The Board of Directors of McGraw Hill Financial approved a 9% increase in the regular quarterly cash dividend on the Company's common stock. The quarterly dividend will increase from $0.33 to $0.36 per share. The dividend will be payable on March 10, 2016, to shareholders of record on February 25, 2016.

The new annualized dividend rate of $1.44 per share represents an average compound annual dividend growth rate of 9.5% since 1974.