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Good morning, and welcome to the TransUnion 2026 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Greg Bardi, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Good morning, and thank you for attending today. Joining me on the call are Chris Cartwright, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Todd Cello, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. We posted our earnings release and slides to accompany this call on the TransUnion Investor Relations website this morning, and they can also be found in the current report on Form 8-K that we filed this morning.

Our earnings release and the accompanying slides include various schedules, contain more detailed information about revenue, operating expenses and other items as well as certain non-GAAP disclosures and financial measures along with the corresponding reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures.

Today's call will be recorded and a replay will be available on our website. We will also be making statements during this call that are forward-looking. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements because of factors discussed in today's earnings release and the comments made during this conference call and in our most recent Form 10-K, Forms 10-Q and other reports and filings with the SEC. We do not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statement.

With that, let me turn it over to Chris.

Thank you, Greg. And let me welcome everybody to the call this morning and outline our agenda. First, I'm going to review our third quarter performance and our progress against our strategic priorities. We're then going to have a deep dive into our insurance business. It's a case study that demonstrates how our strategy is driving innovation-led and scalable growth. Then I'll hand it over to Todd, who will provide the details on the third quarter results, our fourth quarter guidance and the guidance for the full year.

So in the third quarter, we delivered broad-based growth and exceeded the high end of guidance for revenue, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted diluted earnings per share. Organic constant currency revenue growth was 8% or approximately 5.5%, excluding FICO mortgage royalties. Now that performance translated into 14% growth in adjusted diluted earnings per share. U.S. Markets revenue increased 7%, within that, Financial Services grew 11% or 5% excluding our mortgage revenues, with double-digit growth in auto. Emerging verticals grew 6%, led by another quarter of double-digit growth in insurance and strength in public sector.

And International had an excellent quarter and returned to double-digit organic constant currency revenue growth. India and Latin America led the quarter, each up 18%. In India, consumer and commercial credit volumes continued to improve and new wins began to convert to revenue. In Latin America, Colombia and Brazil both delivered strong growth.

Our Mexico acquisition continued to track well ahead of our acquisition case for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA. Following the Mexico acquisition, India and Latin America are now 2 of our largest international regions. Both regions offer attractive economic and demographic characteristics, and we believe we've got a proven playbook to continue outgrowing them. We also repurchased 126 million shares in the third quarter bringing our year-to-date total to $243 million.

Our Board recently increased our repurchase authorization by $1 billion, bringing the total to USD 2 billion. We expect to accelerate repurchases in the fourth quarter and plan to bring our full year total to about $500 million. And we also reached key balance sheet milestone, reducing our leverage ratio to 2.5x within our long-term target range.

Now our results reflect consistent execution despite the ongoing economic and geopolitical uncertainties. Conditions in U.S. consumer credit are largely unchanged from prior quarters. Consumers remain resilient in a labor market with high employment, but moderating real wage growth. Credit demand remains healthy, supported by strong spending. credit performance is stable, though pressures persist in lower income and subprime segments.

Lenders continue to expand their portfolios, supported by strong balance sheets and margins and delinquency rates remain within historical ranges and are broadly consistent across risk tiers. The most significant change has been the rise in inflation and interest rates. The 10-year treasury rate is now roughly 5%, up over 30 basis points since our July earnings call and roughly 80 basis points year-to-date. The 30-year mortgage rate is above 7%, weighing on borrowing costs and home affordability and in an already soft housing market.

As a result, mortgage volumes have slowed incrementally in recent months. That said, with industry volumes over the last several years, already near multi-decade lows, we believe additional downside is limited. Other consumer lending categories are less sensitive to higher interest rates and trends remain broadly consistent. We expect higher rates to moderately reduce auto affordability and lending activity.

Consumer loans are less sensitive because of their shorter duration. Fintechs and other consumer lenders have adequate diversified funding sources, though higher rates increased funding cost and could temper borrower demand. Credit cards are the least rate-sensitive lending product, given already high APRs and the product's revolving nature. And we delivered another strong sales quarter in Financial Services. reflecting sustained demand and commercial momentum for solutions such as TrueIQ, trusted call solutions and identity-based marketing.

More broadly, our portfolio outside U.S. Financial Services offers multiple growth drivers that are less sensitive to the credit cycle. Now with that context, we are raising the low end and maintaining the high end of our full year guidance for revenue and adjusted EBITDA. We expect to deliver 8% to 9% organic constant currency revenue growth and 10% to 11% adjusted EBITDA growth. We expect portfolio diversification benefits, including stronger international growth in the second half of the year to help offset the impact of higher rates and softer mortgage activity in the U.S.

We are raising our adjusted diluted earnings per share guidance by 1 percentage point to 12% to 13% growth, driven by lower net interest expense and the benefit of our share repurchases to date. This would mark our third consecutive year of high single-digit revenue growth and double-digit earnings growth. We believe our guidance appropriately balances our current momentum with ongoing market uncertainty.

If current trends continue, we expect performance at the high end of our guidance range. Our range is also designed to provide flexibility to absorb a reasonable degree of further market softening. And Todd will provide full details on our guidance assumptions later in the call. Now beyond the near-term outlook, we continue to make significant progress on the strategic priorities that underpin our long-term growth.

As U.S. credit migration nears completion and our pace of innovation accelerates, we believe we're in position for stronger and more diversified growth. So in the quarter, we significantly accelerated U.S. credit customer migrations. The majority of U.S. credit online and batch activities now run on OneTrue. We expect to substantially complete the migration by year-end, with a small tail extending into 2027.

We have meaningfully reduced legacy system capacity and met our cost savings commitments. In 2027, we plan to focus on expanding OneTrue into Canada, India and the U.K. and OneTrue is helping our teams develop and launch and scale products faster than ever. Across the enterprise, we've launched more than 40 new products and AI-powered enhancements year-to-date, expanding our pipeline and strengthening sales momentum.

Recent highlights include TrueIQ real-time offers for prescreen campaigns, curated audiences by TU marketing segments and the expansion of branded call display into India. We believe these recent launches represent approximately $350 million in revenue potential over the next 3 years. These efforts support growth across our solutions, verticals and geographies with some of our strongest momentum coming from differentiated capabilities beyond traditional credit volumes.

Insurance is 1 of the clearest examples of this growth playbook in action. It was 1 of the first verticals we entered beyond traditional consumer lending. We built the business by combining deep industry expertise with our credit data and analytics to support personal auto underwriting. Since then, we've substantially expanded our customer base and the breadth of our solutions. Today, we are the market-leading credit bureau serving the insurance life cycle with a comprehensive solution suite.

Insurance is expected to generate more than $430 million revenue in 2026, making it comparable in size to our mortgage business, excluding FICO royalties. We support more than 80% of insurance carriers, including all of the top 20 personal lines insurers, and we also serve most of the leading life and commercial insurers. Our growth in insurance has materially outpaced underlying market trends. Over more than a decade, we've achieved a double-digit compound annual growth rate.

Now 3 durable growth drivers support this performance. recurring policy renewals, wallet share gains and broader adoption of our solutions. Our diversified solutions enable us to grow across varying market conditions. When insurers prioritize growth, higher marketing activity drives volume and new wins across our marketing solutions. In a more challenging environment, increased consumer shopping supports credit demand even as marketing spend and new policy originations slow.

These counterbalancing demand drivers today, together with a highly recurring revenue base, have supported growth across multiple environments. Revenue grew in 2020 despite COVID impacted conditions. and we grew 5% in 2023 despite inflation-driven profitability pressures across the insurance industry. We expect insurance to achieve a third consecutive year of double-digit growth.

Now today, more than half of our insurance revenues are outside of core credit. This broader portfolio expands our addressable market, creates new vectors of growth and reduces the vertical's reliance on any single demand driver. For credit laid the foundation for our business in many of our most important customer relationships, our credit-based solutions support customer acquisition underwriting and portfolio review, helping personal auto insurers more accurately assess risk and set premiums. We've continued to gain market share.

Building on those capabilities and customer relationships we developed a broader suite of insurance-specific solutions. Through our acquisitions of Drivers History and Datalink, we develop our Driver History Solutions, which offer insurers a cost-effective alternative to traditional state motor vehicle reports. We have scaled these solutions from $13 million in 2015 to $125 million today. And most recently, we expanded our offering to include marketing and fraud solutions. Since 2022, marketing and fraud solutions have grown at a combined double-digit compound annual rate with trusted call solutions as a key contributor.

A large addressable market in durable competitive advantages support continued momentum in insurance. We expect at least high single-digit growth over the medium term, driven by several initiatives. First, we have a significant base of contract wins that is not yet fully ramped. Many large insurer contracts roll out state by state, creating a multiyear ramp from signed wins to fully realized revenue.

In Core Credit, we estimate approximately $225 million in annualized wins from new contracts compared to roughly $190 million in the 2026 revenue base. Now the $35 million difference is expected to ramp up over the next couple of years. In driving history, we estimate approximately $150 million in annualized revenue from contract wins, compared with roughly $125 million in the 26% revenue base.

Second, we see substantial runway to expand in life insurance and commercial auto and to further cross-sell our marketing and fraud solutions to existing customers. And third, we are expanding our telematics capabilities with the industry's first consumer-owned driving score developed in partnership with Cambridge Mobile Telematics. We see strong interest among our largest customers and believe this can become another meaningful insurance-specific growth driver.

Beyond these medium-term drivers, we're well positioned to benefit from longer-term industry trends. Demand for differentiated data to improve insurers acquisition, underwriting, segmentation and retention is accelerating. Over time, agent-enabled shopping could make insurance comparison and switching easier, increasing consumer shopping activity and the associated demand for our data and solutions.

Now taken together, insurance demonstrates our growth playbook in action. We have built a scaled market leader with recurring demand, strong sales momentum, a meaningful wallet share opportunity in a growing innovation pipeline. That combination gives us confidence that insurance can continue to outpace the underlying market.

And with that, let me turn it over to Todd to review third quarter results and provide guidance.

Thank you, Chris, and let me add my welcome to everyone. Starting with the quarter, revenue and adjusted EBITDA exceeded the high end of guidance by $3 million and $2 million, respectively, Results reflected broad-based growth in U.S. Financial Services and emerging verticals, along with better-than-anticipated performance in international. Total revenue increased 12% as reported and 8% on an organic constant currency basis. Excluding FICO mortgage royalties, organic growth was approximately 5.5%. Adjusted EBITDA increased 9%. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 35.4% at the high end of guidance and down 90 basis points from the prior year.

Underlying margins contracted 40 basis points as revenue flow-through was offset by technology and solutions investments and higher legal and regulatory expenses. FICO mortgage royalties were a 60 basis points drag to consolidated margins. Acquisitions had an immaterial impact, reflecting strong adjusted EBITDA from Mexico. Adjusted diluted earnings per share was $1.25, up 14% year-over-year and $0.04 ahead of the high end of our guidance, driven by adjusted EBITDA growth and the benefit of recent share repurchases.

In the third quarter, U.S. markets revenue grew 7% on an organic constant currency basis, led by 11% growth in Financial Services, and continued double-digit growth in insurance. In nonmortgage financial services, revenue grew 5%. Growth reflected positive though moderated online and batch volumes in credit card and consumer lending along with strong performance in auto. Credit Card and banking grew 3%, supported by recent wins from trusted call solutions.

Consumer lending grew 5% with continued fintech growth and sustained consumer demand. Auto grew 13%, driven by pricing and new wins across our solutions significantly outpacing declining industry volumes. In mortgage, revenue grew 21%. Excluding FICO royalties, mortgage growth was 5% despite a 16% decline in inquiries with outperformance due to pricing actions and revenue beyond traditional tri-merge reports.

The sequential slowdown in growth reflected the impact of rising interest rates on mortgage inquiries. Turning to emerging verticals. Revenue grew 6%. Insurance led the way with its ninth straight quarter of double-digit growth. Within insurance, demand remains strong across our solution suites. Credit based marketing continued to strengthen while elevated consumer shopping supported credit volumes. We also benefited from new wins across core credit, driving history and trusted call solutions. Across our other emerging verticals, we grew modestly. Public sector returned to strong growth while tenant and employment and media volumes were softer than anticipated.

Consumer Interactive declined 3%, in line with expectations with flattish growth in indirect and a decline in the direct channel. In international, all revenue growth comparisons are on an organic constant currency basis. International continued to reaccelerate with 10% growth in the third quarter. Overall results reflected high teens growth in India and Latin America, together with continued healthy performance across our developed markets.

Starting with India. Revenue accelerated to 18% growth. Volumes continued to improve during the quarter across both consumer and commercial lending. We also benefited from new wins converting into revenue. We expect similar growth in the fourth quarter as India is expected to return to a strong double-digit growth trajectory. Latin America growth increased from 5% to 18% in the third quarter including double-digit growth in Brazil and Colombia. While some of the third quarter growth was the result of onetime revenue in Brazil, we expect healthy double-digit growth from Latin America in the fourth quarter.

Additionally, our acquisition of Mexico, which is included in our inorganic growth continues to perform ahead of our acquisition case. Canada and the U.K. grew 7% and 5%, respectively, both markets outpaced muted market volumes through wins across financial services, fintech and insurance. Africa grew 6%, while Asia Pacific returned to growth with a 3% increase.

Turning back to the enterprise. We ended the third quarter with $5.5 billion of debt and $883 million of cash. Our leverage ratio decreased to 2.5x now within our long-term target of 2.5x or less. Also, through the first 3 quarters, total free cash flow was $687 million or an approximately 97% conversion as a percentage of adjusted net income. Our operating performance and strong balance sheet position us for continued accretive capital deployment.

During the third quarter, we repurchased $126 million in shares. Year-to-date, we have repurchased 3.3 million shares at an average share price of about $74 for a total of $243 million. We expect to accelerate repurchases in the fourth quarter, bringing our expected full year total to roughly $500 million. We view share repurchases as an attractive use of capital at current valuation levels.

Our Board recently increased our repurchase authorization by $1 billion to a total of $2 billion. With repurchases made to date, we still have remaining authorization of roughly $1.5 billion. We also today announced an increase in our quarterly dividend to $0.135, up from $0.125 effective in the third quarter and payable in November. The increase is consistent with our commitment to grow the dividend in line with earnings growth, while maintaining a 10% to 15% payout ratio.

During the quarter, we also prepaid the remaining $104 million of our Term Loan B 5, we expect adjusted EBITDA growth to support further natural deleveraging. Finally, we are currently replacing an expiring $1.5 billion notional swap and an interest rate of 1.4% with a new swap of a similar notional amount. We have executed more than half of the replacement swap at an average rate in the mid-4% range and expect to execute the remainder during the fourth quarter. The appendix includes additional details on our debt profile, and a bridge to expected 2026 interest expense.

Turning to fourth quarter guidance. Our ranges reflect a similar level of prudence to the third quarter. If current business trends continue, we expect performance at the high end while the range retains flexibility to manage ongoing market uncertainty. In the fourth quarter, we are guiding revenue of $1.264 billion to $1.294 billion, up 8% to 10%. Growth includes 3% to 6% organic constant currency growth. a 5 percentage point contribution from acquisitions and a 0.5 percentage point headwind from foreign exchange. Excluding FICO mortgage royalties, we expect organic constant currency growth of 3% to 5%.

The sequential deceleration from the third quarter reflects declining mortgage inquiry volumes. Excluding mortgage, we expect revenue growth to remain similar to the approximately 5.5% that we delivered in the third quarter. We are guiding adjusted EBITDA of $450 million to $468 million, up 8% to 12%, implying a margin of 35.6% to 36.2%. Underlying margins are expected to expand by 40 to 120 basis points, partially offset by a 30 basis point drag from FICO royalties and a 20 basis point impact from acquisitions.

The fourth quarter margin expansion is primarily driven by positive revenue mix, including strong growth from international. We expect adjusted diluted earnings per share of $1.15 to $1.22, up 7% to 14%. For full year guidance, we modestly raised the low end of our guidance and now expect revenue of $5.131 billion to $5.162 billion, up 12% to 13%. Acquisitions contributed 4 percentage points and foreign exchange has an immaterial impact on our guidance. We expect organic constant currency revenue growth of 8% to 9% or 5% to 6% excluding FICO mortgage royalties.

Our segment level assumptions are broadly unchanged. Our full year mortgage revenue growth guidance is 28% or 9% excluding FICO royalties. Our conservative mortgage assumptions have provided flexibility to achieve our guidance despite higher interest rates. We now expect mortgage inquiries to decline roughly 10% for the full year and more than 20% in the fourth quarter.

Pricing actions and revenue beyond traditional Tri-Merge reports continue to support growth above mortgage market volumes. We expect adjusted EBITDA to be $1.08 billion to $1.827 billion in 2026, up 10% to 11%. That results in a margin of 35.2% to 35.4%, down 60 to 80 basis points, unchanged from prior guidance. Underlying margins are now expected to be flat to up 20 basis points compared with our prior expectation of 50 to 70 basis points of expansion.

Revenue growth and transformation savings continue to drive strong flow-through. However, we are intentionally reinvesting a portion of those benefits into technology and solution initiatives to continue accelerating innovation. Additionally, we have experienced higher legal and regulatory expenses primarily related to individual consumer cases.

Our Mexico acquisition continues to outperform our revenue, adjusted EBITDA and margin expectations. As a result, acquisitions are now expected to have an immaterial impact on consolidated margin. compared with the 40 basis point pressure assumed previously. No margin FICO royalties remain an 80 basis point margin drag. We are raising our adjusted diluted earnings per share guidance due to lower net interest expense and the benefit of share repurchases. We now expect $4.81 to $4.88, up 12% to 13%.

We now expect 2026 net interest expense of $235 million, down from $245 million, reflecting higher interest income and the repayment of our Term Loan B 5. For 2027, a higher of forecast and the replacement of our expiring interest rate swap are expected to increase net interest expense by roughly $60 million. All other guidance items, including depreciation and amortization, adjusted tax rate and capital expenditures as a percent of revenue are unchanged. We continue to expect free cash flow conversion above 90% of adjusted net income.

With that context, I'll now turn the call back to Chris for closing remarks.

Thanks, Todd. So before we close, I wanted to weigh in on the ongoing discussion about the mortgage Tri-Merge standard. TransUnion firmly believes that comprehensive data allows the responsible expansion of access to credit. It strengthens underwriting, it delivers substantial benefits to consumers, lenders, taxpayers and MBS investors alike. The data and analysis that has been done on this topic show that it's clearly the right policy for the U.S. mortgage market.

But I also want to emphasize that we've looked at this and believe that our financial exposure to an FHFA shift to a by Merge standard for GSE conforming mortgages would have a limited impact on our financial performance and would likely play out over a couple of years at least. Over the past decade, TU has invested several hundred million dollars in data innovation to build a more complete view of consumers. We pioneered the use of trended credit data. We help power the expansion of fintech lending, and we broadened our complementary alternative data assets to deliver a deeper consumer insights.

As a founding shareholder in VantageScore, we also helped foster competition in credit scoring by creating a modern score based on trended credit and alternative data. And together, these innovations enable 33 million more consumers to be scored, thereby increasing financial inclusion in mainstream consumer lending. So this innovation enables responsible credit expansion in the U.S., particularly in the mortgage market, benefiting both homebuyers but also lenders. For homebuyers, trended and alternative data along with the VantageScore expand the mortgage eligible population by approximately 5 million consumers, representing an estimated $1 trillion in incremental mortgage lending opportunity.

Our data and the Tri-Merge also support more equitable outcomes by enabling consumers to be evaluated based on a complete view of their borrowing history. And lenders benefit from this expanded addressable market, along with more accurate risk assessment and loan pricing. Over the past decade, TransUnion data has supported 32 million mortgages, representing $9.2 trillion in loan value. That scale underscores the important role credit data plays in enabling access and sound underwriting across the U.S. mortgage market.

Now TransUnion's credit data delivers meaningful underwriting value at a small fraction of mortgage closing costs. Today, TransUnion charges approximately $11 for our credit data in the Tri-Merge. That fee reflects our innovation and the ongoing investments in innovation, cybersecurity, compliance and consumer dispute management. Our credit file accounts for less than 10% of the Tri-Merge cost, and the Tri-Merge itself accounts for less than 1% of overall mortgage closing costs.

The relevant comparison is not merely the cost of 1 additional credit file, but the value of more complete information relative to the risks and cost of less informed lending decisions. In our view, the potential negative costs of reaching fewer consumers and making lending decisions with less complete information, outweigh the potential modest savings from purchasing on fewer credit file. Our analysis shows that under a by merge model, an estimated 600,000 new mortgage borrowers each year could pay more in interest with affected borrowers paying almost $7,000 more over the life of their mortgage. Although credit data accounts for a small share of closing costs, we support efforts to reduce mortgage closing costs without compromising data completeness or underwriting quality. A key example of this is continued adoption of Vantage Score.

Vantage Score was included in roughly 35% of mortgage credit polls in the third quarter. We expect adoption to continue rising as the unified LLPA grid removes another source of friction. Now we've extended our industry first $0.99 Vantage score for mortgage pricing through 2028 at more than 90% below the current price of the legacy score. This offers potentially meaningful savings for lenders and consumers, while preserving access to complete credit data. We also recently introduced first look, which allows lenders to review credit report insights before purchasing additional scores, improving early-stage underwriting efficiency.

And finally, we believe our direct financial exposure to potential change in FHFA requirements is limited. Within our mortgage revenue, a substantial portion consists of no-margin FICO royalties, prequalification usage and other revenue that is not subject to a Tri-Merge requirement. The remaining Tri-Merge revenue spans FHFA regulated loans as well as other government and nonconforming loans. Only approximately $100 million in annual revenue is directly connected to the FHFA requirement. Now if all FHFA regulated loans moved to by Merge and assuming the bureaus maintained equal share, we expect the annual impact would be roughly $33 million in revenue, excluding cycle royalties and $0.15 of adjusted diluted earnings per share. This equates to less than 1% of total revenue and less than 3% of adjusted diluted EPS.

And we also believe that lender behavior and incentives would provide additional mitigation. Now there are several key commercial reasons for lenders to continue using Tri-Merge even in the absence of a regulatory requirement. First, broader market borrower coverage. Complete data expands the mortgage eligible population, and lenders often use Tri-Merge during prequalification despite the availability of single-file options.

Second, there is optionality in the type of loan to originate. For example, lenders at the beginning of the process, often do not know whether they will be originating an FHFA or an FHA loan when they pull credit. Today, the FHA, VA, the USDA continue to support the Tri-Merge standard. And third, the ability to offer the most attractive mortgage rate to consumers is important. These consumers are actively shopping for mortgages, using less complete data could lead lenders to place borrowers in a less favorable credit score tier than their competitors do.

And fourth, consistent and comprehensive risk assessment is essential. For 35% of consumers, at least 1 individual bureau score differs from the Tri-Merge score by 10 points or more. Underwriting with less complete information could increase risk across the mortgage ecosystem and with that risk ultimately borne by lenders, investors or the GSEs. Now taken together, Tri-Merge delivers better outcomes across the mortgage ecosystem. At the same time, we believe our direct revenue exposure to central regulatory change is limited and that TransUnion remains well positioned for a range of potential outcomes.

Now the Tri-Merge discussion reinforces an important point that's evident in our third quarter results. And that is our growth is increasingly diversified, durable and innovation-led rather than dependent on any single product, vertical or geography. We continue to execute our strategic priorities to navigate an uncertain environment and deliver on our commitments.

Now before I conclude, I also want to recognize Todd in his final earnings call as TransUnion's CFO. Todd joined the company as a staff accountant 29 years ago and has helped guide TransUnion through 2 leverage buyouts and an initial public offering and most recently, a transformative period of growth and innovation as our CFO. He has been an exceptional leader, a keeper of our culture and a tremendous partner to me personally. and I want to thank you.

Todd and I are working closely to ensure a smooth transition. Although this marks Todd's final call as CFO, and we are grateful that he will remain in the role through the end of the year and serve as a full-time adviser through March 1. We have begun and are well in process with a comprehensive search for our next CFO, and we will share updates as they become available.

And with that, I'll turn it back to Greg.

That concludes our prepared remarks. For the Q&A, we ask that you each ask only 1 question so that we can include more participants. Operator, we can begin the Q&A.

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And our first question will come from Toni Kaplan of Morgan Stanley.

And thanks for the extra clarity on the Biomerge impact at the end of the slides there. When you think about market share across the bureaus, I guess, how do you differentiate your credit report from the others? Is it certain data that you can provide that others can't? And maybe in the prequal part of the market, if you could just update us on how much share you have there and how the share is trending?

Yes. Tony, and thank you for the questions. This is Chris. Well, I guess I would first point to our revenue performance in mortgage in recent years and certainly recent quarters where the growth and the performance relative to our estimates of mortgage inquiries and the like really suggests that we have held or increased our market share particularly during this period were in the early assessment program from the GSEs has -- the market has been digesting it over the past few years and deciding how many credit pools make sense at the origination or the early part of the mortgage origination process.

And as we said, the market is not settling at 1, it's settling it over 2, and there still are lenders that are pulling 3 credit reports for the reasons that I explained in the mortgage slides and the commentary that we ended the presentation on. So in short, I think our financial results in mortgage show that we have continued to perform well.

Now look, in our case, and I would say each of the bureaus will have an argument as to why their bundle of data is attractive. In our case, we lead the industry in core trended credit data. We were the first mover in the space. We go back -- we provide 2.5 years of trended data. As I mentioned in my slides, we've seen a 60% increase in the number of consumers that we have trended data going back 2.5 years on. We also have market-leading coverage in fintech, which has been for well over a decade, a significant portion of the loan origination marketplace. We have leading coverage down the risk spectrum because of an attractive acquisition of a payday lending oriented credit bureau, and we have significantly expanded our alternative data. And so all of that, we have found makes us extremely competitive in terms of the value proposition of our credit data.

And we are also kind of a neutral player providing that bundle of information to the resellers who ultimately serve the mortgage lenders. What that means is we don't compete in the tri-bureau market. And in a bio merge environment, those resellers are going to be able to choose which 2 bureaus that they want to do business with and I think our neutrality as well as the value add from our data bundle positions us well.

The next question comes from Andrew Steinerman of JPMorgan.

I'm focused on Slide 13 and particularly looking at the U.S. financial ex mortgage growth in the quarter of 5% and the subsegments that decelerated was Cardon banking and consumer lending and then auto actually accelerated. Could you just tell us why the first 2 subsegments decelerated? And I was a little surprised to see auto accelerate. Chris, you mentioned about affordability and rates. Maybe that was a prospective comment and just help us bring that together.

Andrew, I'm going to take that one, and then Chris can add on. So in Financial Services, I'm going to answer this big picture first start. When you look at it on a quarter-over-quarter basis throughout 2026, you definitely do see a deceleration from 10% growth in Q1, 8% to 5%. And these numbers I'm giving you all exclude mortgage.

So yes, we did see some moderated growth throughout the third quarter. But as we said in our prepared remarks, the underlying conditions in the market still remain healthy, and we haven't really seen any signal of a downward shift in conditions. And in fact, when we look at our volumes up until yesterday, we really do not see an acceleration of any deterioration in these markets. Where we saw some modest slowing in the quarter was particularly in auto and consumer lending categories.

I think to really provide context on this specific question, it's really important to remember, you have to go back to 2025 as the year that we saw a recovery in these end markets. So we think it's more instructive when you look at things on a 2-year basis. And what we see when you do that is relatively consistent performance.

So to that point, to give you some numbers around that, if you were to look at a 2-year CAGR for financial services, excluding mortgage, Q1, Q2, Q3, the growth rate is 10% and 9%, respectively, in each of those quarters. So yes, we're dealing with the comparable, and that's where you're seeing the deceleration. But when you look at it in that way, you still see a very healthy market. And I would say that, that was all in essence, backed up by the recent bank earnings reports. where there was a consistent theme across large lenders as well as medium and small-sized lenders that lending conditions remain stable and delinquency levels also remain kind of consistent. You didn't see a big increase in loan loss reserves said another way.

And just as a reminder, when we think about the Financial Services business, clearly, mortgage is the most rate-sensitive part of the business. So everybody knows that. But when you think about the other lines of business kind of on a continuum downward, auto would be the next rate sensitive, but then consumer lending and card not as much rate sensitivity to those lines of business.

Yes. Look, I would just -- I agree with that. There's no change in our perspective on -- how these different consumer lending verticals are impacted in rising rates. like Todd said, mortgage is the most sensitive because it's the largest loan over the longest duration. Auto is probably the next largest loan. And again, as rates have risen over the past couple of years, you've seen the duration of auto loans increasing so that the consumer monthly payment remains affordable.

Consumer lending, not as rate sensitive because the spread in the APR is higher and the duration is lower, and of course, card has the highest spread and as balances revolve rates can adjust. Now look, the numbers in this particular quarter may deviate a little bit from that kind of hierarchy or those dynamics, if you will. I wouldn't read -- I want to read too much into it, right? There can be a variety of puts and takes in any of these categories in a given quarter. And so I think the way Todd, Todd framed it looking at the trajectory over the past couple of years, and considering that we've had some pretty heady growth in consumer lending as it is resurged. I think that kind of explains what you're seeing in the current quarter.

And it doesn't necessarily reflect what we expect to happen in the fourth quarter. So I think that probably covers the waterfront of perspective on that issue.

The next question comes from Jeff Meuler of Baird.

Todd, congratulations and best wishes to you. My question is on India. I know you've talked about kind of the recovery starting to set in, in recent quarters that we're expecting acceleration. But it seems to be accelerating more and faster than expected. So help us with what's driving that or how you kind of think about the growth potential looking out over the next 12 months for it?

Okay. Thanks, Jeff. And look, let's just pause for a moment and enjoy the good news at the third quarter brought in India. It's exciting to see it get back to this level of growth. And we think that's indicative of the level of growth that we can get out of India in the coming years. It is a combination of some market improvements both on the consumer lending, in the commercial side with better volumes. the RBI is more comfortable with the lending practices in the unsecured consumer lending market. And so some of the pressures there that were dampening volumes have been lifted. And we're seeing the big banks post some good loan growth, and that's even with a recent rate hike, right?

The economy in India continues to grow. It's 7% plus and inflation is manageable. But I think what I'm most excited about is the way we're competing in India, we've had a couple of years of challenging macros, which we've discussed many times in these quarterly calls, but the business today is materially stronger than it was a couple of years ago in a very foundational way. we have improved our Core Credit data asset by broadening the number of banks that are furnishing to us and increasing the breadth of data that they're furnishing. That's one.

Two, we have redeveloped all of our consumer and commercial credit scores. And so they're performing better relative to the competition. That's helping us win more and then finally, we've got tremendous momentum around TrueIQ, our analytics platform in India. I mean we've recently had client events there that were just really successful. We're building a great pipeline. We've also already achieved multimillion-dollar bookings from multiple banks and I think this gives us a new vector for growth in India.

So as we think about the next 3 years, we think it's mid-teens top line organic plus and hopefully, it will be plus because India is still an enormously attractive market. As I said, 7% real GDP growth, manageable inflation. great demographics, 840 million people under the age of 35. And our share is very stable. And as I mentioned, our competitive position never better. And we are introducing into the Indian market, some of our new global products. First is TrueIQ. We've also made great progress with the telcos in establishing the relationships for trusted call solutions.

And then our fraud product will be the next to launch in India, and we're even taking part of the marketing portfolio. India is less developed from a marketing data perspective, but we're bringing our media mix modeling services to India, and we're starting to gain traction there. So a lot to feel good about with the India business.

The next question comes from Andrew Nicholas of William Blair.

Congrats Todd. I had a quick question for you, Todd. On the comment you made about reinvesting some of the margin in the fourth quarter. Could you flesh that out a little bit? I think you -- you mentioned it being focused on technology and potentially some legal costs. Is that a fourth quarter item only? Or is that something that we should think about from a reinvestment perspective looking ahead to next year?

Andrew, thanks for the question. And I think it's a good opportunity for us to kind of unpack the fourth quarter guidance, and I can talk specifically to start just about us being perhaps opportunistic in the third quarter with making certain investments back into the business from more of a technology perspective to enable the solutions growth that we talked about during our Investor Day in March of this year.

So -- and not -- we're going to do that when we see the opportunity on a go-forward basis. I don't think it's something that you necessarily need to be overly concerned about there was just a good opportunity for us to expand on that spend. So we did that. We also did talk about higher litigation expense in the quarter. This is more related to individual small claims cases. It is an industry-wide issue pertaining to FCRA litigation. So not just a TransUnion specific dynamic most recently, Law 360 ran an article last week, articulating this in the marketplace.

So it's -- we're focused, as we always are, on a proactive litigation strategy, but most importantly, implementing internal process enhancements to make the process as smooth as possible for the consumer when they interact with TransUnion. Now diving into the fourth quarter itself and the guidance that we have. When we look at things, excluding the FICO mortgage royalty, in essence, the revenues for Q3 and then for -- if you compare that to the Q4 high-end guidance and essence that revenue is pretty much exactly the same. So as far as drivers are concerned, when you look at things from Q3 to Q4, you obviously saw a strong international performance in that trajectory, we expect to continue into the fourth quarter.

But when you look at things from the third quarter to the fourth quarter in U.S. markets, there are some seasonal aspects pertaining to credit card, marketing activity as well as consumer lending that we would normally see a seasonal uptick. So revenues -- think about revenues as a repeat performance. in essence, on an absolute dollar basis. When we look at the expenses, which go to the initial part of your question, the expense base also when we exclude the FICO mortgage royalty, it's roughly flat on a quarter-to-quarter basis.

