Interactive Data's Stephen C. Daffron Joins U.S. Treasury's Office of Financial Research (OFR) Advisory Committee

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Jul 16, 2014) -  Interactive Data Corporation, a trusted provider of financial data, analytics and services to the world's leading financial services firms, announced today that the firm's President and Chief Executive Officer, Stephen C. Daffron, has been appointed as a member of the OFR's Advisory Committee.

The OFR operates under the auspices of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) which was established in 2010 under Dodd-Frank to provide comprehensive monitoring of the nation's financial system. The FSOC, which is chaired by the Secretary of the Treasury, is a collaborative body that includes among its member agencies the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Treasury Department. The FSOC directs, and may request data and analyses from, the OFR to help with the identification of emerging risks to financial stability.

"We are honored to have such an outstanding group of new members join our advisory committee," said OFR Director Richard Berner. "The committee helps us expand the perimeter of our knowledge to achieve our essential mission."

"I am happy to serve on the OFR's Advisory Committee as it represents the continued good work of the financial community to harness public and private expertise to manage risk and maximize transparency in the system," said Stephen Daffron, President and Chief Executive Officer of Interactive Data. 

The new members and their affiliations are:

John Campbell, Harvard University
Lou Crandall, Wrightson ICAP LLC
Stephen Daffron, Interactive Data Corporation
Beth Hammack, Goldman Sachs
Darryll Hendricks, UBS
Simon Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew Metrick, Yale University
David Puth, CLS Group Holdings/CLS Bank International
Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University
Lynn Stout, Cornell University Law School
Kay Vicino, Northern Trust

About Interactive Data Corporation

Interactive Data Corporation is a trusted leader in financial information. Thousands of financial institutions and active traders, as well as hundreds of software and service providers, subscribe to our fixed income evaluations, reference data, real-time market data, trading infrastructure services, fixed income analytics, desktop solutions and web-based solutions. Interactive Data's offerings support clients around the world with mission-critical functions, including portfolio valuation, regulatory compliance, risk management, electronic trading and wealth management. Interactive Data has over 2,500 employees in offices worldwide.

Pricing, evaluations and reference data are provided in the US through Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data LLC and internationally through Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. and Interactive Data (Australia) Pty Ltd.

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