Technology & AI
Technology disruption serves as a catalyst reshaping businesses and markets. We partner with customers to deliver innovative data and analytics platforms, software and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to support their data and technology.
Building platforms and processes to meet our customers’ needs
From developing enterprise technology solutions to deploying generative AI, S&P Global leverages its rich legacy of innovation and discovery. We provide insights and research on AI’s growing impact on economic development as well as solutions that address the fundamentals, applications, and governance and regulation.
What can you use our capabilities for?
Proprietary and Differentiated Data
Ensure optimal results by leveraging S&P Global's proprietary and differentiated data for use in customer or third-party AI models or applications.
AI-derived Market Insights
Spend less time managing data and more time delivering critical insights to accelerate decision-making across your organization.
Domain-specific Generative AI
Build a focused approach to data creation and management with generative AI that is unique to your specific domain to address challenges across regulations, credit & risk, ESG, climate risk, private markets and supply chains.
Optimize Business Processes
Utilize S&P Global’s proven software, platforms, and managed technology services to enhance workflows, increase efficiency and streamline your organizations most complicated processes.
Accelerating Progress for Critical Industries
We’ll partner with you to overcome your data and technology challenges, such as:
- Manual or limited-use traditional natural language processing (NLP) tool-enabled processes which aren’t scalable.
- Having to gather data points from multiple sources of structured and unstructured datasets to produce analytical reports and pitch books.
- Relying on non-tabular unstructured data sources such as expert network calls to identify potential targets and conduct due diligence.
- Difficulty finding high-quality textual data sources that are machine-readable and/or tabular datasets that are accessible for high-performance, well-documented APIs.
KENSHO
Whether you’re looking to use Kensho’s solutions on your own data or to leverage the unparalleled breadth, depth and accuracy of S&P Global’s sources, Kensho unlocks insights in hard-to-get-to data, making it accessible, insightful, relevant and ultimately, transformative.
Enterprise and Industry Specific Technology Solutions
Technology underpins everything we do at S&P Global and is essential to our ability to deliver the data, analysis and insights our clients rely on. Through a combination of leading-edge innovation and a keen eye on changing markets, we help you apply the power of technology to financial and business decision-making with our enterprise technology services.
Energy and Commodity Solutions
Emerging technologies and analytics techniques keep changing. By embracing new innovative tools and analytical approaches from S&P Global Commodity Insights, you can be at the forefront of trend analysis, enabling you to develop fresh insights and a more comprehensive view of the commodity markets.
Visionaries Shaping Technology and AI
S&P Global
Swamy Kocherlakota
Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Swamy Kocherlakota is the Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Solutions Officer for S&P Global and the executive sponsor of Kensho, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology innovator at S&P Global. He is responsible for driving digital transformation and delivering productivity improvements for customers and team members. With a focus on leading-edge technology, digital ecosystems and AI, Mr. Kocherlakota and his team are responsible for building a secure, scalable, and resilient foundation that helps S&P Global power the markets of the future.
Before his current role at S&P Global, Mr. Kocherlakota was Senior Vice President, Global Head of Technology Operations & Infrastructure at Visa, where he oversaw global infrastructure and applications that processed more than 130 billion transactions annually. Prior to Visa, he was head of Global Infrastructure Engineering and Architecture at BNY Mellon and led their infrastructure transformation. Mr. Kocherlakota holds the recognition of being a distinguished engineer at Lucent Bell Labs where he managed technology for Lucent and its ventures.
In addition to his role, Mr. Kocherlakota sponsors S&P Global’s Asian Professionals for Excellence (APEX) group, which is focused on building leadership competencies and increasing opportunities for personal, professional, and community success for its members.
Mr. Kocherlakota is a registered representative of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and holds a PhD in Computer Science from Michigan State University.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Giorgio Baldassarri
S&P Global Market Intelligence
PhD, Global Head, Analytical Development Group
Giorgio leads the Analytical Development Group, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Credit Risk Solutions. His team includes highly-skilled individuals with multiple qualifications in the financial and quantitative space (FRM, CFA, PhD) and develops all credit risk statistical models that power the Credit Analytics product.
Giorgio’s team developed several statistical models to assess credit risk of public and private companies, more recently including a trade-payment model that was used to succesfully monitor payment behaviour of SMEs during the 2020 pandemic.
On the climate-change front, Giorgio’s team developed two statistical models that estimate the financial and credit risk impact of energy transition scenarios on public and private firms:
- Climate Credit Analytics, developed with Oliver Wyman, offers a sector-specific, bottom-up approach for companies operating in carbon-intensive sectors.
- Climate Risk Gauge, developed internally, offers a consistent and scalable view across all industry sectors.
