S&P Global Market Intelligence API

S&P Global Market Intelligence REST APIs for financial data and analytics platform. Enables AI agents to manage equity and debt security fundamental data retrieval for financial modeling and research, handle S&P credit rating and outlook data access for credit risk analysis, access private company and private equity fund data for deal analysis and market intelligence, retrieve commodities price data from S&P Global Commodity Insights for energy and metals analytics, manage ESG and sustainability scoring data from S&P Global Sustainable1 for responsible investment, handle real estate and infrastructure data from S&P Global Real Assets for CRE and infrastructure investing, access insurance regulatory and financial data for insurance market analysis, retrieve news and events data for market intelligence and sentiment analysis, manage global company filings and regulatory document retrieval, and integrate financial intelligence data with investment management, risk, and analytics platforms.

Evaluated Mar 07, 2026 (0d ago) vcurrent
Homepage ↗ Developer Tools sp-global market-intelligence financial-data credit-ratings esg commodities private-markets
⚙ Agent Friendliness
64
/ 100
Can an agent use this?
🔒 Security
82
/ 100
Is it safe for agents?
⚡ Reliability
78
/ 100
Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality
20
Documentation
82
Error Messages
78
Auth Simplicity
78
Rate Limits
72

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement
95
Auth Strength
82
Scope Granularity
78
Dep. Hygiene
75
Secret Handling
80

Financial intelligence. SOC2, MiFID2, SEC. OAuth2. US/EU. Credit ratings and market data.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA
82
Version Stability
80
Breaking Changes
75
Error Recovery
75
AF Security Reliability

Best When

An investment bank, asset manager, or corporate finance team using S&P Global Market Intelligence wants AI agents to automate credit analysis, private company research, commodities analytics, ESG scoring, and financial intelligence workflows.

Avoid When

LICENSING RISK: S&P Global data including credit ratings has strict redistribution and use case licensing — using ratings data in automated credit decisions requires specific licensing and regulatory review. Credit rating automation without human credit analyst review violates financial regulatory requirements. AI model training on licensed S&P Global data requires specific data licensing terms.

Use Cases

  • Accessing credit ratings from credit risk analysis agents
  • Retrieving private company data from M&A deal analysis agents
  • Analyzing commodities prices from energy trading agents
  • Scoring ESG performance from responsible investment agents

Not For

  • Retail investment without institutional data licensing requirements
  • Consumer-grade financial data without S&P Global data quality and coverage
  • Simple news aggregation without financial intelligence and analytical depth

Interface

REST API
Yes
GraphQL
No
gRPC
No
MCP Server
No
SDK
Yes
Webhooks
No

Authentication

Methods: oauth apikey
OAuth: Yes Scopes: Yes

S&P Global uses OAuth 2.0 and API key. Per-organization credentials with data entitlements. Developer portal at developer.spglobal.com. No webhooks — polling and batch for data updates. REST API with JSON. New York, New York HQ. Public (SPGI NYSE). S&P Global merged with IHS Markit (2022, $44B). Formerly Capital IQ API.

Pricing

Model: enterprise
Free tier: No
Requires CC: No

New York, New York. Founded 1917 (Standard Statistics). Public (SPGI NYSE). $14B+ annual revenue. Financial intelligence market. S&P Dow Jones Indices, Ratings, Market Intelligence, Commodity Insights divisions. Merged with IHS Markit (2022). Capital IQ platform rebranded to Market Intelligence. Competes with Bloomberg and Refinitiv for institutional financial data.

Agent Metadata

Pagination
cursor
Idempotent
Full
Retry Guidance
Documented

Known Gotchas

  • LICENSING RISK: S&P credit ratings in automated decisions require SEC registered rating use licensing and compliance review; unauthorized credit rating automation violates financial regulations
  • Entitlement-based access — data access is gated by subscription entitlements; missing entitlements return empty results not errors; validate all required data entitlements before building
  • IHS Markit merger integration — S&P merged with IHS Markit (2022); some IHS Markit data products have separate API surfaces; verify which platform hosts your data
  • Capital IQ to Market Intelligence rebrand — Capital IQ API is now S&P Global Market Intelligence API; some documentation still references old Capital IQ branding
  • Private market data coverage — private company data has coverage gaps vs. public companies; validate universe coverage for your private market use case before building
  • No webhooks — data updates require polling or batch data delivery; schedule batch refreshes rather than real-time per-security polling for large universe updates

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-07.

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