S&P Global Inc. (SPGI) Barclays 22nd Annual Global Financial Services Conference (Transcript)

S&P Global Inc. (NYSE:SPGI) Barclays 22nd Annual Global Financial Services Conference September 9, 2024 12:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Martina Cheung - President, S&P Global Ratings

Conference Call Participants

Manav Patnaik - Barclays

Manav Patnaik

All right. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for being here. Sorry, there were some elevator problems as you all know. My name is Manav Patnaik. For those of you who don't know me, I'm Barclays' Information Services Analyst, and I'm pleased to have today Martina Cheung from S&P, who is currently the Head of S&P Global Ratings, but in about two months will be taking over as CEO. So congratulations, Martina.

Martina Cheung

Thank you, Manav, it's great to be here.

Question-and-Answer Session

Q - Manav Patnaik

Maybe just the first point around that topic is just, your broad thoughts on being named as CEO of S&P, you've been there 14 years and you come to this point, so just curious on your first thoughts there.

Martina Cheung

Yeah. Thanks. Well, I'm incredibly excited. The company, as you know, is an incredible collection of some of the most widely recognized and admired brands with highly-differentiated products and a really strong financial profile. Specifically, on my own trajectory with the company, I've run two of the largest businesses, Market Intelligence and Ratings, and I have a very good understanding of the growth drivers for the business, the operations, our customers, segments, and a lot of our external stakeholders. I also had pretty strong leadership roles in the SNL merger, as well as -- SNL acquisition as well as the IHS merger, so really confident about our ability to continue to generate long-term profitable growth and balancing that with strong shareholder returns and I'm very excited to start on 1st November.

Manav Patnaik

Got it. And, Martina, we've interacted when