FT INTERACTIVE DATA AND AIM SOFTWARE ANNOUNCE GLOBAL COLLABORATION

FT Interactive Data maps content to AIM Software’s data integration platform

London, 28 February 2006 - FT Interactive Data Europe, part of Interactive Data (NYSE: IDC), a leading supplier of financial information and analytical software to global markets, and international data management solutions provider, AIM Software, today announced that they have entered into a collaboration to provide information from FT Interactive Data via the GAIN data management platform.

FT Interactive Data is providing global pricing, including evaluations, dividend, corporate action and descriptive information via AIM Software’s proven data management platform GAIN, which offers a wide range of functions for the automatic processing of financial market data. GAIN is a platform for managing the full lifecycle of data capture, cleansing, consolidation, enrichment and storage of reference, price and corporate actions data, enabling institutions to build a ‘golden copy’.

Graham Parry, manager of FT Interactive Data’s European Business Development Group, said: “We have been working with AIM Software for several years now and are delighted to announce the extended mapping of our data via GAIN. This collaboration provides an opportunity to offer a powerful product, facilitating access to FT Interactive Data’s wide range of content through AIM Software’s data management platform. It is an excellent example of how FT Interactive Data works with software vendors for the benefit of customers.”

“The depth of FT Interactive Data’s offering, in combination with the scalable data management platform GAIN, enables firms to comprehensively manage pricing, reference and corporate actions data," states Josef Sommeregger, Head of Business Development at AIM Software. “This new offering combines the expertise and know-how of both firms, and will help financial institutions to cut costs by increasing the reliability and the efficiency of their data processing.”

For further information please contact:
Sue Mitchell, Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd.
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7825 8076
E-mail: sue.mitchell@interactivedata.com

Gerlinde Pachinger, AIM Software
Tel: +43-1-5124652-228
E-mail: pr@aim-sw.com

About Interactive Data
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) 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 more than 3.5 million 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 is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. Through its branded businesses, FT Interactive Data, ComStock, CMS BondEdge and eSignal, Interactive Data has approximately 2,100 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Pearson plc (LSE: PSON; NYSE: PSO), an international media company whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education and the Penguin Group, owns approximately 62 per cent of the outstanding common stock of Interactive Data Corporation.

FT Interactive Data Europe, part of Interactive Data, is a leading provider of financial information and analytical software to global markets. FT Interactive Data supplies global securities pricing, evaluations, dividend, corporate action and descriptive information designed to support mutual funds' pricing activities, securities operations, research and portfolio management. FT Interactive Data collects, edits, maintains and delivers data on more than 3.5 million securities, including daily evaluations for approximately 2.5 million fixed income and international equity issues. FT Interactive Data specialises in ‘hard-to-value’ instruments and ‘hard-to-get’ information from emerging markets.

FT Interactive Data Europe is a division of Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. The FT Interactive Data business includes FT Interactive Data Corporation, a Delaware corporation, and the FT Interactive Data divisions of Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. and Interactive Data (Australia) Pty Ltd.
For further information please see: http://www.interactivedata.com

About AIM Software
Founded in 1998, AIM Software is one of the leading providers of reference data and risk management solutions for financial markets with offices in Switzerland, the USA and Hong Kong. AIM Software operates on an international scope and services the major financial centres based on its worldwide service and support partner network. Supported by the company’s expertise in the areas of reference data, risk management and financial instrument pricing, the creation of leading edge software in these areas is the cornerstone of AIM Software’s business.

After becoming the market leader with the GAIN reference data management platform in Europe, AIM Software expanded its activities to the United States, the Middle East and Asia. So far more than 85 of the leading financial institutions have decided to use AIM Software’s products as a centrepiece of their IT strategy. Due to its large success in Switzerland and Luxembourg, being among the world’s leading financial centres, where new trends materialise very early, AIM Software always focused to develop state-of-the-art products.

The scalable GAIN platform combines cleansing and scrubbing of reference data, pricing data and corporate actions with exception handling and risk assessment. Additionally, GAIN offers market, credit and operational risk management modules that can be activated on demand.
For further information please see: http://www.aim-sw.com


Gerlinde Pachinger
PR, AIM Software
T: +43.1.5124652-228
pr@aim-sw.com
http://www.aim-sw.com/pressinformation

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