So no big expectation that we have to manage costs down. I mean, in essence, we left the run rate of the business continue onward. And that all shakes out to an adjusted EBITDA of about the same as well. from $465 million that we achieved in the third quarter and the high end of our guidance for the fourth quarter is at $468 million. So that gives us the conviction that another repeat performance is out there for us just simply doing what we just did in the third quarter.

And I would point you to the fact that, again, we look at the high end of the guidance is something that we look to achieve. So we're guiding you again to the high end of the guidance, the noise here, though, will continue to be mortgage and whatever happens with interest rates. But we feel comfortable that the range that we put together for the fourth quarter should be able to absorb any potential disruption that could be potentially on the horizon. So we feel very strong about what we've laid out for the fourth quarter.

Andrew, since you asked about the technology journey and the technology investment. I'll take this chance to jump on the OneTrue. So obviously, we've been investing heavily over the past several years to build our next-generation tech platform. That's OneTrue. And we're approaching the end of the migration in the U.S. of the U.S. credit customers to the Ontro platform. we feel comfortable that we're going to get that done by the end of this year, largely done. If there are a couple of customers that require a bit more time. We have provisioned the capacity for them to run on the legacy platform for a period of time.

And we've greatly consolidated the cost of running the legacy platform so that we have achieved the full savings and beyond. But as we stressed before, the real goal is to roll this platform out across our markets globally. And so the next focus is on the next 4 largest markets, plus the Philippines which if we can migrate them all to the OneTrue platform will mean about 94% of our revenue globally, we'll be running on the common platform. That's going to enable step change function in both our revenue performance and our cost structure.

And so when we say we're spending a bit more in the third quarter, and we have an eye toward -- it's because we're trying to accelerate that. We're trying to get the global rollout to compress the time it's going to take to get that so we can get the step function benefits in the technology operating environment. It's also worth mentioning that after several years of building a new platform and then migrating legacy to the new platform, this is an opportunity for us to accelerate the feature functionality and robustness of the various products that run on the platform, be it credit, analytics, marketing, fraud, et cetera.

And so we put more of our resources against accelerating innovation in those categories because that can help us achieve higher top line growth sooner. And again, that's a real priority for our business. So hopefully, that gives you the color you're looking for.

The next question comes from Faiza Alwy of Deutsche Bank.

Yes. And congratulations from me as well to you, Todd. I wanted to ask about the emerging vertical businesses and some of the puts and takes there. I think you mentioned softer-than-expected revenues in media and tenant employment screening. So just wanted to talk about that because I know you have a tougher comp in 4Q and some project-related revenue in the media business. So just wanted to understand if this is more timing or just any additional color you can provide?

Yes, so happy to provide that. So emerging verticals, as you know, is almost half of the revenue coming out of the U.S. And as you can see from the slides we provided, insurance is the anchor tenant, so to speak, it's about 1/3 of those revenues, and it's been compounding double-digit over the last 5 years. I mean, in the recent couple of years, it's performed exceptionally well.

And the reason we wanted to showcase it because we wanted to illustrate the way in which our broader mix of products have enabled us to accelerate growth in that particular vertical over the fullness of time. So not only have we innovated on the quality of credit data and scores and analytics, but we were able to acquire some unique insurance data assets like driving history and motor vehicle record access that broadened our value proposition, diversified our revenues and allowed a step-up in growth.

And then the final incremental growth component has been the marketing and fraud suite that we acquired and built in recent years, which are just starting to really contribute meaningfully to the overall revenue mix in insurance. And look, I frame this up because that's what we're going to do across all the various verticals in emerging and in particular, in the diversified markets. Now as you pointed out, we achieved 6% growth in the quarter. That is solid, but we had some puts and takes on performance.

I'd say starting on the positive side of things, we had a good quarter of growth for our public sector business. Public sector was challenged in recent years because of cost-focused efforts at the federal level. That's really Dodge. Dodge had some moderate impact on our existing revenues, but it certainly chilled new business acquisition, right? Now we have seen an improvement in the environment, an improvement in closes and also pipeline, particularly for our fraud suite, the fraud suite again, we've made a lot of investments in recent years. We've got some great assets that we've brought together on the OneTrue platform.

And we recently achieved FedRAMP certification which is a certification that is required for us to sell the fraud solution across the federal government, and it's also kind of a foundation and enabler for selling at the state level as well. In short, because of the certification and the strength of the fraud solution, we think we're going to get better growth out of public sector going forward, and we think there's a lot of upside for us. Now there were all -- there were some weaknesses as we mentioned,

I'll start with tenant and employment. Even though we've seen improving growth rates in recent quarters, the volume of moves has been under pressure because of the housing market in general in the U.S. is under pressure. And so what happens is, typically, you would have homeowners that typically would have renters leaving rental units to purchase their first homes, creating capacity, that capacity gets filled and our tenant and employment revenues benefit as a result.

But because of higher rates and really lower availability both of new homes, but also of new apartment units, you really are not seeing the volume of movement or the velocity of movement. And so tenant employment had a difficult quarter and is, I think, probably resetting to a more modest level of volume in the coming quarters.

We also had some challenges in media which you asked about. Now what I would say about media is like even though the vertical is down, there are definitely some marketing growth highlights within that. First, we have 3 core marketing products, identity audiences and measurement, as you might recall, the identity products are growing exceptionally well. As we've said many times, we've got a tremendous foundation of credit marketing, fraud and public records information in the U.S. that gives us a leading identity graph and that's being recognized and we've got great bookings, revenue and pipeline there.

Our media spend planning and measurement services is also doing well. And to your question, we got a big fourth quarter that we're comping against. But our guide contemplates that. And we've been looking at the inventory of measurement performance jobs that we've got, and we feel pretty well positioned for the fourth quarter. So you should feel comfortable about that. And again, thank you for your question.

The challenge has been on the audience side. Now we have created a next-generation marketing audience and activation product on OneTrue. It's called True Audience. But today, the revenue lives on a series of legacy platforms. And we're in the process of migrating customers from the legacy platforms to the more functional and attractive OneTrue audience and activation platform. And this is the 1 area of our product migration where we actually have to engage with our clients and handhold as they move from the legacy to the next generation. And in this intermediate transition, what we've seen is a reduction in the usage volume. So that took us negative, and we might have a few bumps over the next couple of quarters as we complete the migration. The good news is we're really confident in the new True Audience product. We get migrated to it from the legacy, and we don't see any reason why over the medium term, we won't get back to growthfulness in audiences. So that's kind of the range for emerging vertical in this quarter.

The next question comes from Simon Clinch of Rothschild & Co.

Todd, I'll echo everyone's comments here and just say congrats and wish you all the best. I was wondering if you could just talk about the international opportunity more broadly. We've had some strong growth in the strong growth in LatAm but we've also got quite a lot of volatility happening in certain parts of Brazil, for example, more recently, I was just wondering, is there anything on the horizon that you see that gives you some cause of sort of concern that unpredictability or anything like that, that is worth sort of calling out? And how you think about sort of navigating any of those kind of issues?

Yes. Well, thanks for the question, Simon. Look, clearly, geopolitical risks around in this environment as we all know. That said, I think I'm pretty optimistic about international. I think for the past couple of years, they have been working through some challenges in India, but also in the Asia Pac region, some bumps and difficult revenue comps in Hong Kong related to a surge of onetime revenues, consulting revenues preparing for a bureau competition, the CRA change in Hong Kong, which we've talked about previously.

But in the most rotable part of Asia Pac, the Philippines has really been hit hard by rising oil prices. And so there's been contraction there and the slowing of our growth. And so international has been working through all of that. When we think about international, we think about it as at least a 10% organic compounder in okay conditions around the world, but it can certainly grow above that. And we saw that in the COVID time and the COVID where it was growing near 15% for 2 to 3 years, right?

So I think the international business gives us great growth potential and also really helpful diversification as we experienced this quarter when rising rates over the course of the year, 80 bps year-to-date has put some pressure on U.S. Financial Services volumes.

Now when I think about the various countries, obviously, Canada has done a terrific job and continues to compound above market rates. I think the same thing is true with our U.K. business, and we're positioned to strengthen that business through introducing OneTrue and some of the new global products. India is getting back online. Asia Pac is pivoting from shrinking to growing.

And then Brazil, yes, there's been some volatility, but there's been a huge step forward in Brazil because we are successfully seeding the market and launching trusted call solutions in Brazil, right? And so that will give us a whole new product and a whole new growth vector. So net-net, I'm optimistic about international, and I think it's additive to the growth profile overall and really helpful diversification.

The next question comes from Ashish Subrata of RBC Capital Markets.

As you think about some of the headwinds going into next year, you've called out the interest expense headwind there, which is roughly 5 points to the earnings growth, but -- and potentially some headwinds from mortgage volume as well. But as we think about some of the tailwinds, can you highlight some of the tailwinds which you can continue to help you deliver on your midterm guidance?

Yes, for sure. I mean, look, so we've had some discussion of the headwinds and we would just characterize the headwinds as higher rates leading to lower volumes in mortgage, in particular, and then some cooling and other product categories. But I think we've been clear on our perspective there. And then again, we're going to have some comps in the first half of next year that could create some pressures depending on the volumes and depending on the rates in U.S. Financial Services.

To the upside, again, I would point to international. I'm not going to elaborate because we just had -- I just provided some lengthy context of that in the prior question. But international will definitely buttress and kind of fortify our growth rates going into next year. And then on top of that, in the emerging markets, I mean, we still have products like our fraud solutions and our marketing solutions that can reach another year of growth and sustain it. That's part of the reason why we are investing more in advancing the value props for -- from end marketing, as I mentioned previously.

And then we have spent a good deal of this year rolling out the TrueIQ analytics solution to India, the U.K. and Canada, we'll probably push it to more markets next year. That gives us another product to monetize. And so I would view that as some of the positives supporting our growth next year.

Chris, I just would want to add on to that. Just think about the performance that we just delivered in the third quarter and what we anticipate in the fourth quarter. To me, that is a display of us being able to deliver strong results despite a challenging interest rate environment in the U.S., and that really speaks to the portfolio diversification that we've intentionally built at TransUnion.

And hand in hand with that, strong free cash flows that we're also generating in the most recent quarter and what we expect going forward from a capital allocation perspective, as the business is able to absorb these challenges still going to enable TransUnion to be in a position to focus on shareholder returns.

That's a good point. I mean we haven't talked about our capital allocation in the third quarter on the call yet and what we expect. But I mean the fact that EBITDA is growing, free cash flow conversion is high. It's in the low 90s. The debt level is now within our long-term target range. We're going to buy back a lot of shares. We've got an increased authorization by $1 billion, that brings it to $2 billion, and Todd and team will be putting that to good use in the fourth quarter and beyond.

Our last question will come from Kelsey Zhu of Autonomous.

Chris, what's your expectation around the adoption rate for FICO preferred? Obviously, we know your selling FICO scores at 0% margin. The cycle preferred will lead to revenues for lenders inroad in that program as well. And I also just want to get your updated expectations for Vantage Core adoption rate in '27 and '28. And just to double confirm the first look for mortgage program, is that going to be available through resellers because if it is not, does that mean that lenders were pulling both 5one Banesco, will incur double the credit in a fee under the cycle preferred program.

Okay. So we got preferred. We've got Vantage adoption and first look. Okay. Probably a good question because we're all curious about the dynamics in the mortgage market, both scoring and credit. We'll start with the preferred program. We read with interest the launch of this program on -- via press release on Thursday and Friday night. What I'll say is, as is typically the case, there's still work to do to translate between the press release in contractual terms and operational requirements to make the program a reality.

And we're working with FICO on that as you would expect. There's also an additional portion of it. I mean the preferred program is only 1 part of how FICO intends to monetize their score in 2027. And the other parts, which they haven't publicly announced, they are working through with us and the other bureaus in real time as we renew our annual pricing in terms and conditions.

And look, all of that at this point is confidential between TransUnion and FICO and our customers, the resellers and some lenders directly. So more news to come on that. I would say generally, with the preferred program and other efforts, I mean, look, what is clear is that the market has an enormous appetite for score competition? And I think the rate of adoption across the mortgage market has been stronger than most people anticipated and even stronger than we anticipated.

And again, many sell-side analysts and other sources are kind of providing the weekly reports on the rate of adoption. And that's just what's happened in the current period. We got greater insights into all of the preparations that are taking place with various lenders across the mortgage ecosystem to adopt the Vantage score. And so I think what you'll see is various efforts to try to slow the migration by changing monetization paths, if you will,

And again, give us a bit more time to work things out as an industry. And I think all the various approaches to score monetization will become clear. But stepping back, I would make 2 points. The first is that regardless of a preferred program for any other way of monetization that may be put forward, what is clear is that the Vantage score performs extremely well, better than the incumbent, and it only costs 1/10 of the incumbent.

And in our experience, working around the globe, it is -- that price is more reflective of what scores sell for. They don't sell for $10 elsewhere. And so regardless of changes in monetization approach, while that may slow migration in the near term, it won't stop the overall movement of the market to a highly performing score that cost 90% less than the current score, right? And we are going to continue to support the efforts of lenders and resellers across the spectrum by providing them with free credit reports in the analytic and evaluation phase and $0.99 credit reports through the end of 2028, right?

So I think that's our thoughts on preferred in the Vantage adoption. And look, first look is, again, it's another innovation from us to try to address 4 lenders the cost of evaluating and originating mortgages and what will continue to be a challenging environment. And so with this, they're able to pull Vintage and to pull a credit report and get a perspective on the attractiveness of the loan and where they might sell it before they have to pull a more expensive product.

And then again, within a narrow time window, we will allow them to pull an additional credit score and apply it to the same report that they pulled from TransUnion if they're looking for additional information that might provide additional insights or alpha for them. And again, this is our effort to address the cost of evaluating and originating mortgages in a very mortgage challenged market.

The second point that I want to make clear, and it just bears reiteration is at the end of last year or into the last year, we changed our pricing structure at TransUnion. And also our competing bureaus did as well. And our industry has essentially decoupled our revenue from the FICO score. And we charge for the data, they can charge what they want for the score. They can direct license if they choose. We're happy to support almost all of the options that they have articulated at this point.

But we chart our own course on revenue, and we offer a score that is tremendously valuable, and it's at 1/10 of the price. And that is just additive revenue to everything that we do. And we're going to maintain this attractive level of pricing and promote market share -- market shift and share adoption in the coming years.

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All right. Good morning again. Thank you for being here. I'm happy to have Chris Cartwright from TransUnion, the CEO of TransUnion. So Chris, thank you for your time.

Always a pleasure.

A lot to talk through. Maybe I'll start a little bit high level just from a macro perspective. You guys have some unique insights into what's going on in the lending environment, the consumer. We've got oil above $100 filling up the car, gas tankers is not cheap, rates above 7%. So just your read to the consumer and how that impacts kind of your current guidance and assessment of your financials.

Yes, for sure. It's a good place to start. It's a bumpier world than I think we all wish that it was. Look, over the course of the third quarter, we expect that we're well positioned to achieve the guidance that we issued in Q2, even with the upgraded targets that we outlined for the market. As you'll recall, all we really did in the upgrade was to flow through the goodness from overperformance in the second quarter. And then we're also very cautious about not changing our mortgage estimates for the full year because we just felt like the balance of risks was more toward rate increases and some diminished mortgage volume.

So overall, mortgage is our most rate-sensitive product and higher rates are not helpful. But as you know, we're at like historic volume lows in the mortgage industry currently. So we're kind of at a floor level of transaction with perhaps occasionally a little bump above that for some refi activity. That's likely to diminish in the third quarter. I don't really expect that volumes will be materially impacted in card, auto, consumer lending, fintechs. They are far more insensitive to rates. There's just more spread and more opportunity to either recalibrate the rates or shorter durations, right? Net-net, I feel like the guidance that we provided, which is to achieve at or above the high in the third quarter and for the full year, we still feel pretty good about that.

Okay. And then how about -- when you think about your medium-term or your longer-term guidance, how important is mortgage to those numbers? Like if things just stay flat for the next year or 2 years, like does that pose a risk to those numbers?

Yes. Well, as you know from our Investor Day earlier this year, any improvement in mortgage volumes beyond the current level of activity we've been experiencing like Q2 and previous, that was upside to the medium-term guidance that we provided. Now look, if we do get some increased stability and some rate improvements and the like and refi volumes pick up or purchase volumes pick up, that is very additive to the top line and the flow-through is very good. Let's hope that happens at some point during this kind of 3-year period. But we don't need rates to drop, and we don't need a big influx of volume to compound the top line high single digits.

Okay. Some of the other categories where you said you don't expect to see much impact today, at least maybe let's talk to the trends, starting with auto. What have been the trends? I mean you've been outperforming the market growth. So what are some of the reasons for that as well?

Yes. Well, running through the other ones. I mean auto will probably continue to be about a mid-single-digit grower. In the '23, '24 time frame, there were some demand pull forward, fear of tariffs and the like. So the volume shot up there. Since then, it's kind of been a mid-single-digit grower. I would expect that to continue. On the card side, again, it's also kind of a low to mid-single-digit grower during this period. I think it's steady there. In '24 and '25, there was a resurgence in consumer lending activity, in particular, the fintechs started to revitalize or reinvigorated.

And I expect that growth rate to continue, although perhaps to abate a little bit quarter-by-quarter given the higher comps that they're growing over. But things look good in consumer lending. I mean, I think the appetite for consumer loans, unsecured consumer loans is steady to growing. It's a mainstream product now. There's a lot of capital available to the space. And the fintech players have kind of diversified their product lines and diversified across the risk spectrum as well. So I feel like they're much better positioned to weather changes in rates.

Okay. And before I touch on fintech real quickly, last week, Todd had talked about how the financial services ex mortgage have been growing high single digits for many, many quarters now. And I guess the volume have been more low single-digit-ish, call it. So what are the key factors driving that outperformance for you guys?

Sure. Well, I feel like we've been competing really effectively. So we do have some share benefits there, which is nice. But also, we have more products that we can sell into the financial services segments and really all parts of our portfolio. And so that would be our expansion into marketing and fraud and the Trusted Call phone services and the like. And then also our analytics platform, TruIQ, has really gained a lot of momentum in recent quarters. Now that it's complete, now that it's on the OneTru platform, it's really solidified and capturing a lot of interest in the market.

Got it. And then just on fintech, I guess the question is more just help us how big is fintech today? I know you had your peak kind of a few years ago, but just curious where you are.

Yes, we peaked at about $175 million, and that was back toward the end of the low rate environment. So '22, '23 certainly changed that and the fintechs kind of went into hibernation mode, if you will, limited to no originations. Now it's about $145 million, I would think. Yes, that's it. And look, it's really come back in the '24, '25 time frame. And as I just mentioned, the space is healthy. Our performance there and our share is strong. And you're actually having good success in cross-selling into the fintechs. I mean our credit and credit analytics have always been our strength there. Now we're selling marketing and customer acquisition solutions in combination. So it's kind of an exciting time for us.

Okay. Got it. And I know we haven't asked this question for the last 2 years, but I think people are starting to get nervous again, but recession risks and your ability to even grow during a recession, you've highlighted that in prior Investor Days. Maybe you could just help us how you think about how you can counter if you do get into one of those situations.

Yes. Well, look, the last 3 years, not recessionary, of course, but kind of okay, stable to sideways market volumes, if you will. And we've been compounding net of FICO, 7%, 8% top line, right? If there's a recession, there could be a step down. But I think the portfolio is just so much broader and diversified and resilient than it's ever been. Part of that is the geographic expansion. And in the last kind of lending recession in the '22, '23 time frame, you really saw the benefit of that geographic diversification. The U.S. went down a lot, but the international portfolio grew mid-teens for a while and carried us.

There's also been good product line diversification. And even within core credit, while we've had great growth in core financial services and our credit offerings, it's now a full life cycle solution. It's not origination volume dependent. We're doing a lot of portfolio analytics, doing a lot of delinquency and collection tactics and just general analytics across that. So the short answer is we have a lot of ways in which we can grow even in more difficult market conditions.

Got it. One of the other areas people like kind of the macro update on is in India. It's obviously one of the gems of your business. It was growing north of 25%, even higher than that...

It was compounding on in the low 30s for a period...

And now it's kind of slowed down, picking back up a bit. But just maybe rehash why it slowed down and what do you think the trajectory from here on is?

Yes. So the first cause of the slowdown from a couple of years of low 30% organic growth was the RBI became concerned that there might be a bit of froth in the online unsecured lending market. And so they wanted to ensure that appropriate diligence was being done on those loans and that those loans weren't being granted and consumers have been speculating in the equity markets, there's some concern about that. So they cracked down on the reserves and they increased the level of deposit reserves you had to have against those types of loans, which slowed the market down tremendously.

We also had some banks that looked at the profitability of recent origination vintages in card and decided to cut back a bit. And those 2 product lines, unsecured lending and card demand a lot of credit. So that reset things lower, but our volume has been growing back up over that. In addition, recently, on the commercial side, the Indian government has had some support for small to midsized businesses that have led to increased lending volumes in commercial as well as the consumer rebound. I expect that we will grow high single digits and maybe double digits exiting the year in India. And the medium-term expectation for India's growth is kind of mid-teens.

Okay. And that mid-teens growth, is there any way to break that out by pricing, volume, innovation, the kind of breakout that we usually do?

Yes. I think it's going to be driven a lot through volume and a number of innovations, right? One, we've been improving the core value of our consumer credit file. We've expanded the number of banks and the volumes of trade lines furnished. We've enhanced the amount of data we're collecting from each of the banks, which has improved the predictiveness of the file. We recently rebuilt our primary consumer scores in India. And then we've been investing heavily on the commercial side of things to become a leading player there. We've got an outsized growth in commercial credit.

On top of that, now that the tech transformation that we've done and a lot of the new products that we've built on our OneTru platform are available, we're moving them into the Indian market. So we moved our analytics sandbox, TruIQ, into India in the early part of the year. It's selling extremely well. There's a ton of interest and opportunity in that market.

We've expanded our Trusted Call Solutions into India. Now it's pre-revenue right now, but we have struck deals with all the major telcos, and we're going to become the branded and trusted call authentication provider in that market. And that's a huge grower here in the U.S., as you know. And then our fraud mitigation platform, which we call TruValidate, that's also being brought into India. So -- and an introductory version of the marketing suite. So we're taking all of these global products that we've built on the OneTru platform, and we're migrating them into India and also to other few key markets around the world right now.

Got it. And maybe just one last one in India. In terms of the competitive environment, I know CIBIL, which is your brand in India, has 70-plus percent -- share. It sounds like that's sustainable. And all these new features you talked about is probably a differentiator or are you seeing competition to do some...

Yes. Look, it's all competition forces innovation. And yes, we've got an advantage, but we can't rest on our laurels. So those improvements to the core quality of the credit data as well as the scores, that's all about maintaining and expanding our competitiveness in the core consumer part of credit. And the rest of it is just leveraging the innovation that we have created centrally and pushing it out into all the markets where it's applicable.

Got it. And then talk about competition. Maybe we'll switch countries to Mexico. Equifax is about to close a deal to get into Mexico. You guys just bought the majority...

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Yes, in Mexico. So maybe the first question is just what is the -- is it the 2-bureau market? What is the competitive dynamic? I know also you bought consumer, they bought commercial as well. So just curious how you think about the competitive positioning there?

So the business that we acquired that we have owned 26% of since the mid-'90s was the consortium of the major banks and the major and other lenders contributing their trade lines to [ Buro de Mexico. ] What Equifax acquired is called Circulo de Credito, and it was stood up by one of the prominent Mexican families. And it concentrated more on fintech and less on positive data from the central banks, right? So we are the market leader with over 600 million trade lines contributed by all the key mainstream consumer lenders in the Mexican market, and that's proprietary to us.

And we've had a fairly limited focus on the fintech sector in Mexico. As you would imagine, when the mainstream banks own you, it's a little bit dicey or sensitive to service and enable the fintechs, right? That was more what Circulo did. Now the fintechs have been growing very rapidly in Mexico, and you can see that in their growth rate. But our business has grown extremely well. I mean for the past several years, we've been low double-digit growth. That's beyond what we've forecasted for '27. And I'd rather be a little bit cautious because in the first year of ownership, there's a lot of changes that are taking place, cultural, organizational, technological -- and so I want us to weather that. But we're now in a position where we can service all parts of the Mexican lending ecosystem, including the fintechs. We understand fintechs. We're very good at that. We'll be bringing a lot of our know-how from the U.S. into the Mexican market. We're already hosting some of those clients in Chicago doing innovation labs and the like to show them how powerful our data is and how it can improve their lending operations.

Got it. But just on the trade line, the [ 600 million ] trade lines, I guess that does not include fintech. Was that your point because the bank.

There's a very limited amount of fintech...

Okay. Right. All right. And then just in terms of timing, like you said, you've owned 20-something percent of this for a long, long time.

Yes. We invested in '96. And -- I'm sorry...

The question was why acquire today? What is it about the Mexican market that maybe you think now is a good time.

Well, you got to make hay when the sun is shining, right? And we've been trying to acquire Mexico since '96 because we think it's a great and growth market with a large and growing population and also underpenetrated in a lot of financial products. It's got all the characteristics that you want when you enter into a new marketplace. And it also has just a very basic bureau. This is like the Bureau 1.0. And I think more developed countries are onto the 3.0 version of a credit reporting agency. We think we can infuse all of that innovation and goodness into Mexico in short order, and that will be very good for the Mexican market and for Mexican consumers. So the banks were ready to exit, and we had a right of first refusal, and we also had a lot of experience in that marketplace, and we're excited to be there.

Got it. And then maybe just a broader question on international geographies generally. I mean you are in a bunch of others, but is it just whenever kind of the dominant bank-owned bureau is up for sale, you'd be interested in that? Or how should we think about where you want to be globally?

Yes, absolutely. And I mean, then you get down to just what are the growth characteristics of a given market, how well is it being serviced? Can we buy our way in at an appropriate price? And do we believe that our platform, our know-how, our innovation can give us an upside to the growth and profit that's currently being produced.

Got it. Maybe we can switch to the OneTru migration and the platform and everything. So maybe first question, where are we in terms of that migration? I think in your last call, you said by year-end, you'll have all the U.S. batch completed of the sort. So just a quick update there and the time line.

Right. So we are currently in the process of migrating all of our credit customers in the U.S., our batch API credit customers onto the OneTru platform. It's going well. We're more than halfway there now, and we will complete the migration in full by the end of this year. And the U.S. credit alone is almost 40% of global revenues. So high confidence that that's going to be done by the end of the year and a lot of benefits to running on the OneTru platform versus the heritage platform. It will probably take another couple of quarters into '27 until all of the U.S. marketing customers and fraud have been converted fully onto OneTru. And even if we don't get like perfect 100% conversion, we're able to compress and consolidate the legacy tech stack substantially to minimize the spend and allow all of our engineers to focus on OneTru in the go forward.

Got it. And then I'm guessing international will be after that or in conjunction...

Yes. So the next 4 countries that we're rolling out is Canada, Mexico, the U.K. and India, and then we're also going to do the Philippines. So it's 5 countries. But putting the Philippines aside, once we do those next 4 countries, that's 95% of the revenue of TransUnion. Now we've already stood up instances of OneTru in each of the next 4 countries, and we're working with the local tech teams to understand the fit gap and to plan the migration. And so I would say within '27 and '28 time frame, we'll have the 5 countries that constitute 95% of our global volume running on OneTru. And look, the benefit of doing that is once you're running on OneTru, not only do you get a substantially better credit platform, but you get a whole series of products that you can launch in the market, relevant products that they don't have today. So we can really lean into the analytics suite to fraud, which we call TruValidate, marketing, which is TruAudience, and push all of that into -- build it once and then push it into the major markets around the world.

Got it. And then from a customer standpoint, once the OneTru migration is done, what is the largest improvement that they will notice?

Yes. A couple of things to say about kind of the customer experience. Well, first of all, when I talk about the migration, some folks ask, is that going to be difficult like an ERP software migration. It's not like that. We don't have license installed software for the most part. We're a service bureau that runs on a sophisticated tech stack. So to convert a client requires the client simply to code to a different API and then, of course, monitor traffic and make sure everything is calibrated and appropriate. So that conversion is not that difficult. But in terms of what the client gets, they get -- they get five 9s availability. They get a dramatic increase in response time. And they get a whole bunch of integrated analytic identity and product functionality that all rest on top of the OneTru platform. So it's much easier for them to consume products beyond the traditional scope of credit, and it's much easier for us to show them the value and to cross-sell all of those products into the marketplace or rather into their demand. Yes.

Okay. So from a revenue perspective, it sounds like it's NPI, it's cross-sell, it's copy-paste into other countries.

Stability, all.

Yes. From a margin perspective for yourselves, like how should we think about once OneTru is done, how much of an incremental margin benefit is it?

OneTru is an important enabler of increasing scale within the organization. The starting point before OneTru, 30 countries, 30 independent tech stacks, 30 fully vertically integrated management teams. As we have created this data as a service platform, if you will, as OneTru, we can build things once and then rapidly deploy them around the world. We'll save a ton of infrastructure. We'll be able to free engineering capacity up from maintaining all these 30 legacy systems to concentrating on innovation on the OneTru platform and all the products that rest on the platform. And there will be efficiencies that we can push to margin. Now as you know, we've committed over the next 3 years to enhancing margin 50 to 75 bps per year. This is an important way in which we can do that in addition to just steady high single-digit or beyond revenue compounding and the natural fall through to profit.

Got it. And maybe this can be a broader answer, but how important is AI, GenAI, all the new technologies to OneTru and to these margin targets that you set out?

Yes. Look, applying AI is, for us, additive to our financial targets, both on the revenue and on the cost side. Now I would expect the priority kind of a rapid adopter of AI. You've seen the analytics orchestrator framework, the agentic framework that we've created to take our data and to rapidly develop all of the predictive models that are built over the lending cycle on that data. I think that's going to give us a productivity boost, but it's also going to help us drive more analytic revenues across our customer base. The software development organization, the data science organization, they're between 1/4 to 1/3 more productive right now. And then we're working across the entire landscape of corporate services, particularly where we've got a lot of employee concentration, whether it's customer operations or consumer dispute management operations to apply AI to drive productivity. So I think there will be material net savings as we roll AI out across the entirety of our organization. Some we'll take to margin. Some will reinvest to further accelerate revenue.

Got it. Okay. Let's shift gears to some of the regulatory noise out there. By one count, Director Pulte over the last few weeks has tweeted almost 40-plus times now. Just your understanding of what's going on at the FHFA, what Director Pulte is trying to achieve. I know you talked to his teams a lot, but just curious how you would kind of assess broadly what's going on here.

Yes. A lot of communication from the director on a lot of topics, some directly related to bureaus and bureau data, some related to scoring and really the full landscape of mortgage services and mortgage data, right? I would say, look, broadly, the director is intent on modernizing the FHFA and the GSEs and has been an advocate for change, including competition -- price competition and scoring, if you will. Our engagement with the FHFA and the GSEs is frequent and it is productive and it's expanding. And look, it's a different world, right, where regulators and politicians are frequently tweeting these things. Sometimes it's helpful, sometimes it can confuse.

What I will say is just first principles, you have to tip your hat to the director for having the courage to take on score competition, right? The VantageScore has existed for 20 years. And he's the first regulator that said, we're going to shake things up in the market, and we're going to push the market to accommodate different scores. And recently, one of the signaled that the GSEs may begin publishing their own credit scores, which I think is a great idea. I mean let's have a lot of competition in the credit scoring market and the GSE scores are certainly authoritative, and we would be happy to partner with that. So I think all of this is, look, it's net good because the scores first needed to be modernized using trended data and alternative data. VantageScore does that. FICO 10T will do that, and that's a net benefit to the market. And if the GSEs start publishing and commercializing their own scoring logic, that's very positive.

Now on some of the other issues, tri-merge versus bi-merge versus single pull, I think there are a couple of ways to think about this. From a policy perspective and then from a TransUnion impact perspective. My sense of Washington is that the tri-merge is still appreciated by many parts of the political establishment and the industry, and is viewed as the gold standard. And we know analytically from work that we have done that our competitors have done that S&P did back during the Biden administration that there are material differences in the coverage of the 3 bureau credit files. If you exclude one, a portion of the population would not qualify for a mortgage or would be materially impacted in terms of their pricing. S&P size that at a couple of million of mortgage applicants each year, right? And even a small variation in the interest rate over time can mean thousands of dollars of increased interest against the savings of $11.50 on a bureau report, right? So you have to be very careful about that.

But again, the context is it's tough out there for mortgage lenders. Volumes are at 20-year lows. The supply of housing is far short of what the nation needs and borrowing costs are going up. So it's hard to meaningfully impact affordability unless you do something about those 2 foundational elements of affordability. From a policy perspective, though, more data works better than less data, and they can see that empirically. As we look at our own economics, look, I expect to finish the year at about $5.25 billion in revenue. Our headline mortgage revenue is about $750 million. Three-quarters of that is the FICO score on which there's no margin. Another good chunk of that is non-tri-merge-related credit data consumption. And so you're left with maybe $260 million of revenue. That's the tri-merge universe that's going into resellers.

