Interactive Data Declares Quarterly Dividend

• Press Release
• Source: Interactive Data Corporation
• On 9:00 am EDT, Friday October 2, 2009

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC - News), 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 12^th consecutive quarterly cash dividend.

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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.

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 our statements discussing our goals, beliefs, strategies, objectives, plans, future financial conditions, results of operations and cash flows or projections, including those statements related to any potential future quarterly dividends, including the timing, nature and financial impact of issuing any such dividend. 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, but are not limited to: (i) the ability of our majority shareholder to exert influence over our affairs, including the ability to approve or disapprove any corporate actions submitted to a vote of our stockholders; (ii) the difficulty in predicting our future cash needs; (iii) the nature of other investment opportunities available to us from time to time; (iv) our operating cash flow; and (v) 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 - News) 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 - News; LSE: PSON - News), 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.

Interactive Data Corporation
Investors:
Andrew Kramer, 781-687-8306
Director of Investor Relations
andrew.kramer@interactivedata.com
or
Media:
Brian Willinsky, 781-687-8291
Manager, Public Relations
brian.willinsky@interactivedata.com