IDC Interactive Data Corp.

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business will deliver reference data to customers utilizing Xenomorph�s TimeScape, a powerful cross-asset data management and analysis software platform. Through its relationship with Interactive Data, Xenomorph can help enable its customers to make better-informed investment decisions while addressing regulatory requirements. TimeScape unites data management, data connectivity, and pricing analysis for a broad range of asset classes into one user interface, helping customers to work more efficiently. The software platform also offers capabilities that are designed to enable the deployment of new asset classes and pricing models that can be pre-tested, checked and managed in near-real time. The two companies have developed an interface to TimeScape that is designed to provide Xenomorph�s customers with direct access to Interactive Data�s high-quality reference data for more than 3.5 million global securities. This enables Xenomorph to deliver an expanded dataset to support their customers� data management and analysis activities. �Our customers demand a vast resource of high-quality reference data as the basis for their pricing models and data analysis activities,� said Brian Sentance, CEO, Xenomorph. �Working with Interactive Data, we can ensure that the quality of the data matches the sophistication of our analytics and data management solutions. By providing direct access to Interactive Data�s reference data, we can help a broad range of customers, including traders, risk managers, and quantitative analysts, make informed investment decisions, improve their productivity in managing data and address regulatory capital requirements.� �By uniting Interactive Data�s vast universe of reference data with its sophisticated set of software tools, Xenomorph can offer customers a comprehensive solution for improving their data management and analysis capabilities,� said Ray D�Arcy, president of sales, marketing and institutional business development, Interactive Data Corporation. �The powerful combination of our high-quality data and range of flexible delivery options has enabled Interactive Data to forge relationships with numerous businesses that provide innovative financial applications designed for the front, middle and back offices. We are excited about our work with Xenomorph, and look forward to continuing to expand our relationship.� About Xenomorph Xenomorph delivers real-time analytics and data management solutions to the financial markets. Our TimeScape technology leverages our clients� proprietary expertise, and in so doing enables faster time to market for new financial products, new risk techniques and new trading ideas. Trading, research, risk, product control, IT and back-office staff use Xenomorph�s TimeScape cross-asset data management platform at investment banks, hedge funds and asset management institutions across the world's main financial centres. For more information on Xenomorph, our clients, services and solutions, please email info@xenomorph.com or see www.xenomorph.com. Xenomorph� and TimeScape� are registered trademarks of Xenomorph Software Limited. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. 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 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 Pricing and Reference Data provides global securities pricing, evaluations and reference data designed to support financial institutions� and investment funds' pricing activities, securities operations, research and portfolio management. Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data collects, edits, maintains and delivers data on more than 3.5 million securities, including daily evaluations for approximately 2.5 million fixed income and international equity issues. Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data specializes in �hard-to-get� information and evaluates many �hard-to value� instruments. Pricing, evaluations and reference data are provided in the U.S. through Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Inc. and internationally through Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. and Interactive Data (Australia) Pty Ltd. For more information about Interactive Data Corporation and its businesses, please visit www.interactivedata.com. Interactive DataSM and the Interactive Data logo are service marks of Interactive Data Corporation.