Description
Using our intelligently designed and intuitive dataset, you can quickly understand how S&P Global (SPGI) is lobbying the U.S. government, how much they’re spending on it, and most importantly – the bills and specific issues on which they lobby.
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Our lobbying data is collected and aggregated from the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records from 1999-present and is updated on a regular basis. We utilize advanced data science techniques to ensure accurate data points are collected and ingested, match similar entities across time, and tickerize publicly traded companies that lobby.
Our comprehensive and advanced lobbying database is completed with all the information you need, with more than 1.6 million lobbying contracts ready-for-analysis. We include detailed information on all aspects of federal lobbying, including the following fascinating attributes, among much more:
1. Clients: The publicly traded company, privately owned company, interest group, NGO, or state or local government that employs or retains a lobbyist or lobbying firm.
2. Registrants (Lobbying Firms): Either the name of the lobbying firm hired by the client, or the name of the client if the client employs in-house lobbyists.
3. Lobbyists: The names and past government work experience of the individual lobbyists working on a lobbying contract. 3. General Issues: The general issues for which clients lobby on (ex: ENV – Environment, TOB – Tobacco, FAM – Family Issues/Abortion).
4. Specific Issues: A long text description of the exact bills and specific issues for which clients lobby on.
5. Bills Lobbied On: The exact congressional bills and public/private laws lobbied on, parsed from lobbying report specific issues (ex: H.R. 2347, S. 1117, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act).
6. Agencies Lobbied: The names of one or more of 250+ government agencies lobbied on in the contract (ex: White House, FDA, DOD).
7. Foreign Entities: The names and origin countries of entities affiliated with the client (ex: BNP Paribas: France).
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is S&P Global (SPGI) lobbying for?
Summary of the lobbying data:
– S&P Global hired multiple lobbying firms including S-3 Group, Bgr Government Affairs, Monument Advocacy, Daly Consulting Group, Emergent Strategies, Sternhell Group, and their own company S&P Global Inc.
– They lobbied on various general issues including transportation, taxation/internal revenue code, computer industry, commodities, financial institutions/investments/securities, automotive industry, trade, and banking.
– Their specific issues of lobbying included Dodd-Frank implementation, credit rating agencies, commodity and financial derivatives, benchmarks and regulations affecting issuers of credit ratings and institutional investors, consumer privacy, infrastructure, automotive industry, customs and border patrol, air and intercoastal waterways manifest data, aluminum benchmarking and ratings criteria, and SEC proposed regulations and ESG.
– They lobbied multiple government agencies including the White House Office, CFTC, House of Representatives, Department of Treasury, SEC, Senate, and DOC.
One could infer that S&P Global is lobbying on these issues to protect their business interests and influence regulations that could impact their financial performance. As a large financial information and analytics company, their lobbying on credit rating agencies, commodities, and financial derivatives could be related to their credit rating services and financial market analysis. Their lobbying on infrastructure, automotive industry and trade could be related to the industries they provide data and analysis for. Their lobbying on customs and border patrol as well as SEC regulations could be related to their data and analytical services for securities and investments.
