Eccleston: Melding Assets Will Grow McGraw-Hill Financial

Lou Eccleston, president of the newly-formed Standard & Poor’s spin-off McGraw-Hill Financial, believes he can double the size of the new business in five to seven years by combining content and tools from across the group to create unique services that add value for clients.
Currently, Eccleston values the business at $1.2 billion, with an addressable market of $16 billion, based on the services it offers. Though this is less than the addressable market of the largest data vendors—valued at
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