Of that $260 million, about 37% goes to Fannie and Freddie. The rest is going to the FHFA, the VA, the Department of Agriculture, other government entities providing mortgage partnerships, jumbo loans, portfolio activities, et cetera. So maybe we have $100 million, maybe a bit north of $100 million in revenue that's tied to GSE tri-merge. If 1/3 of that goes away or maybe half of it goes away, I don't know that you'll notice it in the context of an overall business that's growing at 7% or 8% organically. Maybe it cost us 1 point in a year, but then it's gone, and it's in the normal baseline. And it will be very much like the early assessment program, which changed prequalification requirements.

Before early assessment, the GSEs required you to pull 3 credit reports. 3 years ago, when this went into effect, they said you could only pull one credit report and they would give you the indication on whether the GSEs will buy the mortgage. After 3 years, the market has kind of settled down on 2-plus credit pulls per mortgage transaction. And so I think you probably see something similar like that happen if we went to a bi-merge. Net-net, the best policy for the U.S. mortgage market and U.S. consumers is preserve the tri-merge. From a profit impact of TransUnion, we could easily absorb that in a given year and continue to grow.

Got it. And the prior FHFA administration had considered bi-merge as well, and it was an optional. So to your point, if the industry believes in tri-merge, they'll do that. But the question is Director Pulte's also been tweeting a lot about a single file pull. That sounds a lot more draconian type scenario. Like is that even something the industry would do you think support there?

Well, I don't think so. I mean, again, there's a lot of economic pressure because volumes are low. And there are certain advocates for bi-merge or single pull. But even the MBA did a recent analysis, their own analysis, and they are a principal advocate for the single pull. It is that 1/3 of the time, if you only pull a single credit report, you're going to misclassify consumers, and that's going to impact their interest rates, but also what the lender would realize via the LLPAs in selling. And in the analytic universe, only getting it right 2 out of 3 times is not very good. So when I saw that, I kind of didn't know whether they were advocating our position or their position. I think a single pull is not responsible policy.

Got it. Fair enough. The 40 to 60-point difference you talked about between the -- whichever a combination of 2 reports you pull creates like the gaming opportunity. And I think your point is the industry will still keep pulling 3 reports. So it's kind of a similar question on the score side. I mean there's some big differences in some of the scores you get from FICO and VantageScore. So do you think in order -- I mean, it sounds like there will be some gaming in some corners, but do you think that will also be a 2 score market like people will pull both scores?

Well, it could, particularly during this transition period. And look, as you know, in '26, this transition, there's a lot of 2 scores being pulled. And I think that's good, and that's kind of expected given the magnitude of the change and the number of different mortgage ecosystem participants that are on this learning curve. Net-net, once we're through the transition period and the market is enjoying the benefits of scores built with modern techniques on trended data and incorporating alternative data sets when they're available, I wouldn't worry too much about the gaming because the status quo is a score that really hasn't evolved in 30 years. Now we're moving to competing scores, FICO and Vantage that are modern and much more performant. And I don't worry too much about the gaming risk there, not from an inclusion perspective or a safety and soundness perspective.

Got it. You narrowed down the exposure of TransUnion to a bi-merge pretty nicely. The one thing you didn't factor in, of course, was let's just say we do move to a bi-merge or single pull, your ability to take share, so that it's not like you lose 1/3 simply. What are some of those things you can do to differentiate in that scenario to not lose 1/3, I guess?

Yes. I think what you're saying is what's unique and special about our credit relative to our competitors. Look, each of the 3 bureaus puts forth a high-quality predictive product. Our advantage has been -- we've been the first mover in terms of time series credit reports, trended data. And we go back the furthest in time. We go back 2.5 years. And because we were first to the market by 3 years, we've had more time to develop the analytic attributes that sit on top of the core credit data that make our data very predictive and perform very well.

We also acquired and expanded our coverage in the payday lending market in the unsecured lending market. And so we've got a great complement of trade lines there that makes -- that provides us with an advantage. Our fintech market share and coverage is considerable. It's best-in-class. It's well above 50%, 70% by some estimates, that's a differentiator as well. We've got good rental coverage, improving utility coverage. There's a lot, right? And so again, each of the bureaus I know can tell their own story about the uniqueness of their proprietary bundle. We've got a good story, and we've competed very well in the mortgage market for a long time.

Got it. Okay. In the last few minutes we have left, maybe let's touch on capital allocation. You guys have -- the capital allocation has transformed a lot over the years, and now it's become a much more balanced policy. So just what's changed? And what is -- how do you think about capital allocation today?

Well, over this period of transformation over the past 4 years, where first, we allocated a lot of capital to acquisition, acquiring and broadening our value proposition and then some capital to technology modernization and modernizing our org and our workforce. That spend is largely behind us. So our leverage ratio was 2.6x, even with the acquisition of Mexico at the end of the second quarter. And we're very confident we'll be at our 2.5x target or better by the end of this year, right? So that gets the balance sheet in very good shape. Our free cash flow is growing and our conversion is well above 90% again.

So if you look forward to the next 3 years, we're going to generate a lot of cash. In my opinion, in the opinion of many people in the room, our shares are materially undervalued for a number of reasons, AI regulatory tweeting and uncertainty and certainly the macro environment. So buying back shares is a really good use of this -- of the free cash flow that we've got. We'll continue to acquire relevant innovation when we think it's smart and we can get it at a reasonable shareholder-friendly valuation. We'll do that. We don't see any need to do anything really big or transformative. We did that. We're still digesting and realizing the benefits from a lot of that. OneTru is a real manifestation of that. So I don't think shareholders should worry or think about any of that type of activity. So the prudent balance between acquiring shares, managing the debt load and the occasional strategic acquisition for innovation's sake or maybe entering an attractive country. That's the capital allocation landscape we see.

Okay. And just maybe one follow-up on the -- you talked about potential AI risks hitting your stock. In terms of the software components of your business, your U.K. peer has been suffering because they have a huge software business that they talk about it and people think that could be at risk. Just help us appreciate how much of your software business is tied to that contributory data set that you have that's hard to replicate versus sitting alone and could be at risk of vibe coding?

Yes, sure. Look, vibe coding is not a risk for us. We are a data and analytics business, and we have low single-digit revenue coming from annuity-based analytics solutions today. That said, when you think of our overall value proposition, the stack, it's very concentrated in data and attributes and scores in basic analytics today. We call that the intelligence layer. We've taken that intelligence and brought it to market in some point solution software and some integrated suite software, but it's really all about delivering the data functionality.

But in this era of agentic commerce and AI, we've got the opportunity to start doing a lot more work for our clients and displacing spend and work that they're doing with their own people with third-party software with outside consultants. That's why we created the analytics orchestrator framework, and that's why I think we can really accelerate the growth through forward consulting of our analytics revenue despite vibe coding and other threats. I mean it's still -- you have a lot of domain knowledge. You've got to bring a lot of proprietary data and know-how and we think we can scale up that aspect, and that is additive to our business.

Okay. All right. Well, that's a good place to leave it. We're out of time. So thank you, Chris, and thanks, everybody as well.

Thank you.

All right. Thank you.

Good morning, and welcome to the TransUnion 2026 Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Greg Bardi, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Good morning, and thank you for attending today. Joining me on the call are Chris Cartwright, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Todd Cello, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. We posted our earnings release and slides to accompany this call on the TransUnion Investor Relations website this morning, and they can also be found in the current report on Form 8-K that we filed this morning. .

Our earnings release and the accompanying slides include various schedules, which contain more detailed information about revenue, operating expenses and other items, as well as certain non-GAAP disclosures and financial measures along with the corresponding reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures.

Today's call will be recorded and a replay will be available on our website. We will also be making statements during this call that are forward-looking. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements because of factors discussed in today's earnings release and the comments made during this conference call and in our most recent Form 10-K, Forms 10-Q and other reports and filings with the SEC. We do not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statement. With that, let me turn it over to Chris.

Thank you, Greg, and good morning, everyone, and welcome to our Q2 earnings call. Let me outline the agenda for this morning. So first, I'm going to review our second quarter results and the increased guidance for full year 2026. Then we'll get into an example of how we are driving innovation-led diversified and scalable growth across the business using U.S. financial services as an example of this strategy in action.

Then I'll hand it over to Todd, who will go into the details on Q2 and provide the third quarter guide and also the full year '26 guide. So turning to the second quarter. Again, we delivered strong results exceeding our guidance for revenue, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted diluted earnings per share. Our organic constant currency revenue grew 10% and above our 8% to 9% guidance, which marks our tenth third quarter of at least high single-digit growth.

And if you exclude FICO mortgage royalties, the organic revenue grew 7% and which is also above our expectations. Now in U.S. markets, revenue increased 11%. Financial Services, again led the way, up 18% or 10% excluding FICO mortgage royalties. We delivered broad-based growth across lending types driven by sales momentum across credit and noncredit solutions alongside some modest volume growth and pricing actions.

Now emerging verticals grew 9% in the quarter, led by double-digit growth in insurance as well as high single-digit growth in technology, retail and e-commerce. International revenues accelerated to 6% organically, driven by our largest markets. Canada again posted strong results at 10%, and India and the U.K. also grew high single digits.

In India, strong new business wins and a gradually improving credit volumes drove a return to growth. And additionally, our recently acquired Bureau in Mexico continues to track well ahead of our acquisition case on both revenue and adjusted EBITDA. Revenue growth translated into 13% adjusted diluted earnings per share growth, and we increased our share repurchases in the second quarter and through July, bringing our year-to-date total to roughly $150 million.

We retain ample capacity for additional repurchases in the second half of the year under our $1 billion authorization and we also reduced our leverage ratio to 2.6x in the quarter due to strong adjusted EBITDA growth. Now our strong first half performance has allowed us to raise our full year guidance. We now expect 8% to 9% organic constant currency revenue growth, 10% to 11% adjusted EBITDA growth and 11% to 12% adjusted diluted earnings per share growth.

Our 11% to 12% adjusted diluted earnings per share growth, that guide represents an increase from our prior 9% to 11% assumption. So our guidance balances operating overperformance in the first half and constructive ongoing trends in the market with appropriate conservatism given it's still an uncertain macro environment. Across our markets, we continue to experience consumer resilience and broadly stable market volumes. Specific to the U.S., lenders are cautiously optimistic and anticipate modest loan growth, which is supported by strong consumer credit performance.

Now we continue to monitor inflation levels and interest rates and their potential impacts on consumer behavior and loan demand. The 10-year treasury yield is now approaching 4.7%, that's up roughly 50 basis points from the start of the year. And while this has modestly pressured mortgage activity, impacts across the remainder of our portfolio have been limited. If the current trends continue, we expect performance to be at or slightly above the high end of our guidance.

At the same time, our range is designed to absorb a reasonable level of market softening. And Todd is going to provide more details on this in the guidance assumptions later. Our strong results and guidance reflect consistent execution against the growth strategy we outlined in February, unlocking the full potential of one true platform and accelerating innovation in AI-enabled solutions and translating these capabilities into commercial momentum across our portfolio.

So let me highlight the milestones against each of these priorities. So first, on the platform modernization, we continue to make really good progress. We have materially increased U.S. credit customer migrations to OneTru during the quarter. At this point, roughly 60% of our U.S. match activity and 30% of online customers are now running on OneTru. That's over 4,000 U.S. credit customers now migrated.

And we continue to convert the most complex activity first but maintain an emphasis on minimizing customer disruption. We expect to complete the U.S. migrations by the end of this year. Additionally, we continue to extend the OneTru platform and solutions internationally. We have now deployed OneTru instances in Canada, the U.K. and India to support the launch of our TruIQ analytics platform. We also launched TruValidate our fraud solution in the U.K. and trusted call solutions in Canada and India, creating new local market opportunities for these global products. And 1 true is enabling us to increase our innovation velocity.

Across the enterprise, we launched 40 new products and AI-powered enhancements in the first half alone, contributing significantly to our sales pipeline. And beyond this innovation, we're also deploying at scale internally to improve our productivity. We are already seeing gains by using these tools across key employee groups, including average gains of over 25% for our software engineers and data scientists and early experimentation, more than 20% within our consumer support operations.

These successes reinforce our confidence in the broader opportunity to drive AI efficiencies that can enhance our margins and fund future growth investments. Now these platform and innovation investments are increasing commercial momentum across solutions and within verticals and geographies. In the first half of the year, core credit, excluding FICO mortgage royalties and fraud each grew in the high single digits, driven by traction in TruIQ, alternative data and trusted call solutions.

Marketing Solutions also grew mid-single digits, supported by strong identity performance with acceleration expected in the second half. So together, OneTru in our global solutions strategy is increasing our innovation, expanding addressable opportunities and supporting scalable revenue growth. So let's have a case study of this strategy in action, focusing on U.S. financial services where platform modernization, product innovation and deeper customer engagement are translating into sustained outperformance.

Within U.S. Financial Services, growth has consistently exceeded underlying market volumes. Excluding mortgage, Financial Services has grown at 9% compound annual growth rate outpacing the roughly 2% average growth in U.S. consumer credit originations and real GDP growth over the same period. We have sustained this outperformance across multiple operating environments. U.S. financial services, excluding mortgage, has delivered high single digit or greater growth, except for modest pullbacks during the pandemic and in the '23 and 2024 consumer lending slowdown.

This track record reflects the strength of our U.S. credit data and expanded solution suite, which have enabled outperformance across market cycles. Growth is increasingly driven by share gains, pricing and innovation, not simply underlying lending activity. Now one reason that we've been able to consistently outgrow the market is the increasing diversification of our financial services business. At almost 2/3 of financial services revenue, CoreCredit remains the foundation of the franchise. We continue to grow our share on the strength of our leading trended data and attributes as well as our differentiated and insight-led engagement model.

Building from that foundation, more than 1/3 of revenue now comes from solutions outside traditional credit reports and scores. These newer revenue streams represent faster-growing opportunities that are often less directly tied to lending origination volumes. Roughly 12% of revenue comes from alternative data like FactorTrust, as well as our TrueIQ analytics enablement suite. These solutions serve lenders increasing appetite for alternative data sets and AI-enabled analytic tools to activate our data at scale.

Another 24% of revenue comes from noncredit solutions, most notably trusted call solutions and our modernized marketing and fraud solutions. This intentional diversification has expanded our position beyond CoreCredit to make us a broader partner for clients across the customer life cycle. We help them reach the right consumers improve engagement, mitigate fraud, manage portfolios and make better decisions. This combination of CoreCredit leadership and complementary adjacent growth opportunities is a real differentiator for TransUnion.

So the benefits of our diversified growth strategy are evident in our recent performance. Over the last 2 years, U.S. Financial Services, excluding mortgage, has grown at a roughly 10% compound annual growth rate with contributions from across the product portfolio. CoreCredit is growing low double digits annually. This growth exceeds lending volume growth, reflecting customers' continued preference for our differentiated trended data and analytics.

Our alternative data and analytics are growing in the low teens annually, led by FactorTrust and new wins for our TrueIQ suite. The maturation of TrueIQ provides a new opportunity to further increase growth. Noncredit solutions is growing at a high single-digit annual rate with room for further acceleration. Trusted call solutions, in particular, has been the standout, growing over 50% annually within financial services. And we see increased revenue and bookings momentum within marketing and fraud.

These solutions address a growing set of mission-critical use cases. Now AI will increase demand for proprietary data analytics and decisioning capabilities, areas where we are well positioned. Over time, we expect increased AI sophistication to drive higher data consumption, stronger demand for TrueIQ analytics and faster adoption of our marketing in fraud tools. Taken together, these trends position us to continue growing above underlying market volumes.

Financial Services now benefits from multiple growth vectors, a broader addressable market in a more diversified revenue base than at any point in our history. So with that as context of how our strategy is driving commercial success, I'm going to pass it to Todd, who will detail Q2 performance and our refresh guidance. Todd?

Thanks, Chris, and let me add my welcome to everyone. Starting with the quarter, revenue exceeded the high end of guidance by $27 million and adjusted EBITDA exceeded by $11 million led by stronger-than-expected performance in U.S. nonmortgage financial services, emerging verticals and international. U.S. mortgage was roughly in line with expectations despite rising interest rates throughout the quarter. Total revenue increased 15% on a reported and 10% on an organic constant currency basis led by U.S. financial services and emerging verticals.

Excluding FICO mortgage royalties, organic growth was 7%. Adjusted EBITDA increased 12%. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 34.8%, slightly better than guidance and down 90 basis points year-over-year. The impact of FICO mortgage royalties accounted for the entirety of the year-over-year decline, with underlying margins up modestly. Acquisitions had an immaterial impact on consolidated margins as Mexico delivered better-than-anticipated adjusted EBITDA performance.

Adjusted diluted earnings per share was $1.23, up 13% year-over-year and $0.08 ahead of the high end of our guidance. In the second quarter, U.S. markets revenue grew 11% on an organic constant currency basis versus the prior year. Growth was diversified across our verticals, supported by strong first half bookings and retention as well as continued demand for both credit and noncredit solutions.

Financial Services revenue grew 18% or 10% excluding FICO mortgage royalties. In core nonmortgage financial services, revenue grew 8% and with healthy growth across lending types. As Chris discussed, growth reflects a mix of healthy lending activity, pricing, new wins and increasing adoption of our broader solution set. Credit card and banking rose 6% on lending volume growth and new wins from trusted call solutions. Consumer lending grew 8% with strong fintech and sustained consumer demand.

Auto was up 8%, driven by pricing and new wins across our solutions. Auto growth outpaced declining industry volumes lapping last year's tariff-related pull forward in purchase activity. In mortgage, revenue grew 37%. Excluding FICO royalties, mortgage growth was 15% versus inquiries down 7%. And with outperformance due to pricing actions and non tri-bureau revenues.

Growth was in line with expectations even as volumes came in modestly lower as rates increased during the quarter. Within mortgage, we recently added new alternative credit attributes from FactorTrust to our mortgage credit file at no additional cost to customers. This enhancement reflects our continued focus on helping mortgage lenders develop a more complete and actionable view of borrower behavior.

Additionally, VantageScore usage in mortgage was a highlight in the quarter with a meaningful increase in adoption. At the start of the year, less than 5% of our mortgage credit inquiries included VantageScore. That figure is now closer to 30% on across more than 900 lenders and increasing each month. Most activity remains dual poles with VantageScore and FICO, but we are beginning to see increased VantageScore only usage including certain mortgages requiring mortgage insurance.

Importantly, our 2026 guidance continues to assume no benefit from VantageScore adoption. That said, the momentum we are seeing gives us greater confidence in the long-term opportunity as the market moves through testing, validation and operational readiness.

Turning to emerging verticals. Growth accelerated to 9% and led by our eighth straight quarter of double-digit growth in insurance as well as trusted call solution strength across our verticals. Within insurance, we experienced robust demand across our solution suite. Credit-based marketing continues to strengthen. Consumer shopping remains active and we drove growth across CoreCredit, driving history and trusted call solutions.

Tech retail and e-commerce, where a significant portion of our marketing and fraud revenue as reported grew high single digit with emerging verticals, insurance and tech, retail and e-commerce account for over half of the revenue. Across our other emerging verticals, public sector in media grew mid-single digits tenant and employment returned the growth and the Telco vertical declined modestly. Consumer Interactive declined 3%, in line with our expectations as growth in the indirect channel was offset by declines in the direct channel.

In international, all revenue growth comparisons are on an organic constant currency basis. National revenue accelerated from flat growth in the first quarter to 6% in the second quarter. Overall results reflected strength in developed markets and improving trends across emerging markets, including an inflection in India and moderating headwinds in Asia Pacific.

Starting with India. Revenue accelerated to 8% growth, slightly ahead of our expectations. We experienced gradually improving volumes over the course of the quarter supported in part by the recent government-backed program to support commercial lending. We also delivered very strong new wins in the quarter. We continue to monitor the Indian market with cautious optimism about the trajectory. We expect similar growth in the third quarter with acceleration in the fourth quarter as comparisons ease.

Canada grew 10%, reflecting healthy activity across financial services as well as strong growth in fintechs and insurance. Pay grew 9%, outpacing modest market growth driven by share gains and new business wins across banking and fintech. Latin America improved a 5% organic growth with double-digit growth in Brazil and modest and improving growth in Colombia and other markets.

Africa also grew 5%, with broad-based growth across verticals and regions. And Asia Pacific declined 7% with the rate of decline improving versus the first quarter as we finished lapping prior year onetime contracts expect Asia Pacific to return the growth in the second half of the year. Within our international business, transition to Mexico continues to strongly outperform our acquisition case in the first few months of ownership.

Over the last several years, TransUnion de Mexico has grown at a double-digit compound annual growth rate, supported by a growing economy, favorable demographics and meaningful room for further formal credit penetration. Growth has been stronger than its Latin American peers over the last 2 years, reflecting not only these credit market fundamentals, but also Mexico's fiscal and monetary stability as well as its accelerating near-shoring activity supported by its proximity to the United States.

We are now applying TransUnion's global product, technology and commercial playbooks to accelerate growth beyond market volumes. Let me detail our early priorities as we integrate Mexico into TransUnion. First, we are enhancing our data foundation. Our long-standing relationships with the largest Mexican banks and fintechs have created the market's leading data coverage, quality, and predictive depth. That foundation includes nearly 600 million trade lines with positive and unique data representing 90% of the total.

Under Mexico's regulatory framework, those positive data trade lines are not shared with competitors, creating a structural advantage. We are building on this advantage by introducing new trended scores and attributes, expanding alternative data sets and eventually migrating Mexico to OneTru to unlock greater scalability.

Second, we are accelerating innovation. We plan to bring our leading global capabilities to Mexico over the course of the next year, including TruIQ Analytics, TruValidate and our credit education tools.

Third, we are enhancing client engagement. In core financial services, we are strengthening relationships with leading lenders via deeper analytics consulting. At the same time, we plan to use our data advantages and faster innovation to win in our already fast-growing fintech and retail verticals.

In summary, Mexico is performing ahead of plan, and we are building on that momentum with multiple opportunities to deploy our global capabilities. We believe this combination positions us on the path to drive sustained and scalable growth. Turning back to the enterprise. Operating performance is translating into strong cash generation improved balance sheet flexibility and greater capacity for capital return. We ended the second quarter with $5.6 billion of debt and $839 million of cash.

Our leverage ratio decreased to 2.6x. During the second quarter and through July, we accelerated our pace of repurchases. Year-to-date, we have repurchased 2.1 million shares at an average share price of roughly $71 for a total of roughly $150 million. We continue to view share repurchases as a highly attractive use of capital at current valuation levels.

For the remainder of 2026, we plan to continue executing on our disciplined capital allocation framework with a current bias toward capital return to shareholders. Based on current conditions, we expect the pace of second half repurchases to be at least comparable to the first half. We also remain committed to reducing our leverage ratio toward our long-term target of under 2.5x.

Before getting into guidance details, I want to reiterate our disciplined guidance philosophy. Our increase in full year guidance reflects strong performance in the first half of the year. A continuation of those trends would position us to deliver at or slightly above the high end of our range while the range preserves flexibility to manage ongoing market uncertainty.

In the third quarter, we are guiding revenue to be between $1.292 billion and $1.310 billion, up 11% to 12%. Growth is comprised of 6% to 8% organic constant currency growth and a 4.5 percentage point contribution from acquisitions. We expect 4% to 5.5% organic growth, excluding FICO mortgage royalties. Importantly, the implied sequential deceleration from 7%, excluding FICO in the second quarter is entirely related to our non-FICO mortgage revenue reflecting greater year-over-year declines in inquiry volumes.

We expect non-mortgage organic growth to be at or slightly above the 6% rate that we delivered in the second quarter. In other words, the deceleration does not reflect the change in core non-mortgage trends. We are guiding adjusted EBITDA to $455 million to $463 million, up 7% to 9% and implying a margin of 35.2% to 35.4%. Underlying margins expand by 20 to 40 basis points, offset by an 80 basis point drag from FICO royalties and a 60 basis point impact from acquisitions.

We expect adjusted diluted earnings per share to be between $1.18 and $1.21, up 7% to 10%. For full year guidance, we expect revenue to be between $5.127 billion and $5.162 billion, up 12% to 13%. Our raised guidance reflects strong growth from our Mexico acquisition as well as modestly higher non-mortgage organic growth due to strong first half performance.

Acquisitions now at 4% and FX has an immaterial impact on our guidance. We expect organic constant currency revenue growth of 8% to 9% or 5% to 6% excluding FICO mortgage royalties. Our segment level assumptions are broadly unchanged. Mortgage revenue growth guidance of 28% for the full year or 6% excluding FICO, is unchanged since February. Mortgage revenue exceeded our expectations in the first half, particularly in the first quarter when mortgage rates briefly dipped below 6%.

As mortgage rates have moved back above 6.5%, we have derisked our second half assumptions. Our conservative assumptions provide us flexibility to deliver these growth rates even if rates increase modestly from current levels. We now anticipate mid- to high single-digit inquiry declines for the full year, including low double-digit declines in the second half of the year. We continue to expect pricing actions and revenue beyond traditional tri-bureau reports to drive outperformance versus underlying volumes.

At the same time, stronger momentum across the remainder of the portfolio helps offset our more conservative second half mortgage assumptions. We expect adjusted EBITDA to be between $1.807 billion to $1.827 billion in 2026, up 10% to 11%, that results in a margin of 35.2% to 35.4%, down 60 to 80 basis points. Underlying margins are expected to expand by 50 to 70 basis points driven by revenue flow-through and remaining transformation savings.

This strong underlying expansion is offset by a 90 basis point drag from FICO royalties and a 40 basis point impact from our acquisitions. We anticipate adjusted diluted earnings per share to be $4.75 to $4.83, up 11% to 12%. This represents an increase from prior guidance of 9% to 11% growth. All other guidance items, including depreciation and amortization, net interest expense, adjusted tax rate and capital expenditures as a percent of revenue are unchanged from April. With that context, I will now turn the call back to Chris for closing remarks.

Thank you, Todd. So recapping in the second quarter, we beat guidance with double-digit revenue and earnings growth, reflecting the strength we're seeing in the U.S. market and our improving trends in international. We raised the full year '26 guidance but we maintain prudent assumptions around the macro environment. We now expect 8% to 9% organic constant currency revenue growth and 11% to 12% adjusted diluted EPS. This performance would reflect our third consecutive year of at least high single-digit organic constant currency revenue growth and double-digit adjusted diluted EPS growth. .

And we executed well against our 2026 strategic priorities, most notably with substantial migrations of our U.S. credit customers to OneTru as well as an accelerating pace of product launches enhancements and international rollout of the OneTru platform. Our investments in platform modernization, innovation and our unique data assets are translating into diversified and above-market growth rates.

As our business continues to become increasingly driven by scalable innovation, share gains and diversification. We are growing our free cash flow generation as well as our capacity to return capital to our shareholders. With that, it's back to you, Greg.

That concludes our prepared remarks. [Operator Instructions] Operator, we can begin the Q&A.

[Operator Instructions] And that first question today will come from Jeff Meuler with Baird.

I guess I'm struggling to understand how the non-mortgage organic upside and momentum gets adjusted in the guidance. And if that's just baked in as increased conservatism. I ask because the mortgage full year revenue guidance is unchanged, and it looks like most of the revenue guidance range is the outperformance in Mexico and increased M&A contribution. So if you could just help me with that.

This is Todd. I'll take that question for you. So in essence, what we've done with guidance for mortgage is we've maintained our full year guide that we came into the year with where we were calling for 28% growth all in, and 6% when you exclude the FICO mortgage royalty and that contemplates a decline of volume from mid- to high single digits.

Now to go back a little bit, the first half of the year, in particular, in the first quarter, we had outperformance in mortgage. It feels like a long time ago, but mortgage -- the 30-year mortgage rate was about 6% when you go back to January and February. And then with geopolitical tensions, we saw the 10-year treasury yield rise. And as a result of that, the 30 year also went up, and that had an impact on our volumes.

So as far as the way that we're looking at mortgage, we're being conservative with our assumptions. We are looking at where the 30-year is at today, and it is at the highest that it's been all year. And our guidance for mortgage would contemplate being at that level and perhaps even maybe being a little bit worse, so meaning that rates might be higher than they were in the first half.

So in essence, what that's doing is it's providing us with flexibility to deliver these results even if the rates do increase slightly. Now the other part that I think is important and I think this is your question specific to the non-mortgage part of our business.

In the second quarter, we delivered 6% growth and what we're contemplating when you look at it on that basis is a similar trajectory for the third quarter. So that you take a look at the performance that we're very pleased with within core financial services, a very strong quarter for us, emerging verticals coming in at 9% as well as then in our international portfolio, when you look at the performance in India returning to growth at 8%, Canada at 10% and the U.K. at 9, there's some good tailwinds that we're looking at as we go into the into the second half of the year.

But the market remains uncertain. So we are taking a prudently conservative approach towards our guidance. And as we've put on, as I said in my prepared remarks as well as what we've put on the slide, we would orient you to the high end of that guidance and that more than likely if these conditions that were currently living through right now persist, we'll be above the high end of that guidance.

Yes. And so just to emphasize a couple of those points, again, we feel like we're well positioned to deliver on this revised raised full year guide, so high end or above. And the conditions that we're experiencing right now across the business and in mortgage, clearly support that. We have built in some margin for error, some margin for deceleration in mortgage in the second half of the year because, as Todd pointed out, rates are higher than they were by about 50 bps.

But that said, we are positioned to absorb some deceleration in mortgage volumes that would come with higher rates and still deliver at the high end of the guidance. So this is prudently conservative, but when you are conservative, you got to park that conservatism somewhere, right? We park it disproportionately in our mortgage because mortgage is the most rate sensitive. But to be clear on everybody in the call, we are experiencing consistent trends in July with what we experienced in the second quarter.

Those trends persist, we will overperform and we'll be back here in the third quarter making further guidance adjustments upward.

And our next question will come from Toni Kaplan with Morgan Stanley.

I was hoping you could expand on if you're seeing demand for your data sets given acceleration in AI agents? And which particular areas customers are really ramping up demand in terms of data versus a few quarters ago? I expect that's a trend you're seeing. So I wanted to touch on which specific areas? .

Yes, Toni. Look, it is a trend that we're seeing as we've been saying for some quarters now, and as we emphasized at our Investor Day in March and had some slides last quarter as well, the AI and Legend customers tend to consume more data, the models, the predictiveness all improves with more curated and authoritative data that we provide. So I think in the big and generally, we expect to see that accelerate as more lenders experiment and adopt AI modeling techniques across their kind of lending analytics life cycle. .

I think we are well positioned with our product innovation in AI to support more of the work that those clients are doing with our analytics orchestrator, a genic framework, which, again, we presented -- we demoed at our Investor Day. And you can see we're now using agentic AI on our foundation of data we're able to automate a lot of the model building and prediction that our lenders typically do on their own or many segments of the market simply don't do.

So net-net, we still believe that AI is going to be a positive growth tailwind. One, it's stimulating greater data consumption as we've talked about. But two, the agentic layer that we're building on top of our TruIQ analytics foundation is going to expand our TAM and let us take over some of the work that's either done by our lending clients, not done currently or done by other players in this data and analytics ecosystem.

And our next question will come from Andrew Steinerman with JPMorgan.

Chris, in your prepared remarks, you suggested that marketing solutions, that's a true audience revenue growth should accelerate in the second half of the year from the mid-single-digit revenue growth in the second quarter. What's driving that dynamic about the acceleration in the second half?

Yes. Well, there's some seasonality in the marketing business, Andrew, as you know, in the fourth quarter, a lot of the big players in the publishing universe turned to TransUnion to do market share and marketing effectiveness studies that they then use in their own media sales cycles. And we're making greater inroads across the publishing ecosystem and being that kind of neutral measurement provider that the industry needs.

We're also getting increasingly good traction with true audience, which is the suite of marketing solutions that we've migrated on to OneTru. We are converting a lot of the legacy customer base from those solutions on to the TruAudience Solutions, it's a more powerful product. It's a streamlined interface. It's a broader series of services that have been integrated together, which allows cross-sell and upsell.

And so I think the general pipeline build the level of bookings, particularly in identity where we've got a tremendous data strength, but increasingly in audience and also in spend planning and measurement, as I mentioned at the outset, which are historic strengths in our marketing portfolio. We just see that momentum building, and we expect a better second half of the year.

Our next question will come from Andrew Nicholas with William Blair.

I wanted to hone in on India a bit further, a nice sequential uptick there. Can you speak to what you're seeing on the ground from an economic perspective from commercial perspective and kind of how you're thinking about rest of the year with a nice uptick in the second quarter now under your belt.

Yes, for sure. Excited to talk about India always. In terms of the volumes that we're seeing on the consumer and the commercial side, things are stabilizing, which is good. The macro continues to be attractive. There's GDP growth. There's reasonable levels of inflation. But as we all know, there's been any number of macro shocks that have hit India over recent quarters, which have interrupted our growth.

That said, the volume of unsecured lending to the consumer space, which is a big driver of credit pulls along with card originations, that seems to be a floor reached in we're now in a more stable environment. On the commercial lending side, particularly with smaller to medium-sized businesses, there have been some government support programs that's enabling better activity in the space in that segment of the market.

So what I would say from a market volume perspective is that we're now moving sideways to slightly upwards. We're seeing the stability that's going to allow our better products to gain traction and grow. So that's the kind of the market volume backdrop. From a competitive perspective, we're doing really well. I mean the team has doubled down, we just posted our largest quarter of new sales ever in India, which is super exciting. First, the team is innovating on the data layer.

