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Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, and Deutsche B�rse, one of the world�s leading service providers for the securities industry, today announced that bond evaluations from Interactive Data�s Pricing and Reference Data business will be distributed via Deutsche B�rse AG to financial institutions throughout Germany. Deutsche B�rse offers a wide range of market and reference data services to institutional clients and vendors. By adding Interactive Data�s bond evaluations, Deutsche B�rse�s clients will now be able to request evaluations for specific securities in their portfolios via the WSS (Wertpapier Service System) File Service, a comprehensive securities information service for the back office. Interactive Data will then return the evaluations to clients through Deutsche B�rse�s WSS. Interactive Data is a leading independent provider of daily evaluations for fixed income securities. With over 30 years of experience, Interactive Data offers daily evaluations for approximately 2.5 million fixed income and international equity issues. Over 5,000 financial institutions worldwide, ranging from central banks to large investment banks, subscribe to Interactive Data�s bond evaluations. The evaluations include corporates, high yields, governments and agencies, securitised debt issues, ABS, CMBS and CMOs, US municipal securities, hybrid securities and money market securities. Holger Wohlenberg, managing director, Market Data & Analytics, Deutsche B�rse, said: �The bond evaluations from Interactive Data will be an important additional service via WSS. Through this batch data system, Deutsche B�rse offers reference, corporate actions and pricing data on more than 400,000 securities listed in Germany and abroad. The information is supplied once every trading day in processed, machine-readable form or made available via the Internet as a download.� Roger Sargeant, managing director, Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd, added: �We are very pleased to offer our evaluated services to Deutsche B�rse�s clients. With increased regulation and the volatility in the financial markets, firms are focused on the need to have a firm grasp on the value of their holdings � especially thinly traded fixed income securities. Our teams of experienced evaluators incorporate the available transaction data, credit quality information and any apparent market movements into the evaluated pricing applications and models. We place emphasis on building relationships with a broad range of market sources that can offer insight into market activity.� 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 real-time market data, time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference data for millions of 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 2,300 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 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 6 million securities, including daily evaluations for approximately 2.5 million fixed income and international equity issues. Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data specialises in �hard-to-get� information and evaluates many �hard-to value� instruments. Pricing, evaluations and reference data are provided in the US 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. About Deutsche B�rse Group Deutsche B�rse Group is one of the world�s leading service providers for the securities industry with a product and service offering for issuers, investors, intermediaries and data vendors. The Group covers the entire process chain from trading, through clearing, to settlement and securities custody. Furthermore, Deutsche B�rse is a service provider for the development and operation of IT systems. Market Data & Analytics compiles, distributes and markets independent capital market information, such as price data, trading statistics, and back office information for banks and financial institutions. Market Data & Analytics calculates and publishes more than 2,100 indices in total. Deutsche B�rse thus ranks among the world�s major index providers. Market Data & Analytics offers products that provide targeted support for the middle- and back offices of banks and financial services providers. The product range comprises individual analyses on the basis of historical data, the delivery of reference data and services relating to all aspects of mandatory reporting to the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt f�r Finanzdienstleistungen � BaFin). Deutsche B�rse Group currently includes Deutsche B�rse AG, a DAX company and the world�s largest stock exchange organisation, with its wholly-owned subsidiaries Clearstream International S.A. and Deutsche B�rse Systems AG. The key markets within the Group are the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, one of Europe�s largest stock exchanges, and Eurex, one of the largest derivatives exchanges in the world.