Interactive Data Corporation Named to The Boston Globe's 100 List of Massachusetts' Top-Performing Public Companies; Company Listed as Highest Ranking Newcomer.

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BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2003

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE:IDC) today announced that the company has been named the highest ranking newcomer to the 2003 Globe 100 list of top-performing companies in Massachusetts. Interactive Data Corporation is a leading global provider of essential financial data and analytics to institutional and individual investors. This year marks the first time the company has been named to The Globe 100. In addition to securing the top position among the nine newcomers to the list, Interactive Data Corporation ranked #21 overall.

"We are honored to join the list of top-performing companies recognized by The Boston Globe this year," said Stuart Clark, CEO, Interactive Data Corporation. "We enjoyed strong revenue and profit growth in 2002 resulting from our organic growth and strategic acquisitions. We launched important new products and services, such as our Fair Value Information Service, which is designed to support mutual funds' regulatory driven fair valuation procedures for equities held in their international portfolios."

Interactive Data Corporation will be recognized at the Awards Breakfast hosted by The Boston Globe on Tuesday, May 20th at the World Trade Center in Boston. For consideration for The Globe 100 composite score ranking, a company must have been public at the end of 2002, reported positive net income in both 2001 and 2002, not reported a negative common shareholders' equity for two years, and have a long-term debt-to-equity ratio less than 4:1. This year, the Globe 100 celebrates 15 years ranking the top-performing public companies in Massachusetts.

Interactive Data Corporation has captured other accolades in the last few months, including the number one spot in the Boston Herald's "Superstar 10," a subset of the annual Herald Hundred report of top performing Massachusetts' companies for 2002. Inside Market Data also honored Interactive Data Corporation with the "Acquisition of the Year" Award for its March 2003 acquisition of ComStock, a global real-time information service from the Standard & Poor's division of The McGraw-Hill Companies.

About Interactive Data Corporation

Interactive Data Corporation is a leading global provider of securities pricing, financial information, and analytic tools to institutional and individual investors. The company supplies time-sensitive pricing (including evaluated pricing), dividend, corporate action, and descriptive information for approximately 3.5 million securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value instruments. The company links to most of the world's best-known financial service and software companies for trading, analysis, portfolio management, and valuation. Interactive Data Corporation is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. Through its branded businesses, FT Interactive Data, ComStock, CMS BondEdge, and eSignal, Interactive Data Corporation has approximately 1,800 employees in offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO), an international media company, whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group, owns approximately 60 percent of the outstanding common stock of Interactive Data Corporation.