Interactive Data to provide access to Middle Eastern exchange data from XData

Notes and media contacts

About Interactive Data Corporation:
Interactive Data Corporation 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, 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 Real-Time Services business is a leading provider of real-time global market data to financial institutions, redistributors and online financial portals worldwide. Offerings from Interactive Data include PlusFeed, a consolidated, low-latency digital datafeed. Also managed as part of this group is Interactive Data's Managed Solutions business, a leading provider and operator of customised financial market information systems.

Interactive DataSM and the Interactive Data logo are service marks of Interactive Data Corporation. PlusFeed is a service mark of Interactive Data Real-Time Services. Other products, services, or company names mentioned herein are the property of, and may be the service mark or trademark of, their respective owners.

About XData:
XData is a market data solutions provider that provides a wide range of financial information services for the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. XData is a Canadian - Arabian company that is strategically located at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), targeting the financial services industry by offering its services to data vendors, financial institutions, software vendors and media outlets. XData's offerings range from market data solutions that include low-latency market datafeeds, to professional services and proximity hosting.

Contact:
Derya Deniz
Assistant Marketing Manager
XData
Amanah XData LLC
Level 6, Gate Precinct Building 3
DIFC | Dubai International Financial Centre
PO Box 506699, Dubai United Arab Emirates
Tel +971 4 3800 800
Fax +971 4 3800 801