Subscription to Market Intelligence Platform

This is a requirement for the Department's Corporate Finance team. The aim is to support modal teams by offering monitoring and analysis of financial data on critical transport operators. To provide an effective "monitoring" service, some form of retrieving, interrogating, and presenting company-level financial data is required. Areas of analysis where we use company-level data include: - Analysis and commentary on transactions/M&A (e.g. National Express/Stagecoach) - Monitoring companies in distress (COVID/Brexit but also airlines regularly in the usual course of business) - Ownership analysis - Stock market analysis such as comparing performance of the transport sector to the wider market - Assisting commercial teams with bespoke financial assessments. S&P's Capital IQ Pro consists of a web-based platform for interrogating company and financial market data, and an Excel add-in that allows for advanced data importing and manipulation. Capital IQ's focus on company-level data is better suited for most of our work