Interactive Data Declares Quarterly Dividend

BEDFORD, Mass.–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 its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.20 per share of Interactive Data common stock, payable on December 30, 2009 to stockholders of record on December 8, 2009. This is the Company’s 12th consecutive quarterly cash dividend.

The declaration of future quarterly dividends, and the establishment of related record and payment dates, is subject to final determination of the Board of Directors of 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.

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