IDC Interactive Data Corp.

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, today announced that the new European ticker plant for its Real-Time Services business has gone live. The new ticker plant provides latency gains of at least 80 milliseconds, significantly reducing delivery times for European consumers of European real-time data distributed by PlusFeedSM, Interactive Data�s low latency, consolidated global datafeed. All European customers receiving PlusFeed will benefit from this enhancement. Interactive Data is also announcing the availability of a low latency co-location facility. Customers in Europe will have the option of co-locating their applications in data centres close to the new London-based ticker plant to take advantage of the low latency delivery of European data. Roger Sargeant, managing director, Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd, said: �Our decision to build a new European data centre for PlusFeed was driven by the continually growing need for lower latency data, combined with the higher data volumes that we expected under MiFID and other regulations. We anticipate that we will be able to deliver European data to London-based customers at latency rates of around 60 milliseconds.� Interactive Data is adopting a phased rollout schedule for adding data sources. Phase 1 adds real-time data services from sources including Borsa Italiana, Deutsche B�rse, Eurex, Irish Stock Exchange, OMX Nordic Exchange, and Euronext. Subsequent phases during the first two quarters of 2008 will add the remainder of the European markets covered by PlusFeed, as well as Middle Eastern venues. PlusFeed, Interactive Data�s high quality datafeed, is a trusted source of low latency data for algorithmic and electronic trading applications. With PlusFeed, customers can access a broad range of low latency data from over 450 sources and exchanges worldwide, covering in excess of 3.4 million securities. 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 customised 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.