IDC Interactive Data Corp.

Wombat Financial Software Inc., the low-latency trading technology experts, today announced that three clients have augmented its high-speed market data platform by adding the ComStock feed handler, allowing for off-the-shelf integration of ComStock's low latency data into the most widely used market data platforms. ComStock, an Interactive Data (NYSE: IDC) business, delivers low-latency financial information to power mission critical electronic market data applications, including algorithmic trading engines where speed is crucial. Wombat recently implemented the new ComStock feed handler at three leading client firms, including a hedge fund, mutual fund company and sell-side firm, and reports a number of additional customer evaluations are underway. "The capital markets are hungry for new choices to meet their market data needs," says Danny Moore, COO of Wombat Financial Software. "Customers have been choosing Wombat not only for speed but also for the freedom of choice we enable in choosing their market data providers. ComStock's datafeed is a prime example of a product which offers an appealing blend of speed and content breadth customers can leverage with Wombat's help." "Financial institutions must have low latency data to effectively compete for liquidity in today's electronic trading environment," said Mark Hepsworth, president of ComStock. "We are very pleased to be working so closely with Wombat to offer the combination of an innovative low latency technology platform and low latency datafeed that powers clients' electronic and algorithmic trading engines." About Wombat Financial Software Wombat enables limitless connectivity to the global markets through the world's most advanced high speed market data infrastructure, The Wombat Platform. With offices in the US and UK, Wombat software underpins automated market-making systems, electronic-trading floors and tick-capture platforms in financial institutions around the world. The Wombat Platform includes Wombat Feed Handlers, providing sub-millisecond connectivity to more than 60 direct exchange and aggregated vendor feeds; Wombat Transport, enabling high speed, multi-protocol messaging throughout the enterprise; Wombat APIs; and Wombat value added servers such as the Wombat SuperBook virtual order book consolidator and the Wombat DBAC tick-capture adapter. For more information, visit www.wombatfs.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, 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. ComStock is a leading provider of real-time global market data and managed solutions to financial institutions, re-distributors and online financial portals worldwide. ComStock's suite of services ranges from a consolidated, low latency data feed, to tools for building, managing and hosting customized applications. For further information about Interactive Data please see: www.interactivedata.com