Interactive Data Corporation

Interactive Data Corporation provides financial market data, analytics, and related services to financial institutions, active traders, and individual investors worldwide. The company's offerings enable customers to support their portfolio management and valuation, research and analysis, trading, sales and marketing, and client service activities. The company operates in two segments, Institutional Services and Active Trader Services. The Institutional Services segment offers interactive data pricing and reference data; interactive data real-time services; and interactive data fixed income analytics. This segment primarily targets financial institutions, such as banks, brokerage firms, mutual fund companies, hedge funds, insurance companies, and money management firms, as well as financial information providers, information media companies, third-party redistributors, and outsourcing organizations. The Active Trader Services segment involves in eSignal business, which provides active traders, individual investors, and investment community professionals with real-time financial market information and access to decision-support tools to assist in their analysis of securities traded on various markets. This segment primarily targets active traders, individual investors, and investment community professionals. Interactive Data Corporation markets and licenses its services either by direct subscriptions or through third-party business alliances. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. Interactive Data Corporation is a subsidiary of Pearson plc.