S&P Global
S&P Global is a leading provider of financial market intelligence, offering a range of services including credit ratings, market intelligence, and commodity insights. The company's primary business is to deliver transparent, independent ratings and data analytics to capital and commodity market participants, enabling them to make informed decisions. Its largest segment by revenue is market intelligence, serving primarily the financial-services industry with desktop, data, and advisory solutions, as well as enterprise and credit/risk solutions. Additionally, S&P Global operates in the commodity insights and mobility sectors through its Platts and Carfax divisions, respectively. The company's ratings business is the world's largest credit rating agency and its most profitable segment.
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Past deals in Commodities
VAKT Holdings Limited
Venture Round in 2022
VAKT Global Limited, founded in 2018 and based in London, operates a blockchain-based digital platform designed to transform post-trade processing in the commodities trading industry. The platform serves as a secure and real-time ecosystem that enhances visibility of logistic data and eliminates traditional reconciliation and paper-based processes. By providing a single source of truth for the entire trade lifecycle, VAKT aims to improve operational efficiencies and decision-making for its clients. The initiative is supported by nine leading energy companies and banks that are committed to leveraging blockchain technology to address longstanding industry challenges. Through its innovative approach, VAKT creates new trade finance opportunities while streamlining communication and scheduling within the trading process.
IHS Markit
Acquisition in 2020
IHS Markit is a provider of critical information and analytics for industries, financial markets, and governments. It operated four segments—Financial Services, Transportation, Resources, and Consolidated Markets & Solutions—delivering pricing and reference data, indices, valuation and trading services, trade processing, and software tools; Transportation supplied analysis, forecasts, and data for vehicles and related technologies, as well as predictive analytics and marketing automation. Resources covered energy, chemicals, and broader upstream and downstream information, market forecasting, and pricing, while Consolidated Markets & Solutions offered research tools and economic and risk data for technology, media, and telecom. In 2022, it merged with S&P Global and became part of that company, enabling integrated data and analytics for customers in finance, energy, transportation, and government.
Xpansiv
Series A in 2019
Xpansiv develops a global commodity exchange platform facilitating transactions of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)-inclusive commodities. It converts data from each commodity's lifecycle into intelligent commodities and digital assets, enabling market participants to trade, settle, retire, analyze, and report environmental commodities.
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