Financial markets generate more data than any other industry on earth — and making sense of it, pricing it, and distributing it in real time is a business that has existed almost as long as the markets themselves. IHS Markit was formed in 2016 through the merger of IHS Inc. and Markit Group, combining data, analytics, and financial information services into one of the most comprehensive market intelligence platforms in the world. Its products touch everything from derivatives pricing and reference data to supply chain analytics and credit risk — the kind of deep financial infrastructure that institutional investors, banks, and regulators depend on daily. In 2022, IHS Markit merged with S&P Global in a $44 billion deal, one of the largest in financial data history, creating a company that sits at the centre of global capital markets information. For European financial institutions navigating complex regulatory reporting requirements and real-time risk management, the data and analytics that IHS Markit built remain foundational. It's not a startup story — it's the story of how financial data became as valuable as the assets it describes.