S&P Launches Global Data Solutions, Providing Financial Institutions with an Enterprise Solution Integrating Unique and Comprehensive Data Sets….. .. Standard & Poor's Fixed Income Risk Management Services (FIRMS), an analytics and research unit separate from S&P's ratings business, today announced the launch of Standard & Poor's Global Data Solutions, a comprehensive, enterprise-level data feed solution that brings together a wide range of data and analytics to allow financial institutions to evaluate and monitor the financial instruments in their portfolios. Addressing the investor's need for a more robust, cross-asset approach to assessing risk and value in their portfolios, the new S&P data feed solution combines the full scope of S&P's market intelligence, from credit ratings and ratings research to equity corporate actions to structured finance performance data.