S&P Global Sets Out to Equip 35,000 Employees with GenAI Skills

S&P Global has partnered with Accenture to enhance generative AI (GenAI) innovation across the financial services industry. S&P Global will equip its 35,000 employees with the skills to utilize this technology through a comprehensive GenAI learning program.

The companies also intend to work together to fuel AI development and benchmarking solutions for the financial services industry.

The learning program will pilot in August and leverage services from Accenture LearnVantage, including curated and customized content, to drive AI fluency across S&P Global’s workforce. It is designed to help S&P Global effectively address the industry’s evolving talent requirements and empower employees at all levels to leverage the advantages of GenAI.

Apart from the AI learning initiative, both companies plan to boost AI development and benchmarking throughout the financial services industry. The partnership will bring together Accenture's Foundation Model Services with S&P AI Benchmarks by Kensho.

“AI is for everyone, and at S&P Global, we want to empower our people and our customers to adopt, build, and innovate with GenAI,” said Bhavesh Dayalji, S&P Global’s Chief AI Officer. “Gen AI will continue to transform the financial services industry, enhancing our day-to-day work and our customer interactions. We are partnering with Accenture to ensure that our people and our customers are not only prepared for the GenAI transformation but are ready to lead it.”

Notably, customers can use Accenture’s proprietary gen AI “switchboard” to select and customize models based on the business context or use case, as well as its managed services for finetuning and prompt engineering.

Further, customers will also have access to S&P AI Benchmarks to evaluate the AI model’s performance and its ability to solve complex financial queries via S&P Global’s standardized and transparent third-party verification.