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Comprehensive, objective information and analysis of dynamic financial markets from the recognised leader in economic and financial analysis, forecasting and market intelligence.

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  • IHS understands the needs and dynamics of the financial industry and we deliver business solutions for all members of the financial community.

    • From transactional valuations, assessments for target investments, advisory services, to buy-side independent macroeconomic, sector, company research, IHS supports the workflows of the investment community.
    • Risk assessment solutions for the Commercial market include country, political, economic, security, sector and trade credit data and analysis.

    Where IHS Can Help

    Through our extensive expert network and rigorous methodology to ensure reliability, IHS offers unique and unparalleled solutions for:

    • Making effective and confident investment decisions.
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    • Enhancing your business development process, from data collection and aggregation, to analysis and assessment, to strategic planning and business capture.
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    • Monitor short and long-term economic analysis and forecasting to develop investment strategies
    • Perform benchmarking and comparative analysis to better understand the competitive and industry landscape
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    • Assess new market and venture opportunities
    • Monitor signposts for future opportunities and risks
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    Insurance and banking communities use IHS information and expertise to:

    • Assess and monitor sector risk globally
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    • Identify market opportunities and perform trend analysis
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  • The investment community relies on market intelligence from IHS. Recognised as the most consistently accurate economic forecasting and research firm in the world, IHS is a strong partner for confident business decision-making.
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    Understand energy market dynamics and key drivers to formulate buy-side investment decisions
    • IHS EnergyView
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      IHS EnergyView

      IHS EnergyView aggregates, filters and focuses a wide range of IHS energy research into an easily accessible, timely and useful format for institutional investors. You receive advanced warning of industry inflection points and emerging trends, as well as an objective perspective that frequently departs from the sell-side research.

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    Identify and evaluate potential mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and investment opportunities
    • IHS CERAView Energy Services
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      IHS CERAView Energy Services

      This service delivers analysis from across CERA’s range of research, allowing for institutional investors to anticipate the energy future and understand the most important changes affecting investment strategy.

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    • IHS Global Insight World Industry Service
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      IHS Global Insight World Industry Service

      Employs sophisticated economic techniques to provide benchmarks and forecasts that quantify the impact of changing demographics, market demands, supply considerations, and key risk factors for 95 industries.

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    • IHS Global Insight Advanced Country Analysis & Forecast
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      IHS Global Insight Advanced Country Analysis & Forecast

      Daily news analysis, detailed country reports, proprietary risk ratings, comprehensive economic forecasts, and historical data to help your business assess its investments and plans for future growth.

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    • IHS Herold Transaction Valuation Research
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      IHS Herold Transaction Valuation Research

      Critical independent insights into the energy industry merger, acquisition and divestiture marketplace, providing proprietary deal pricing valuation benchmarks and energy sector M&A trend analysis on an ongoing basis.

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    • IHS Herold Company Research
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      IHS Herold Company Research

      Provides the critical insight and tools needed for comparative and independent assessments of the financial operational performance, strategy and valuation of the world’s leading energy companies.

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    • IHS Global Scenarios
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      IHS Global Scenarios

      Prepare for the future by examining the key forces that will shape our world in the years ahead. Each scenario provides a qualitative narrative and quantitative analyses addressing possible futures for economic growth and policy, politics, trade, security, technology, the environment, and energy resources on the world stage to 2030.

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    Research macro economic and sector trends and forecasts to formulate investment strategies
    • IHS Global Insight Economic Analytics
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      IHS Global Insight Economic Analytics

      A comprehensive suite of tools designed to help macroeconomists and analysts work more efficiently. Access to the most regularly updated macroeconomic research database available to quickly create presentation quality charts. Continuous analysis and forecasts for over 200 countries.

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    • IHS Global Insight Country Intelligence
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      IHS Global Insight Country Intelligence

      A full range of country intelligence products delivered through MyInsight, our client-access Web site. With coverage on over 200 countries, you receive objective, up-to-the-minute analysis of the key factors driving country, regional, and global markets.

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    • IHS Global Insight Industry Intelligence
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      IHS Global Insight Industry Intelligence

      IHS Global Insight has separate practices for the 12 major industries with dedicated experts providing in-depth coverage for each.

