M&A Deal Summary

S&P Global and CME Group Acquire OSTTRA

On January 1, 2021, S&P Global and CME Group acquired financial services company OSTTRA

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is S&P Global’s 2nd and CME Group’s 4th transaction in the Financial Services sector.
  • This is S&P Global’s 2nd and CME Group’s 4th transaction in the United Kingdom.
Investment Fate
  • OSTTRA was divested to a consortium of buyers in 2025 for 3.1B USD.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2021-01-01
Target OSTTRA
Sector Financial Services
Buyer(s) S&P Global
CME Group
Deal Type Joint Venture

Target

OSTTRA

London, United Kingdom
OSTTRA is a critical infrastructure provider in the post-trade space, processing over 80 million trades monthly. OSTTRA was formed in 2021 and is based in London.

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Buyer(S) 2

Buyer

S&P Global

New York, New York, United States

Category Company
Founded 1860
Sector Information Services
Employees40,450
Revenue 14.2B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

S&P Global is a financial intelligence company providing the global capital and commodity markets with independent benchmarks, credit ratings, portfolio and enterprise risk solutions, and analytics. The company's brands include Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Dow Jones Indices, Platts, CRISIL, J.D. Power and McGraw Hill Construction. S&P Global was founded in 1860 and is based in New York City.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 13 of 22
Sector: Financial Services M&A 2 of 2
Type: Joint Venture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: United Kingdom M&A 2 of 5
Year: 2021 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-11-30 IHS Markit

London, United Kingdom

IHS Markit Ltd. is a financial information services company. IHS Markit provides independent data, valuations and trade processing across all asset classes in order to enhance transparency, reduce risk and improve operational efficiency. IHS Markit was founded in 1959 and is based in London, England.

Buy $44.0B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-12-27 CUSIP Global Services

New York, New York, United States

CUSIP Global Services (CGS) is dedicated to driving efficient trading, clearing, and settlement in capital markets throughout the world by providing a unique common language for identifying financial instruments across institutions, exchanges, and nations. CGS'​ commercial databases contain issuer and issue identifiers, standardized descriptions, and related data for over 30 million unique financial instruments. CUSIP Global Services was formed in 1968 and is based in New York, New York.

Sell $1.9B
Buyer

CME Group

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Category Company
Founded 1898
Sector Financial Services
Employees3,760
Revenue 6.1B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

CME Group provides a marketplace for buyers and sellers, bringing together individuals, companies and institutions that need to manage risk or that want to profit by accepting risk. CME Group also offers a growing slate of cleared OTC products and services. CME Group was founded in 1898 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 7 of 7
Sector: Financial Services M&A 4 of 4
Type: Joint Venture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: United Kingdom M&A 4 of 4
Year: 2021 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-03-29 NEX Group

London, United Kingdom

NEX Group plc is a financial technology company that operates across the full transaction lifecycle. Company provide platforms, tools and expertise that enable you to execute efficiently and optimise resources throughout the transaction lifecycle. Encouraging technological advancement to improve the markets, we invest in companies that challenge convention and operate an exchange to help entrepreneurs raise capital on the public market.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2025-04-14 OSTTRA

London, United Kingdom

OSTTRA is a critical infrastructure provider in the post-trade space, processing over 80 million trades monthly. OSTTRA was formed in 2021 and is based in London.

Sell $3.1B