definition for: #McGrawHill

McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. provides benchmarks and ratings, analytics, data, and research services for the capital, commodities, and commercial markets worldwide. It operates in four segments: Standard & Poor?s Ratings Services (S&P Ratings), S&P Capital IQ, S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJ Indices), and Commodities & Commercial (C&C). The S&P Ratings segment provides credit ratings, research, and analytics to the investors, corporations, governments, municipalities, commercial and investment banks, insurance companies, asset managers, and other debt issuers. The S&P Capital IQ segment offers digital and traditional financial research and analytical tools integrating cross-asset analytics, desktop services, and investment information. This segment provides S&P Capital IQ Desktop & Enterprise Solutions, which offer data, analytics, and third-party research; S&P Credit Solutions that sell Standard & Poor's Ratings Services' credit ratings and related data, analytics, and research services; and S&P Capital IQ Markets Intelligence, which provides markets intelligence, commentary and data, and equity research. It serves asset managers, investment banks, investors, brokers, financial advisors, and investment sponsors, as well as companies? back-office functions, including compliance, operations, risk, clearance, and settlement. The S&P Dow Jones Indices segment offers index that maintains various valuation and index benchmarks for investment advisors, wealth managers, and institutional investors. The C&C segment provides information, data, analytic services, and pricing benchmarks for producers, traders, intermediaries in energy, metals, and agriculture markets. This segment consists of business-to-business companies that include brands, such as Platts and J.D. Power. The company was formerly known as The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and changed its name to McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. in May 2013. The company was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in New York, New York.