M&A Deal Summary

S&P Global Market Intelligence Acquires TheMarkets.com

On September 21, 2010, S&P Global Market Intelligence acquired business services company TheMarkets.com for 300M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is S&P Global Market Intelligence’s 2nd transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is S&P Global Market Intelligence’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is S&P Global Market Intelligence’s 2nd transaction in the United States.
  • This is S&P Global Market Intelligence’s 1st transaction in New York.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2010-09-21
Target TheMarkets.com
Sector Business Services
Buyer(s) S&P Global Market Intelligence
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 300M USD
Advisor(s) Financial Technology Partners (Financial)

Target

TheMarkets.com

New York, New York, United States
TheMarkets.com is the proven standard for investment research and workflow technologies to institutional investment firms worldwide. TheMarkets.com enables investors to streamline access to diverse providers of investment research through efficient workflow technologies that enhance portfolio and firm performance.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

S&P Global Market Intelligence

New York, New York, United States
Category Company
Founded 1998
Sector Information Services
Employees7,000
Revenue 1.0B USD (2011)
DESCRIPTION
S&P Capital IQ's Indian headquarters in HITEC City Hyderabad.
S&P Capital IQ's Indian headquarters in HITEC City Hyderabad.

S&P Capital IQ is a provider of multi-asset class data, research and analytics to institutional investors, investment advisors and wealth managers around the world.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 6
Sector (Business Services) 2 of 2
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 3 of 4
State (New York) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 2 of 3
Year (2010) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-05-15 ClariFI

Boca Raton, Florida, United States

ClariFI provides software and services focused exclusively on helping quantitative portfolio managers and researchers decrease the time it takes to research, test, and put into production their alpha generating strategies, leading to reduced operational risk, decreased time-to-market, and a significant competitive advantage. Headquartered in Boca Raton, FL, ClariFI counts four of the top five largest investment managers in the world, hedge funds of all sizes, and proprietary trading desks at leading brokerage firms and banks as its clients.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-02-09 R2 Financial Technologies

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

R2 Financial Technologies, Inc., provides cross-asset advanced risk and scenario-based analytics for pricing, hedging and capital management. R2's software provides risk intelligence through multi-asset class portfolio-level analytics, complex credit and structured product risk analytics and sophisticated scenario analytics.

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