IDC Interactive Data Corp.

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, and InfoDyne, a leading provider of low latency ticker plant, trade/order processing, and middleware technology for algorithmic trading, today announced that the two organizations have formed a new relationship focused on simplifying access to a broad range of global low latency data. InfoDyne has integrated PlusFeedSM, a low latency consolidated global datafeed from Interactive Data Real-Time Services, into its TPS+Plus technology platform. The integration is designed to provide trading firms utilizing TPS+Plus with direct access to the vast universe of data � more than 3.4 million financial instruments from over 450 sources � that is available though PlusFeed. This includes data for equities (including Level II/market depth and ECN data), options (full OPRA content), corporate bonds, futures, mutual funds, money markets, fixed income and foreign exchange. By adding support for Interactive Data�s PlusFeed to the TPS+Plus product family, InfoDyne can continue to help ensure that trading firms can freely choose the sources of data that are designed to best meet their business requirements and have alternatives when looking to use institutional-quality real-time datafeeds with these products. Following a full development cycle and standard release procedures, InfoDyne is ready to install the new offering at customer sites. �We are very excited about this opportunity to provide access to Interactive Data�s broad market coverage,� said Bob Barton, head of sales at InfoDyne. �The proven integration capabilities of TPS+Plus are designed to provide customers with seamless use of Interactive Data�s low-latency consolidated datafeed within their existing systems and applications,� he added. �We are very pleased to have established this relationship with InfoDyne,� said Piers MacWhannell, global head of business development, Interactive Data Real-Time Services. �We can now offer customers tight integration of our global, cross-asset low latency data with InfoDyne�s low latency ticker plant, trade/order processing, and middleware technology. Our relationship with InfoDyne demonstrates how we can integrate PlusFeed into sophisticated applications that are designed to offer trading firms an end-to-end solution for their low latency data needs.� TPS+Plus is an agnostic, robust, ticker plant solution designed to address the need for low latency, high-volume, market data. The system supports automated trading and desktop applications utilizing InfoDyne�s direct access APIs and also integrates seamlessly within most other market data platforms. It provides a robust set of features for the normalization, blending, and integration of direct exchange and consolidated feeds providing global data coverage. About InfoDyne InfoDyne Corporation (www.infodyne.com) has been a provider of low latency enterprise products and solutions to the financial marketplace for over 15 years. With a commitment to �encapsulate your enterpriseTM�, InfoDyne integrates low latency ticker plant, trade/order processing, and object-based middleware solutions within customer�s existing systems � solutions that offer a quantifiable market advantage, a reduced cost of ownership, and a high rate of return. InfoDyne�s TPS+Plus� ticker plant system integrates direct exchange, ECN, and consolidated vendor feeds, including all North American and most major global exchange feeds, to provide dramatically faster data delivery than traditional market data consolidators, and, at a significantly lower cost. InfoDyne�s STP+Plus� solution offers direct trade and order routing to major exchanges, ECNs, and other trading partners. All InfoDyne products are compatible with the leading client site system solutions currently in the market, including InfoDyne�s own object-based Middleware2 technology. InfoDyne�s TPS+Plus�, STP+Plus�, and Middleware2 system solutions are deployed on-site within a customer�s own data center or as a fully managed service at a shared data center facility. 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, is Interactive Data Corporation's majority stockholder. Interactive Data Real-Time Services is a leading provider of real-time global market data to financial institutions, redistributors and online financial portals worldwide. Offerings from Interactive Data Real-Time Services include PlusFeed, a consolidated, low latency datafeed. Also managed as part of this business is Interactive Data Managed Solutions, a leading provider and operator of customized financial market information systems. 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.