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IHS Markit Ltd. is a prominent provider of critical information, analytics, and solutions for various industries, financial markets, and governments worldwide. The company operates through four main segments: Financial Services, Transportation, Resources, and Consolidated Markets & Solutions (CMS). Its Financial Services segment offers a range of products including pricing and reference data, trading services, and enterprise software for financial market participants. The Transportation segment delivers analysis, production forecasts, and predictive analytics related to vehicles and shipping. The Resources segment focuses on upstream and downstream services in the energy and chemicals sectors, providing market forecasting and analytical tools. CMS provides research tools and performance analysis for technology, media, and telecommunications industries. Founded in 1959 and headquartered in London, IHS Markit employs approximately 16,000 professionals globally, with a significant portion of its revenue derived from recurring sources.

Xpansiv is a developer of a global commodity exchange platform that focuses on facilitating the transaction of environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-inclusive commodities. The company ingests data from the entire lifecycle of various commodities, transforming it into intelligent commodities and digital assets. Its platform offers a user-friendly environment for registering, managing, trading, settling, retiring, analyzing, and reporting a diverse range of data-driven environmental commodities. These include carbon credits and renewable energy certificates. By providing a comprehensive market infrastructure, Xpansiv enables participants to effectively value energy, carbon, and water, contributing to a clear path toward achieving net zero goals.

Business Panjiva hosts a database of information on over 700,000 suppliers, including recent shipments, customer lists, credit reports, certification details, and denied parties lists. It claims to be the first and only online information source designed to provide complete transparency into overseas suppliers. According Jeff Silberman, chair of the department of textile development and marketing at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology "Panjiva is not just innovative, it's revolutionary"[1] By collecting market data from suppliers, Panjiva is also able to produce details of trends within sectors. Information published by Panjiva has been used by news websites such as FT.com[2] and CNNMoney.com[3]. Founding Josh Green was working at an electronics company in Summer of 2005 when he was asked to find a replacement for one of the company's existing suppliers. "Naively, I thought this would be easy" said Panjiva co-founder Green, "but I soon discovered two things. First, that there is no shortage of information about companies on the web. And second, that almost none of it is either objective or useful in identifying trustworthy suppliers. When I talked the problem over with my MIT friend Jim Psota, Panjiva was born." Naming Panjiva started out with the name "GlobalReferenceCheck," but sensing that a new name might simplify branding and marketing, co-founders Green and Psota played on Pangaea, the word for the supercontinent that existed before the component continents were separated into their current configuration, to arrive at Panjiva.