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    • IHS CERAView Energy Services
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      IHS CERAView Energy Services

      This service delivers analysis from across CERA’s range of research, allowing for institutional investors to anticipate the energy future and understand the most important changes affecting investment strategy.

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    Monitor pricing and shipping movements for trading opportunities
    • IHS Fairplay AISLive
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      IHS Fairplay AISLive

      Track live ship positions with satellite and terrestrial AIS coverage.  42,000 vessels are covered daily, and 200 million movements and nearly 5 million port callings are recorded annually. Estimated port/zone arrival times also included.

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      IHS Fairplay LNGLive

      Daily critical insight for energy trading. LNGLive combines the resources of IHS Fairplay and energy trading software specialist Innovez Ltd. to provide state-of-the-art reporting on the global movement of LNG.

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      IHS McCloskey

      IHS McCloskey is the world's premier source of news, analysis and data on the international coal industry.

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    Manage, evaluate and model regional, sector, fiscal and political risks and opportunities
    • IHS Global Insight Country Intelligence
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      IHS Global Insight Country Intelligence

      A full range of country intelligence products delivered through MyInsight, our client-access Web site. With coverage on over 200 countries, you receive objective, up-to-the-minute analysis of the key factors driving country, regional, and global markets.

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      IHS Global Insight US Economic Services

      Innovative solutions for econometric analysis, forecasting, and simulation. We fully integrate our comprehensive historical databases with our detailed forecasting models, offering data and analysis to complement your research.

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    • IHS Herold Transaction Valuation Research
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      IHS Herold Transaction Valuation Research

      Critical independent insights into the energy industry merger, acquisition and divestiture marketplace, providing proprietary deal pricing valuation benchmarks and energy sector M&A trend analysis on an ongoing basis.

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      IHS Herold Company Research

      Provides the critical insight and tools needed for comparative and independent assessments of the financial operational performance, strategy and valuation of the world’s leading energy companies.

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      IHS Global Insight Industry Intelligence

      IHS Global Insight has separate practices for the 12 major industries with dedicated experts providing in-depth coverage for each.

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      IHS Global Scenarios

      Prepare for the future by examining the key forces that will shape our world in the years ahead. Each scenario provides a qualitative narrative and quantitative analyses addressing possible futures for economic growth and policy, politics, trade, security, technology, the environment, and energy resources on the world stage to 2030.

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    Accurate and up-to-date information and analysis on pricing and supply-demand of major chemicals and plastics.
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      IHS Chemical Market Advisory Service

      Daily, weekly and monthly analysis of key industry trends and relationships with upstream and downstream markets.

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    Understand long-term market trends for key chemicals, plastics and fibre intermediates from the world's leading chemical industry experts.
    • IHS Chemical World Analysis
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      IHS Chemical World Analysis

      Annual reports with mid-year update on supply-demand trends, with online database access, including production capacity by company/location updated daily.

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    Understand competitive positioning of major chemical producers including strategic direction, market orientation, production capacity and degree of integration.
    • IHS Chemical Company Analysis
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      IHS Chemical Company Analysis

      Reports with in-depth coverage of a major chemical company, including manufacturing locations, material flows, business analysis and outlook and strategic positioning.

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    Formulate timely, successful strategic investment decisions in the rapidly changing chemical industry, including integration with energy, oil and gas and opportunities for bio-based chemicals.
    • IHS Chemical Consulting
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      IHS Chemical Consulting

      Market and technical due diligence, commercial and technical advisory services based on deep understanding of the chemical industry, bio-based technologies and the relationship to energy, oil and gas.

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    Understand global supply and market dynamics for over 300 high-interest industrial chemicals.
    • IHS Chemical Economics Handbook
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      IHS Chemical Economics Handbook

      In-depth information on over 300 industrial chemicals, including producers and capacity, overview of technology and key trends, supply and demand, end uses and markets.

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    Understand global supply and market dynamics of speciality chemicals, including coverage by application or functional area.
    • IHS Specialty Chemicals Update Program
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      IHS Specialty Chemicals Update Program

      Reports offering in-depth coverage by market or functional area for specialty chemicals, including products and functions, market size and outlook, trends, threats and opportunities.

