On the surface, the combination of S&P Global and IHS Markit appears both inevitable, given the frenzied consolidation of financial market infrastructure in recent years; and straightforward, given that both companies are built on data. Smash the companies together, cut duplicative costs, cross-sell datasets, and combine the datasets into new products. Easy. But the deal’s […]
Category Archives: [SPGI] S&P Global
Banks, regulators, and fixed income investors rely on Moody’s and S&P to provide a consistent and standardized metric of credit risk across names and over time. As I explained in The Self-Reinforcing Standards Moat:…ratings underpin the risk weightings that banks attach to assets to determine capital requirements, dictate which securities a money market fund can […]