data Corporation, a Delaware corporation. The ComStock business includes ComStock, Inc., a New York corporation.