Growth Drivers

Wealth Management

Around the world, wealth management is taking on a new level of importance due to the sharp downturn in many major global economies and financial markets, as well as trends around pension privatization and an aging baby boomer population that is living longer and edging nearer to retirement. As a result, the competition among leading banks, asset managers and brokerages to attract and retain clients has intensified. As profit margins are squeezed, institutions are reexamining the tools they provide to their advisors, brokers and relationship managers as well as the ones they extend to their end customers. Interactive Data’s range of innovative, cost-effective web-based solutions and workstations can empower institutions to differentiate their offerings, more efficiently support their clients and ultimately increase productivity and profitability.

During the past year, we continued to advance our family of managed solutions offerings that are used to create customized, web-based financial information terminals, portals and applications. For example, in early 2009, we added new features to the Portfolio module used in our PrimePortal offering for creating customized online financial applications. With a host of new Portfolio capabilities, investment advisors, online brokers and financial portals can better develop and monitor investment portfolios, and increase efficiency and quality in key advisory processes. The combination of our customizable PrimeTerminal and eSignal^® offerings are enabling us to address a broader range of opportunities in the wealth management sector — including helping regional brokerage firms in the U.S. and private banks across Europe who may be struggling with the rising costs associated with migrating to higher-priced solutions from their incumbent suppliers. As we move forward, we will continue to advance our suite of web-based solutions with new features and capabilities, including new tools designed to enable our customers to advance their in-house development initiatives.

With nearly 55,000 direct subscription terminals around the world, our award-winning eSignal offerings set the standard for active traders, individual investors and investment community professionals seeking high-quality market data platforms with access to a range of powerful decision-support tools. Over the past year, we have added an array of new features to the eSignal suite of offerings. In addition, we introduced eSignal OnDemand specifically for end-of-day traders, as well as new products aimed at helping futures traders identify trading opportunities in the agriculture market. A pioneer in delivering financial information to mobile investors, eSignal also strengthened its QuoTrek^® service for Blackberry and other java-enabled mobile devices with new features and 2.5 times more capacity in terms of the number of symbols that can be viewed.

Trusted Around the World

By incorporating feedback from our customers to guide and refine key development programs, our value proposition continues to resonate around the world. As we move forward, we are aligning key functional areas across our Company in order to foster innovation, accelerate time to market, elevate quality to new levels and promote highly responsive support. We also continue to extend our reach globally through an ongoing commitment to build our presence in key local markets through our sales, development and support initiatives as well as by advancing strategic acquisitions and other key relationships.

Regardless of the economic climate, Interactive Data has always prided itself on working closely with its institutional customers to better understand their needs, and then investing in the resources required to efficiently and effectively address them. With a vast range of market data services, analytics and related solutions, and proven expertise in understanding the operational workflows of our customers, we are helping our customers worldwide adapt to powerful trends that are impacting their businesses. As a result, we continue to validate the implicit trust that our customers worldwide have placed in our organization.