We have redeveloped all of our principal consumer and commercial credit scores. They're performing better than ever, and that refresh is keeping our relevance in the marketplace. We're expanding the breadth of data contributions from lenders or furnishers as we call them, around India. We're even starting to expand the type of data that we're getting from the furniture network which just drives continued improvement in model predictiveness.

And we could consistently show to our lenders that they need to use our data throughout the lending cycle from the beginning where they're evaluating a prospect kind of top of funnel all the way through underwriting, using our data because it's broader and it's more predictive leads to better decisions and better capital allocation. And we've got a very tight pitch that we deliver along with our data science team that's helping us really sell and win more share in the market.

On top of that, we have successfully implemented our analytics solution in India. It's called TruIQ and there's a ton of interest. There's a ton of bookings and revenue momentum there, which we're super excited about. And we're expanding trusted call solutions there as well securing all the relationships we need with all of the right carriers to expand that component of our fraud solution, and we're getting good traction there.

So it's new products driving some revenues in addition to really competing effectively in the CoreCredit market.

And our next question will come from Faiza Alway with Deutsche Bank.

I wanted to ask about consumer lending more specifically within Financial Services. Growth sort of slowed a little bit this quarter, and I'm wondering if that's just a function of just tougher comps as you've had a few quarters of double-digit growth there. And maybe if you could talk more specifically around the fintech environment, maybe how sensitive that business is to rising interest rates and if that was a factor this quarter?

Yes. Well, first, it's not particularly sensitive to interest rates within a reasonable range of course. Mortgage origination and refinancing far and away is the most interest rate sensitive. But the spread on personal lending, tends to be high enough that lenders can absorb increases in rates. So I just want to put that to rest at the outset. So yes, growth in consumer lending and even Cardone auto, they are a tick down from where they were a year ago. That's simply us lapping comps.

The absolute growth that we're getting in each of those segments is very consistent and healthy, it's just the businesses are getting bigger. And if you look back for 2 years, you see that particularly on the consumer side, there's just a resurgence in growth as consistent and durable funding has flowed back into the fintechs, and they really diversified their funding sources as well, and they're meeting a robust market need.

So I think pulling back the lens and thinking about the last few years, the outlier for fintechs in consumer lending was during the '22, '23 time period where rates spiked after incredibly hot growth in that segment for a long time, and there was simply a retrenchment, right? There wasn't enough funding and the rates were so high. It wasn't really an acquisition-oriented environment. So they pulled back and focused on portfolio management for a while.

Now we've been out of that environment for a couple of years. And again, the fintech model based on borrowing from the capital markets or getting funding in other ways is a consistent and durable model that's been part of the American lending landscape for decades now. So we're confident that we can continue this of good growth in consumer lending.

And our next question will come from Ashish Sabadra with RBC.

I wanted to ask a question on the EBITDA front. The guidance implies a step-up from 2Q to 3Q, but a much more material step-up from 3Q to 4Q. If you can talk about what's driving that improvement in margins going forward?

Thanks, Ashish. I'll take that question. So if you look at our adjusted EBITDA margins and we'll talk about this and break it out into all the different pieces. But if we start just with our reported margins in the second quarter, we finished with a margin of 34.8%. And and that was down 90 basis points on a year-over-year basis. In essence, the FICO mortgage royalty was accountable for that entire decline. And if you look further into the details, our underlying margins that exclude that royalty and also exclude M&A, expanded by about 10 basis points. But M&A, specifically, that's Mexico had a 10-point drag in the quarter.

When we look at the guidance for the third quarter, as you already can see the high end is 35.4% and that's a 100 basis point decline. FICO is about an 80 basis point drag. So kind of consistent with what we saw in the second quarter. But M&A becomes a little bit more of a drag on a margin perspective as we focus on integrating the Mexico acquisition, and it's a headwind of about 60 basis points. So when you do the net of that, in essence, what you see in the third quarter, is a 20 to 40 basis point increase in our underlying margins, excluding FICO mortgage royalty and M&A.

So when you look at the full year, we've been consistent in our guidance. We're calling for 35.4% for the full year, which is down 60 basis points. But that underlying when you exclude FICO mortgage royalties and M&A, we're calling for 50 to 70 basis points of underlying margin expansion. So the net of that then is what's implied for the fourth quarter in essence, does have a step up in margin. And when we look at where is that coming from? The mix as we get into the fourth quarter, as we already talked about in the first question, mortgage, we have a very conservative posture.

So -- and as you know, mortgage is a lower margin product for us. So when we have less of that, we end up having higher margins. We're also anticipating more growth from our financial services vertical, excluding mortgage. What that means, it is a lot more credit sales with a higher margin flow through. And then also the international business. And Chris just went through the details on India. We're expecting that business to continue to accelerate. Also very good flow through as we get into the second half of the year.

And the last point I want to make here is when you look at our expenses in Q2, Q3 and Q4 and when we take out the FICO mortgage royalty. In essence, that expense base is roughly flat quarter-over-quarter. So that's really the key point as to why we expect to see the margin improvement accelerate in Q3 and then even more so in Q4.

Yes. And that last point just about the expense base is a good one. As all of you know on the call, we recently a multiyear tech modernization and cost restructuring. We are very happy that we got it done. We got it done on time. We got it done within our initial spending budget. And the fact that we're holding expenses flat when, of course, there is underlying expense growth in a variety of areas, it shows that the program has worked, and it's allowed us to take out some material costs, and we're just now starting to see that benefit. .

Just switching gears quickly here. I realize that on the India question that was just asked, I forgot to mention one thing. You're going to see a nice increase in the growth rate in India that we're expecting in Q3 and Q4, the good news is, of course, the business is reaccelerating in all the ways in which I described, but it's also reaccelerating getting some very soft comps. So in the second half of the year, you're going to see nice percentage growth I just wanted you guys to appreciate that dynamic.

And our next question will come from Rayna Kumar with Oppenheimer.

Just given that your competitor recently announced the acquisition of the second largest credit bureau in Mexico. Can you comment on your positioning in the region long term? Obviously, it was a strong thought for you in the quarter, but just curious on how it could impact your long-term strategy in Mexico.

Yes. Thanks for the question. Well, look, Mexico is an exciting development within TransUnion. As you guys know from prior calls, we have been a minority investor and a tech provider to the bureau to Mexico for over 25 years, and we wanted to acquire or controlling interest for 25 years. Unfortunately, we were able to complete that transaction, and we've got the leading bureau with the leading market position in the broader data archives in the Mexican market.

Since acquisition and in recent years, the Bureau of Mexico has consistently outperformed growth and profit expectations. It is performing nicely above our deal book and compounding revenue on a much larger revenue base in the low double digits, which is exciting, even though we have guided to less going forward. So look, it's a great entry position. We have terrific market coverage, but there's just so much work for us to do in Mexico and the same is true of our competitor.

Mexico today operates with, I would say, a pretty basic level of credit data and analytics, and we're positioned to broaden contributions from a wider range of data furnitures to push deeper into the fintech space to bring alternative credit data sets to market and to do it all on the OneTru platform, which we will be rolling out into Mexico and to bring just a level of thoughtfulness and forward engagement to the marketplace that has served us so well in the U.S. and across all of our market segments.

Additionally, right away, we're bringing in the TruIQ analytics platform and layering it over the current tech stack in the Mexico Bureau, that's going to allow us to start to service our clients more deeply as we do in most markets and generate some incremental revenues. So look, it's a great market to be in. It's a terrific foundational entry point. There's a ton of innovation and value that we can bring. The market is large, inherently growthful and underpenetrated from these solutions. So I'm confident that we can do well. And look, there's plenty of room and opportunity for multiple players to do well in the Mexico market.

And our next question will come from Manav Patnaik with Barclays.

Thank you for the breakout for the U.S. financial services in your prepared remarks. Just curious, the -- I guess, the non-CoreCredit pieces? Like how do you think -- you gave us some growth rates. I was just curious on your strategy there in terms of trying to maybe get that to be a much bigger percentage of the business there? .

Oh, I see. So you're talking about financial services and the diversification for the diversification...

Yes, the 36% that you called out, that was not non-CoreCredit, I guess just curious, longer term, if that's an area for the investment, M&A, those kinds of things.

Yes. Okay. Good. I'm clear on your question, Manav, and thanks for it. Well, look, the first point that we wanted to emphasize is that our growth, which has been above market levels, in financial services is diversified, right? Obviously, we've got leading credit data from a quality perspective in the U.S., our trended data. We were the first mover it goes back the furthest. It has the most attributes for analytics in the marketplace, which is kind of foundational to our success. We've also extended downmarket to payday lending and other unsecured lending types. .

And as you well know, there's kind of an arms race amongst the bureaus to bring other relevant alternative to CoreCredit data sets into the market. And we're going to continue to expand organically and inorganically, if we get the opportunity and it makes sense in that space. Additionally, a lot of the solutions that we acquired either from Neustar, which increased our depth in marketing and fraud, we're cross-selling into the financial services space.

There's also further opportunity with our identity solutions to work with some of these lenders and become kind of the system of record underpinning their corporate data hygiene and identity resolution within the banks, we see that. And I think it's very important to note that, look, if you went back a couple of years, you could criticize TransUnion for not having a top-of-the-market analytics suite, right? Other players traditionally led. We closed that gap a couple of years ago when we launched TruIQ, we've continued to accelerate innovation and mature the TruIQ product. It's now doing well in the U.S. market. We've expanded it into India, in Canada and the U.K. and we're fast following into Mexico.

And if you think of those core countries, that's like 95% of the revenue of TransUnion globally. So in short, yes, there's a lot of further growth opportunity in diversifying in and around this CoreCredit position.

And our next question will come from Curtis Nagle with Bank of America.

Maybe just pivoting to the VantageScore adoption, right? So I think move from 5% to 30% or so, had been kind of dual use, sounds like it's proving more single pool. Just maybe if you can unpack what's driving that acceleration in terms of end cohorts, lender type stuff like that? Just a little more detail would be helpful on what you're seeing.

So well, look, in terms of cohorts or more specifics around it, the data that we shared reflects the adoption of Vantage that we're seeing across 900 customers, right? So it's a fairly broad-based observation of what's going on in the market. And what I would simply characterize it as this is a period of experimentation and calibration by the market broadly by lenders and resellers, even the GSEs and on into the securitization space and mortgage insurers. .

At the outset of the year, we were clear that we weren't budgeting or including in our guidance any revenue from selling the VantageScore. That's still our posture in this current raised guidance. And as a company, we are just laser-focused on helping the market adopt the VantageScore. There's a tremendous opportunity for lenders to get a more predictive score at a substantially lower price and improve their economics and hopefully pass on some of that benefit to consumers, which was the intention behind this government policy change.

And as we step back from all of the fray and the occasional drama about this, it's clear the market is highly interested in the VantageScore almost everybody is experimenting with it. The efforts are being led by the largest players in the market that have the most financial benefit and all of the other players that need to calibrate are deeply engaged in doing so, whether that's updating their risk models for a new score or it's altering some fields in their software so that they include multiple scores.

But this year of experimentation and preparation for faster and scaled adoption of a competing store is happening, full stop.

And our last question today will come from Kelsey Zhu with Autonomous.

And Chris, in the prepared remarks, you also mentioned that there are increases in lenders that adopt vantage score only usage. And I was wondering if you can talk a little bit more about that and what you're seeing in terms of core gaming activity for lenders are currently running both.

Yes. And thanks for the question, Kelsey. Well, there are some players in the market that if they're not exclusively using Vantage today, and that would be in a minority in our dialogue with them. And believe me, our teams are actively engaged across the marketplace. They clearly have an intention to move to a single score Vantage once they're through this experimentation in calibration phase, right?

As you know, because you report on this, the percentage of players that are using only Vantage is increasing. And some of the Vantage mortgages or the advantage only scores in mortgage are showing up in securitization. Now that's a relatively small percentage now, but it's growing rapidly. And just given the breadth of experimentation and activity that we see, it just speaks to real tailwinds.

So I, again, am confident that in the coming quarters, we're going to continue to see greater share adoption that will flow through all of the metrics around Vantage adoption and utilization in the mortgage origination through securitization process and that Vantage is really well positioned for growth and share gain in subsequent years.

All right. Chris, any final remarks? .

Yes. Well, look, we talked about the adoption of OneTru in the prepared remarks. That is progressing well. We are highly confident we'll have the entirety of the U.S. credit market converted by the end of the year, most of it sooner than that. We're also migrating our marketing and fraud clients from their current legacy applications onto OneTru and this is just an enormous proof of concept that we have built this platform and that we can roll it out globally.

Next up are our principal markets in Canada, in India, in the U.K. and of course, Mexico, where we want to move quickly there because there's a great opportunity. And again, once we complete that, which I would expect roughly to complete within the next 2 years, we'll have 95% of our business running on a common software platform that's going to generate enormous economies of scale for us that are unique in the industry and that further assures that we'll have ample capacity to continue to grow our margins while accelerating our investments in innovation.

So this is a super exciting innovation inflection point that we've been working to for 4 years now. And net-net, look, the modernization and the transformation is working. We're diversifying the business to drive more sustainable growth, we're gaining share through innovation. Our cash flow metrics are greatly improved. We've got tremendous capacity to return capital to shareholders while continuing to invest and accelerate the top line. So a lot of good momentum here, and we're just going to keep delivering quarter-by-quarter.

All right, Chris. I think that's a good place to end. Everyone, thanks for the time today, and have a great rest of your day.

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All right. Thank you to everyone in the audience who's joined us today. My name is Andrew Nicholas, and I am the business services analyst here at William Blair. Before getting started, I am required to inform you that for a complete list of research disclosures or potential conflicts of interest, please visit our website at williamblair.com.

Very pleased to have TransUnion at the 46th Annual Growth Stock Conference. With me today is TransUnion's CFO, Todd Cello. We're going to spend the 30 minutes here just doing a brief Q&A, walking through the major drivers of the business, but we're going to try to do it at a relatively high level for those that aren't familiar.

So with that preamble finished, maybe start, Todd, with just a high-level overview of the business. What -- I think most people know you as a consumer credit bureau. Where are your businesses unique to maybe some of the other bureaus? Where are some key areas of competitive differentiation when you can kind of go from there?

Okay. It sounds like a good place to start. So thank you, Andrew. Thank you for having us. It's always a pleasure to be at this conference, great group of investors to meet with. So it's been a very productive morning. So talk a little bit about TransUnion and where perhaps we're different. I mean I guess I'll start with where we're the same. Everybody understands TransUnion's legacy being one of the 3 large credit reporting agencies in the U.S., but also globally.

We operate in 30-plus countries. Credit is the core of what we do, but what we've done over the last several years is we've developed out capabilities in fraud and marketing as well. Reason for that is TransUnion has been in fraud and marketing using credit data forever in essence.

So we see a significant opportunity to continue to expand our offerings in those markets. So we've been quite intentional in repositioning our portfolio over that period of time through mergers and acquisitions and different partnerships to be able to, in essence, build up the capabilities there.

We think about TransUnion just overall, primarily in the U.S., it makes about 80% of our business is in the U.S. Of that, to speak to the diversification I was just talking about, about 50% of the revenue in the U.S. is just pure credit, another 15% is consumer, which is also credit. So arguably, about 65% of the U.S. is credit. That other 35%, though is going to skew towards the marketing and the fraud revenues that I talked about.

And in the U.S., we go to market through vertical markets, financial services through lines of business like mortgage, auto, credit card, banking and consumer lending. Those are the core areas. We also have what we refer to as an emerging verticals segment. And in there, these are adjacencies in essence, where we're able to take the core credit, augment it with products and services like fraud and marketing to go after vertical markets like insurance, tech, retail, e-commerce, public sector, media, tenant and employment to name a couple of them there.

Outside the U.S., we have another 20% of our revenues come from our international business. There, we have some really nice pieces of our portfolio, in particular, in India. We operate the largest credit bureau in India. We were an initial shareholder of that business. We've consolidated it for about the last 12 years. It's about 25 years old. A really great part of our portfolio with a significant amount of runway going forward.

We recently closed on an acquisition in March of the largest credit bureau in Mexico. So now TransUnion has coverage across North America. We have a -- obviously, I talked about the U.S., but we also have a very meaningful business in Canada, but adding Mexico, similar to India, original shareholder on a minority basis, we were able to acquire a majority that we're really excited about the potential there. Our business has been growing double digits without our involvement. So we're very opportunistic that we're going to continue that and then add to the growth rate of the business.

Fantastic. Well, I appreciate that as a start. I think one of the things you've also been highlighting as a company over the past several years, including at your Investor Day earlier this year is the technology infrastructure and the tech platform that you've built OneTru. Can you spend some time kind of walking through what that platform is, what makes it unique? And maybe most importantly, what it unlocks for you as an organization?

Yes, for sure. That's a really important question because it's what underpins how we deliver our products and services to our customers.

So OneTru is the platform that TransUnion acquired through the Neustar acquisition in 2021. It was called OneID. We named it OneTru. So when we acquired Neustar, fraud and marketing came with the acquisition because that was one of their areas of expertise. So what we're doing now with OneTru is we're adding credit to it. So in essence, what that means is OneTru is going to house all of TransUnion's data assets. And that's significant because having all of our data in one place enables our developers to be able to work a lot more efficiently, also enables us to be able to deliver to our customers quicker as well.

All within a really good compliance structure, making certain that the data that we house together is being used appropriately, right? There's different regulatory requirements for credit data versus noncredit data. So that's kind of foundational to OneTru. It's really exciting about what we're doing from a technology perspective is historically, TransUnion has operated its businesses with physical data centers.

So when I talk about us operating in 30-plus countries, I think each one of those countries has a data center that we would maintain. So if we were to deploy intellectual property, new products and services, in essence, have to go to each one of those data centers and deploy it. So it's a little inefficient.

So underneath OneTru, what we're doing is we're using Cloud Services from AWS and Google Cloud Services so that's what -- that's the layer underneath OneTru. And why that's important is no longer will we need those physical data centers anymore. So if we put OneTru on top of that, in essence, we're able to quickly deploy our product innovation into market as well as TransUnion is entrusted with a lot of personal data as well to financial related. So with that, we want to make certain that our security posture is also able to be quickly deployed out. So we'll be able to do that.

So where we're at right now with OneTru is we are migrating U.S. credit, as I already said. So we expect by the end of this year that we will be complete with the tech migration. So the U.S. business will be fully on OneTru by the end of 2026. We're intentionally taking our time because it's customer impacting. Nothing is more important than making certain that our customers can transact with us in an efficient and obviously smooth way. So we're handling that with care. We'll get that done by the end of the year.

We've made really good progress to this point through May. Once we're done, our plans then are to move to Canada and the U.K., which are 2 of our larger developed markets, and then we'll also hit the Philippines in 2027 as well. At that point in time, we'll have about 90% of TransUnion's revenue on the OneTru platform. And then the game plan is every other geography that we operate in will also fall. And so it's really exciting when you think about having everything all in one environment.

And then really what it ends up being is that customization, that last mile delivery, so to speak, where in each market, things are going to be a little different maybe from a regulatory perspective. We'll still customize our products in those ways. But having so much of the data and the technology all in one place really is going to enable us and set us up for a significant amount of innovation. I think what I've been remiss in talking about throughout this point is this is an AI-enabled platform as well, too. So when you think about what is already in production with fraud and marketing, we're already using AI capabilities. Credit is going to benefit from that when we're there.

Great segue. So obviously, I have to cover this AI topic. It's a broad one, but maybe I'll start with the data itself. Can you just kind of hit home for everyone in the audience, the data moat that TransUnion has, the uniqueness of the sources, alternative data, how difficult it would be to replicate and just kind of outline that for everyone since it's top of mind in market right now?

So as a credit reporting agency, TransUnion receives credit data from tens of thousands of lenders across the world, right? And the value that TransUnion and our competitors play is that we have the ability to link and match that data to put together a comprehensive report on the consumer. But because of the sensitivity of the data that we are entrusted with, it's heavily regulated. In the U.S., it's called the Fair Credit Reporting Act. So there's certain obligations and use cases as to how that data can be used.

So I already talked about all the contributors to that data, right? So think of the scale there, like just the number of data contributors, we call them furnishers as well that enable us to make the file, but then you also have the regulatory framework itself, right? And what's so powerful about credit data is it's sourced independently, right? And so it's coming from the lenders and it's refreshed frequently. So we call the top of the credit report, we refer to that as the header. And in essence, what that means that's your name, it's your address, it's your phone number, date of birth, social security number, e-mail addresses, your phone number, indicative information about who the consumer is.

So we're able to leverage that data and it's permissible, we take that header data, and we're able to use that to build identity graphs. So what that means is to then take noncredit data and add it to the consumer profiles that we maintain. And that's really where the value comes for TransUnion, right, is that we are looking to best represent a consumer in the marketplace by fully showing who they are. And then why is that beneficial then for our customers is they're then able to transact with more confidence that they know who they're dealing with and what the potential risks are before they get into any type of potential engagement.

So off that credit file, TransUnion has proprietary data assets. And I'll just go through a couple of them. So think of what I talked about with the credit header as spine. I like to refer to it maybe as like the glue that holds everything together. Noncredit data then that we have, for example, one would be our short-term lending credit bureau data. So think of short-term lenders, payday lenders, not part of the traditional credit ecosystem, we're able to -- we bought a business several years ago that has that data. We're able to take that data and then append it to that spine that I was talking about.

Another example would be our Argus database. This is where we have a contributory database from credit card issuers where we have credit card transactions and deposit data. We're able to take that data also put it on the identity graph. From a fraud perspective, we have device-based fraud information. We have about 14 billion devices that we've built up through a consortium that we know if a device has been associated with fraud or not and what consumer that links to. So you put that on this identity graph.

And then another area is TransUnion is responsible for helping to run caller ID landline in the United States. So we get a tremendous amount of signal from phone calls as well, too. Those are good examples of the proprietary data that we have, but we're not done yet at that point. I'd like to say we have an insatiable appetite for data, right? It goes back to wanting to be able to represent the consumer more comprehensively, right?

So what we do then is we engage with third parties where we might have a need to build out that profile for the consumer, we'll engage with third parties who might have different data elements, and we buy that data. So we'll also append that to the identity graph as well, too. Now we're in market with the identity graph and you're using the capabilities that we have. By just simply using our products, we're also able to derive signal from it. So a good example of that would be if you think of its fraud mitigation, and we're able to help our customer identify a fraud instance, well, we're able to capture that information, and then we're able to use it within the identity graph and it makes it stronger.

So we refer to that as like a flywheel effect that we have. Marketing is another example of that, right, where we help our customers build audiences to tailor their marketing campaigns to those offers that they send out if the consumer engages and corroborates that they want their data can be used, we're able to bring that information in. So the whole flywheel effect is incredibly powerful.

Very helpful. Obviously, with proprietary data as kind of the anchor, one of our kind of thesis for the space or the information services sector as a whole has been that AI will benefit the sector through increased supply or product innovation, demand generation and operational efficiency. So I just kind of want to hit those 3 things. You've alluded to some of them, but just on the supply side, are there specific things that AI is enabling in term or OneTru from a new product innovation perspective that you'd call out, new products that maybe weren't able to be facilitated before that or at least now easier to do on a quicker time line?

Yes, for sure. So let me go through, and I'll address that question through credit marketing and fraud, but you asked me a couple of other questions you get back. That's a big question to ask me. So if we just focus on the innovation and how we're using AI today, let me answer it in the 3 categories that I've talked about with credit marketing and fraud.

So from a credit perspective, a great example today is what we call our TruIQ analytics orchestrator. And in essence, what TruIQ is think of it as an analytics sandbox. It's where our customers come to build their models to understand different risk scenarios and if they would engage and how they would engage with a particular consumer. So what we've done with this new capability is we've been able to partner with Google Gemini to use some of their models in essence, to enable our customers to use -- to speak basically to do the work on the analytics that I was talking about.

Historically, what TransUnion has done is we've hosted innovation labs where we've brought our customers to the office, and we do the analytic work with them. What this capability does is it puts more autonomy back in the customer. Of course, we want to work with our customers. We want to be side-by-side with them, but it's a lot more efficient if they're able to do some of the work themselves.

So that's been a significant change for us that we feel is going to drive some incremental revenues going forward. From a marketing perspective, in marketing, a lot of what we've done from audience generation in the past has been good data on audiences, but static, maybe not as fresh. So what we're able to do now with OneTru is because of how fast that the platform operates is we're providing more real-time, fresher data to build those audiences.

And then the final area would be in fraud. And in fraud, what we've seen there is that just by leveraging our OneTru platform, the turn times and building scores is 2x to 3x faster. And it's just as an example, last year, we built 10 new scores, and that would have taken a significant amount of time. And we were able to do that in a short period of time last year. And you made reference to our Investor Day earlier, I mean we highlighted a credit washing score or capability, I should say, at the Investor Day. And in an essence, that's where consumers are trying to manipulate their credit file. They're trying to almost move faster than TransUnion can move. So we're able to use AI capabilities to detect that and to make sure that, that doesn't -- that doesn't happen.

Those are good examples [indiscernible] applied demand. I think one of the things that was super interesting at the Investor Day was just kind of how you talked about how your clients are interacting differently with you in this new paradigm. So can you flesh that out?

Yes, for sure. So from a demand perspective, what we see is from customers that are more sophisticated early on in using AI capabilities, they're more frequent users of our data. So in particular, again, I've been talking a lot about analytics and scoring. But typically, our customers would refresh their own scores or their analytics maybe once a year, maybe 2 or 3 years, right, because it was an arduous process. What we're seeing now is customers that have AI capabilities, they're requesting more of our data so they can refresh their models to the point where we've seen some even get them monthly. So think about from what was years to they're able to do it monthly.

So what that means is they're ingesting more of our data more frequently so they can continuously calibrate. So those are -- typically, they're more sophisticated. They're larger customers under multiyear type of agreements. They got volumetric pricing with us. So we do see incremental revenues, but it's not prohibitive. So that's why that's an important point to make there. So that's been a positive.

And the second area as well, too, is these same customers that are more sophisticated with AI capabilities, they want to ingest more of our products and services. So they want to ingest more of our marketing and more of our trusted call solutions, just as 2 examples. And what's kind of fascinating to me about that, where the bottlenecks is at, it's really more on the customer side. It's not our ability to give it to them. They can take it, but where there's a little bit of a pause is their validation of these products. So for them to go back and test and make certain that it's something that will be beneficial to their decisioning criteria. So that's encouraging, right, because they can take the product innovation, but it's that testing piece that they're going to check.

Efficiency benefits. So it just seems like the data and information services space would be really well positioned to benefit from this technology from an operating efficiency perspective. So maybe you could highlight kind of what you're seeing on that front, what the opportunity looks like, where you are finding savings, if any, and we can go from there?

There's 2 really good examples of how we're being able to leverage AI internally. So I already talked about the OneTru platform being AI-enabled. But when you think about our developers, people that are working with OneTru every day to build our products and services, they're software coding. And we've built something called OneTru Assist, which in essence, enables our developers to be able to speed code and code cleanup. So what we've seen there is about a 20% productivity gain.

So before anyone asks like when is that going to show up in adjusted EBITDA margin, we're being intentional because that's increased capacity for us. So we're able to point that excess capacity towards product innovation. So we're really encouraged about that opportunity. The second area that we've seen some meaningful traction is how we handle consumer disputes. So if I go back to your second question about credit bureau and being regulated, one of those criteria is that if a consumer thinks that they have an inaccuracy in the credit report, as a credit reporting agency, you are required to answer that consumer's call and investigate and come to a resolution within a set number of days.

So as you can imagine, we have a high volume of disputes that come in on consumers' credit files. But also, as you could probably imagine, there's a lot of commonalities and requests that do come in. So we're able to use AI capabilities to be able to find those similarities and to build a better workflow to most efficiently handle the consumers when they come in.

We want them to have a good experience when they come in and deal with us, right? So if there's that much commonality and there's repetition, we now know, oh, we've seen that before. And AI is helping us do that. So that's a positive from an engagement and a relationship with the consumer, plus there's productivity gains because we're not necessarily having to answer the phone, right? We might be able to do that in a digital kind of frictionless manner for the consumer.

All right. Great. We have maybe 5 minutes left. I think we've hit a lot of the major points on the AI topic. Maybe we can switch gears to just the current environment. What are you seeing in terms of the health of the consumer? I think you described April to date activity on your earnings call as being at or ahead of expectations. What are you seeing now? How would you describe the overall market environment in the U.S. in particular?

Yes. So high level, what we're seeing is a continuation of the trends that we talked about on our April earnings call. So if I look at where we're at through the middle of May, we are trending towards the high end of our guidance, if not being ahead, which is what we messaged, right? We said that if trends persisted, we oriented the market to that level. So we're -- that's what we're seeing to this point. That's where we're at.

So what underpins that in the U.S. is a generally resilient consumer. So a big driver for TransUnion is employment. And if consumers are employed, obviously, they can live up to their financial obligations, but they also can aspire to a higher quality of life as well, too, such as maybe buying a house or buying a car or paying for college education, things that you may need loans for.

We really haven't seen much of a deterioration there. But a common question we get and what we recently put something out in our newsroom is about this this K-shaped economy that we're operating in. And that is prevalent, right? I mean we definitely see that happening. Consumers that are on the lower -- the part of the K that's pointing down are definitely impacted by higher energy costs, higher inflation. We've seen their delinquencies tick up a little bit, still within historical ranges, but not ideal where it should be. So that's all in the market.

But what our research has shown us, and our research is leveraging our core credit reporting database, right? So it's a phenomenal place to look. is that we're seeing that in prime, near prime, prime and super prime, we're actually seeing the proportion change in that there's more consumers compared to 4 years ago in those categories. And that subprime space is kind of held flat.

So what that means is we're seeing consumers actually in aggregate, actually getting better, but there still are the consumers on the lower part of the K that are definitely being impacted. So the way we're thinking about it is you kind of net those together and that's the resiliency. And then that's also the employment that I talked about that's there as well, too. And across our businesses, the core lending businesses, mortgage continues to be incredibly low. I mean we're still talking about volume levels we haven't seen since the mid-'90s, right? Before the conflict with Iran, we saw the 30-year mortgage go below -- around 6% or below, and we saw a significant increase in our volumes. And then unfortunately, that was short-lived and it went up.

So the reason I bring that up is if we're talking about volumes from the '90s and you think about population growth in the U.S., right, there's -- if interest rates get much higher in mortgage, there's really not going to be that much of an impact to us. But a 50 basis point reduction in interest rates, let's just say we get back to 6% or below and that it's going to unlock a significant amount in mortgage, in particular, like we can see, again, looking at our credit file that there's 10 million mortgages that have an interest rate of 6% or above.

So that just speaks to the refinance opportunity that's out there. Markets like auto kind of tepid right now, right? Home -- I'm sorry, new car sales and used car sales are kind of flattish, right? And the average life of the used car is 7 or 8 years right now. So that -- I would look at that as under trend as well, too. So there should be some upside coming from mortgage and auto in a more normalized environment.

Our card and banking business has been resilient, low to mid-single-digit grower. I still think that, that's a little bit below trend. And then probably the strongest part of our core lending has been in consumer lending, home to our fintech customers. They're healthy. They've got funding. Delinquencies are manageable and the personal loan has become more of a mainstream product. So they're selling to more in the subprime product consumer.

Sure. We have 8 seconds. I don't know that we can finish this whole question in that second, but I'm going to try to squeeze some. Is there any major distinction between what you just described in the U.S. versus what you're seeing internationally or any kind of major changes? Obviously, conflict in the Middle East might have a very specific impact in those regions, but...

Conflict in the Middle East, we're watching closely India and the Philippines because of the Strait of Hormuz a source of where energy comes from, not a material impact at this point in time. Otherwise, the other geographies that we operate in, it's more dealing with the higher energy price and inflation. So think about the U.K. and Canada. But again, what we're seeing is through May, I'd orient you to the high end of the guide right now.

Great. Thanks a lot.

Thank you.

Thanks, everyone.

All right. I'm Jeff Meuler, Baird's Information Solutions Analyst. Pleased to introduce TransUnion, which is one of the big 3 global consumer credit bureaus and a broader information solution company anchored by a proprietary consumer identity graph that powers credit, ID and fraud, marketing and consumer solutions. I'm joined on stage by TransUnion's CFO, Todd Cello. Also at the conference, the IR team, Greg and Jason in the audience.

Maybe to start, Todd, you had an Investor Day this March. I want to unpack some of the messages. From a company description perspective, I just gave a bit of it, but there's a concept of a 360-degree view of a consumer with multiple different use cases and a common identity graph. I think there's still some investors that think of you as credit bureau first.

So just help us understand like how broad the data that you know about a consumer is and how you tie it all together, what's hard about that so investors can start to think through implications in an AI world.

Sounds good. I think it's an appropriate place to start. Thank you for having us. This is always a great conference. to be at. So for TransUnion, data is the differentiator for us. And those are the competitive advantages that, in essence, we have to enable our customers to what Jeff just said, to assess credit, but also to tailor marketing campaigns and to help mitigate fraud.

So it all starts with our heritage of being a credit reporting agency. And if you think about the data that TransUnion is entrusted with, in essence, on the credit report, you have indicative information about the consumer such as name, address, social security number, date of birth, e-mail. And in essence, what that data does is it provides a spine for our identity graph.

And if you think about the sourcing of that data, right, it's difficult to get to. We're only 1 of 3 companies in the United States that gets this data. And the expertise we have is we link and match, and we're able to put a consumer profile together.

