S&P Global Inc. reports company news across data, benchmarks and analytics for capital, commodity and automotive markets. Coverage includes its credit ratings and market intelligence businesses, S&P Global Energy and Platts price assessments, and S&P Global Mobility products such as CARFAX vehicle history reports, listings, car care tools and recall data.
Recurring updates also include investor conference appearances, product and data launches, board and governance changes, and corporate-status developments involving the Mobility division.
S&P Global (SPGI) projects Canadian oil sands production will reach a record 3.5 million barrels per day in 2026.
Its Energy outlook expects output to rise 100,000 barrels per day, or 3%, from 2025 and reach 3.9 million barrels per day by the early 2030s before roughly plateauing. The analysis estimates that nearly half a million barrels per day of additional capacity could emerge beyond the current outlook if new projects advance.
Cboe Global Markets (CBOE) extended its exclusive licensing agreement with S&P Dow Jones Indices by 25 years, through 2051.
The agreement preserves Cboe's exclusive rights to offer trading in S&P 500 Index (SPX) options. The companies may also collaborate on products beyond traditional index derivatives, including tokenized options contracts.
SPX options reached record annual volume of 970.6 million contracts in 2025. Average daily volume was 3.9 million contracts, up 25% from the prior year, marking a fourth consecutive year of record trading activity.
S&P Global (SPGI) has added RatingsXpress credit data to its AI Data Portal for AI-enabled credit workflows. The dataset includes nearly 1 million issuer and security-level ratings, along with outlooks, CreditWatch status and ratings actions. Structured, API-driven Deterministic Retrieval is available now. S&P Global expects Adaptive Retrieval to support RatingsXpress in the coming weeks for open-ended queries across multiple datasets.
S&P Global (SPGI) agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, a provider of onchain security standards and smart contract technology, in a deal announced on September 17, 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed and the transaction is subject to closing conditions, with no material impact expected on S&P Global’s financial results.
OpenZeppelin, founded in 2015, offers onchain security assessments, secure development services and the open‑source OpenZeppelin Contracts library, which underpins over $37 trillion in value transferred and has supported more than 900 security engagements surfacing over 10,000 vulnerabilities. The acquisition is intended to extend S&P Global’s risk assessment capabilities into the onchain technology‑risk layer and support development of next‑generation onchain security assessments and benchmarks as capital markets move onchain. OpenZeppelin will remain a standalone business unit led by CEO Demian Brener, who will report to Yann Le Pallec, President of S&P Global Ratings.
S&P Global (SPGI) released its Multidimensional Global Energy Pathways study finding that rapid energy demand growth in emerging markets and developing economies will constrain more-ambitious climate goals.
The analysis projects EMDE primary energy demand could rise by over 60% by 2060, adding about 155 EJ, while demand in advanced economies and China stays broadly flat. The study concludes that limiting warming to 1.5°C and achieving global net-zero before 2100 are not reachable under plausible trajectories, although a 2°C outcome remains possible only under its most aggressive Emissions Reduction Pathway.
That pathway requires global solar and wind capacity to increase eight-fold by 2060 (eighteen-fold in EMDEs), providing 73% of electricity, plus a 25-fold rise in grid batteries, $50 trillion in power-sector investment, and more than $11 trillion in upstream oil and gas investment even as oil demand falls over 40%.
S&P Global (SPGI) has led a strategic investment in Kaiko as part of the company’s Series B-2 extension, expanding their existing alliance in digital asset data and on-chain markets.
The investment, made via S&P Global Ventures, is positioned as deepening S&P Global’s focus on bridging traditional and decentralized finance. Kaiko, which now serves more than 250 financial firms, institutions and regulators, has recently expanded through the acquisitions of Amberdata and Cometh. The partnership already includes tokenization of the iBoxx U.S. Treasuries Index in March 2026 and the launch of the co-branded S&P Kaiko Digital Asset Indices in early September 2026. S&P Global also highlights prior digital-asset “firsts,” such as Stablecoin Stability Assessments and the first credit rating of DeFi protocol Sky Protocol.
S&P Global (SPGI)/b) will participate in Barclays 24th Annual Global Financial Services Conference on September 14, 2026, in New York.Chief Financial Officer Eric Aboaf is scheduled for an 11:15–11:55 a.m. EDT “fireside chat,” which will be webcast live and as an audio-only replay via the company’s Investor Relations website. The replay will be available about four hours after the event and remain accessible for 90 days, until December 12, 2026. Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Treasurer Mark Grant will join for investor meetings, and any additional materials will be posted on the Investor Presentations page.
S&P Global Energy (SPGI) announced the finalists for the 28th annual Platts Global Energy Awards, featuring companies and leaders from 37 countries.
The 2026 program highlights the global nature of the energy sector, with more than half of finalists based outside the United States and increased nominations from Latin America, alongside broad representation from Europe, Africa, and Asia Pacific. Finalists span 19 award categories, including Chief Executive of the Year, Commercial and Emerging Technologies of the Year, and Infrastructure Project of the Year. Winners will be selected by an independent panel of international energy experts and revealed at a black-tie gala event in Manhattan, New York, on December 3, 2026.
S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) has completed its acquisition of datacenterHawk, a provider of proprietary intelligence on global data center, fiber optic, and related infrastructure markets. datacenterHawk is now part of S&P Global Energy, integrating its asset-level data on data center supply, demand, pricing, pipelines, and site selection, including the FiberLocator platform.
According to S&P Global, this data will be combined with S&P Global Energy’s coverage of global power markets, grid infrastructure, supply and demand forecasting, and 451 Research’s datacenter and technology intelligence to deliver real-time insights for investment, site selection, and strategic planning across the evolving AI infrastructure ecosystem. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the deal is not expected to have a material impact on S&P Global’s financial results.
S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) has completed the divestiture of its geoscience and petroleum engineering software portfolio to Schlumberger (SLB), forming a strategic alliance between the firms. S&P Global Energy will continue distributing its proprietary upstream data through the divested workflow tools, alongside launching Titan, an AI-powered upstream data platform. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the divestiture is not expected to materially affect S&P Global or its Energy division’s financial results.