DATA BROADCASTING CHANGES CORPORATE NAME TO INTERACTIVE DATA CORPORATION (NASDAQ NM: IDCO)

June 15, 2001 Bedford, MA - Data Broadcasting Corporation (Nasdaq NM: DBCC), a leading source of securities pricing, financial information and analytic tools to global institutional, professional and individual investors, today announced that the company has changed its corporate name to Interactive Data Corporation. Effective Wednesday, June 20, Interactive Data Corporation will trade on the Nasdaq National Market under the ticker symbol IDCO.

The re-branding to Interactive Data Corporation follows last year's merger between the former Data Broadcasting Corporation and FT Interactive Data.

Stuart Clark, president and chief executive officer, commented, "Our new name more accurately reflects our company's current customer base, operating divisions and technological innovations. Most important, it takes advantage of our brand equity in the institutional investor marketplace, where Interactive Data is recognized as one of the industry's premier sources of essential financial information and analytic tools."

Interactive Data's three operating divisions will retain their existing names: FT Interactive Data, a leading provider of financial market data to the institutional marketplace; CMS BondEdge, a leader in fixed income analytical software; and eSignal, a provider of streaming, real-time financial market data, news, analytics and decision support tools aimed at professional and active traders. For more information on Interactive Data Corporation, please visit the company's new website at www.Interactivedatacorp.com.

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, dividend, corporate action, and descriptive information for more than 3.5 million securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value, unlisted fixed income 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, CMS BondEdge, and eSignal, Interactive Data Corporation has approximately 1,600 employees in 22 offices in 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, is a majority shareholder of Interactive Data Corporation.

About CMS BondEdge
For over 20 years, CMS BondEdge has been recognized as a leader in fixed income analytical software. Long known for the BondEdge system, CMS BondEdge is trusted as an independent source of research, analytics and valuation tools by over 500 institutions in the U.S. and Canada. CMS BondEdge is a division of Interactive Data Corporation (Nasdaq NM: IDCO), a leading global provider of financial and business information to institutional and individual investors. More information on CMS BondEdge is available at www.cmsbondedge. Corporate information on Interactive Data Corporation is available at www.Interactivedatacorp.com.

About Financial Times Information
Financial Times Information – together with US-based sister company, Interactive Data – are leading providers of financial information to global markets. A major operating division of Interactive Data Corporation, (Nasdaq NM: IDCO), Financial Times Information/Interactive Data supply global securities pricing, dividend, corporate action and descriptive information for over 3.5 million securities, including more than 2.5 million active fixed income issues. The company also provides index and constituent data to the international investment community.

Contact

Investor Relations Contact
Harriet Fried/John Nesbett
Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates
(212) 838-3777
hfried@lhai.com

Media Contact
Chenoa Taitt
Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates
(212) 838-3777
ctaitt@lhai.com

Lisa Herbert
CMS BondEdge
(310) 479-9715 ext. 5319
lisa.hebert@be.ftid.com