With that identity spine, then what we're able to do is append our other data assets that we have. So good examples of that would be data that we have on short-term lending as one example. We made an acquisition of a business called FactorTrust several years ago that gives us those short-term lender trade lines.

Another area is Argus. Again, another acquisition we made many -- several years ago, where we have transaction-level data on credit and deposit information on the consumer. We also have data pertaining to device-based fraud that we're able to append on this identity graph. And then on top of that, we manage caller ID for the U.S. So all that phone signal information we have.

So the expertise then is how do you pull all that together, put it on an identity graph. And it's not that this is necessarily something that's easy to do as well, right? Because if you just -- yes, those are proprietary assets that we have. But it's the linking and the matching that we do to know that it's Jeff Meuler to put that identity graph together. So that's an area where we differentiate ourselves.

Then what we do is we also have relationships with thousands of other data providers that we augment our proprietary data with. So lots of different relationships where, again, we're taking fragmented and maybe not consistent data, pulling it together. We like to say we have this insatiable appetite for data.

The more and more information that we can have on a consumer, the better we're going to be able to represent that consumer in the marketplace and the better that our customers are going to be able to transact with confidence with those consumers.

So that's something, too, when you think about just the years of us with those third-party relationships, like I call that -- think of that as like the network effect, right? So now you've built from our proprietary to the third parties. And then when our products and services are actually used, we get signal from that.

So for an example, for -- in fraud mitigation, we're helping our customers mitigate. But if we come across something that's fraud, we're able to capture that. So now you've got this flywheel effect that's happening.

Marketing is another good example of that. When we are helping our customers build their audiences and there's collaboration with the consumer, we're able to know that information, and we're able to append that to the identity graph. But the identity graph is only as good as being as fresh as possible. So we're constantly updating the graph itself.

Got it. And I think a lot of investors have gotten more comfortable with AI risks on the credit bureau. Maybe anything else that you can say about the fraud and identity or marketing businesses in terms of why they're AI resilient?

And I thought there was an interesting announcement from you, a partnership with Google for YouTube, a multi-touch attribution. A lot of investors probably say, "Hey, doesn't Google have a lot of data natively that AI can make sense of?" So maybe that would be a good illustrative example of something that you do that investors may not inherently think of.

Okay. So let's start with marketing and fraud. So first of all, the markets themselves, there's not necessarily a clear leader in the space, highly fragmented competition, but we are a scaled provider. And how we go about doing that is through identity.

So I just talked through our -- how we manage identity and are able to represent the consumer in the marketplace. So as a result of that, what we're able to do is help our customers better tailor their marketing campaigns, build their audiences, know the performance. So in marketing, what we're doing is we're doing identity, we're building audiences. And then we are measuring.

So to the second part of your question, we're really excited to announce the partnership recently with YouTube, where, in essence, they are using our multi-touch attribution capabilities for measurement purposes. And in essence, what they're doing is they've come to TransUnion to say, "Help us understand how advertisers are performing on our platform."

And that's powerful for them because they want to know if you've seen a video on YouTube and you saw an advertisement, what did you do with that advertisement? Did you convert? Did you go and buy something there?

So the position that TransUnion is in is very unique because we represent the top -- think of the Fortune 100 in brands. So we have those relationships, and that's where the value we add to Google or a YouTube is we bring those relationships -- and we're also a neutral party as well, too. We're not placing ads, we're just helping to measure.

So a good example -- another good example of that is we have a similar relationship with Meta. So the walled garden see value in using these capabilities. And these can be contracts that are 7 digits for TransUnion.

I think a lot of investors broadly in the market have placed information solutions companies in the AI loser or AI at-risk buckets. And I think a lot of the management teams are sitting there seeing a lot of opportunity from AI.

One of the anecdotes that you've given is the most AI-enabled or most AI-resourced customers consume more TransUnion data. Can you provide more detail on that? And is it frequency of data? Just is it additional use cases? Help us understand what that means.

Yes. No, it's a great question. So the more sophisticated customers that we have, they want more and more of our data. So probably the best example is just models themselves, the risk models. Historically, lenders would update their risk models maybe on an annual basis, maybe every 2 or 3 years.

What we're seeing is customers that have adopted AI into their workflows, they've been able to refresh those models a lot more frequently. We've seen examples of monthly now. So in essence, where because they can take our data, they're refreshing. So what's that to? Fresher data, kind of like how I was talking about the identity graph, right? We have to keep it fresh.

Fresher data helps them mitigate risk. So they're constantly updating their scoring models. That's specific to credit that I'm talking about, but these models are also being updated in fraud and marketing as well, too. There's models that are built there. So overall, that's one big way that we're seeing a benefit. And we highlighted some of this in our first quarter earnings materials as well.

The second important area of AI-enabled customers, they're going to be more receptive to taking more of our product innovation. So whether that's scores or attributes or products like I talked about already in marketing with our audience generation or fraud mitigation or trusted call solutions as another example, they're going to be able to take more and more of that data.

And what's kind of interesting there is the biggest bottleneck actually is more on the customer side, not on our side because before they'll take all this data, they need to pause to test it and make certain that it's working appropriately.

So is that because of regulatory reasons? Or what is the reason for that?

Yes. So that's one of the main reasons that we differentiate -- one of the main areas that we would differentiate ourselves in is just the rigor that TransUnion operates in as far as being a regulated entity under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, it's in our DNA. We take being in compliance very seriously.

And we've rolled that out to all of our other -- all the other products. When I talk about marketing and fraud, we bring that same posture. So from a customer's perspective, they value that deeply because they see how we treat the data and how we're able to then use it appropriately in the marketplace.

And you're on the tail end of a multiyear tech transformation and you have a modern data management platform, OneTru. It seems like that should align well for the AI era. But how is OneTru impacting your go-to-market or partnerships or monetization potential? I know you've given anecdotes on Snowflake and Snowflake seeing increased utilization lately.

Yes. So I'll start -- let me start the answer to that more on the partnership because you alluded to Snowflake. Snowflake and [ Databricks ] are two larger relationships that we have. And what's powerful about those partnerships is that we are able to meet our customer where they're at.

So if their data is in Snowflake or if it's in [ Databricks ], we're able to use -- bring our identity product to that environment to help them be able to, in essence, resolve identities and to better market or mitigate fraud. So that's a really powerful capability that we have.

In addition, OneTru has brought us pretty significant cost savings. We had a transformation program that we announced back in 2023, we generated $130 million of cost savings as well as on an ongoing basis, we're bringing our capital expenditures as a percentage of revenue down from 8% to 6%.

And the One True platform enabled all of that because in essence, what we're doing is as opposed to managing disparate data centers all across the world, what OneTru is enabling us to do is to put all of those products and services on a common platform, and we're able to leverage that across the world. So needless to say, that then drives product innovation.

So at our Investor Day in March of this year, we highlighted that in 2026, we're introducing 30 new products, 40 product enhancements that are going to generate $500 million of revenue over the next 3 years. So that speaks to the monetization part of your question and that we're able to see some pretty significant growth from that.

So your financials have been good, good compounding growth, no evidence, I think, from the outside of AI disruption, lots of good anecdotes. You kind of just gave us some revenue that could accrue over the next 3 years.

Just -- I know this is a guess, but how do you think from the outside in your financials, we're going to -- like when do you think we're going to start to see some of the benefits from AI more tangibly from the outside to your business?

I think as I've already walked through, right, the OneTru platform is AI-enabled. So I'd make the argument that we are starting to see that, right? And our expectation, as far as the growth algorithm that we put out again back in our Investor Day in March, is for high single-digit growth over that period of time. But what's important is that guide does not include any upside from AI capability.

So I give you -- we talked already about the identity graph and products in marketing and fraud that we feel very confident that we're going to benefit from. We look at that as all upside to the medium-term guide that we provided. So we've been performing, I think, pretty well over the last couple of years with high single-digit growth, underlying margins growing at least 50 basis points.

And that's kind of kind of an okay type of macro environment that we've been able to post those results. So we've been busy innovating and driving AI into our products and services. So the expectation is that if the market holds the way that it is and we continue to execute, the AI products and services are going to be upside to that number.

If the market holds, I'm not going to lie. When I saw TransUnion announce an Investor Day, I got a little cautious. Correlation doesn't mean causation. But 2019, you had an Investor Day within a year, we had COVID. 2022, the next day, the Fed is raising rates. Right on cue for March, we have an Iranian conflict.

You said that Q1 results were good, you said volumes were holding up into mid-April. Can you just give us any update on -- with gas prices where they are, with any other macro factors, are things still holding up in your business?

Well, thank you for the sobering update on our timing on Investor Day. For sure, it's been challenging in that regard. What I would say is what we talked about in our April earnings call, really strong quarter. But with the conflict in Iran, we felt it was the prudent thing to do was to not raise for a pretty meaningful beat that we had in the quarter just as we navigated a lot of uncertainty in the marketplace.

So what I can tell you is through the middle of May right now, the volumes that we talked about on the earnings call at the end of April, have continued at that same level. So consistent with what we said on the earnings call, the expectation would be if that continues for the rest of the quarter that we should be at the high end of our guidance or above. So that's where we're at right now.

And then you talked about 50 basis points of underlying margin expansion, which is good. But you're using the phrase underlying, and I think investors are kind of pushing back on your margin trajectory for a couple of years, and it felt like you were approaching an inflection with tech transformation and other things. So just help us understand what you mean by underlying and maybe talk through what type of margin trajectory you're on.

Yes. That's an important point to clarify for those of you who aren't familiar with TransUnion. The way that you probably are aware that FICO, a partner of TransUnion and its scoring, increased pricing for mortgage quite significantly at the end of 2025 for pricing in effect in 2026. We treat that product from FICO as a pass-through. So what they charge, we pass that through to our customers.

So if you think about it from a margin perspective, there's revenue and then there's an equal amount of cost. And FICO over the last several years, has been more aggressive with their pricing. So what's happened then is our margins, if you look at them in aggregate, because of the dynamic I just talked about; the margins were kind of flattish. And what in essence that was doing is it was masking a lot of the really good work that we've done from an operational perspective.

And I talked about this already with the transformation program and the cost savings that we've been able to achieve. So we are now -- we report our adjusted EBITDA margin as reported with the FICO royalty in there, but we are also showing excluding that. So excluding it from the revenue and excluding it from the expense, so investors can see the underlying margin of the business on the things that are more controllable.

And just to expand a little bit more, FICO, it's predominantly in mortgage, right, that they have -- that there's this pricing power that they're able to leverage. So that's what we're adjusting for is FICO Mortgage.

So your mortgage revenue grew 24%, excluding FICO royalties in Q1 with inquiries plus 7%? What all goes into that delta? And then maybe more importantly, what do you expect for go-forward mortgage pricing on the credit file post 2026?

Yes. So we -- obviously, a tremendous amount of value on data. And when I talked about the identity graph earlier, hopefully, you have an appreciation for the power of the data. And I've talked about scores as well, too. Scores don't work without the data, right? So we maintain the data. So we have an appropriate price to reflect the value that we bring to our customers for the data. And then specific to mortgage on an ongoing basis going forward, I would expect us to have a CPI-like price increase for mortgage.

And how do you think about the pricing on VantageScore in mortgage? You came out with an intended price. You cut the price earlier this year around Investor Day. What's the go-forward opportunity, including if FICO continues to take aggressive mortgage pricing? And anything you want to say about what you're seeing on the initial rollout of VantageScore in terms of uptake or what the market is doing or how it's using VantageScore?

Yes. So the FHFA, who regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, in essence, have enabled VantageScore to be used where over the -- in the underwriting of a mortgage. So I think over the last 30-plus years, Fannie and Freddie were only buying mortgages in the secondary market if a FICO classic score was part of the transaction.

So in essence, there was almost -- there was a monopoly situation there. So the FHFA acknowledged that and have enabled competition in the space. VantageScore has existed, I think, since 2006. It's a collaborative effort between TransUnion Equifax and Experian. It's used quite extensively in other areas of the market outside of mortgage. You'll see it, as an example, on our direct-to-consumer platform. That's the score that we leverage and some leading credit card issuers also use it as well, too.

So we're looking at the opportunity now that there's competition in the market. So what we did on -- right before our Investor Day is we lowered the price for VantageScore to $0.99, and that compares to $10.95 for the FICO score. And what we're trying to do is to just drive awareness and ultimately, adoption of the score.

And to this point, we've seen a lot of receptivity from lenders. Just in the last couple of weeks, Rocket Mortgage said that they'll be using VantageScore. United Wholesale Mortgage also has indicated that they'll be using it. So there seems to be some good movement.

But with that being said, this is going to take some time. to do. It's not something that's going to just simply flip over because as I already said, we're looking at like 3 decades of a process being a certain way. So our expectation is that the market is going to take some time to assess. And as a result of that, we didn't put in our guidance this year any type of VantageScore adoption for that reason.

Got it. Maybe just to move to U.S. markets. I think investors sometimes have a perception about TransUnion being more cyclical than it is or the stock trades higher beta. In your consumer lending business or you're very strong in fintechs, it's been growing kind of that like a teens to 20% range recently. Just how cyclical do you think it is? And maybe go into some of the structural growth factors that are contributing to that growth?

Yes. So in consumer lending, I mean, primarily, it's relationships that we have with fintechs. And just personal lending itself has become more of a mainstream product. What started off initially as a subprime targeted type product. Now you're seeing that mainstream. I get offers for it all the time when I sign into my credit card issuers, unsecured personal loans, it's very prevalent in the marketplace.

So with it being more mainstream, in essence, what we're then able to do now is we're able to sell more products and services to the consumer lenders. So as opposed to just selling credit and scores, we're also bringing a lot of our product innovation. So marketing, trusted call solutions, a couple of good examples that we're able to sell in there. So where there could be some cyclicality in the business, we look to offset that by selling those products and services.

But overall, it's a strong grower in our portfolio. It grew over 20% in the fourth quarter. It grew 13% in the first quarter. We have a unique position, but we're not overexposed to it either, right? It's like -- it's about $145 million worth of revenue for us on a $5 billion plus Peak was about $175 million back in 2022. So we still see some good upward trajectory in this space.

And then outside of financial markets in the U.S., you have an emerging vertical segment that does about $1.3 billion of revenue. It was growing 3% to 4% in '23 and '24. It accelerated in '25. What are the biggest factors going into its acceleration? Or how sustainable is the recently faster growth?

Yes. So one of the bigger drivers within the emerging verticals is our insurance vertical, and this is where we're servicing property and casualty insurers, but a whole host of other insurers as well. In 2022 and '23 with high inflation, many of these insurers pulled back in underwriting. And as a result of that, their marketing activity also pulled back.

What we've seen over the last couple of years is the insurance business snapped back quite nicely as the insurers have gotten rate adequacy. They've come back to market and marketing is almost fully recovered in the insurance space. So that's a big driver. That's about 30% of the overall revenues within the emerging verticals of about $1.3 billion.

Once you get out of insurance, the remaining verticals, we call them that diversified market. So we serve just that, right, diversified. So think of like retail, e-commerce, media as an example. And where we're seeing the growth rates there tick up especially is the fraud and the marketing products that I spoke about earlier, that's where the growth has been coming from.

In the first quarter, we saw about 6% growth in the emerging verticals. What I would tell you is that the bookings and the retention that we've seen with those customers in the diversified markets, it's actually been very strong. So we expect that those growth rates are going to accelerate as the year goes on.

We only have a minute. International is a big part of your business that's not growing at its typical growth rates. There's lots of things going on there, India, Mexico. I guess, what are you most excited for in International over the next several years? Or what are the key pieces to getting it back to its typical growth rate contribution to TransUnion?

I think we're -- the portfolio in International is amazing. I mean we're -- we continue to be super excited about the potential in India. Took a step back, regulator cooled the market down. I could tell you there is in May, volumes that we've seen in India would suggest that we are on that path to mid-single-digit revenue as we've guided. So we're really excited about that.

And there's just huge runway. We made an acquisition of credit bureau in Mexico that we were an initial shareholder on going back 30 years ago. We were the technology partner. We finished that acquisition in March similar type of dynamics in India as well where we can bring our growth playbook and drive some meaningful shareholder returns.

Excellent. And we will wrap there since we're out of time. So thank you for your insights on TransUnion. The TransUnion team will be available for a breakout session now in [ Astra Sweep One ]. The next presenting companies at the conference in this room, Cheesecake Factory, also at this time, RB Global, APi Group, BlackBerry Limited.

Good morning, and welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining us at our 42nd Strategic Decisions Conference. My name is Kelsey Zhu, I'm the information services analyst at Autonomous. With me on stage today, I'm very pleased to welcome Chris Cartwright, the President and CEO of TransUnion.

Thank you. Good to be here.

Thanks so much for joining us again.

Always a pleasure.

So Chris, I know we have a lot to talk about today. There's macro, there's consumer, there's AI, there's the whole credit score transition topics that I want to pick your brain on. But I think a good place to start is you obviously had 9 consecutive quarters of delivering organic revenue growth of high single digit and above. In the last quarter, your growth actually accelerated to 11%. So this is definitely outperforming the type of credit volume trends we've seen in the market. Could you maybe just tell us a little bit more about what's structurally different in TransUnion's portfolio today that's driving all the strong performance?

Okay. Just a bit about TransUnion because I know there are some generalists in the audience that I want to level set before I answer your very good question.

So we're one of the 3 large global credit reporting and consumer information companies, if you will. We operate in 30 countries around the world. Roughly 80% of the revenue comes out of the U.S., where our business is a mix, like half credit and then half the combination of marketing, fraud mitigation, public records and communications solutions.

We have been undergoing a transformation in the past 4 years along 2 key dimensions. The first, through a series of acquisitions that we made in late '21, early '22, we significantly expanded our product capabilities. So obviously, we're steeped in credit and credit analytics tradition. But now we're also very good at digital marketing enablement and online and phone-based fraud mitigation. And all these services are unified now on a common technology platform called OneTru, and it's really that technology innovation and standardization.

That's the second leg of our transformation. And it's going to allow us to change our operating model from one where we have independent technology stacks across these 30 countries that are essentially doing very similar things for the same industries, for the same customers with common information to a global configurable platform, which is 2 things for us. One, any country or as we migrate countries to that platform, suddenly, all the services that it enables become available, many for the first time in those countries. So we're launching new growth path, if you will. But secondly, we're getting cost scale because we won't be doing the same things redundantly around the world, which is really just a function of being a 50-year-old business that expanded country by country, one bank consortium at a time.

Now you mentioned that we've been growing well and our growth is accelerating and it's above market volumes. And that's all true. And I'd say it's a function really of a couple of things. One, really, since we became a public company in the summer of 2015, with only a couple of exceptions, this business has been able to grow high single to low double digit organically. The only exceptions to that would be 2020, the COVID year, followed by 13% growth in a full recovery, which took us to kind of peak lending volumes in the super low interest rate environment, the ZIRP environment, as you folks call it, before inflation spiked dramatically in Q2 of '22. And then we had an aggressive Fed response, 500 bps of rate escalation, which put consumer lending volumes in a recession for the next 6 quarters, if you will. And during that period, we grew 3%. In '24 and '25, we accelerated again to 7% and 8% organic growth ex FICO. And this year, we're trending hopefully as good or better. We'll get to some of that update later.

So the point of taking you through that brief history is to say that this is a growthful market. And the data that we're providing and the analytics we're providing is dimensional and growthful and can sustain that level of growth independent of the second reason that we're growing to the top of the market is we now have a lot more things to sell the market segments that we serve, whether that's our financial services market in the U.S. or a range of what we call emerging markets like telecom or technology, retail, e-commerce, the media segment, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. There are over 20 different market segments that we organize ourselves around in the U.S. And now we can sell them credit, marketing, fraud, identity verification and resolution, direct-to-consumer credit enablement, investigative solutions, a whole range of different products. So it's a function of growthful markets, product diversification, solid tech execution.

That's a really helpful summary. Thanks so much for that, Chris. I guess a good place for us to start diving into some of the macro consumer debates. It's really just -- I feel like we've been having conversation around the K-shaped economy for a while now. So what's the latest in terms of the health of U.S. consumers and specifically for subprime categories? Could you just give us a quick update what you're seeing in the market?

For sure. Happy to. So the K-shaped economy is real. The middle is transitioning. However, it's not necessarily a negative story or nearly as negative as is often portrayed. We recently just produced some analysis that shows that the primary driver of this K-shape is that folks in the middle of the credit spectrum are migrating upward and becoming near prime, prime and super prime. And it's less that they're deteriorating and ending up in the subprime. So the percentage growth at the bottom of the K, people transitioning from the middle to the subprime is materially less than the percentage growth of consumers whose credit is improving, and they're getting structurally more stable. Now look, it's a different question about whether that kind of divergence between lower income, higher-risk borrowers in the latter is good or bad. But I think oftentimes, there's the sentiment that it's all negative and consumers are moving from the middle to subprime, which, in fact, they're not.

Now over the past quarters, we've looked hard at the performance of recent loan originations within the subprime space. And their vintage curves, their performance curves are very consistent with the prior year. There's been no concerning increase in loan delinquencies. There's been some modest tick up, but you would expect that given that lenders expanded their loan boxes and made more loans into the subprime space last year than they did previously as their confidence in that segment increased and continues to this day. And lenders are managing their risk. In large part, they are taking on more customers in the subprime space. They're making a higher volume of loans, but they're also making a lot of small dollar bets to determine the consumer's ability to service the debt over time and to mitigate their own risk. So we don't see any red flags. We don't see any concerns with the performance of loan portfolios among subprime borrowers at this point.

So consumers are relatively healthy still. We're still in this benign credit card...

I mean, look, I -- yes, I definitely understand the macroeconomic concerns, right? There's an enormous number of uncertainties, which we'll discuss. But consumers are still highly employed, and there are still some real wage gains above inflation. Now of course, inflation may spike. We don't know. That's a big part of the uncertainty and anxiety. But through April and through May, when I look at the performance of our business, our portfolio throughout the U.S., it's completely consistent with how we've been guiding investors year-to-date from the initial guide for the full year to the first quarter earnings results, we're very much on track to deliver what we guided to.

Got it. And you mentioned that some of the lenders are expanding the credit box a little bit. I was wondering if you can talk a little bit more about consumer credit origination volume trends that you're seeing across different products, but also just the environment we're in right now. I don't know if it's correct to call it like higher for longer or hold for longer. Are lenders still expanding that credit box? Or how are you thinking about the impact of higher for longer on your portfolio?

Sure. Well, look, as I mentioned, and as you know, we outperformed our guidance, the high end of our guidance substantially in the first quarter. And because we saw these uncertainties building and we wanted to be very confident with investors that we could deliver the full year guide, we chose to bank the overperformance and increase our contingencies, if you will. And those contingencies were already adequate because we started the year by issuing what we call a prudently conservative guide. And we were also very clear in the first quarter earnings that if market volumes across these lending categories held, we would expect to overperform the high end of the guide to some degree. And we don't see any changes in the lending volume across card, auto, consumer lending, even the fintech component and mortgage that would prevent us from doing so really through the middle of May. So I mean we're feeling pretty good about that.

Now of course, there have been any number of macro uncertainties in the recent year or 18 months. There have been concerns about the inflationary impact of tariffs, obviously, that didn't nearly manifest itself to the degree that some had thought. Concerned about increased levels of deficit spending that proved to be pretty manageable and inflation was down to the high 2s, maybe 3 level. But then, of course, the conflict in Iran and the lack of oil flowing through the Strait and all of that is a whole another different contributor, and we just have to see how that is going to manifest itself. But I guess the point is sitting here in late May, it has not manifested itself negatively in our business volumes to any degree.

Got it. So stable volume trends is what we're seeing.

Yes.

So I guess one of the main investor debates or conversations we've been having this year on information services companies is really the AI impact on the whole sector. And I do want to talk about AI disruption risk and competitive landscape and things like that. But I think oftentimes, people don't really ask about or really debate about the AI upside to some of these information services companies. And I thought a good place to start there is just in your last investor presentation deck, you highlighted AI-enabled customers are actually consuming more data, and that's a positive impact on TransUnion. I was wondering if you can talk us through some of that, what you're seeing and the potential revenue uplift that you could see from this AI implementation.

Yes, for sure. So I mean, look, as a first principle, I think we can all agree that AI can do very powerful things with access to quality curated, relevant information at scale. And that's no different in my part of the information services industry, credit reporting and marketing and fraud services and the like than anywhere else, legal research or market information or medical publishing. The difference is that the information that we provide as our business foundation is very difficult to access. You need to have tens of thousands of relationships in the U.S. market. Those are individually contracted. Those are managed on a monthly basis ongoing. You have to have a legal permissible use to gather the information, and then you have to be very careful about who you allow to access it. You have got to monitor the manner in which they're using it. And this all takes place under a very tight, clear and punitive legal and regulatory framework. And I think that creates a considerable barrier to entry because you simply can't get access to the credit information for the AI to do what the AI does.

The other problem is that generative AI isn't really applicable to core credit decisioning because it's legally required that you'd be able to expose the full audit trail of how a loan decision was made and inform the consumer of that. And that's not possible with generative AI. However, you can still leverage AI and machine learning in order to accelerate the development of predictive models that is really the basis, the purpose of all of this credit information. So as I look at our business, it's a very large and defensible moat around credit information. There is a similar moat around the marketing and the fraud data that we provide because much of that signal comes from broad global industry consortiums that we've built with hundreds of companies, and we have years and years of data there. And so that's a difficult barrier to access.

AI principally gets this information in the foundational models by crawling the Internet and crawling publicly available sources and doing broad content licensing deals and the like. And none of the information that we provide is really accessible in that way. So I feel like, first, the data layer, the intelligence foundation for our business, if you will, exists behind very material barriers to entry. But the purpose of the data is to use it to build models that can better predict the future, better predict outcomes, outcomes for loans or marketing campaigns or certain fraud prevention techniques. And so we can employ that type of technology to more rapidly refresh and deploy models in much less time at much lower cost, which is going to allow us to do more of it and better service the full spectrum of our clients.

Now when you think about a bureau like TransUnion in the U.S., we have thousands of clients. Some of them are very large and sophisticated, and they really just need our data and understanding about what data is available for their own modeling and internal efforts. We call that the do-it-yourself segment of the market. There's an equally large segment that need our assistance. That's the do-it-with-me segment of the market. And there's a third equally large segment that really wants our help, wants us to do it for them, right? So those 3 growth segments, there's an opportunity for us to really expand the range of services that we can provide them based on the acquisition and the integration of all of these products on a common platform, but also the depth to which we provide it. I mean, right now, a typical lender may only refresh their loan origination model once a year, right? Because it's difficult and it is somewhat costly to do it.

With AI and with the tech innovation of bringing all of our data together on a common platform, we can refresh those origination models or the cross-sell models or delinquency and collection treatment models, whatever aspect of the lending life cycle you want to focus on, we can do it more frequently and more effectively in a forward deployed partnership with our clients. And so it's going to enable us to really change the manner in which we serve our clients from more reactive and at their request to proactive and enabling, and that's really something that wasn't possible before AI and the application of it across our data sets.

Got it. There's a lot to dive into there. At TransUnion, when you think about your AI implementation initiatives and processes, I guess, how much of that is focused on internal cost save opportunities? How much of that is focused on externally driving whether it's new products, new client segments that you weren't able to previously in the pre-AI world. Maybe talk us through some of the initiatives that you're really excited about across credit, marketing, fraud, consumer.

Well, first, just as we were discussing, I guess I'm probably most excited about the ability to use our data and AI in combination to service our clients' credit fraud marketing, identity resolution, data hygiene needs more proactively, more holistically than we could previously and really kind of transform the frequency and depth with which we do that, right? And I think that's an enormous revenue growth opportunity for us. And when you were at our recent Investor Day, a number of investors commented to me that they've been to the website, and they've seen demos of the agents that we've created to orchestrate and accelerate analytics and model development. But we can now build all those predictive models in a fraction of the time that it took previously.

Our large analytics consulting organization, which is a key enabler of our data usage is like orders of magnitude more productive. And that's where they're going to become more forward-facing, more kind of forward engineering and consultative than before. And I think that it will enable a lot of growth because, I mean, look, the truth is our business and our industry has evolved a lot in recent years. We're not just about credit. We are broad global diversified consumer data and insights companies. But most of our clients don't appreciate all that we can help them with. And so this is a great way to both evangelize the things that we can do, but also deliver real value analytically. So that's the first thing AI is accelerating that I'm super excited about.

Now obviously, software development and data science is one of the most critical things that we do is our internal manufacturing process, if you will. I'd say 60% of my global headcount is in those 2 areas. And those associates are more productive because of AI support in the whole spectrum of software development activities. We estimate between 20% and 50% productivity improvements across our technology organization, depending on what they're doing and how well AI can enable it. And that's definitely true on the analytics modeling side where things like our analytics orchestrator are driving orders of magnitude productivity increases.

Now we're in the early days of applying artificial intelligence to some of our consumer and customer support operations. I do think eventually, you will see nice savings flow from that. But when I think about savings and the potential for them across the portfolio in the medium term, AI will be an important part of that. But remember, because we've been investing on the technological side to build a global product platform, OneTru, and most of our business will run on OneTru in the medium term, that's going to allow me to dramatically reshape my product, my technology organization where today, I'm running on separate individual technology stacks in each of the 30 countries that I operate in around the world, that's going to be replaced by a global configurable tech stack enabled by all of our proprietary data, and I can deploy that in markets around the world.

So our business model is going to evolve from the sum of vertically integrated multi-domestic pieces to one that is globally architected and run on a global product platform, but also an internal operational platform that's shared across our business in different markets. So just deploying all of that, which we've created over the past 4 years, and we're in full rollout mode, that means material structural cost reductions that we'll use to accelerate revenue through sales deployment and new innovation, but also flow through to bottom line margin enhancements. And then in addition to that, we're going to apply AI.

So have you thought about the sizing of that medium-term cost opportunity that you highlighted? Because one of the key steps that you mentioned is 20% to 50% uplift in productivity for developers. So it's also a question of like how much of that do you reinvest? How much of that do you give back to margins? So maybe just tell us a little bit more about how you think about that.

Yes. And so the blended estimate on improved productivity for my developers is, say, 30%. But if you talk to any CEO in Information Services, they will tell you that the -- either their innovation pipeline or their internal efficiency pipeline that requires software development to fulfill it ideally needs more than a 30% productivity boost. So it's great that they're more productive. I can absorb all of that productivity and drive faster innovation and faster innovation deployment and a better operational tech stack and use that to become more efficient rather than downsizing any employees, right? I'm going to take -- I'm going to use it as a productivity enabler and then implement those benefits.

But look, we had an Investor Day recently. The medium-term guide calls for improving margins 50 basis points a year over the next 3 to 4 years. That's in addition to a 240 bps improvement in margin that's transpired over the past 4 years that was largely masked by the price increases that FICO was putting through that were included in our revenue. And again, that's revenue upon which we have no margin, right? So it was masking the operational leverage and the revenue flow-through that we were seeing in the business. Now that we can break that out, investors can see that indeed, our margins have improved a lot over the past 4 years. And to get to really what you're asking, can I outperform the 50 basis points? What I would say is this, putting uncertainties aside, if I could count on 7% to 9% compounding revenue growth and a lot of that -- it's coming through with a good mix of credit, I have a lot of flow-through to profit that coupled with the structural cost reductions makes me highly confident in the 50 bps as a floor.

Got it. Super helpful. And we'll come back to FICO in just a second. Maybe one last question on AI. And I know, Chris, you touched on this at the beginning of this AI discussion about your competitive -- clear competitive advantages in the credit space. Can you maybe tell us a little bit more about how you think about AI native competitors in fraud, marketing, consumer? And how are you thinking about TransUnion's competitive advantages there?

Yes, absolutely. So I mean I grew up in information services. I probably worked for 25-plus years in different information services companies or conglomerates that had legal, tax, financial, medical, health care data, et cetera. And so I keep track on what's going on in a lot of these spaces. And again, as a rule, where the information is broadly accessible, then new AI competitors can come and challenge the competitive dynamics in the industry, and you're seeing different variants of that as you look broadly across the space.

Now that's not to say that the incumbents that have a massive advantage in terms of the data they've got and their domain expertise won't respond and compete very effectively over time. You don't see that dynamic in credit because the moat around the credit data and its mission criticality and the high regulatory content is so substantial. In the marketing world or in the fraud world, there are various AI-enabled competitors that have been there for quite some time. I'd say the advantage that we have as an incumbent is all of the proprietary data that we get from the industry consortiums that we've created in fraud and marketing.

In fraud, we've got this 1.5 decades consortium of companies that use our software to detect potential fraudulent behavior on their e-commerce servers and then they report that to us. And we have a large device reputational network that is proprietary and is a considerable moat to providing online fraud detection. In the phone world, that data comes from the carriers. We're one of 2 scaled players in providing phone authentication. And then any other flavor of fraud mitigation, be it biometric or knowledge-based authenticators, et cetera, et cetera, we either originate market-leading solutions in those areas or we have a full range of partnerships, and we take all of that signal of potential fraud and it goes into the OneTru data foundation and our clients can build rapidly very sophisticated AI-enabled models to score the likelihood of fraud in the transaction.

So in short, it's the combination of our architecture and our analytics sophistication fueled by a lot of proprietary data, even in areas like fraud or marketing that gives us an advantage against new players that come up that are really just leveraging somebody else's AI capability.

Got it. So scaled data and...

