Capital IQ Expands Its Midwest Operations to Meet Growing Client Demand; Appoints...

Capital IQ Expands Its Midwest Operations to Meet Growing Client Demand;
Appoints Jeremy Diamond as Regional Head

NEW YORK, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Capital IQ, a division of Standard &
Poor's and the leader in web-based professional financial information
services, announced today that it is expanding its Midwest operations to meet
growing demand and appointed Jeremy Diamond to head its Chicago-based client
service team. The Midwest team services over 250 of Capital IQ's 2,200
investment banking, buy-side, advisory, and corporate clients.
"The Midwest region is vital to our business. Many of our key clients are
based there, and our business is growing at a brisk pace as our clients there
use Capital IQ to advise, acquire, and invest in both global and regional
companies," said William Okun, Executive Vice President of Capital IQ. "We
are aggressively expanding our already highly talented and client-focused
Midwest team, and Jeremy is uniquely qualified to lead our efforts there."
Driving Capital IQ's growth in the Midwest and elsewhere is the rapid
adoption of Capital IQ's information platform and services by sell-side and
buy-side firms around the world. Completely web and Excel-based, Capital IQ
uniquely combines deep fundamental and market data on companies worldwide with
robust tools for financial modeling, screening, charting and sourcing industry
contacts. Capital IQ's clients include all of the world's major investment
banks as well as hundreds of leading hedge funds, institutional money
managers, private capital firms, and corporations.
About Capital IQ and Standard & Poor's
Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, provides high-impact
information and workflow solutions to over 2,200 leading financial
institutions, advisory firms, and corporations. Its solutions are based on the
Capital IQ Platform, a unique combination of global private and public capital
market data and technology that enables end-users to draw deep market
insights, generate better ideas, leverage relationships, and simplify
workflow. Clients can deploy the Capital IQ Platform either as a standalone
solution or seamlessly integrate its components into existing business
applications and portals via systems integration and data feeds. For more
information, please visit Capital IQ's web site at www.capitaliq.com.
Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is
the world's foremost provider of financial market intelligence, including
independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and
data. With approximately 8,500 employees, including wholly owned affiliates,
located in 23 countries, Standard & Poor's is an essential part of the world's
financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for more than 140 years
in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more
confident about their investment and financial decisions. For more
information, visit www.standardandpoors.com.
SOURCE Standard & Poor's

Seung Bak, +1-212-438-8687, sbak@capitaliq.com, or Rosally Sapla,
+1-212-751-3321, rsapla@groupsjr.com, both for Standard & Poor's