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S&P Global may buy analytics platform Visible Alpha for $500M


02/21/2024


According to the Financial Times, which cites unnamed sources, the US-based S&P Global Inc. is close to paying more than $500 million to acquire the analytics platform Visible Alpha from a group of investment banks that includes Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Jefferies Financial Group, and UBS Group.



S&P Global may buy analytics platform Visible Alpha for $500M
The sources report that S&P Global may reveal the agreement as soon as Tuesday.

Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Jefferies, Morgan Stanley, and UBS founded Visible Alpha in 2015. After that, it raised over $68 million from other investors, such as Santander, BNP, and Goldman Sachs.

The business creates a single data pool for asset managers by combining financial models and analytics from investment banks. It receives data from roughly 200 financial institutions overall.

2023 saw Visible Alpha with revenues of about $100 million.

source: ft.com