Scaled proprietary data, modern tech stack, AI sophistication, deep client relationships, forward engineering organization in a massive domain wrapper.

Got it.

So look, when people think about AI and potential for disruption, they often come at it first from, is this theoretically possible? The answer is sure, it's theoretically possible. The second question should be, is this economically viable given the advantage of the entrenched players and their technological sophistication and the clear motivation we all have to be excellent at this. And I think there's a lot of fallout when you consider economic viability against large sophisticated entrenched competitors.

It's very well said. Thanks so much, Chris. I guess switching gears to talk about the credit score transition. that's taking place right now. Maybe a good place to start is just the VantageScore pilot program that FHFA Director, Bill Pulte has announced a few weeks ago. We heard about this 21 approved lenders. We heard various different things about the loan level pricing adjustments for VantageScore. I guess like from your seat, what are you hearing from lenders, MBS investors, regulators? How is the pilot program going?

Sure. Yes. Well, no shortage of things to talk about in the mortgage realm, particularly around the implementation in earnest of score competition, which I think is a really great and healthy thing for the U.S. mortgage market simply because the VantageScore is a next-generation score based on trended and alternative data and developed with modern scoring techniques. It's a very good score. It performs very well against the incumbent. The challenge, of course, is that current processes are designed in consideration of only one score for over 30 years. And the way I would characterize it is we're in the early days of working through all of the adjustments, all of the learnings, all of the human behavioral change that has to happen to enable share shift and competition at scale.

The good news is that the FHFA, this is for real, this is happening. There is massive interest among lenders, amongst lenders in the 21 are some of the largest mortgage originators in the U.S., people like UWM, people like Rocket Mortgage, a variety of the largest banks, et cetera. And there's just a tremendous proven tangible appetite for change given the massive price increases that have been put through by the incumbent, not only over the last 4 years, but in really since 2006 forward when Vantage was formed to create a counterweight to their monopoly, right?

And so there's just no doubt that there's market demand for this. There's no doubt that the score is better. And of course, it's going to take some time to work it through, but that's all happening because there's a tremendous economic incentive on behalf of the lenders for it to happen. And score improvements contributes to overall safety and soundness as well, which the FHFA wants to happen. And most importantly, the FHFA is also very focused on reducing loan transaction costs. And so a score that cost $0.99 versus one that costs $10 or $5 plus a contingency on a successful borrower, these are material dollars that can be taken out of the system that aren't contributing a lot to the economics.

I guess what are the remaining hurdles for a full-scale implementation for VantageScore? I mean it's great that there are 21 approved lenders, but there are hundreds of other smaller lenders in the market. So I guess like what's your expectation around both VantageScore full-scale implementation time line and maybe FICO 10T implementation time line as well?

Well, the FHFA has said that they hope to certify FICO 10T over the summer at some point, and we'll see if they can deliver on that time frame. And I expect that FICO 10T will be a materially more performance score than FICO Classic because it takes advantage of the alternative data and the trended data that the bureaus provide. And ultimately, it's the data that determines the efficacy of the score. It's not the magic of the score. So that's what we understand on that development. But I think we're in a prolonged period of transition. And this is my estimation based on what I gather from a variety of sources. This is in some definitive proclamation by the FHFA. But the FHFA is working at this in earnest. The GSEs are ready, and they'll probably take the majority of this year to continue to educate and refine the process because there are multiple players in this mortgage origination through securitization process. They have to be brought along. There are some systems adjustments that have to take place. Those are all -- this is a large change management process, and it's going to take some time.

And I think that's why, look, it was prudent that each of the bureaus came out and assumed no adoption of Vantage over the course of this year and said, let's make '26 a year about learning and change management. I'm sure some of that will continue into '27. I do think there will be some share adoption of Vantage in '26. You're seeing that. But this is not a flip the switch. This is not a single event becomes the aha moment that proves that nothing will ever change. I think those are all kind of wishful and unrealistic assumptions. The fact is it's going to change. There's going to be score competition. There's a tremendous economic incentive to adopt Vantage, and it's just going to take some time to work it through.

Got it. I guess in the non-mortgage verticals across credit card, auto, personal loans, what type of market share has VantageScore been able to gain over the years? And what's your medium-term expectation for VantageScore market share gains in mortgage?

Yes. Look, that's a good pivot because oftentimes, the FICO versus Advantage discussion is framed in a way where it's as if Vantage is this new thing that has just appeared on the scene. Vantage has been around since 2006. Vantage is significantly used in consumer lending. There's a major card issuer, Synchrony, that for not quite a decade now has been fully on Vantage, originating, securitizing. You see it in auto as well. We've had a nice business amongst community financial institutions that originate a whole lot of mortgage and moving to Vantage because of price escalations from the incumbent, right? So it's known. It's used across 4,000 banks. It's the most frequently pulled score or offered score in consumer education. And so what I think will happen is I think the share that exists outside of mortgage exists for a large reason because of the halo effect of the monopoly that exists in mortgage. As that monopoly becomes competition and share begins to balance between the 2 players, I think it will have a knock-on effect on share dynamics in these other lending categories.

So I guess one of the main initiatives or projects that Director Pulte is really excited about is just reducing closing costs. So under that or in this general operating environment, how should we think about pricing for VantageScore and credit data in the next few years?

We'll just focus on the score for this time. I mean, look, we operate in countries around the world. We produce scores. There are some other third-party scores that we would distribute in one market or another. But around the world, there are no other scores that sell for the price point of a FICO score in U.S. mortgage markets, right? I think that's just a function of a lack of competition. I'm very comfortable with the score where we're at. I don't think this is a time to worry about pricing or revenue realization. It's -- let's be supportive of industry change. Let's lay the foundation for real competition going forward and enable share shift.

And then over time, I mean, look, any revenue we get from a score is additive to our P&L currently. And within our business, we have fully decoupled our data revenues versus third-party scores, right? And so FICO is at liberty to manage their business as they see fit. We're more than happy to calculate the score on our data behind our firewalls, if that's what the client wants. We're more than happy to support FICO's direct licensing program. If I could wave a wand and 100% of FICO score calculation shifted to resellers or clients, I'm fine with that. My economics, my revenue, my profit is unchanged. It's just my margin goes up a lot because I no longer have to book 0 margin FICO revenue in my P&L.

So I mean, I think it's important to understand that decoupling that's been achieved over the past year or 2. And again, we're focused on share shift and share adoption. So pricing will remain what it is today for the long foreseeable future. And we will continue to take the very reasonable price increases that we have put through both TransUnion and our bureau competitors that really reflect significant investment in innovation. I mean, remember, just recently, we had Director Pulte and Director Turner of HUD, celebrating score competition, celebrating the use of alternative and trended data. And you have to remember that, that moment was made possible by 20 years of patient investing by the bureaus in creating a credit score alternative and creating trended and alternative data. And so the fact that we have put through some price increases and we'll continue to do so on our product reflects a lot of underlying innovation and investment that's taken place over 2 decades to get to this point.

Got it. Maybe just one last question on mortgage. I do want to touch on the whole tri-merge, bi-merge, single-file underwriting debate. And we've seen, I think the FHA has already said that tri-merge requirement remains for the time being when we're going through the credit score transitions. So I guess, worst-case scenario, if we do move from tri-merge to either bi-merge or single file underwriting, could you just talk us through TransUnion's competitive advantage in the credit data space?

Yes. Look, there's a number of ways to come at this. But I think we have to start with likelihood and severity, right, because investors get concerned when they hear regulators make comments that while not about the tri-merge necessarily, raise some question about further potential change. It's my belief, it's our belief based on any number of discussions we've had in and around Washington, and in particular, within the FHFA, within the GSEs, within the HUD, within the treasury, within the administration, within Capitol Hill, across Capitol Hill, there is firm and broad support for the tri-merge. It is highly unlikely that there will be any shift. And at this point, really the only people who are advocating a change is the Mortgage Bankers Association. And I appreciate their circumstances. This is -- the past 5 years, it's been very difficult to be a mortgage broker, or a mortgage originator. Volumes are dramatically below the curve.

So I understand why they want to try to find cost reductions wherever they can. But it's imprudent to go to a single poll or even a bi-merge because you lose a lot of important data, a lot of predictive signal that helps you, one, determine fraud; and two, most accurately price the mortgage for the consumer that you're trying to win and then ultimately, to the GSEs to whom you want to sell the loan. So there's a strong economic reason for lenders to pull multiple scores and the tri-merge. There's a strong overall safety and soundness argument in support of it. But let's say, even if it does happen, right? Well, look, we love our mortgage business. We love the tri-merge component. We value all of the components of our revenue stream. But it wouldn't be that material to our overall P&L, right? We will be over $5 billion. We will be approaching $1.9 billion in EBITDA.

When you look at the component of our business that is from the tri-merge at underwriting, it's a relatively modest portion, particularly because we're not talking about it all going away. We're talking about the potential reduction from 3 to 2 and perhaps some price competition. And I would just remind everybody, we just went through this over the past 2 years, right? The FHFA said, you no longer have to pull at qualification 3 credit reports in order to get a signal from the GSEs about whether they would buy this conforming mortgage, you could just pull one. And the market has, over 2 years, reached an equilibrium of pulling more than 2. And I would say that our mortgage revenues have grown very nicely over this period. Our share is stable to growing. And I don't think investors have really noticed the change. So if the same thing were to happen, and again, it's a super low probability at mortgage underwriting when -- I don't think it's nothing that we wouldn't grow through in a single year.

That's very helpful. Switching gears to international markets. The 2 markets I definitely want to touch on is Mexico and India. In Mexico, you just completed the acquisition of TransUnion de Mexico. Maybe tell us more about what attracted you to that asset in the first place? What kind of revenue or cost synergy are you expecting? And how should we think about the medium-term growth algo and margin profile of this business?

Well, from the get-go, Mexico will be accretive to our overall growth rate and our overall profit margins even as we're integrating the business this year and not separating out integration costs, right? So it's a very profitable and attractive market and asset. And it's one that we've been in for over 25 years. We owned 26% of the bureau over this period. We wanted to buy fully into it, but the Mexican banks wanted to retain the asset at that point, and we were their technology partner.

Finally, circumstances presented themselves where we could acquire the bureau in full, and we have. But the way it stands today is it's a very basic bureau. It's got good data coverage across the large banks and the smaller banks and the fintechs as well. But we will materially broaden the coverage, and we will replatform it from the legacy tech stack, which is considerably behind OneTru, which will bring the range of our credit analytics sophistication into the Mexican market, coupled with all of our marketing, fraud, consumer enablement and identity resolution capabilities, all of which are native and integrated to the OneTru platform.

So in short, we're going to enable a lot better credit functionality plus a whole range of additive complementary functionality in the Mexican market and all taken to market with the thought leadership and the partner problem-solving orientation that we have in every market in which we compete. Mexico is a big market. It's fast growing. Traditional financial services are underpenetrated. And what we do, both on the data and analytics side is a real enablement for economic growth and financial inclusion. So I think Mexico will become one of the real bright spots in the portfolio over time.

Speaking of bright spots, I guess India has been a key growth driver in TransUnion's portfolio for so many years. And I guess, sometime in 2023, I think the end of 2023, we had the RBI's cooling action, and now we're just getting out of this bottom of the cycle. Maybe tell us a little bit more about how you think about the recovery trajectory for TransUnion's India business in '26, '27? And what level of new normal in terms of medium-term growth rate can we expect for that business?

Well, sure. Well, look, first things first. The good news is we are recovering in India in the second quarter as we expected and as we guided to, which puts us on track for the full year recovery that we're forecasting in 2026. You characterized the RBI actions as cooling actions in 2023. I think that's exactly right. We had been growing at about 30% a year for 3 years. It was fueled by a lot of economic growth and a lot of lending activity, particularly online unsecured new-to-credit lending activity and the RBI became concerned about some of those practices and perhaps that it was a bit overdone.

The good news is despite the cooling measures that they put in place, which actually worked really well, much to our volume detriment, the delinquencies of the loans that were originated in that period have been very stable, right? So it didn't manifest itself as a lending problem, a loan problem, but it definitely cooled the market. What you saw replacing it and what has helped that market return to growth are gold loans, which unfortunately don't require a lot of credit pools, although we're starting to introduce some analytics around that. Aside from that, personal lending, card lending, et cetera, has bottomed and is starting to grow, and that's why we're starting to see the improvements in our results.

So I feel like you're going to see some good organic growth over the remaining quarters of this year that get us back on track. Obviously, India is a fantastic market to have this fantastic and large share business in. And I would expect -- I mean, medium-term guidance, I mean, it's mid-teens plus. And I don't know that we have provided medium-term guidance necessarily on India, but I'm just -- I'm loath to get too far ahead of the next quarter because I just want to start to see more of this recovery. But look, things are still strong in India, a massive productive population, underpenetrated in traditional financial products, a sophisticated regulator and government that wants to build a world-class financial services industry and a heck of a lot of GDP growth. So I'm thrilled with that position.

Got it. Maybe just one last question before we wrap. How are you thinking about capital allocation capital allocation between buybacks, debt, payments, M&A?

Sure. Well, look, our debt is in very good shape. Even pos-acquisition of Mexico, we're at about 2.8x. We will easily go down beneath our target of 2.5x leverage by the end of this year. We really want to focus a lot of energies on share buybacks. Unfortunately, the growth of the hyperscalers and the frenzy around all components of the AI stack is sucking a lot of oxygen out of information services. Some fear of AI displacement is also impacting information services, and we want to buy back shares to the greatest extent possible. I expect that we will buy back roughly the same amount of shares this year as we did in '25, where we started to accelerate it, but that's only because we had to pay for the Mexico acquisition this year. Next year, we've got all of our free cash flow, which is now solidly above 90%. And if we're still in this position where there's a big share value dislocation, we'll be aggressive in buying back shares.

Got it. This is all super helpful. Thank you so much for sharing with us today.

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Good day, and welcome to the TransUnion First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] please note this event is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Greg Bardi, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Good morning, and thank you for attending today. Joining me on the call are Chris Cartwright, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Todd Cello, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

We posted our earnings release and slides to accompany this call on the TransUnion Investor Relations website this morning, and they can also be found in the current report on Form 8-K that we filed this morning. Our earnings release and the accompanying slides include various schedules, which contain more detailed information about revenue, operating expenses and other items, as well as certain non-GAAP disclosures and financial measures along with the corresponding reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures.

Today's call will be recorded and a replay will be available on our website. We will also be making statements during this call that are forward-looking. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements because of factors discussed in today's earnings release and the comments made during this conference call and in our most recent Form 10-K, Forms 10-Q and other reports and filings with the SEC. We do not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statement.

With that, let me turn it over to Chris.

Thanks, Greg, and let me add my welcome and outline today's agenda. First, I will review our first quarter results and updated 2026 guidance. Second, I'll discuss how AI is accelerating innovation across to you and driving higher data usage among some clients. And then I'll pass to Todd, who will detail our first quarter results and provide second quarter and full year '26 guidance.

So we started the year very strong, exceeding our first quarter guidance for revenue, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted diluted earnings per share. This is our ninth straight quarter of at least high single-digit organic constant currency revenue growth with 11% growth versus our 8% to 9% guidance. Excluding FICO mortgage royalties, revenue grew 7% and which is also above our expectations. Now U.S. markets grew 14%. Financial Services led the way up 24% or 14% excluding FICO mortgage royalties. We delivered broad-based strength across lending types driven by modest volume growth, pricing actions and sales momentum across both credit and noncredit solutions.

Emerging verticals had another healthy quarter growing more than 6% led by insurance and public sector. International revenue was flat organically as expected. Canada and the U.K. grew high single digits and Africa grew 10%, and India declined mid-single digit, slightly better than we'd expected, and we expect a gradual improvement throughout the course of the year. Now strong revenue growth translated into 12% growth in adjusted diluted earnings per share. In line with our disciplined M&A approach focused on highly strategic bolt-ons, we recently completed 2 acquisitions. TransUnion to Mexico extends our global playbook into an attractive market where we now hold the leading position. The smaller acquisition of RealNetworks Mobile division adds complementary messaging capabilities to our leading trusted call solutions. And in addition to completing these acquisitions, we repurchased $25 million of shares year-to-date through April. We have ample capacity under our $1 billion repurchase authorization and expect to increase repurchases over the rest of the year.

Our outperformance reflects consistent execution in a relatively stable operating environment. The strength of our diversified portfolio positions us to navigate potential changes in economic conditions. And as a reminder, our customers entered 2026 with cautious optimism. Lenders anticipated loan growth supported by their strong balance sheets, healthy consumer finances and expectations for rate cuts throughout the year. In February, the conflict in Iran added uncertainty about inflation, interest rates and the potential impact on consumers. The 10-year treasury rate in the 30-year mortgage rate are currently 4.3% and 6.3%, respectively, after briefly dipping below 4% and 6% in late February. We continue to monitor market dynamics and potential second order impacts on consumers and customers. To date, we have not observed any change in customer behavior tied to these developments. Through mid-April, volume and revenue trends have remained at or ahead of our expectations. We saw a brief pickup in refi-driven mortgage activity during February's rate debt, followed by a March normalization previous levels. U.S. nonmortgage lending remains healthy. Against this backdrop, we delivered another strong sales quarter, underscoring sustained demand and commercial momentum for our credit marketing and fraud solutions. An uncertain market underscores the importance of our durable growth strategy. We have the broadest, deepest and most relevant solutions portfolio in our history.

Our fastest-growing products include trusted call solutions, True IQ, identity-based marketing and next-gen fraud models, which address customer needs across economic cycles. Looking ahead, we expect our strongest ever cohort of new product launches and major enhancements in 2026. While our investments in global AI-enabled platforms position us for cost efficiency and operating leverage. Against this backdrop, we are maintaining our full year organic constant currency guidance, including revenue growth of 8% to 9%. We are balancing first quarter outperformance driven by healthy underlying trends against macro uncertainty and the need to maintain prudently conservative guidance. The increase to the high end of our guidance, $154 million of revenue, $39 million of adjusted EBITDA and and $0.04 of adjusted diluted earnings per share primarily reflects the addition of TU to Mexico.

Our guidance approach remains unchanged. If current trends continue, we expect to perform at or above the high end of our range. Alternatively, we expect that we could absorb a reasonable level of market softening within our guidance range. Todd will provide additional details on our guidance assumptions. At the high end of guidance, we expect to deliver our third consecutive year of high single-digit organic constant currency revenue growth and double-digit adjusted diluted EPS growth. Now this consistently strong financial performance underscores the strength and durability of our growth strategy. And as we highlighted throughout our Investor Day last month, AI can enhance that strength and fuel a new generation of growth.

Our proprietary and differentiated data assets anchor our competitive advantage as we move into an AI future. Our contributor or credit databases are sourced from thousands of institutions operating under demanding regulatory frameworks. Our industry-leading identity graph combines our proprietary data with billions of dynamic disparate signals in near real time, creating a network effect that powers our marketing and fraud solutions. We power our customers' complex mission-critical workflows with governable, explainable data and deep domain expertise, delivering effective and deterministic outcomes. And these solutions are priced economically relative to the significant value that they provide. Instead, we believe AI is a growth accelerant, enabling us to activate our data to serve our customers more effectively.

Already, AI drives tangible growth for TransUnion in 2 ways. First, by increasing demand for our data; and second, by accelerating our pace of innovation. Now let me provide additional context for what we highlighted at Investor Day to explain how these dynamics are converging. From a demand perspective, AI models are only as good as the data we can learn from, and customers are prioritizing the freshest, highest-quality signals. Our powerful and flexible [indiscernible] platform enables customers to integrate our best-in-class data directly into their AI environments. As AI-driven workflow scale, we see customers expand their use of TU's data, shifting from episodic transactions toward more embedded partnerships. For these reasons, our most AI-enabled customers are already consuming more data and adopting innovations faster. While most of our customers are early in their AI journey.

Let me share 2 examples of how TransUnion facilitated AI adoption for 2 lenders and then how we scaled our relationship as a result. Now 1 of our most sophisticated fintech customers has embedded AI across underwriting, portfolio management, customer service, marketing and fraud prevention. As these enabled programs scale, the customer expanded their use of our credit, identity and fraud signals within their workflows. Their AI underwriting models also refresh data more frequently, driving higher credit volumes. Their spending with TransUnion increased by more than 60% from 2022 and approaching $15 million in revenue in 2025 and outpacing 50% loan growth and volumetric unit pricing. Also a top 5 credit card issuer has embedded to use data across its AI-enabled governance, risk management, servicing and engagement workflows for its 50 million-plus accounts. These workflows support daily customer engagement and risk triggers rather than periodic checks.

As a result, our relationship has evolved from a point-in-time transactional data vendor to a mission-critical, enterprise-wide partner under a multiyear subscription-based contract. TransUnion's revenue with this customer increased by over 20% from 2022 to $20 million in 2025. And despite a decline in new accounts during that period. We see opportunity to deepen its relationship further by cross-selling additional credit in noncredit solutions.

Now our next-generation AI power products reflect and drive increased demand for our data. During Investor Day, we highlighted 3 of these solutions, all built on the OneTru platform, these solutions enhance fast-growing products operating at scale, including True IQ, marketing audiences and fraud analytics to enable continued growth. they industrialize in-demand customized analytics into scalable solutions that drive higher data usage and monetization across our portfolio.

So first, TruIQ Analytics orchestrator uses Google's Gemini models to streamline advanced credit modeling with natural language prompts. Analytics orchestrator scales the expertise typically delivered in highly effective but ad hoc innovation labs into a self-service solution. This enables customers to build models faster and more frequently with less reliance on our data science teams. We expect analytics orchestrator to increase data usage drive new revenue streams, enable stickier customer relationships. In marketing, we are transforming our static audience segments into curated and outcome-driven audiences by TransUnion built off our identity backbone. We're also providing self-service search and discovery tools that accelerate activation and improve campaign performance. We expect improved efficiency and speed to drive increased consumption of our marketing audiences. And in front, our AI model factory unifies our identity data and advances analytic capabilities to respond to evolving fraud threat vectors. We're launching new fraud models at 2 to 3x faster than previously possible with 10 new models launched in the last 12 months, including our credit washing and synthetic identity solutions. We generated tens of millions of dollars of incremental pipeline from these new fraud models. So in summary, AI will continue to accelerate our pace of innovation and expand the ways customers consume data, supporting durable growth across our solution suites.

Now with that, I'll hand it over to Todd.

Thanks, Chris, and let me add my welcome to everyone. I'll build on that overview with first quarter results before providing guidance. Starting with the quarter, we exceeded the high end of our guidance across all key metrics by $41 million on revenue and $18 million on adjusted EBITDA or $22 million and $8 million, respectively, excluding the Mexico acquisition.

Total revenue increased 14% on a reported and 11% on an organic constant currency basis led by U.S. Financial Services. Excluding FICO mortgage royalties, organic growth was 7%. Growth was broad-based and aligned with the innovation priorities outlined at Investor Day. Credit, excluding FICO mortgage royalties and fraud, both grew high single digit driven by continued traction in TruIQ, alternative data and trusted call solutions. Marketing Solutions delivered mid-single-digit growth with healthy identity performance.

Consumer Solutions grew low single digit including another quarter of double-digit growth internationally. Adjusted EBITDA increased 10%. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 35.2%, down 100 basis points year-over-year. As anticipated, underlying margins contracted modestly in FICO mortgage royalties were a 120 basis point headwind. Our Mexico acquisition contributed 25 basis points in the quarter. Adjusted diluted earnings per share was $1.18, up 12% year-over-year and $0.08 ahead at the high end of our guidance. In the first quarter, U.S. markets revenue grew 14% on an organic constant currency basis versus the prior year. Across all our B2B verticals, we delivered strong bookings and retention rates to start the year.

Financial Services revenue grew 24% or 14% excluding FICO mortgage royalties. The environment remains constructive, and we outperformed underlying volumes driven by TruIQ, alternative data and noncredit solutions. Within financial services, credit card and banking rose 5% on stable lending volumes and strength from trusted call solutions. Consumer lending grew 13% and supported by sustained consumer demand and strong FinTech performance. FinTechs continue to perform well with increasingly diversified funding bases and delinquency trends within historical norms. Auto was up 11%, outpacing modest industry volume declines through pricing, share gains and new wins across our solution suites.

Mortgage revenue grew 50% excluding FICO royalties, revenue grew 24% compared to inquiries up 7%. Inquiries were slightly better than anticipated, with additional outperformance through pricing and increased adoption of non tri-bureau solutions. Emerging verticals grew 6%, led by another quarter of double-digit growth in insurance -- within insurance, credit-based marketing continues to recover as insurers and pursue profitable growth. Consumer shopping also remains active. We drove new wins and growth across core credit driving history, trusted call solutions and marketing solutions.

Across our other emerging verticals, public sector grew high single digits and is positioned for a strong year. tech, retail and e-commerce, and media grew mid-single digits. Communications grew modestly tenant and employment declined modestly but is expected to return to growth over the rest of the year. Consumer Interactive was flat, driven by indirect channel growth and breach-related wins, offset by declines in the direct channel.

In international, all revenue growth comparisons are on an organic constant currency basis. International revenue was flat in the quarter, reflecting varied results across our diversified portfolio. Our 2 most developed markets drove outperformance against subdued market conditions. U.K. grew 7%, driven by healthy volumes from our largest banking and fintech customers as well as new wins across verticals. Canada grew 9%, reflecting another quarter of innovation-led growth as well as strong performance from fintechs and insurance. Africa performed well, too, growing 10% with strength across banking, FinTech and retail. Across our other emerging markets, India, Latin America and Asia Pacific, growth was softer, reflecting subdued conditions and timing dynamics. India declined 5%, slightly better than guided. We expect a gradual recovery in consumer lending, supporting mid-single-digit growth for India in 2026.

We also continued to accelerate the pace of innovation in India. Most recently, we announced a strategic partnership with the leading Indian telco geo to enable branded calling across its 500 million subscribers as we continue to expand the reach of our leading trusted call solutions globally. Latin America was flat organically with growth in Brazil, offset by modest declines in Colombia and other markets. TransUnion to Mexico which was recorded as inorganic, grew well in the first quarter on the heels of double-digit growth in 2025. Asia Pacific declined 18%, primarily by lapping onetime contracts, as well as softer volumes. Performance across India, Latin America and Asia Pacific is expected to improve in the second quarter and as the year progresses.

Turning to the balance sheet. We ended the first quarter with $5.6 billion of debt and $733 million of cash. During the quarter, we funded the approximately $660 million purchase for TransUnion New Mexico with $520 million drawn from our credit revolver as well as cash on hand. As a result, our leverage ratio at quarter end increased modestly to 2.8x. For the remainder of 2026 we plan to continue to execute our balanced capital allocation framework, prioritizing debt prepayment and capital return to shareholders. We have repurchased $25 million so far this year and expect to increase the pace of repurchases over the remainder of the year. We also remain committed to pushing our leverage ratio towards our long-term target of under 2.5x. Before getting into guidance details, I want to reiterate our approach.

Even with first quarter outperformance and healthy underlying momentum we are maintaining our full year organic growth assumptions. This reflects our disciplined guidance philosophy and provides flexibility in an uncertain environment. In the second quarter, we are guiding revenue to be between $1.271 billion to $1.283 billion, up 12% to 13%. Acquisitions add 4% and and FX has an immaterial impact on our guidance. We expect organic constant currency revenue growth of 8% to 9% or 5% to 6% excluding FICO mortgage royalties. We anticipate mortgage revenue growing over 30% or 10% plus excluding FICO, compared to a mid-single-digit decline in inquiries. We are guiding adjusted EBITDA to $439 million to $445 million, up 8% to 9%, implying a margin of 34.5% to 34.7%. Underlying margins expand by 20 to 40 basis points, offset by an 80 basis point drag from FICO royalties and a 60 basis point impact from acquisitions. We expect our adjusted diluted earnings per share to be between $1.13 and $1.15, up 4% to 6%.

For full year guidance, we expect revenue to be between $5.1 billion and $5.135 billion, up 11% to 12%. Acquisitions add 3.5% and and FX has an immaterial impact on our guidance. Our organic constant currency assumptions are unchanged at 8% to 9% or 5% to 6% excluding FICO mortgage royalties. Our segment level assumptions are also unchanged. For mortgage, we continue to expect growth of 28% or 6%, excluding FICO, compared to mid-single-digit inquiry declines, unchanged since February. While the first quarter exceeded expectations, we modestly lowered volume assumptions for the remainder of the year to account for recent interest rate volatility.

Full details on mortgage assumptions are provided in our appendix. We anticipate mid-single-digit international revenue growth for the year, driven by gradual recoveries in India, Latin America and Asia Pacific, following a softer first quarter. We expect adjusted EBITDA to be 1.796 billion to $1.816 billion in 2026, up 9% to 10%. That results in a margin of 35.2% to 35.4%, down 60 to 80 basis points. Underlying margins are expected to expand by 50 to 70 basis points driven by revenue flow-through and remaining transformation savings. This strong underlying expansion is offset by a 90 basis point drag from FICO royalties and a 40 basis point impact from our acquisitions. We anticipate adjusted diluted earnings per share to be $4.68 to $4.75, up 9% to 11%.

For other guidance items, depreciation and amortization is now expected to be approximately $640 million or $320 million, excluding step-up amortization from our 2012 change in control and subsequent acquisitions. We anticipate net interest expense of $245 million, up $25 million from February reflecting $20 million related to debt financing for the Mexico acquisition and $5 million from higher sulfur on floating rate debt.

Our adjusted tax rate is expected to be approximately 25.5%, modestly better than anticipated, driven by favorable geographic mix of earnings and changes in tax law that became effective in 2026. Capital expenditures are expected to be approximately 6% of revenue. We expect free cash flow conversion as a percentage of adjusted net income to be 90% or greater in 2026 and going forward.

Slide 17 reconciles our updated full year guidance relative to February. As shown, the increase is driven by our consolidation of TransUnion to Mexico, with nonoperating items having a net neutral impact on adjusted diluted EPS. While TransUnion to Mexico is accretive to 2026 earnings, it is modestly dilutive to our adjusted EBITDA margins this year. Importantly, the Mexico business operates at margins above our company average. The 2026 margin impact is driven by accounting mechanics rather than ongoing economics.

Historically, our 26% ownership was accounted for under the equity method, contributing approximately $17 million of adjusted EBITDA in 2025 with no associated revenue. Following the acquisition, Mexico's revenue is fully consolidated, while only the incremental adjusted EBITDA associated with increasing our ownership from 26% to 94% is additive versus prior reporting. As a result, consolidated margins appear modestly lower due to revenue consolidation despite the business's strong underlying profitability.

In addition, during 2026, we will incur onetime integration expenses related to the Mexico and Mobile division of [ Mural ] Networks acquisitions, which we are not adding back to adjusted EBITDA. Our 2026 guidance fits within the context of our medium-term financial framework, which we reintroduced at our March Investor Day. Over the medium term, we expect to deliver high single-digit organic revenue growth, 50 basis points of underlying margin expansion and low to mid-teens adjusted diluted earnings per share growth. This guidance is anchored in our repeatable earnings model and the momentum we are delivering today and not dependent on a recovery in U.S. mortgage or other markets.

Our medium-term financial framework reflects our value creation flywheel. Our multiyear transformation is now enabling faster innovation and improved commercial outcomes. We are scaling the business on a common technology and operating platform and deploying AI across the enterprise to drive further productivity. Our scalable growth drives compounding cash flow that we will deploy to fund our growth, optimize our balance sheet and increasingly return capital to shareholders.

With that context, I will turn the call back to Chris for closing remarks.

All right. Thanks, Todd. So before closing, I want to provide our perspective on last week's announcement from the FHFA Director and the HUD Secretary. These developments are an important milestone and a 20-year journey to enable competition and modernization in mortgage credit scoring.

So as noted by Director Pulte, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have begun accepting VantageScore 4.0. Freddie Mac took delivery of VantageScore loans during an operational test and will soon securitize them. The FHFA is expanding this pilot with a group of lenders and the GSEs will communicate pricing guidelines. Additionally, HUD Secretary, Scott Turner announced that the VantageScore will also be accepted for FHA mortgages starting later this year.

With the combination of Vantage 4.0 and TransUnion's comprehensive trended and alternative data will expand access to creditworthy consumers and promote affordability while maintaining safety and soundness within the mortgage ecosystem. And we have taken several steps to foster industry adoption, most recently announcing the industry's first 99 [indiscernible] VantageScore 4.0 mortgage pricing. Adoption of VantageScore can drive hundreds of millions of dollars of savings for lenders and consumers. Managed Score also represents an incremental revenue opportunity over time. We plan to support continued score valuation from our customers with free vintage score offered to those customers who purchased the FICO score through the end of 2026.

We are also offering customers multiyear pricing for credit reports and Vantage 4.0, providing better pricing certainty to lenders. And more broadly, our actions reflect our belief that effective mortgage underwriting and responsible financial inclusion are ultimately driven by the quality and the depth of the data used. As stewards of data on over 295 million U.S. consumers, we continue to invest in data sets and analytics that support the fairest and the most accurate credit decisions across economic cycles.

So in summary, we started 2026 with a good first quarter, growing both our revenue and our earnings by double digits. We've raised our guidance based on our recent acquisitions and anticipate a strong year. We're guiding 8% to 9% organic constant currency revenue growth and 9% to 11% adjusted diluted earnings per share growth. And AI continues to accelerate to use growth reinforced by the dynamics that we highlighted, expanding data demand and accelerating innovation, and we look forward to continuing this conversation in future quarters.

