Interactive Data Purchases Assets of Middle East Sales Agent

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it has purchased the assets of Dubai-based Telerate Systems Limited (TSL) for UAE dirhams 2.2 million (or approximately $0.6 million in cash based on current exchange rates). For the past seven years, TSL, a privately held company that operates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), has been a sales agent for desktop services from Interactive Data’s eSignal division to the commodities, financial futures and foreign exchange trading community in the Middle East.

This transaction will advance Interactive Data’s strategy of expanding internationally by establishing a direct presence in the Middle East. TSL has strong experience and technical expertise in selling eSignal’s desktop services in the Middle East, with business relationships that extend across the region. Through this transaction, and by making investments in local content and product development, Interactive Data plans to more effectively market its entire portfolio of products and services in this region. The business in the Middle East is being rebranded under the Interactive DataSM name and the TSL team of six employees, as well as its managing director, now become Interactive Data employees.

Roger Sargeant, managing director, International, Interactive Data, stated: “By having a direct presence in the region, we will enhance our ability to accelerate the expansion of our business in the Middle East. We look forward to providing our new Dubai-based team with the requisite resources to capitalize on what we believe are attractive expansion opportunities in this fast-growing region.”

Interactive Data anticipates that purchasing the assets of TSL will not have a material impact on its 2010 financial results.

Interactive Data Corporation Forward-looking and Cautionary Statements

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Federal securities laws, and is subject to the safe-harbor created by such Act and laws. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical and include our statements discussing our goals, beliefs, strategies, objectives, plans, prospects and opportunities, and our statements relating to (i) expanding our business in the Middle East; (ii) our plans to make investments in local content and product development to more effectively market our products and services in this region; and (iii) our intention to provide TSL with the requisite resources to capitalize on the attractive expansion opportunities in; and (iv) the anticipated impact of the TSL business on our business, including any impact on our earnings. These statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Such factors include: (i) our ability to successfully integrate the TSL business, (ii) our ability to retain key employees of TSL, and other factors identified in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

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.

For more information about Interactive Data Corporation and its businesses, please visit www.interactivedata.com.

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