with international data corporation . interactive data corporation type private industry financial services founded 1968 headquarters bedford massachusetts usa key people mason slaine chairman stephen daffron president and ceo jay nadler coo revenue 867.7 million 2011 1 owner intercontinental exchange number of employees approximately 2 500 worldwide website www.interactivedata.com interactive data corporation is an american company that provides financial market data financial data vendor 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 securities trading including hard to value instruments . the company announced on 29 july 2010 the completion of its acquisition by two private equity funds warburg pincus and silver lake partners for 33.86 per share or 3.4 billion in an all cash transaction . 2 previously the uk s pearson plc owned 61 % of the company . 3 on december 15th 2015 warburg pincus and silver lake partners sold interactive data corporation to intercontinental exchange for 5.2 billion . contents 1 history 2 products 3 mergers and acquisitions 3.1 intercontinental exchange inc. ice 4 references history edit founded in 1968 interactive data is a supplier of financial market data and related offerings . acquisitions have contributed to interactive data s growth enabling the company to deliver an increasing range of services while expanding into adjacent markets and extending its reach geographically . products edit interactive data provides evaluation services reference data pricing services derivatives services fair value information services low latency market data trading infrastructure services fixed income analytics web based solutions desktop solutions the esignal suite of products and environmental social and corporate governance esg data including quantitative esg risk indicators for individual companies and sectors current figures as well as historical data for the past two years provided by reprisk a global business intelligence provider specialized in esg risk analytics and metrics . interactive data supports clients around the world with mission critical functions including portfolio valuation regulatory compliance risk management electronic trading and wealth management . 4 mergers and acquisitions edit intercontinental exchange inc. ice edit in october 2015 intercontinental exchange announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire interactive data corporation idc from private equity firms silver lake group llc and warburg pincus llc . the acquisition is valued at approximately 5.2 billion including 3.65 billion in cash and 1.55 billion in ice common stock and builds on ice s global market data growth strategy by expanding the markets served adding technology platforms and increasing new data and valuation services . completion of the transaction was subject to regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions . the transaction closed on december 14 2015 . references edit interactive data redirect desktop solutions . interactivedata.com . news releases . interactivedata.com . pearson confirms could sell 1.5 bln stake in idc reuters 15 january 2010 interactive data corporation 7ticks company overview by bizofit . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title interactive data corporation & oldid 740120422 categories privately held companies based in massachusettsfinancial data vendorsfinancial services companies of the united stateswarburg pincus companiessilver lake partners companiesamerican companies established in 1968hidden categories use dmy dates from march 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 19 september 2016 at 05 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view