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  • The banking community, insurance underwriters and brokers depend on our continuously updated, critical and unbiased intelligence for political, economic, legal, tax, operational, security, sovereign and banking risk assessments.
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    Assess and monitor changes to worldwide country risk
    • IHS Global Insight Country Risk Analyst
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      IHS Global Insight Country Risk Analyst

      A comprehensive suite of tools and resources designed to help country risk analysts develop confident, accurate, and timely risk assessments.

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    Evaluate credit risk by sector
    • IHS Global Insight World Industry Service
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      IHS Global Insight World Industry Service

      Employs sophisticated economic techniques to provide benchmarks and forecasts that quantify the impact of changing demographics, market demands, supply considerations, and key risk factors for 95 industries.

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    • IHS Global Insight Country Risk Analyst
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      IHS Global Insight Country Risk Analyst

      A comprehensive suite of tools and resources designed to help country risk analysts develop confident, accurate, and timely risk assessments.

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    • IHS Global Insight Banking Risk Service
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      IHS Global Insight Banking Risk Service

      Fundamental assessments of crisis risk in emerging market banking sectors. Delivers deep understanding of macro-level financial risks for developing country risk and individual counterparty credit risk assessments.

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    Assess political, economic, legal, tax, operation, security, sovereign and banking risk
    • IHS Global Insight Country Risk Analyst
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      IHS Global Insight Country Risk Analyst

      A comprehensive suite of tools and resources designed to help country risk analysts develop confident, accurate, and timely risk assessments.

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    • IHS Global Insight Advanced Country Analysis & Forecast
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      IHS Global Insight Advanced Country Analysis & Forecast

      Daily news analysis, detailed country reports, proprietary risk ratings, comprehensive economic forecasts, and historical data to help your business assess its investments and plans for future growth.

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    • IHS Global Insight Sovereign Risk Service
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      IHS Global Insight Sovereign Risk Service

      A unique assessment of country credit risk conditions for more than 200 countries worldwide, over one- and five-year time horizons.

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    • IHS Global Insight Banking Risk Service
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      IHS Global Insight Banking Risk Service

      Fundamental assessments of crisis risk in emerging market banking sectors. Delivers deep understanding of macro-level financial risks for developing country risk and individual counterparty credit risk assessments.

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    • IHS Global Insight World Industry Service
      Description of Product

      IHS Global Insight World Industry Service

      Employs sophisticated economic techniques to provide benchmarks and forecasts that quantify the impact of changing demographics, market demands, supply considerations, and key risk factors for 95 industries.

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    • Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre
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      Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre

      The latest news, exclusive features, detailed reference and an interactive events database with eight-year archive combine to give you the most reliable and extensive collection of open source terrorism and insurgency intelligence available.

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    • IHS Petroleum Economics and Policy Solutions (PEPS)
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      IHS Petroleum Economics and Policy Solutions (PEPS)

      A powerful, searchable online service that provides constantly updated upstream economic, fiscal and commercial information, analysis, and risk assessments for energy-producing countries, worldwide.

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    Assess the creditworthiness of consumer credit and loan portfolios
    • IHS Global Insight Consumer Credit Watch
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      IHS Global Insight Consumer Credit Watch

      A composition of 22 individual country reports on the local consumer finance business in Europe. Each 10-15-page report provides analysis on competitive intelligence, detailed market sizing, and quantitative forecasts.

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    • IHS Global Scenarios
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      IHS Global Scenarios

      The IHS Global Scenarios Framework Report helps organizations prepare for the future by examining the key forces that will shape our world in the years ahead.

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    Monitor marine insurable assets, including ships and port
    • IHS Fairplay Sea-web
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      IHS Fairplay Sea-web

      Up to 600 characteristics per ship for 180,00 ships, including seven levels of ownership and five years of historical ship movement information. Also covers shipbuilders, casualties and fixtures.

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    • IHS Fairplay Ports Guide Online
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      IHS Fairplay Ports Guide Online

      The ultimate maritime reference tool, combining comprehensive ships, companies, shipbuilders, fixtures, casualties, port state control, ISM, real-time positions and historic vessel movements data into a single application.

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