Now with that, let me turn it back to Greg.

Thanks, Chris. That concludes our prepared remarks. For the Q&A, we ask that you each ask only 1 question so we can include more participants. Operator, we can begin the Q&A.

[Operator Instructions] And the first question will come from Toni Kaplan from Morgan Stanley.

And thanks for the comments at the end on the press conference from last week. I wanted to ask a question about that conference. There was a comment made about scrutinizing pricing in the credit bureau industry. And I was hoping you could just maybe talk about you've already sort of provided the $0.99 down from a higher like the $4 level you were originally talking about.

And so I guess what are the areas, maybe in particular, on pricing that investors should be thinking of are maybe under scrutiny?

Well, Tony, and thank you for the question. It's an important question. And going back to that press conference from last week, I mean, well, first of all, we're just really excited to see the momentum at the FHFA. And in the GSEs for accepting Vantage 4.0 and the progress in completing the LLPAs and the pricing guides generally.

We see strong demand in the market. And so I think you'll begin to see some rapid adoption of that. Yes, we're not entirely clear on what Director Pulte was referring to in his comments. We are following up to try to get clarity on those I think there's a lot of speculation that it could be a reference to the Tri-Merge. And look, I think we've been pretty clear in recent years about the importance of the tri-merge in underpinning the safety and soundness of the mortgage market in the U.S. and ensuring that the potential pool of mortgage applicants that are scored accurately and qualify for mortgages is as substantial as it can be while also accurately assessing the risk that lenders are undertaking that will eventually be passed on to the GSEs and to investors.

I mean, in short, the rationale for the tri-merge is that it drives the efficacy of underwriting and financial inclusion because you're getting full access to all of the data that's available for diligence. And I think sometimes, discussions about changing from the tri-merge don't appreciate that credit bureau data is not a constant across the 3 bureaus. We have different furnitures. There have been new lending types that have emerged in recent periods like fintech, financial innovation like NPL and now the bureaus are actively developing alternative data like rental and utility and others, our files have diverged even more. And so using data inconsistently or excluding a report means you'll either be mispricing risk or lowering access for creditworthy borrowers or lowering the hurdles for potential mortgage fraudsters.

So we firmly believe Tri-Merge is the gold standard. It's deeply embedded in mortgage underwriting processes. The industry is already digesting a good degree of change, whether it's the early assessment program, and most recently, score competition, which is terrific. And I think this would be an even more substantial change at a time when stability is particularly important as this administration contemplates the IPO of the GSEs. And I think we got to remember that we charge $10 to $12 per report. That is a fraction of closing costs. It's less than 1%. And by pulling all 3 reports, you optimize across all the dimensions of the mortgage process. you can score the largest number of consumers and qualify the largest proportion for homeownership, you mitigate risk, you ensure accurate pricing and you minimize the risk to taxpayers via the GSEs.

And ultimately, you ensure that investors who are buying these assets once securitized fully understand the risk management process from which they were generated. So look, we -- look, I know from my own discussion some last week, there's a lot of support in the industry for the tri-merge whether it's legislators or regulators or investors, I think they understand the value of maximizing the diligence on this. So we'll just have to wait and see. And obviously, -- we look forward to further discussions with the director with the FHFA. I think goodness always comes from that, and we would certainly welcome it.

The next question will come from Andrew Steinerman from JPMorgan.

My question is on India. Looking back to the Analyst Day recently, transient outlined to double-digit revenue growth, organic revenue growth profile longer term for TransUnion India. How long would it take to get to that cadence? And what needs to change to get there?

Well, thanks for the question, Andrew. India is a great part of the TransUnion story, and we're super pleased that we own that asset, and it's a wonderful market and a growing economy. But it's an economy that's had a variety of macroeconomics and also regulatory shock in recent years, some of which were exacerbated by the conflict with our and in Middle East and rising energy prices and the like. I think despite that, we have seen some stabilization for consumer lending volume and commercial lending volume, which is helpful. And we're also growing through some kind of onetime exceptional and anomalous stuff. And so we did okay against our guidance in the first quarter. And we believe we now, with this foundation of stability are going to pivot back toward growth and overall, we think India will deliver mid-single-digit growth over 2026. And and hopefully, that gets us back to sustained low double-digit growth and beyond as the economics and the political environment inside should stabilize there. I mean the regulatory environment, not the political environment.

And the next question is from Andrew Nicholas from William Blair.

Chris, in your prepared remarks, I think you made the comment that most of your customers are still pretty early in their AI journey. And so I was hoping you could flesh that out a little bit more. What are you kind of seeing in terms of pace of adoption what's a reasonable time line for some of your customers to get a little bit more ready on that front? And any comments on what would be kind of slowing that or expectations for adoption there?

Yes. Thanks, Andrew. Well, look, I would just -- stepping back, I would say, societally and economically, we're still in the very early innings of AI adoption. I think you've got certain sectors of the economy where the adoption is fairly deep like software development, if you will. Those are the guys that created it. So it's not surprising that they are deeply applying it to their work first. And then I think you've got kind of mass experimentation going on just about everywhere else. I think you're going to see that accelerate as people understand the technology more deeply and its potential across all types of business processes and functions. And if you even here at TransUnion, I mean our developers have been using it for a while. They are dramatically more productive. It's not order of magnitude, productivity increases yet, but it's solid. 30% plus productivity kind of ranging depending on the nature of the development activity. And frankly, it really helped us accelerate the delivery of the OneTru platform and the migration of our products and our legacy technology onto that platform. At the -- at a recent Investor Day, which you attended, you would have seen the true true analytics orchestrator. That is 1 of the most potent applications of AI that we have here at TransUnion, we're using it across our data and analytics organization. We're seeing 2 to 3x productivity improvement that's allowing us to build more models more frequently with greater accuracy than we could previously. And all of the internal use is designed to ready the application, the agent for licensing and usage independently by our clients, which is what I was referring to in my prepared remarks. So look, we're very much in the early innings. But I don't think there's really anything that's going to slow this down. I think the productivity potential and the potential to lower the cost of things that today are very difficult but can become substantially more cost-effective and thus can be consumed in greater quantities, that's what I see happening going forward.

And the next question will come from Jeff Mueler from Baird.

On the updated pricing guidelines and dedicated Vantage LLPA grid. I guess just have they been communicated to the 21 initially approved lenders? Have you seen them -- if so, any perspective you can provide on what they look like? If not, just when do you expect them, given that it sounds like they're finalized and how important do you think they are to the share shift that you expect?

Yes. Now I'll remind you that for our guidance purposes this year, we didn't assume any share shift. We viewed this year as 1 of learning experimentation and transition. And we're not clear on exactly which lenders are in the initial cohort of 21 and we're not clear on whether the FHFA has communicated the LLPAs to all of them. We know from discussions with the FHFA staff and also from the CEO of Vantage score that the guides are complete and that they're in dialogue with the firms that are in this initial cohort, but I'm not sure about the time frame for public release. mean some of these questions, they just simply have to be answered by the FHFA. But I think the director was very clear and forceful and enthusiastic that they're ready to go they're ready to scale, and he's really excited to push that forward and get competition going.

And the next question will come from Faiza Alwy from Deutsche Bank.

I wanted to ask about the contribution of noncredit products to your growth in financial services, particularly outside of of mortgage and sort of what the traction has been there? And relatedly, if you could touch on the -- you alluded to some macro uncertainty likely related to the conflict and that you could absorb a reasonable level of market softening within the guidance range. So I was hoping you could double-click on that because I'm assuming to the extent there is softening, it would impact more of your credit growth.

Let me pull back to lens a little bit and just kind of characterize this first quarter. I mean, obviously, we're off to a good start. We're nicely ahead of expectations, and we're well positioned to deliver a third straight year of high single-digit revenue growth, low double-digit profit flow-through and low to mid double-digit EPS. The strength is really coming out of the U.S. right now. A lot of strength in mortgage, which I know Todd will double click on in the call. Consumer lending also very strong in auto and card off to very solid starts as well. So we're very pleased with that.

On the emerging market side, we're right on our plan. This is how we modeled revenue growth for the course of the year. This is a solid start at 6%, and it does position us to achieve our plan of high single digit for the full year. Now obviously, with the conflict in Iran, there are new uncertainties and new pressures on the cost of energy and thus inflation and thus potentially interest rates as well. In February, the 10-year got down to about 4%. The 30-year mortgage was around $6 million -- we got a little disproportionate volume bump because refi was reactivated. That was fairly short-lived, and then we kind of reverted back to the previous levels of volume, which I'll remind you are almost represent a floor now for ongoing mortgage natural purchase activity in the U.S. But -- we like to have a conservative guide, particularly in the early part of the year. We point investors to the high end of the guide. Our goal is to hit the high end and exceed the high end we have a reasonable level of contingency to achieve that, which we will hopefully release throughout performance over the course of the year.

And given this heightened geopolitical risk, we just thought it prudent not to flow through the revenue and the profit at this point. Another thing to be very clear on, though, is that through really the beginning of this week, our volumes across all of our credit categories are steady. So we're not seeing really any negative impact on any type of loan volumes at this point. And if we maintain this level of stability and kind of volumes, we would fully expect to deliver at or above the high end of the guidance over the course of the year. This kind of stability and performance, it's also there on the subprime side, drilling into consumer lending, which had a very strong 13% growth rate in the quarter. We've been looking at the level of delinquencies there amongst subprime borrowers. They're holding up exactly as you would expect, solid underwriting practices, small loan amounts, good controls, FinTech players, accelerating their use of alternative data to fully understand risk and so while all of the players in this space expanded their credit box a bit last year and again in the first quarter, the delinquencies are solid. And so we're not really seeing anything problematic at this point.

Faiza, I'm going to go back. This is Todd, to the beginning of your question as it pertains to contribution of noncredit to financial services. So Chris just gave you all the details about what we saw in Financial Services and excluding mortgage, we continue to see stable volumes. But the diversification of our products, we had a couple of three, what I would consider to be outperformers. First, the TruIQ analytics platform continues to perform well within financial services as well as alternative data and then our trusted call solutions has been a winner with our financial services customers as well.

And our next question will be from Manav Patnaik from Barclays.

Yes, I guess I just wanted to follow up on the second part of that. Chris, you talked about absorbed a reasonable level of market softening within the guidance range. I was just hoping you could put some parameters on that? Like what is the low end of the range, I guess, imply from some of the volume trends you're seeing today?

So Manav, I'll take that one. Thanks for the question. So I think what -- if you listen back to the prepared remarks, we just continue to see stability within our volumes. And we're happy to print a very solid Q1, where organic constant currency, excluding the FICO mortgage royalty was 7%. But for all the reasons that Chris just went through geopolitically, we just felt it was the right move to not raise the guidance for the beat that we had in Q1.

So in essence, what happens, then it's just math. When we look at the growth rates for the rest of the year by us printing a 7 and then maintaining the organic constant currency growth rates, we end up for the full year at a 6% rate. And then when you look at it for the second quarter in the guide, it's also 6% at the high end, which is implying the second half is 5%. So if you believe, which we do, that volumes continue to be stable, we orient you towards the high end of our guidance, that should mean if things stay stable, we should beat in the subsequent quarters. In the event that we don't, I think you'd see that we've built some cushion here and based on keeping the organic constant currency rates.

So there is some push in there. But then the range itself at the low end would provide some cover for us. So we're very comfortable with the guidance that we're providing this morning.

Yes. And Manav, as you know, these past 3 years, we've really prioritized stable and consistent delivery at the high end or above in our guidance. That was certainly our posture going into 2026. And just given the uncertainty and given the outperformance, we thought it would be prudent to add a bit more contingency on the revenue and the profit side. And we did it again out of an abundance of caution, not because we're seeing any negativity in our volumes at this point.

And the next question will be from Ashish Sabadra from RBC.

I just wanted to better understand if the Iran conflict is having any impact on the international markets. I was just wondering if you could provide some any color on your conversations with customers or if you've seen any trends softening in those international markets?

Yes. So I think we've definitely covered our views on the U.S. market, and we'll leave that on the international side, yes, there has -- there is more exposure to rising energy prices in the international market.

There's been some exposure into India. But early on, the Trump administration is allowing India to purchase Russian oil, which is helping offset some of those inflationary pressures. In the Philippines, which is a great part of our business, but a small part of our business, I think things are particularly difficult. They're highly dependent on imported energy. And there's been a considerable run-up in the prices. And the government there is almost you're running a coved like playbook with energy subsidies going out to consumers and the like. And that was part of the reason why we had a difficult quarter in Asia Pacific although, frankly, the primary driver is just the end of the onetime analytics work that we were doing in Hong Kong to prepare for this transition to the MCRA. We think that's kind of finished and out of the system now. And so the comps improve and the performance is already stabilizing there. But I think that's some flavor for where we're seeing some energy impact elsewhere in our portfolio. Obviously, the U.K. and Europe has more exposure, and we've got a great business in the U.K.

We think we're performing really well there competitively. And again, it was another quarter of high single-digit growth.

And our next question will come from Kelsey Zhu from Autonomous.

Could you maybe talk a little bit more about your expectation around VantageScore market share gains and future pricing policy in the mortgage vertical over the medium term? More specifically, Cycle 100's latest pricing model is $0.99 upfront and then $65 at closing. I was wondering if VantageScore pricing could adopt a similar framework of lower cost upfront and then the success via closing? Or is that not something that you're considering?

Yes. So thanks for the question. Obviously, in terms of the pricing model and the pricing levels, there's a lot of options in the medium term. I think TransUnion's position, and I see this reflected in the behavior of our competitors as well, is we just need to get this started, right? We've been talking about price competition since 2006 when the bureaus came together to form the VantageScore.

Finally, we've got a regulator that was willing to push this and make it happen. And we have very attractive pricing at roughly $1 per score with no tail, no success fee attached to it, which is which is important to note. And I think in terms of pricing and model, it depends on your perspective and what you're trying to accomplish. The goal of the administration, the goal of FHFA is to reduce borrowing costs and therefore, help home affordability and charging $65 for the score as opposed to just buying at 1 time for $1, that's a material price difference, right? And so we're just focused on the introduction. We're focused on the transition, and we're focused on share gain. But we acknowledge that downstream, we have a lot of optionality. But in the meantime, let's just continue to plow forward here. It's a more modern score, Vantage 4.0. It rests upon a broader foundation of trended credit information as well as alternative data. It's been 2 decades in the making. And we're just excited that competition is here and the playing field is leveled and we're excited to get after it.

The next question will come from Jason Haas from Wells Fargo.

Just wanted to follow up on the strength in mortgage. Can you just talk about what drove the strength there outside of mortgage -- or outside of the FICO score?

Sure. Jason, it's Todd. I'll take that one. So as you probably recall, in the first quarter, we guided for a modest increase in inquiries and 35% growth for mortgage revenues. And we ended up posting 7% increase in inquiries and 50% growth. So the outperformance that we saw primarily pertained to volumes.

And Chris spoke to that earlier. In particular, in late February, when the 30-year mortgage rate dipped below 6%, we saw a pretty significant increase in volumes. But as I'm sure you're aware, with the conflict in Iran. We saw an increase pretty immediately in early March of the 10-year treasury and thus, the 30-year mortgage went back up and those volumes dropped back to previous levels. So the outperformance is primarily just related to that dynamic that I articulated. I would say that the pricing assumptions that we had assumed are pretty much held. So there are not much noise there.

Other thing I'd highlight as well is that when you think about these moves in interest rates, you see how a drop in interest rate had such a significant increase in a short period of time. If rates were to go up, let's argue the opposite way, it would be a modest negative because we're already near the floor of activity when we're talking about volumes that we haven't seen since the mid-'90s.

But when you go the other way and you see a 25 basis point drop it's pretty significant, what the opportunities would be from a volume perspective, in particular, the ReFi population. And we included some slides in the appendix of today's materials. And you can get a sense on one of those slides as to just the population of consumers that would be eligible to ReFi. So the opportunity there is pretty significant.

However, we're not there yet, right? So when you look at the guidance for the rest of the year, for the second quarter and for 2026 for the full year, we're calling for inquiries to be down mid-single digits. And again, upside would come if we just see that a little bit of move on the interest rates.

Yes. And I think another element of the mortgage outperformance is that on the prequalification side and on the early assessment side, the volumes that we're experiencing have been favorable to our guidance assumptions. And look, we are solidly into the third year of the early assessment program from the GSEs and just changes in mortgage prequalification practices.

And I think it's worth noting that, I mean, look, when you think about tri-merge and potential changes to the system, our data gets consumed primarily because the market participants want to fully understand risk and they want to optimize price. And that particularly matters if you're a lender and you're going to sell on certain mortgages to the GSEs because variances in credit scores per the LPAs can have a material variation in what you can realize for those loans.

And so even though in theory, you only have to pull 1 credit report during the prequalification process. We see the industry settling into somewhere between 2 and 3. There are still a lot of players that are pulling 3, and there's a number of players that are increasing the number of poles they do for mortgage because really understanding the risk and optimizing around price matters a lot to their economics and the relative cost of a credit report is small.

Our final question today will come from Scott Wurtzel from Wolfe Research.

Just wanted to ask on TCS I'm wondering if you can unpack some of the drivers of the growth that you saw during the quarter. And just as a kind of related follow-up, I know there's sort of the trusted messaging opportunity as well down the line, if you can talk about sort of your expectations for a time line in terms of productizing that and when we can see that start to contribute to growth.

Great, Scott. So another really strong quarter for trusted call solutions, kind of a [indiscernible] component of our fraud mitigation services. And we think we're positioned for another really strong year there. It is a unique and differentiated offering. It's a very durable offering. And I mean I think you just it underscores that even though we have been in this era of digital commerce analog commerce over the phone is still really important to ensuring the authentication and the safety of various transactions. And we want to extend that to the tech side of things.

Increasingly, there's fraud in the SMS channel in the text channels generally and that's why we bought the mobile division of real networks. They've got some great underlying technology. We think it will take us about a year to complete the integration and the productization of that technology. But then it is the perfect complement to all of the business that we've generated and all the market penetration that we've got there.

And I think going forward, just the combination of authentication over the phone and over the text combined with all of our digital device behavioral and reputational assets is kind of an unbeatable combination in the fraud space.

And I just want to add some numbers and remind you what we presented at Investor Day pertaining to trusted call solutions. So this was a $27 million product for us in 2021. At the time of the Neustar acquisition, this year, we are expecting it to be a $200 million product at the end of 2026. And in 2028, we expect that to be a $300 million product.

All right. Chris, Todd, I think that's a good place to end. Everyone, thanks for the time today, and have a great rest of your day. Thank you.

The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.

Sabadra, and I cover information services companies at RBC Capital Markets. We are really excited to host Chris, CEO of TransUnion; and Todd, CFO of TransUnion. Thanks again for giving us this opportunity.

Our pleasure. Thank you.

What a great presentation yesterday at the Investor Day. But before we go on to the Investor Day and talk about your midterm targets, I wanted to first level set on the state of consumer, like the #1 question that we get from investors is around the state of consumer credit, state of consumer lending. You obviously have a unique lens into it with everything that's going on, higher oil prices. How do you think about what's going on with consumer credit and consumer lending?

Yes, great place to start, right, in the foundation of current market dynamics. Let's separate out the oil price portion of that question because clearly, that's developing news, if you will. But look, the state of the consumer has been consistent and strong for a couple of years now. And we've had stable lending volumes that have resulted from that. And if you look to the bank stocks, so many of our clients, they've had stable delinquencies in their portfolios and improving origination volumes in almost every lending class. And in particular, consumer lending has been resurgent over the past couple of years as fintech companies have gotten consistent access to the capital markets and have kind of emerged from that deep freeze state that they were in, in '22 and '23 after the spike in inflation.

And in interest rates. Now there's a lot of talk about a K-shaped recovery. I believe that's correct. And there's continued pressure for lower income and higher-risk consumers. But again, it hasn't translated into a deterioration in loan book performance or a loss of appetite for borrowing amongst those consumers, right? And that's part of what I think has helped support loan volumes in the lending system. We've had 2 good years of reasonable volume growth and really good financial performance as a result of it. We outlined our guide just a few weeks back now, although things have been moving pretty quickly.

And the volume conditions and overall market dynamics we've experienced thus far in the first quarter have been very consistent to delivering against those. But now we have a war in the Middle East and potentially constrained oil supply and with a whole series of knock-on economic effects depending on the scenario you believe. And I think it's very fluid. We don't have any particular special insight into what may happen, of course. But I would just say that our economy has shown a tremendous resilience. The 10-year rates are holding up nicely. Volume is good, and we're just going to have to see what develops.

I'd also separate the question about how current geopolitical events are translating into macro changes versus just the intrinsic value of the business that we have created with 4 years of transformational investments at TransUnion. You saw at Investor Day. Yesterday, we talked about how we can now compete across more product categories and more geographies than we have ever been able to do before. We have continued to invest heavily in vertical domain expertise to tailor our solutions. We have built several global platforms to underpin our business, our expanded scope that is going to help us more rapidly diffuse our products across markets around the world and scale our growth with higher profit flow-through than ever before.

And like you and I were talking before we started this conversation, the last 5 years have been pretty bumpy lots of bumps in the road. That's the only kind of consistent factor that we're experiencing. And I think what we're showing is that we have real revenue durability in margin and overall financial durability because of the diversification that we've built, product, geographic, vertical, et cetera. And I would expect that to continue to perform well.

That's great. That's very helpful color. And that's a great segue into the next question around your midterm guidance. Again, as you said, very strong delivery over the last 2 years and your midterm guidance of high single-digit revenue growth, seems very consistent with what you've delivered over the last 2 years. But I was just wondering if you think about what are your upside and downside risk to that high single-digit revenue growth. If you can talk about the key themes, but also then drill down into each of the solutions like credit, marketing and fraud as well as consumer solutions?

For sure. So let's open -- why don't we have Todd ground us into what is the guide, what's the thinking that went in the guide, and I'll provide some color commentary on the back end.

Yes. That sounds great. So thank you for the question. So our medium-term guide is assuming a continuation of the current trends that we're seeing in the market today. So relative stability in core U.S. lending markets would be the best example of that. And consistent with how we provide guidance of during -- at the beginning of the year. The medium-term guide is the same type of thought process goes into that meaning that what we believe that we have a high conviction of being able to deliver on is incorporated into that guide.

So if you think about how we guided 2026, we're -- that's the beginning of the year. And as the year goes, we want to orient our investors towards the high end of that guide. And if we beat we'll obviously then continue to raise the growth expectation. Similar thinking went into this medium-term framework as well, too. So -- and the framework also has got stability in volumes. But another important part is it's not a bet on any new innovation. It's what we've already got in market or about to come into market. So there's no bet on an upside on something to come. And as far as additional upside would be in our materials yesterday, in particular, there's a bridge that we had out there on our EPS upside. And the right-hand side of that slide, walks through what that upside would look like. And a good example of one would be as mortgage. And we actually put a bar on that slide, right?

And just simply assuming mortgage goes back to 2019 levels, not 2020 and 2021 when everybody was moving and buying houses and refinancing, but a more normalized period of time. That would mean a $1 of EPS if that happens. And recently, what we saw happen a couple of weeks ago before the geopolitical and war issues, we saw the 30-year ago below 6%, and we saw...

That's a big deal.

And that was a really big deal, right? And we saw volumes start to tick up. Home sales were announced yesterday. I'm sure all of you saw that. I mean there was an uptick in February. The mortgage rate was cited as one of the reasons. Unfortunately, it's back above 6%, but that threshold is important for consumers. So if we get back there, that will be an upside.

But the other upside is just other lending volumes within the U.S. I mean, when you look at auto of kind of flattish right now, choppy last year with tariffs, a lot of pull forward. There was an electronic vehicle credit that went away as pull forward there. So we're seeing kind of flattish volumes there. And card and banking, low single-digit type of growth. So again, kind of subdued would be the best way we would say that. So in the medium-term guide, that's another source of potential upside if there's a normalization in those particular line of businesses within financial services.

That's very helpful color. And maybe just a quick follow-up on that would be, can you just remind us how much is your exposure to fintech and what you're seeing on the FinTech side as well and in general from a lending perspective?

So fintechs, it's about $140 million of revenue. So if you think about that in the context of TransUnion's $4.5 billion last year, and we're guiding obviously a lot higher. It's relatively small, but it's a strong position, though that we have. And that is the line of business. It's performing really well. I exited last year with a double-digit, almost 20% growth rate. So that's a source of strength.

Yes. And really very strong. And like Todd said, and I'll echo this, the medium-term guidance is top of market. It's high single-digit revenue growth with low to mid-double-digit conversion into EPS, and we view that as an achievable baseline of growth, but lots of ways to win beyond that. And again, remember, Todd talked about it in mortgage, but it's true, every lending line of business in the U.S. is still below the long-term trend lines, even going back to a reasonable point like 2019, it's just mortgages far and away, furthest off of that long-term trend line.

So these are just like okay market conditions. And in these conditions, we have still been able to grow at exactly the same level that we're now forecasting as our baseline for the next 3 years. And again, importantly, the forecast in the guidance floor that we set for the next 3 year reflects the business as it is today. But as you know from Investor Day, we've invested to transform the business. We've got a next-generation platform that delivers all of our products, and we're converting customers to that platform very rapidly. And we hope and believe that, that's going to be a lever for outperformance. But I believe that's part of the conversation.

No, this is a good segue into my next question. I was going to ask you about the $500 million of innovation-led revenues over the next 3-year period. if you can talk about -- obviously, there was a lot of conversation about OneTru platform, some of your solutions, including TruAudience, TruIQ and TruValidate. How do I think about these solutions helping drive that $500 million in revenue? And if you can provide color on what's going to drive that? Is that increased wallet share versus new logo win? Any incremental color on those fronts?

Yes, good question. So let's frame it up. I mean if we were at a bank, supporting one of our customers, let's say, we run a monthly marketing campaign to acquire new customers. That's a vintage of growth, right? You get out there, you acquire those customers, you have certain expectations for what they're going to deliver for you economically. What you saw yesterday is we said based on the innovation that we're delivering on the OneTru platform, we are expecting $500 million based on new product growth. And that's encompassed in the guide, of course, but that's just that vintage, right? And now that we're on a platform, and we're no longer investing to build the platform, and we've unified all of our data across our 4 key product categories, credit, marketing, fraud and consumer enablement around our industry-leading identity, I would expect that the rate of innovation in NPI will continue or grow, right?

So that's how you should think about that $500 million. It's not a onetime event. It's reflective of transitioning from a period where we were investing really heavily to transform the business and innovate all the acquisitions we made to restructure the portfolio to one where we're leveraging what we've built to innovate faster and to grow faster.

Yes, yes. And that came through very clearly at the Investor Day. So thanks for those presentation. Maybe switching gears a bit and just talking about VantageScore and FHFA. Yesterday, you made a comment around one of the GSEs doing a pilot and securitizing the portfolio using VantageScore. I was wondering if you could unpack that a little bit. One of the questions that we've gotten from investors was, was this an exclusive VantageScore? Was it both VantageScore and FICO? Anything you can share on the pricing of that securitized portfolio? Or any kind of feedback that you received that they might have received for that securitization? Any color that you can provide on that front?

Yes. Unfortunately, the color I can provide is fairly limited, and this was something done internally by one of the GSEs that we learned about fairly recently. And so we look at this -- and I think it was a very modest pilot. But I mean, I think that obviously, introducing choice and scores and competition in a market as large and dynamic as U.S. mortgage is it's a considerable thing. And we look at it as essentially the GSEs running water through the pipes -- before more volume more to come. But nonetheless, an encouraging step forward in the adoption and the implementation of a competing score, which we firmly believe the market needs. There's been an inadvertent lack of choice in this market for 30 years. There is a more modern score available, Vantage 4.0. It is more effective because it leverages trended credit data going back in our case, 2.5 years, and that's the longest look back in the industry, but you can also include rental trades, utility trades, other data sets that have been proven to be additive to the predictiveness of the performance of borrowing, right?

So we want to get that out in the market. It will make the U.S. credit market or mortgage market larger. It grows the addressable market. It will be more precise in terms of understanding and pricing risk. It will contribute overall to the safety and soundness of the market. And so look, we're excited. And that was part of our thinking behind lowering the price of Vantage from, in our case, $4 to $0.99 is simply -- this is a great opportunity to make an important structural change in the lending market, again, ushering in choice, ushering in price competition. It's also a chance for us to kind of reset the economics around the market to what we see in markets around the world, which is data is at the core of value and you have scores that provide some insights, some summary level insights of the underlying data. But the value is driven by data, not scores. And if you look around this planet in every market that this exists, it's data that is the premium price, not the score.

Now again, we have an anomaly in the U.S. mortgage market. It's time to correct the anomaly, and we're trying to eliminate obstacles to adoption. And as you saw, our competitors fast followed on that. And again, we price Vantage, we market Vantage entirely independently even though we are co-owners of the business that produces the VantageScore. But look, there's a lot of enthusiasm to get going with Vantage implementation in the U.S. mortgage market.

That's very helpful color. Talking about obstacle, one of the things that also we -- that investors are focused on is the LLPA matrix from FHFA. I was just wondering if there is any visibility on time line or any tentative time line for that matrix?

We don't have any special visibility when all the work that is -- has been undergoing. And I think lots of good -- I think the FHFA has lots of good work to grease the skids and enable competition. When exactly they're going to complete it. I don't know. I hope it's relatively soon. I do know that TransUnion and frankly, each of the bureaus have been working with lots of lenders in the market to understand how they can use Vantage. And now Vantage, which is a more modern and predictive score as per GSE studies, don't just take my word for it, right? So it's a more modern and a more predictive score than the incumbent classic score. Lots of clients are interested in using it, and it's now 1/10 of the price. So I feel like the stars are aligned for share adoption, and we're ready to go.

That's very helpful color. One last final question on FHFA would be just any thoughts around tri-merge to bi-merge. Is that even something that FHFA considering?

Look, I cannot speak for the FHFA. I have periodic interactions. What I do know is this, from the first time I met the current director, Director Pulte, he was laser-focused on the cost of originating mortgages as a prime area for improving affordability and affordability in housing for U.S. consumers. You've heard the President talk about it. Affordability is all over Washington, right? And so this is an important initiative. And I think this is that type of passion for the topic is why he has created this opportunity for score competition. Now pulling back from the FHFA and their particular views at this point because, again, I can't speak for them. What I can speak for is what the data tells us. So the first thing the data tells us is that in at least 25% of the cases, if you only pull 1 credit report, you will miss a trade line that exists for that consumer that would influence the score materially, right?

So whether it's 1 or it's 2 if you don't pull 3, you're diminishing signal and predictiveness and ultimately, the safety and soundness of mortgage origination and securitization. And as we've seen through different chapters in history, most recently, the great financial crisis, it's a bad idea to scrimp on due diligence, right? And pulling 3 bureau reports is the most comprehensive form of diligence. I think there's a tremendous amount of support for the tri-merge on Capitol Hill, in the treasury throughout the administration -- lots of voices get it, right? Now other voices were like, let's save some money because we're in a very low origination period in mortgage and people are hurting, but I say we save some money with some score competition. Let's get some of the option there. I think that is a much safer and sounder approach to it.

That's very helpful. Just switching gears on Gen AI which has been a key topic for the space. Obviously, the presentation yesterday, you really highlighted the proprietariness of the data, but I just want to see if you wanted to drill down further, talk about why -- how proprietary the credit and the alternative data is. One of the questions that we get is, can the cash flow financing or consumer permission data, could that disrupt any of the credit data or even on the marketing side, if you could also help address what makes this data so proprietary and the comprehensiveness of the data?

Okay. So there's a couple of dimensions to the question. And I want to be clear. The first would be one, how proprietary is the information that underpins marketing, credit and fraud and what's the risk of AI disruption? We've been focusing on credit first you said, what about cash flow? What about consumer contributed? Can that disrupt the dynamics okay. So here's the core dynamic and the foundation of the market. Credit information is large, proven at scale and relatively low price point for all of the predictive insight you get. And most loans in the U.S. are underwritten with that alone. You don't need to go to income. You don't need to go to cash flow, whatever. Now that said, if cash flow were available at scale and not episodically per consumer permission, it would be an attractive additive data asset. And the reason that credit is still growing as fast as it is after 50 years is because lenders are constantly looking for new data assets, to add to the core of credit and other information that they use in their secret sauce IP to find an origination advantage.

They're out there looking for data that helps them spot opportunity in the marketplace, price it correctly and acquire it. So we view alternative data innovation broadly and cash flow would be a subset of that. It's a great positive for our business, which is why we and all the bureaus have been pursuing alternative data. So I think it's very exciting.

The second thing I would talk about is marketing and fraud. So before I do just, the defensibility of credit, as I've said many times at this point, you've got to go to thousands and thousands of different institutions and negotiate contributory relationships in order to get access to credit.

Not to mention that it's also PII.

There's lots of PII with credit too, and that is like difficult to handle. You have to be very careful. There's a ton of regulation around who can acquire that information and for what purposes, but also which customers can actually use the information. And we're the intermediary responsible for validating that every client has a legitimate credential commercial use case and monitoring their utilization, which we do in a whole variety of ways and consistently recredentialing thousands and thus tens of thousands of customers in the U.S. it takes a lot of work and a lot of investment. And if you mess up, well, regulators and trial lawyers have a lot to say about that, right? So there's a lot of reasons why credit data is not going to get loaded into ChatGPT so we can all find out our neighbor's credit score, right? There are 100 and other privacy-related reasons.

