What it does: S&P Global is the world's foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks and analytics in the global capital and commodity markets, offering ESG solutions, deep data, and insights on the critical economic, market, and business factors.
Best known for S&P Global has been providing essential intelligence that unlocks opportunity, fosters growth and accelerates progress for more than 160 years. Our divisions include S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones Indices, and S&P Global Platts.
Staff stats: more than 22,500 employees worldwide
For over 160 years, S&P Global has been turning information into insights, providing essential intelligence that accelerates progress in our ever-changing world. We deliver data, research, credit ratings, benchmarks and ESG solutions that governments, companies and individuals depend on to make decisions with conviction.
With over 70 offices in 35 countries, we gather intelligence in every corner of the globe, to deliver the credit ratings, assessments and analyses that governments, companies and individuals depend on all over the world.
S&P Global now organizes its businesses in four units based on the market in which they are involved.
S&P Global Ratings provides independent investment research including ratings on various investment instruments.
S&P Global Market Intelligence is a provider of multi-asset class and real-time data, research, news and analytics to institutional investors, investment and commercial banks, insurance companies, investment advisors and wealth managers, corporations, and universities. Subsidiaries include Leveraged Commentary & Data and Panjiva.
Launched on July 2, 2012, S&P Dow Jones Indices is the world's largest global resource for index-based concepts, data, and research. It produces the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
S&P Dow Jones Indices calculates over 830,000 indices, publishes benchmarks that provide the basis for 575 ETFs globally with $387 billion in assets invested, and serves as the DNA for $1.5 trillion of the world's indexed assets.
Headquartered in London, S&P Global Platts is a provider of information and a source of benchmark price assessments for the commodities, energy, petrochemicals, metals, and agriculture markets. It has offices in more than 15 cities, including major energy centres such as London, Dubai, Singapore, and Houston, and international business centres such as São Paulo, Shanghai, and New York City.