The McGraw-Hill Companies, founded in 1888, is a leading analysis and information services provider that serves the global financial services, education and business information markets through leading brands, such as Standard & Poor's, McGraw-Hill Education, BusinessWeek and J.D. Power and Associates. Harold W. McGraw III has been the chief executive officer of McGraw-Hill for more than eight years. He has been with the company for 26 years. McGraw earned a bachelor s from Tufts University, and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.The corporation has headquarters in New York and more than 290 offices in 38 countries throughout the world. Its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MHP.

GFI Group, established in 1987 and located in New York City, is a provider of brokerage, FENICS analytics, and market data services to clients worldwide. It provides interdealer brokerage services to cash and derivatives markets, including credit derivatives and fixed income, foreign exchange and financial derivatives, equity, and energy and commodities. GFI Group provides a wide range of market data to its customers, such as FX options, credit derivatives, European repo, European energy, emerging market bonds, and North American energy. Its FENICS analytics provides price discovery software to currency derivative markets. GFI is a member of the International Securities Exchange, the London Stock Exchange, Eurex and Euronext.liffe. It maintains partnership with various organizations, including UEDA Harlow, ACM Shipping Limited, Reuters, Financial Time and FT Interactive Data, Fitch Ratings, Numerix, and CSIRO.