Commission approves acquisition of IHS Markit by S&P Global, subject to conditions* The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition of IHS Markit by S&P Global. The approval is conditional on the divestment of businesses in the areas of commodity price assessments and financial data. Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy, said: “S&P Global and IHS Markit are leaders in the commodity and financial data markets. Without remedies, the merger would have limited customers access to some competitive and reliable data which is essential to ensure fairness of physical trades and financial markets. With this conditional approval the problematic overlaps in commodity price assessments, and also in
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The EU Commission approves a merger, subject to conditions, between two leaders in the commodity and financial data markets (S&P Global / IHS Markit)
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