The biggest merger of 2020?

S&P pays $44bn for IHS Markit as financial-data providers race for scale.   IN 2003 LANCE UGGLA, a Canadian stockbroker, founded a financial-data startup in a British barn. Endowed with just $17m in seed funding and ten employees, Markit started off by providing pricing for the opaque market in credit-default swaps, hoping to tap investors’…