Ratings agency Standard & Poor's on Friday announced a change to U.S. index. The agency said that Tibco Software Inc. would replace Brink's Home Security Holdings Inc. in the S&P MidCap 400 index after the close of trading on Friday, May 14. Brink's Home Security Holdings is being acquired by Tyco International Ltd. in a deal expected to be completed on or about that date, pending final approvals.

Standard & Poor's said it would monitor this transaction, and post any relevant updates on its website.

Tibco Software provides infrastructure software solutions. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, the company will be added to the S&P MidCap 400 GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) Application Software Sub-Industry index.

S&P Indices, the world's leading index provider, maintains a wide variety of investable and benchmark indices to meet an array of investor needs. Over $1 trillion is directly indexed to Standard & Poor's family of indices, which includes the S&P 500, the world's most followed stock market index, the S&P Global 1200, a composite index comprised of seven regional and country headline indices, the S&P Global BMI, an index with approximately 11,000 constituents, and the S&P GSCI, the industry's most closely watched commodities index.