IHS Markit Ltd.: management transactions · United States · SEC (Form 4)

About IHS Markit Ltd.

IHS Markit Ltd. was a U.S.-listed information, analytics and workflow-solutions company traded on the NYSE under the ticker INFO before its merger into S&P Global. For international investors, it represented a high-quality business-services franchise focused on data, benchmarks, software-enabled workflows and decision-support tools for financial institutions, corporates and public-sector clients. The company was formed through the combination of IHS Inc. and Markit in 2016, and it built scale through an acquisition-led strategy in market data and vertical analytics. Its headquarters were in London, while its commercial footprint was global, with meaningful exposure to the United States and other major financial centers. ([investor.spglobal.com](https://investor.spglobal.com/news-releases/news-details/2020/SP-Global-and-IHS-Markit-to-Merge-in-All-Stock-Transaction-Valuing-IHS-Markit-at-44-Billion-Powering-the-Markets-of-the-Future-2020-11-30/default.aspx?utm_source=openai)) Operationally, IHS Markit served multiple end markets. Its major business lines included financial market data and services, credit and risk solutions, private markets and reference data, indices and benchmarks, supply-chain intelligence, and analytics for energy, transportation, engineering and industrial customers. The company’s customer base was broad and recurring, spanning banks, asset managers, corporates and government organizations. S&P Global stated that IHS Markit had more than 50,000 business and government customers, including a very large share of the Fortune Global 500 and leading financial institutions, underscoring the franchise’s reach and embeddedness in customer workflows. ([investor.spglobal.com](https://investor.spglobal.com/news-releases/news-details/2020/SP-Global-and-IHS-Markit-Announce-Divisional-Structure-of-Combined-Company/default.aspx?utm_source=openai)) From a competitive standpoint, IHS Markit was positioned as a premium provider of proprietary content and mission-critical analytics, where product depth, data quality and workflow integration created substantial switching costs. Its competitive advantage came from combining sector expertise, global distribution and recurring subscription revenues, making it a strategic vendor across capital markets, commodities, energy and industrial intelligence. ([spglobal.com](https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/info/merger-faqs?utm_source=openai)) Recent corporate developments are dominated by the merger with S&P Global, announced in November 2020 and completed on February 28, 2022. The transaction created a much larger global information-services group and led to the divestiture of selected IHS Markit businesses, including OPIS, Coal, Metals and Mining, and PetroChem Wire. Since the close, the IHS Markit brand has been progressively absorbed into S&P Global’s operating structure, and several IHS Markit legal entities were renamed in 2024. For equity investors, the key takeaway is that INFO is no longer a standalone listed company; its former assets now sit within S&P Global’s consolidated platform. ([investor.spglobal.com](https://investor.spglobal.com/news-releases/news-details/2022/SP-Global-Completes-Merger-with-IHS-Markit-Creating-a-Global-Leader-to-Power-the-Markets-of-the-Future/?utm_source=openai))