Interactive Data Promotes Liz Duggan to Managing Director, Evaluations

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors, today announced that Elizabeth Duggan has been promoted to managing director of the Company’s Evaluations organization. Duggan, 44, has held a variety of management positions at Interactive Data, serving most recently as chief operating officer, Evaluations since January 2009. She reports directly to Mark Hepsworth, president of Interactive Data’s Institutional Business.

Interactive Data supports thousands of financial institutions worldwide, ranging from central banks to large investment banks, with daily evaluations spanning more than 2.8 million fixed income and international equity securities. During the past year, Duggan has helped lead initiatives to further enhance and expand the Company’s evaluated pricing services, broaden overall market coverage, provide more transparency to evaluation services and bring new talent into the organization.

Mark Hepsworth stated, “Liz has been a high-impact leader since joining Interactive Data 10 years ago. During the past decade, she has held a range of operational and client-facing roles that have helped drive the growth of our Evaluations business and ensure a high level of communication with major clients, regulators and industry bodies. Given the increased focus that clients are directing toward their valuation processes, Liz and her team are advancing key initiatives that will further support our clients as they continue turning to Interactive Data for independent evaluations that reflect current market activity.”

Duggan joined Interactive Data in 1999 following the acquisition of Muller Data, a municipal bond pricing specialist business. Since then, Duggan has worked in several roles within the Company. From 2003 until December 2008, Duggan was vice president, market specialists, a role in which she cultivated client relationships and made valuable contributions to the growth of the Company's Institutional Business. Duggan was promoted to chief operating officer of the Evaluations organization in January 2009. She is a graduate of Pace University.

Duggan succeeds Shant Harootunian as managing director. Harootunian recently departed Interactive Data.

About Interactive Data Corporation

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions 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. Interactive Data, headquartered in Bedford, Mass., has approximately 2,400 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. 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’s Pricing and Reference Data business 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 collects, edits, maintains and delivers data on more than 6 million securities, including daily evaluations for approximately 2.8 million fixed income and international equity issues. Interactive 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

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