Giorgio regularly speaks at international credit risk conferences, webinars and events (RiskMinds, RISK EMEA, IECA). More recently, he authored a paper in the Journal of Energy Markets on the credit risk implications of various carbon tax scenarios (Journal of Energy Markets, Vol 13, number 2, pages: 1-24, June 2020) and spoke at several conferences (IRMC 2020, EDHEC 2020), panel discussions (“Navigating climate risk as a financial risk”) and webinars (“Tackling climate change for banks: the culture, the data and the analytics”) on banks’ challenges to implement climate-related stress testing scenarios, climate-related scenario analysis and credit risk assessment in TCFD reporting, and impact of various carbon tax policies on public companies credit-worthiness.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Nick Patience
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Research Director
Nick Patience is lead analyst for AI and machine learning for 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He is part of the company's Data, AI & Analytics research channel but also works across the entire research team to uncover and understand use cases for machine learning, an area he has been researching since 2001. Nick also oversees 451's Workforce Productivity & Collaboration research and is a member of 451 Research's Center of Excellence for Quantum Technologies.
Nick Patience is lead analyst for AI and machine learning for 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He is part of the company's Data, AI & Analytics research channel but also works across the entire research team to uncover and understand use cases for machine learning, an area he has been researching since 2001. Nick also oversees 451's Workforce Productivity & Collaboration research and is a member of 451 Research's Center of Excellence for Quantum Technologies.
Nick is a frequent speaker on the industry use cases for AI and the infrastructure that underpins its development and deployment.
Nick has a long background in research into how applications can take advantage of data – in particular unstructured data – using AI and machine learning. He is a cofounder of 451 Research and rejoined the team in 2015 after almost three years running product marketing at machine learning-driven eDiscovery software company Recommind (now part of OpenText). He has held various senior management roles at 451 Research in both in New York and London since 1999.
Prior to starting 451 Research, Nick was a financial and technology journalist with ComputerWire (now part of Datamonitor) in London and New York. Nick has a master's degree in computing science from the University of London, and a BA in Philosophy and Music from Middlesex University.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Eric Hanselman
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Chief Analyst
Eric Hanselman is the chief analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He coordinates industry analysis across the broad portfolio of technology, media and telecommunications research disciplines, with an extensive, hands-on understanding of a range of subject areas, including information security, networks and semiconductors and their intersection in areas such as SDN/NFV, 5G and edge computing.
Eric helps S&P Global’s clients navigate these turbulent waters and capitalize on potential outcomes. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and a VMware Certified Professional. He is also a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences and hosts the Next in Tech technology podcast.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Iyan Adewuya
Senior Vice President, Head of Product for Enterprise Solutions, and Head of Private Markets
Iyan Adewuya serves in dual roles as Head of Product for the Enterprise Solutions business within S&P Global Market Intelligence, and Head of Private Markets Solutions across the Market Intelligence division.
As Head of Product for the Enterprise Solutions business, he is responsible for product strategy, design and execution for a portfolio of mission-critical enterprise solutions that power the workflows of buy-side, sell-side, and corporate clients. This portfolio includes products across Lending, Regulatory & Compliance, Capital Markets, Private Markets and Enterprise Data Management solutions.
As Head of Private Markets for Market Intelligence, he leads commercial and product strategy for a suite of software, data, and managed services offerings that provides fundraising and investor relations, deal sourcing, portfolio management, data management, and valuation and reporting capabilities to private markets clients.
Iyan joined S&P Global Market Intelligence from BlackRock, where he served as head of product for the portfolio management and compliance capabilities within the Aladdin® platform and previously led the Aladdin private markets strategic initiative which resulted in the acquisition of eFront and its integration into Aladdin® which led to the industry's first Whole Portfolio solution.
Prior to BlackRock, Iyan spent over a decade at Bloomberg, where he oversaw a wide range of products and businesses including Corporate Solutions, Equity Capital Markets, and Research Management Solutions. He was also the founding product leader for the Private Markets capabilities within the Bloomberg Professional® terminal.
Iyan holds an MBA from Cornell University, a Master's in International Public Policy from University College London, and a Bachelor's in Journalism from Far Eastern University.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Jarrod Martin
S&P Global Market Intelligence
CTO, Software Solutions
Kensho Solutions
Diana Mingels
Head of Machine Learning
Diana Mingels is an Artificial Intelligence expert with over 15 years of experience in spearheading the development of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Conversational AI applications for Fortune 50 companies, as well as pioneering AI-First strategies. She has managed AI implementations for some of the largest user bases in the world.
Currently, she serves as the Head of Machine Learning at Kensho Technologies, S&P Global's AI Innovation Hub, and also sits on the Board of Stop Child Abuse, a nonprofit leading the forefront of AI innovation in the fight against child abuse. Additionally, she is a representative for S&P Global in the Artificial Intelligence Working Group of Business Roundtable.
Diana holds a M.A. in Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology from the University of Wolverhampton and Autonomous University of Barcelona, as well as a M.S. in Mathematical Linguistics from St. Petersburg State University. Additionally, she is currently pursuing further education at The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania.