Interactive Data Provides Independent Evaluations for GNMA Reverse Mortgage-Backed Securities

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business is now providing daily independent evaluations for fixed-rate reverse mortgage-backed securities (HMBS) issued under the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program. This program is designed to provide liquidity to reverse mortgage lenders. Interactive Data is among the first data providers in the industry to offer daily evaluations for fixed rate GNMA HMBS.

Reverse mortgages provide an alternative to traditional home equity loans for homeowners seeking to monetize the equity in their homes. As the baby-boomer generation enters retirement age, it is expected they will turn to the equity in their homes to provide supplemental cash flow during this time period of their lives.

Origination volume in 2009 for GNMA HMBS was approximately $8.5 billion, up more than 600% from 2008.* GNMA has indicated that it expects 25-30 percent growth in HECM originations.** Despite these increases, holders of GNMA HMBS have been challenged to find independent evaluations for these securities. Holders that may have previously relied on broker quotes or information from a dealer to assess current market value can now realize the benefits of subscribing to independent evaluations of fixed rate GNMA HMBS as an input to their valuations process.

“GNMA HMBS have undergone dramatic growth over the past few years, and we find that many of our clients -- especially insurance companies, mutual funds, and custodian banks -- are increasingly requesting evaluations for these structures,” said Liz Duggan, managing director, Evaluations, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data. “Our clients can now subscribe to our independent evaluations for fixed rate GNMA HMBS as an input to their valuations process.”

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.

* Source: Reverse Mortgage Daily:http://reversemortgagedaily.com/2010/01/14/ginnie-mae-hecm-mbs-issuance-up-over-600-in-2009/

** Source: Ginnie Mae HMBS presentation: http://www.ginniemae.gov/issuers/HMBS_Presentation.pdf

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