Clients will benefit from Q4’s world-class IR services,
technology and solutions
S&P Global Market Intelligence (S&P), a division of
S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) and provider of data, essential
insights, and powerful analytics, and Q4 Inc. (Q4), a leading
global provider of cloud-based investor relations solutions,
announced today a strategic alliance to transition S&P Global
Market Intelligence’s Investor Relations (IR) webhosting business
to Q4.
The strategic alliance allows both parties to concentrate on
their core competencies, ensuring existing and future clients have
access to industry-leading IR tools, data and services.
"Since the founding of Q4, we’ve been committed to innovation
and delivering the highest level of customer experience through our
products, data and partnerships. This new strategic alliance helps
to strengthen this commitment and allows us to more deeply serve
our clients across a broader set of industries, including financial
services, banking and REITs,” said Darrell Heaps, CEO of Q4.
“Over the last few months, we have worked hard to understand the
needs of S&P’s IR webhosting clients and we look forward to
welcoming them to Q4 and our innovative IR success model.”
“We are excited to work with Q4, which has demonstrated a proven
track record of providing industry-leading investor relations
solutions, technology and analytics to public companies across
multiple sectors,” said Greg Gartland, Chief Product Officer,
S&P Global Market Intelligence. “This strategic alliance
with Q4 will not only better serve our clients webhosting
requirements, but also will allow S&P to enhance and add to the
strategic workflow solutions we offer to investor relations
officers and their staffs.”
This alliance will also integrate S&P’s proprietary data
into Q4’s portfolio of solutions, enabling further opportunities
for commercial collaboration. In connection with transitioning its
IR webhosting business to Q4, S&P has also made a minority
investment in Q4. Additional terms of the agreement were not
disclosed.
Forward-Looking Statements: This press release contains
"forward-looking statements," as defined in the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements, which express
management's current views concerning future events, trends,
contingencies or results, appear at various places in this report
and use words like "anticipate," "assume," "believe," "continue,"
"estimate," "expect," "forecast," "future," "intend," "plan,"
"potential," "predict," "project," "strategy," "target" and similar
terms, and future or conditional tense verbs like "could," "may,"
"might," "should," "will" and "would." For example, management may
use forward-looking statements when addressing topics such as: the
outcome of contingencies; future actions by regulators; changes in
the Company's business strategies and methods of generating
revenue; the development and performance of the Company's services
and products; the expected impact of acquisitions and dispositions;
the Company's effective tax rates; and the Company's cost
structure, dividend policy, cash flows or liquidity.
Forward-looking statements are subject to inherent risks and
uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those expressed or implied in forward-looking
statements include, among other things:
- worldwide economic, political and
regulatory conditions, including conditions that may result from
legislative, regulatory and policy changes associated with the
current U.S. administration or the United Kingdom's withdrawal from
the European Union;
- the rapidly evolving regulatory
environment, in Europe, the United States and elsewhere, affecting
Ratings, Market Intelligence, Platts and Indices, including new and
amended regulations and the Company's compliance therewith;
- the Company's ability to maintain
adequate physical, technical and administrative safeguards to
protect the security of confidential information and data, and the
potential for unauthorized access to our systems or a system or
network disruption that results in improper disclosure of
confidential information or data, regulatory penalties and remedial
costs;
- our ability to make acquisitions and
dispositions and successfully integrate the businesses we
acquire;
- the outcome of litigation, government
and regulatory proceedings, investigations and inquiries;
- the health of debt and equity markets,
including credit quality and spreads, the level of liquidity and
future debt issuances;
- the demand and market for credit
ratings in and across the sectors and geographies where the Company
operates;
- concerns in the marketplace affecting
the Company's credibility or otherwise affecting market perceptions
of the integrity or utility of independent credit ratings;
- the effect of competitive products and
pricing, including the level of success of new product developments
and global expansion;
- consolidation in the Company's
end-customer markets;
- the impact of customer cost-cutting
pressures, including in the financial services industry and
commodities markets;
- a decline in the demand for credit risk
management tools by financial institutions;
- the level of merger and acquisition
activity in the United States and abroad;
- the volatility of the energy
marketplace and the health of the commodities markets;
- our ability to attract, incentivize and
retain key employees;
- our ability to adjust to changes in
European and United Kingdom markets as the United Kingdom leaves
the European Union, and the impact of the United Kingdom's
departure on our credit rating activities and other European and
United Kingdom offerings;
- the Company's ability to successfully
recover should it experience a disaster or other business
continuity problem from a hurricane, flood, earthquake, terrorist
attack, pandemic, security breach, cyber-attack, power loss,
telecommunications failure or other natural or man-made event;
- changes in applicable tax or accounting
requirements, including the impact of recent tax reform in the
U.S.;
- the level of the Company's future cash
flows and capital investments;
- the impact on the Company's revenue and
net income caused by fluctuations in foreign currency exchange
rates; and
- the Company's exposure to potential
criminal sanctions or civil penalties if it fails to comply with
foreign and U.S. laws and regulations that are applicable in the
domestic and international jurisdictions in which it operates,
including sanctions laws relating to countries such as Iran,
Russia, Sudan and Syria, anti-corruption laws such as the U.S.
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the U.K. Bribery Act of 2010, and
local laws prohibiting corrupt payments to government officials, as
well as import and export restrictions.
The factors noted above are not exhaustive. The Company and its
subsidiaries operate in a dynamic business environment in which new
risks emerge frequently. Accordingly, the Company cautions readers
not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements,
which speak only as of the dates on which they are made. The
Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any
forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances
arising after the date on which it is made, except as required by
applicable law. Further information about the Company's businesses,
including information about factors that could materially affect
its results of operations and financial condition, is contained in
the Company's filings with the SEC, including Item 1a, Risk
Factors, in the Annual Report on Form 10-K.
About Q4 Inc.
Q4 is a leading global provider of cloud-based investor
relations, with the mission of partnering with customers to achieve
their strategic IR objectives. Through best-in-class customer
experience and an innovative suite of IR technology, Q4 is a
trusted partner to over 2,000 of the world’s largest brands. Q4’s
comprehensive portfolio of IR communications and intelligence
solutions, supported by an industry-leading customer experience
model, empower customers to build impactful and strategic IR
programs. Q4 has offices in New York, Toronto, Copenhagen, and
London. To learn more, visit: www.q4inc.com.
About S&P Global
S&P Global is a leading provider of transparent and
independent ratings, benchmarks, analytics and data to the capital
and commodity markets worldwide. The Company's divisions include
S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P
Dow Jones Indices and S&P Global Platts. S&P Global has
approximately 21,000 employees in 33 countries. For more
information visit www.spglobal.com.
About S&P Global Market Intelligence
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we know that not all
information is important—some of it is vital. We integrate
financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help
track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas,
understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuations
and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government
agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the
intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions
with conviction.
S&P Global Market Intelligence, a division of S&P Global
(NYSE: SPGI), provides essential intelligence for individuals,
companies and governments to make decisions with confidence.
For more information, visit www.spglobal.com.
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