GLOBAL- Talks between Standard & Poor's (S&P) and Schroder Salomon Smith Barney (SSSB) over merging the firms' global index businesses are near to completion, according to a source at Citigroup.
Talks started in November 2001. The source said agreements had been flying back and forth for months but the sticking point had been the issues of licences and intellectual property, which are now ...
To continue reading this article...
Join Professional Pensions
Signup and gain exclusive members-only insights
- Unlimited access to real-time news, analysis and opinion from the industry
- Receive our in-depth monthly magazine in either print or digital format
- Access our Sustainable Investment Hub covering news and opinion from thought leaders in the ESG space
- Receive important and breaking news stories selected by the Editors in our daily newsletter
- Hear from industry experts and other forward-thinking leaders
- Receive a monthly members-only newsletter with exclusive opinion pieces from leading industry experts and a feature from the magazine in advance of its release date