And the question turns to marketing. Well, as you saw yesterday, unbundling what is marketing. In our case, it's proprietary data and analytics that we're bringing to bear to make every marketing campaign more efficient. We're not in creative. We don't buy and sell media. We don't do that. We're like the old BASF commercial. We don't produce the thing. We make the thing better. That's what we're doing with data and analytics underpinning marketing. What are those data and the analytics? Well, first, we're leveraging our PII, all of the identifying information that we have about consumers, whether it be terrestrial or digital. And as we outlined at Investor Day, and you can go look at the slides, it's very powerful, it's industry-leading. It's not only the credit information. It's all the public records in the U.S. It's one of the world's largest device reputational networks and it is the single largest, most authoritative phone record in existence, and it's unique to us.

And then we layer on lots and lots of other identity. So the first step in the marketing campaign is, well, who are all these people? How can I identify them from all of the different fragments of information? How can I make sure that their name address, phone number, e-mail, IP, device, et cetera, is as enriched and current as it can possibly be. That's derived from a highly proprietary data source. That's one.

Then you pivot into audiences. Now there are many different audience providers. It is much less proprietary. But because of AI, we're starting to manufacture AI-driven new audiences that the audience is created, it's derived from this range of proprietary information that we have, and it's more tailored and specific and performant than a lot of what's out there. But if you come to TransUnion, we have a capability that is essentially a retail application where every audience provider parks their data, and we have an analytic layer that helps clients decide which one to use. So we're kind of agnostic on the audience. We're going to make retailer margins on that part of our business.

We did have broad digital connections to every publisher, walled garden, et cetera, in the digital advertising ecosystem that is hard and expensive to create. Those are one-on-one deals and one-on-one systems integrations and they have to be maintained. But there's a final level of proprietary data, which is how do we measure the effectiveness of these marketing campaigns. How do we know, did the consumer see my ad? Did they interact with it? What do they do next? Well, because we represent so many companies, so many brands which collectively represents so many billions of dollars of marketing spend, we've been able to negotiate with hundreds and hundreds of players across the advertising ecosystem to share marketing performance information with us. And so this entire fabric of marketing performance information that flows to us is the result of those relationships of all that brand spend that we have, and it's a network effect.

And if you -- look, can somebody go out and build another consortium? Sure, it is theoretically possible. But there's only a handful of these things because it's not really economically feasible. And AI doesn't make it any easier to accomplish that. So again, it's a highly defensible series of products. Now on the fraud side, so many different types of fraud signals are pouring in from our different point solutions, and we aggregate them all in a common data and analytic layer, that layer is OneTru. And again, hundreds of customers around the planet are sharing what they're experiencing with various devices, interacting with them from an e-commerce side. And now also, what are they experiencing over the phone in their call centers. So again, a very broad consortium of data being contributed uniquely to us creates the value in the asset.

And AI doesn't help you create those relationships. And remember, TransUnion is not standing still with regard to the application of AI. And none of the players are in info services, right? So we want to harness the potential to better activate this information in ways that help us, well, one, serve our clients better than we've ever been able to service them before, but also leverage the data to generate insights and then program agents that do the work that is currently done either by our clients or by software suppliers upstream from the markets that we currently compete in. So I think the market reaction to AI has been AI scary as opposed to AI, exciting. And I know it's exciting for us. I mean today, the typical lender refreshes their lending model every 2 to 3 years. Why? It's hard. It's hard to pull all that data together. It's hard to have all the smart people to do the analytics. Well, with AI, we can refresh those models continuously.

So if you're a lender and you're only refreshing your lending model every 2 years, how well will you compete in a future where your competitors are doing it on a weekly basis. We can enable that, and we can do it across credit, fraud, marketing, et cetera.

That was very helpful color. We are at the top of 30 minutes. I really appreciate that. Thank you. Thanks a lot.

Thank you.

Thanks a lot, Chris. This was very helpful, very insightful.

All right. I already see notes being furiously taken, so I think we're ready to go. Good morning. Welcome. Nice to see so many familiar faces.

For those that don't know me, I'm Greg Bardi, and I lead Investor Relations here at TransUnion. On behalf of the executive leadership team, welcome to TransUnion's 2026 Investor Day. We have an excellent schedule for you all. Thank you for spending the next several hours with us.

The theme for the day is Innovation at Scale, Value that Endures. We spent a lot of time thinking about those 6 words over the last few months. And I hope by the end of the day, they resonate with you all.

I get the distinct pleasure of offering the forward-looking statement. I've been waiting to do this forever. With that out of the way, let's show what we really mean by Innovation at Scale, Value that Endures.

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Well, okay. Good morning, everyone. Good to see so many of you in the room, lots of familiar faces. Yes, so I really like that video. I think it captures the energy behind all of the work that we're going to highlight for you folks today. Thank you for joining us. We really appreciate it. It's been a while since we've done one of these, 4 years. And we appreciate your interest in understanding how we've been building TransUnion's future.

So by now, most of you know me. If not, I'm Chris Cartwright. I'm the President and CEO of TransUnion, and I have been for about 7 years now. And look, we're excited for today. This is our opportunity to show how our investments and our execution over these last 4 years have really enabled a new generation of innovation-led and very scalable growth for our business. So let's get into it.

So since our last time together, we have materially extended our competitive footprint and built some underlying capabilities that will enhance our revenue and our profitability. And more importantly, it positions us to thrive in an increasingly digital and AI-driven world. The program today is going to review these investments and our progress. And I hope that you come away understanding a few key issues.

So the first is that we've increased the scope of how and where we can compete significantly. We have many more relevant and proprietary solutions and data that we can offer in countries around the world. We've acquired these through M&A, also a lot of internal development. We've continued to extend into attractive geographies like the U.K. and most recently, Mexico, the [ Bureau of Mexico ] transaction closed 2 weeks ago, hallelujah, more than 20 years in the making, Veeva Mexico, but we're super excited. It's a great addition to the portfolio, and it makes us the leading bureau across North America. We've also added a ton of domain expertise. We continue to launch in new industry verticals and deepen our connection to the marketplace.

So second, underpinning all of this solutions and geographic expansion, we have built several global platforms that will help us scale and operate more profitably. We have a solutions delivery platform, which is OneTru. You saw it mentioned in the video.

We also have an operational platform that supports our business, both existing customers and managing consumer relationships across all of our various markets. And we built a global talent platform. And all of this will help expand our revenues and our profits but at higher margins than we were previously able.

The third point is that we're positioned to innovate faster and more meaningfully than we ever have. We've unified our data and identity assets, our data management and our analytic capabilities on OneTru, a single global AI-enabled cloud platform. And this platform is going to allow us to export our innovations across our markets, tapping their full potential and freeing local teams to engage more deeply with clients in the marketplace.

And our financial performance will strengthen as we roll out these products and platforms to each country in our portfolio. So over the next few years, we're going to grow revenue by offering a broader range of interrelated products across our markets, supported by these powerful underlying technologies. We're also going to drive savings as we standardize on our global platforms, creating value for customers and shareholders alike. And the combination of these improvements will help us drive more free cash flow to support ongoing investments in innovation, go-to-market strategies, debt repayment and, of course, share repurchases. So we are on the cusp of creating a value-creation flywheel.

Now before I move on, I want to share some thoughts on AI and its potential impact at TransUnion. Obviously, it's an issue that everybody is focused on, and we are, too. So AI is the most powerful and disruptive technology that we've encountered in generations, arguably ever. And no doubt, businesses will be at risk if they only aggregate accessible information at scale and then apply limited domain knowledge, analytics and reasoning.

Fortunately, that's not the way we do business. That's not our value proposition. TransUnion's data and solutions are based on information that is difficult to access. It's highly proprietary. It's challenging to monetize due to legal and regulatory restrictions, and there are significant penalties for noncompliance. But what AI will allow us to do is to lower our cost and boost our productivity. That's great. But I think more importantly, we're going to be able to activate our data and our clients' data in powerful ways that would not be possible without it.

So during these sessions this morning, we are going to show you demos of what's currently possible and what will be achievable when we combine our data and analytics with the power of AI. So I've given you an overview and outlined the ways in which we've transformed the business in these last 4 years. I want to reinforce, we think we are entering a next generation of innovation-led and very scalable growth.

So let's get into the transformation, what we thought and what we did and the value that we believe it's going to create. So 5 years ago, we sat back and we looked at the business that we had created. We had a couple of insights that guided our efforts. They remain key to the strategy today. The first was that our traditional approach of growing our credit services into new markets around the world led to product and operational redundancies over time. This increased our cost, and it made it harder to share innovations across markets.

So we've been around for more than 50 years. And over this period, we've extended into over 30 different countries around the world. And typically, we enter a market by partnering with a group of local banks. They bring the data and some minimum level of demand, but we bring our talent, our bureau know-how and of course, our technology. The resulting businesses run independently. Over time, their product and their operational technologies become localized and nonstandard, even though they're serving the same industries with similar data sets to meet the same needs. So the resulting portfolio is more a multi-domestic collection of independent units, not a cohesive global operation. And when we looked at this, we realized that if we adopted a unified global product and operations approach, we could create a lot of value.

So the second insight that guided the strategy was that our data and our identity resolution would enable us to expand into marketing and into fraud prevention more deeply. And that together with our consumer enablement products, this group of services would more effectively meet the clients' broader commercial needs, right? So not just focused on credit, but understand what they're trying to accomplish as a business more broadly and deliver the data and the know-how to help them achieve it.

In short, we realized that we could provide clients with an integrated suite of these complementary solutions. But to achieve this, we needed to rearchitect the business around a strategy of global scale. So we implemented what we call a global operating model. And in it, functions that need to be local, stay local, such as revenue-producing go-to-market roles, client support, et cetera. But functions where we're trying to achieve scale and reuse around common needs across the portfolio, areas such as technology or operations or product development, well, those became primarily reports to the global organization, and we established a leadership team to address that.

We also built global capability centers, or GCCs, to centralize work that doesn't really depend on local knowledge and can be managed centrally. These central hubs have helped us control our costs in recent years. But I think more importantly, they have evolved into innovation centers, and they are leading the development of our next-generation platforms currently.

So the next step in the transformation was to build best-in-class solutions in marketing, in fraud and doubling down in consumer. And we did a lot of M&A to restructure the portfolio in the late '21, '22 time frame. And that helped us bring in the things that we needed in order to be best-in-class in each of these areas.

As I said, we also invested in the product and operation platforms to give us global scale. These are a combination of standardized processes, technology and talent. And together, they create greater operational leverage in the business. So on the product side, we call this platform OneTru. On the operations side, it is TruOps. And today, they are live and supporting clients, and they will be highlighted over the course of the day.

We also invested in a much larger sales organization with deep expertise, particularly in these newer solutions where we needed sellers and business leaders that came from those markets and really understood those customers' needs and how they related to the variety of services that we are now providing.

So what I would say is this has been heads down hard work for 4 years now. But the transformation is now proven. It's complete. And we are now moving from an era of investing to build these capabilities to one of creating value through innovation and scaling.

So next, I want to talk about why we wanted to expand into these complementary markets. So here's the range of services that we're now offering and identity founded on our PII organizes them and is at the center. We gained a lot of insights into these market adjacencies, marketing and fraud after providing data and identity resolution to the competitors in those spaces for a lot of years.

Now individually, each of these markets is large, it's fast growing. They're profitable. And the data and services that we're providing in each, they are proprietary. There are material barriers to entry in each. But offered in combination, we are able to cross-sell and to bundle our services to clients. It helps us embed more deeply in their work and become a more meaningful partner and it also creates switching costs.

So we think our identity assets and our resolution capability give us a competitive advantage. We have built these up over years through M&A and internal development. It starts with our credit header information at the foundation. It's a great foundation upon which to organize data. We license it to a variety of external parties. You can also use it to corroborate the accuracy of a data set, and it's at the core of the platform.

The public records we obtained through our TLO acquisition some years ago, that further improves our PII, but it also helps us understand the consumer's stage of life. Marketing phone information came from the Neustar acquisition, device reputation and behavioral from the iovation deal. All of these together strengthen the identity. These are the core elements that create a really authoritative and unmatched identity asset.

And look, I want to be clear, we're the only company in the industry that can provide this range of credit, noncredit telephony and device information. So the identity data at the core is powerful and differentiated. But the AI algorithms that leverage this data to resolve identity, those are increasingly valuable in a digital and device-driven world where more of the work will take place through autonomous agents and the effectiveness of cookies is going to diminish over time.

There's also a feedback loop here, a bit of a network effect. When you provide marketing services or fraud services, there's a digital trail. There's some exhaust. This feeds back into the identity data further enriching it. So the example is if during a marketing campaign, a device gets flagged as suspicious, we share that with our fraud prevention services. And then if that same device shows up at a client, it can be flagged for additional review.

So let's talk about how our clients use all of these services. So over these past 4 years, we've gained a really deep understanding of how our customers' interconnected needs play out across these 4 solution categories. You see the work that they're trying to accomplish in the broad, we call this the jobs to be done in each solution area. And together, they really cover the needs and goals beyond just credit and analytics.

And so for a client to run their business successfully, they've got to start first by identifying the most valuable consumers that best align with whatever their strategy is. Well, that's credit information. That's alternative data to access a consumer's ability and their willingness to repay for a service. They then have to go acquire those customers efficiently and consistently. Well, this is where marketing comes in. Our identity, our activation, our measurement solutions, that's the next step in the process.

The transactions that result from those processes need to be authenticated. They got to protect themselves from fraud, and we can achieve that through a wide range of our authentication solutions, both online but also over the phone. And having fought hard to win these client relationships, they want to maximize the value of them over time. That's where the consumer enablement portion of the product line comes in.

So if you look at all of this work in a big company, there'll be a variety of folks responsible for it. It could be the Chief Risk Officer, a Chief Marketing Officer, a fraud operations leader. But the smaller the organization, the more likely that a single individual is juggling all of these roles. And with an integrated platform like OneTru, customers have a data-driven and orchestrated workflow platform that helps them operate with greater efficiency.

And all of these solutions are unified by our common identity across the categories. And that means there will be no mismatches between the consumer that the marketing department wants to target, the consumer that a fraud department deems as legitimate and the consumer that the credit risk team believes is qualified for a loan. That's kind of unique in this space, particularly when you're using multiple vendors that have identities of varying qualities. And the first effort is just to reconcile and make sure you're all talking about the same individual. And that's why we think identity is at the heart of everything we do. And so look, collectively now, after all of this transformation, these 4 areas form our field of play. This is where we compete, and this is what we've unified on our OneTru platform.

And look, we think the opportunity is substantial, right? The market for these solutions is very big. It's expanding at near double digits. We estimate that the serviceable market for TU is now over $50 billion and growing rapidly. And we finished last year at about $4.6 billion, right? So there's a lot of runway for growth here, particularly in marketing and fraud, where as you look around the world, we are a scale provider of these services. But in general, it's a fairly fragmented space. And given that we can bring the combination of credit marketing and fraud on a common platform, we think our scale advantages are going to allow us to grow pretty quickly.

You've seen that play out in the U.S. So here, we're comparing the mix of our product revenues between the U.S. and the international markets. If you look back 5 years ago in the U.S., we would have been highly weighted toward B2B credit. Well, through M&A and subsequent growth, it's now roughly an equal split. And that's because we have strong solutions. We've executed a sales playbook very effectively. I think in the second half of last year, you could really see the growthfulness of marketing and fraud. It started to equal and even surpass credit in some places. And now in the U.S., we compounded in the second half of the year, low double digits.

Internationally, today, the mix is very B2B credit-centric. And it can even be misleading because if you look at markets such as India, it's even more skewed there. Well, we think we can move the international business and make it look over time more diversified and thus durable like revenues coming out of the U.S. As I mentioned in the outset, it used to be very difficult to take a great product or a great idea and push it in markets around the world, independent tech stacks, right?

Well, now as we move countries onto the OneTru platform, they will suddenly have available to them the full range of our products, the best of our analytics and then their localized IP. So we can replicate and we can scale our innovations around the world much more easily than we could previously.

So let's dig into these global platforms and how they're going to help us scale. So we've talked a lot about OneTru. This is OneTru on a page, kind of as close as you can to representing all of this. And most of the functionality of OneTru is there in the circles in the center. So key to the strategy is integrating the data, the identity, the analytics and of course, our decisioning on this common platform, which, again, we can roll out to markets around the world because it's configurable and it's cloud native.

So let's talk about the functionality in OneTru and then we'll pivot to the business benefits. So OneTru is a fully enabled data management platform. At the core, around all of the data that we have globally are a series of functions starting with data management. This is where we collect, govern, process data for all of our solutions. It's important that you capture every raw data signal, whether it's ours, whether it's a customer or it's third-party contributed data. We securely store it. We consistently govern it. So our data scientists and our clients understand the provenance and understand that it is good and they can use it in their models, which again are highly regulated and governed.

Identity links all the data together. Analytics is where we build models and generate insights. And the delivery area is where we operationalize the data and push models to production. This helps our clients make better decisions. This is where we can model, launch and then test performance and iterate along with our clients.

It's also important to note that on the left-hand side, we can process any data. It doesn't have to be just TransUnion data. Clients can contribute all of their lending information, all their marketing intel. They can -- we can bring on third-party information. We can ingest and organize it all into OneTru and it becomes part of the analytics foundation.

We can also give our clients permissioned access to the platform. Now we've been using this platform internally, our 800 data scientists globally for some time. Now we're starting to collaborate with our clients, clients who rely on us to keep their models current, and they can all collaborate on the OneTru platform. And then all of this functional goodness flows upstream into the end-to-end product suites, be it credit marketing or fraud.

Now notably, there's an AI layer that rests on top of this. We have looked at all of the data. We've established with the AI folks call a semantic foundation, which means that OneTru understands the data that it manages. It understands its relationship between all of the different data elements and the business applications of that information. We've also created a customized internal knowledge graph so a user can find our data, figure out what it is, how it relates, how to build models based on it to solve their business problems.

And then we partner with a third party, Google Gemini in this case, on the LLM, the natural language translation layer that allows our users to talk to OneTru to ask it, what kind of data do you have within this time frame, what would be useful to conduct this kind of analysis, help me optimize my decision-making accordingly. So there's a lot of business benefits from the platform. Obviously, as we get more and more countries on it, we'll have more products to sell and more powerful ways to activate our data and our clients' data. It's also going to help us reduce our costs, right?

Today, we've got 27 independent tech stacks underpinning these 30-plus countries. We don't need that many technology stacks. This is a great opportunity to simplify, to unify and create scale. And given that the platform represents the broader range of work that our clients are trying to accomplish, it helps us do more for them to sell more, to bundle more, to penetrate the client more fully. So in summary, OneTru is our approach to accelerate innovation and really expand our solutions and create both revenue growth and greater scale worldwide.

It also has an internal counterpart, we call TruOps. Now we've got 27 tech stacks on the product side around the world. We have just as many on the operational side, technology that's been invested in over time to support existing customers, to fulfill their work requests to manage consumer disputes. Over the past 4 years, we have created a next generation of all of this operational technology. And it effectively addresses our requirements across the piece. It eliminates the duplication that we've got. So it streamlines these previously fragmented operational systems across regions into a unified globally consistent operating model. It's also going to reduce cost. We're standardizing our processes and TruOps delivers a better customer and consumer experience while also driving the productivity of our associates.

The last component of global scale is with these capability centers that I mentioned at the outset. So we've really expanded our workforces in our India-based, South Africa-based and Costa Rica GCCs. And we've evolved our approach to the GCCs. Today, they have a full management hierarchy. Frontline engineers are managed by product managers. There are business leaders. 40% of our global workforce is now based in one of these GCCs. And I think most importantly, 80% of the engineers and the data scientists that are working on our next-generation global platforms, they're in these capability centers. So these centers are not about simple wage arbitrage. They become our global innovation hubs, and they're helping us move faster and more effectively. Over this period, we've more than doubled the headcount, and we'll probably settle at about a 50-50 split.

So these are the 3 scaling platforms that underpin our broader scope of products and operation, and this is how we're going to grow more profitably. It's OneTru for solutions, TruOps for operations and of course, the GCCs. But it's not just about scale. OneTru is also a platform for innovation. And we think about the opportunity to innovate for our clients, in several levels, right, of increasing value add. The data is still the foundation of the business.

And when we talk to our clients and we survey them, what they care most about is, do you have unique, complete and current information around which we can make predictions and decisions about how we allocate our capital. So data is still king. We refer to that as the intelligence layer. That's where our data, our data science, our data architecture all comes together. And we're always looking to improve and expand what we have.

But we make that data accessible to our clients on the orchestration layer. Now that might be through narrow point solutions, of which we had many, many around the world after years of internal innovation and M&A that we've worked through and we've synthesized into more complete end-to-end workflow platforms. So this is how our clients can access our data to get their work done.

The last layer, we can call the activation layer. Now traditionally, that was the sales force and the customer success organization, taking our analytics and consultants, which we have 800 around the world, out to clients, helping them understand the data we've got and how they can use it to operate more productively.

But now we're entering this era of agentic AI. And what we're going to show you today is several ways in which we have created AI agents that automate the work that our clients traditionally did internally with their own teams. And these AI agents for us represent a new business opportunity. It's an expansion of the range of needs that we can serve. It's new TAM, it's new growth and it's new profit. And so later, when Mohamed, our Head of Solutions comes up and Venkat, my Head of Data and Technology, we're going to demo these agents, and we're going to get into more detail.

And of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about AI and the moats that we have that protect our franchise. So a couple of ways to think about AI, how you're using it to improve your productivity, so internal applications and then how you can enable your services to compete more effectively.

So internally, we've been implementing AI to streamline operations. We are more productive in software development. The typical developer now is 25% to 30% more productive through the use of these gen AI tools. We're using it in consumer dispute resolution, where we have thousands of employees around the world who are servicing the needs of consumers. So far, we've got 20% left. I would say this is early innings in this internal productivity gain. There's a lot more opportunity there to lower our cost.

Some examples of how we're using it externally. Well, we've just launched a new fraud platform, which we call TruValidate. At the core of it is a model development capability that we're going to demo later. And the first model to come out of there is a credit washing model that identifies a new type of fraud. And using all of our data and our AI techniques, we've been able to boost the predictiveness of the model by almost 40%. We also created this natural language interface to all of our data that resides in OneTru.

So a client, data scientist, they don't know the range of what we offer. They don't understand how all of our data and data attributes relate to one another and how they can use them in their modeling to solve their business processes. Now they can talk to OneTru and they can go step by step. We can both educate them and we can cross-sell them on our broader data and analytic capabilities. And we're going to bring that to life in a demo. We've launched something called our analytics orchestrator in OneTru. You might have seen a press release that we did with Google earlier about that.

We're leveraging Gemini on the language translation side. But this is an AI assistant that helps data scientists translate a natural language query into a full analytic workflow. And it's a great example of how we're going to become dramatically more productive and be able to service our clients with more frequency and effectiveness than we could, if not for AI.

And look, AI raises some concerns for information services companies, but it's not the case for us. Our advantage lies in our proprietary consumer data that we collect from a wide range of sources. We operate under all types of legislation and regulation. Credit has the Fair Credit Reporting Act, marketing and public records, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, the Driver Privacy Protection Act. There's a lot of regulations and complying requires a ton of investment and a ton of discipline, even public records, while public are highly regulated and very difficult to aggregate at scale.

But what we've seen in the market is that AI increases the demand for high-quality, curated, regulated and auditable information that we offer. So ultimately, I think it's a growth opportunity for us because the effectiveness of AI is determined by the quality of the data that it learns from. And we've got terrific data, very high-quality data. And so I think this is an advantage, and it's really going to boost not just productivity but revenue growth.

And so I don't want to steal too much of Todd Cello's thunder, our CFO, will come up and kind of pull it all together in a financial expression at the end of the presentation. But earlier, I said that because of all these investments and some great execution these past 4 years, we think we're entering a new era of accelerated value creation, much faster innovation, but on a much more scalable tech and operational foundation. And this flywheel starts with industry-leading growth.

Over the past couple of years, the market has stabilized in the U.S. and the U.K. And you've seen us return to top-of-line organic revenue growth and market conditions that are still just kind of okay, right? All the lending volumes in the U.S. are still below the long-term trend line and mortgage is like way below the long-term trend line, which is why we focus on it. So there's a great opportunity for volume recovery.

But independent of volume recovery and independent of all this innovation that I've talked about, we're back compounding high single digits, even on our own, independent of including FICO mortgage scores and the price increases that can kind of inflate the top line growth.

But looking forward, there'll be more innovation, more revenue growth, and it will be more diversified geographically across products, leveraging AI, which means more durability in the revenue. The scaling components that I talked about, the technology modernization that OneTru and TruOps represents, we just delivered almost $100 million in tech savings at the end of last year because of a tech modernization program.

We have more work to do. There are more structural savings opportunities ahead of us. And we're going to continue to optimize our business model so that we're not the sum of multi-domestic parts, but truly a cohesive global operating whole. AI is going to drive productivity in all the ways in which we read about and are experiencing. And we're going to grow free cash flow. That's going to help us continue to fund innovation and go-to-market. It's going to let us optimize our balance sheet, and it's going to allow us to kind of accelerate very shareholder-friendly capital returns.

And so what you can expect is that we're going to return to what has been the long-term post-public trend of TransUnion of compounding high single digits with great profit flow-through and mid-teens earnings per share growth. That's essentially what we've delivered in '24 and '25. And again, those are just kind of okay markets. But now we're bringing together all of this innovation and starting to leverage it. I think there's a great opportunity to go for.

And look, I'm happy to have my executive team with me here today. These are the folks that have made this happen, and this is a great team, the right team to go forward and leverage all this transformation to build a better business. You're going to hear from most of them today. It's a great mix of folks who have grown up in lending and information services.

And last year, we integrated some new blood. Mohamed joins us from Mastercard as our Chief Global Operations Officer. You'll hear from him. Tiffani Chambers joins us leading operations from Bank of America, where she did that for the Consumer Bank. And we have a new Head of HR, Alicia, who joins us most recently from Lyft and Google and GE prior to that. So it's a really strong team.

Let me quickly take you through the agenda for the remainder of the day. I'm going to hand off to Venkat here in just a minute. He's our CTO, but also our Head of Data and Analytics. Venkat is the godfather of OneTru. He's been working on it for 8 years. It was part of the turnaround of Neustar, OneID. And one of the main reasons that we acquired Neustar to help us build a next generation of technology, which I've been describing. He's got a great background for the job. Prior to Neustar, he was the Chief Data Officer at Walmart. Prior to that, he was Head of Lending and Analytics at Capital One. And if you dig deep enough into his CV, he started his career at one of our competitors where he helped build many of their analytics products. And so he has a deep grounding in the credit business as well.

Mohamed, as I mentioned, came from Mastercard. He's got 25 years in financial services, and he was part of the organization, not the platform payment side of the organization, but all the innovation around card analytics and fraud prevention and mitigation and built a multibillion-dollar product suite there. He's up next.

You're then going to hear from our market leaders, Steve Chaouki and Todd Skinner, and Todd Cello will wrap up the day. And in between, Mohamed brought a whole posse of our solutions experts. We've got the leaders for credit, marketing, fraud and communications, and they're going to present on their product lines. And in total, I hope this is a really informative day that helps you appreciate the great business that we've built and how rapidly we're going to be able to grow and how profitably we're going to be able to grow.

So with that, I'm going to pass it to Venkat, and we're going to get into it. Thanks very much.

Thank you, Chris. Welcome, everyone. Today, I'm going to describe OneTru platform into a little bit more detail. Chris went through a lot of what OneTru is enabling. I'll double-click into it a little bit. But before I unpack the power of OneTru platform, it's important to anchor on the core requirements that fundamentally demand a platform. The data to insights process, often called the data analytics value chain is a standard industry framework for converting raw data into actionable decisions. And it is common across credit, fraud, marketing globally, every solution we offer.

Now winners are defined by speed and scale as in how quickly organizations move from data to action and how consistently they deliver better models and better decisions. Executing this at enterprise scale requires navigating complex governance, data permissions, evolving security landscape and regulatory requirements. Point solutions cannot manage this end-to-end complexity. They fragment the value chain, slow down the execution and increase the risk. This is why platforms win. OneTru is the manifestation of this data analytics value chain.

Chris talked a lot about OneTru platform. Let me double-click into a little bit about the architecture of OneTru and double-click into OneTru. It's a composable multi-cloud native cloud platform built for scale, speed and compliance. It's designed to operationalize the full data to action life cycle that we talked about with a single consistent architecture across the solutions portfolio. It's the shared foundation that drives reuse, like Chris said, and operating leverage.

OneTru is also more than an internal platform powering all of our solutions. Like Chris talked about the intelligence layer orchestration and activation layer, it is enabling that orchestration and the activation layer. Its capabilities are commercialized through TruIQ, enabling a Platform-as-a-Service model that embeds TransUnion deeply into customer workflows and decisioning environments.

What truly differentiates OneTru and what I'll walk through next are our 5 foundational pillars: best-in-class data, industry-leading identity, a flexibility-first platform, global availability and natively embedded AI. Together, these differentiators make OneTru a strategic platform, not a technology upgrade that drives scalable growth, durable differentiation and long-term value creation.

Let's start with the first one, our data. Our core competitive advantage is proprietary data at unmatched breadth and scale, spanning credit, identity, device, communications and behavioral signals with a deep global reach. This is not static data. It operates at massive continuous volume, billions of records updated and refreshed monthly and over 50-plus billion signals or transactions that happen monthly on our network.

These transactions are device authentications, credit applications, real-time events, update events on the profile, call authentication, et cetera, on and on, that signifies a consumer behavior, an event, a signal, something that happened to a consumer. These signals create a living data asset that compounds in value over time, creating the network effect and the reinforcing the flywheel, as Chris described.

With all of that, the result is a data moat that is extremely difficult to replicate. It's built on a long-standing consortia, regulated [ formation ] relationships, privacy by design governance and decades of operational integration. AI further amplifies our advantage, driving more demand for this trusted curated truth.

What really sets us apart is the data we have that nobody else does. We have undisputed leadership in alternative data. Through strategic acquisitions like FactorTrust and Argus, we've established market leadership in buy now, pay later, short-term lending and deposit behavior to capture the rapidly growing demand for nontraditional credit insights.

Our data footprint is unparalleled in its breadth and utility from maintaining the largest global device consortium for fraud prevention to covering the entire U.S. population for marketing and identity. We have scale in public records and communication data, making TransUnion's insights indispensable. But the data is only as good as it is actionable. And that's where our industry-leading identity resolution comes in. Identity accuracy is critical to differentiated outcomes across the customer life cycle.

Chris talked a lot about identity, but let me tell you a little bit about what differentiates our identity graph. We start with our authoritative proprietary and trusted data, the signal that I've talked about, 50-plus billion transactions monthly that ground identity in real people and households, natively connecting online and offline. Deterministic and probabilistic signals that are evaluated simultaneously, not stretched together after the fact.

Using AI, every linkage is continuously scored, tested and refined, allowing for configurability by use case as opposed to a binary yes or no that is strictly attached to the profile. This scoring methodology allows us to configure, say, for example, high precision for fraud versus optimizing for reach in a marketing use case. The same identity can be leveraged in a very configurable way, very unique, nobody else in the market can do.

Our methodology is built for real-world behavior. It adapts to shared devices, changing signals and dynamic consumer behavior, all with our expert governance, privacy and permissible purpose controls embedded, not bolted on.

Proprietary data, unmatched signal and a differentiated methodology combined and the results are materially better. Independent analysts validate that our identity accuracy is industry-leading, especially in the hardest digital to physical matches. Ubiquitous cloud-native distribution, including as a Snowflake native app, puts identity closer to customer data, reducing friction and accelerating value. So we have the data. We know how to match it accurately in a leading -- industry-leading way. Now how can our customers take advantage of all of this on OneTru any way they want to.

Architecture as an advantage is best demonstrated through our deployment optionality that we have. Solutions hosted in TransUnion cloud environment or a composable environment deployed in customer cloud, accelerating time to value. And it can be available natively in AWS, GCP, Snowflake for some customers on and on, and customer can choose features and deploy only what is needed across the value chain.

This is best demonstrated through our TruIQ Data Enrichment app. The product, TruIQ Data Enrichment, where large customers can opt to have petabytes of data, historical time sequenced profile of 20 years of historical data, 20-plus years of historical data on consumers for analytical purposes, provisioned securely and directly. No copies, no data moves, provisioned directly in the cloud so that the customers can work natively in the environment they already work in with access to the richness of TransUnion data, combining with their first-party data and leveraging analytics at the intersection of our data and their first-party data. And this flexibility will eventually be available in all the global markets we serve.

OneTru lets us build once, deploy anywhere, turn innovation into a global growth engine. In the U.S., credit, marketing and fraud are live on OneTru. That really represents 80% of the revenue across, and we're scaling the customer migrations to complete this year. We're deploying OneTru in Canada, U.K., India and Philippines, rapidly scaling analytics and fraud solutions in those markets.

In Mexico, we're planning to leverage OneTru as the foundation. From day one, we're initiating a project to get Mexico on OneTru, which leaves us with the last and important differentiator, natively embedded AI. So a fair warning. I'll get a little bit technical here. It's important that you understand the ecosystem that we built and the differentiated nature and how we work with our platform.

We architected an ecosystem using neurosymbolic approach to turn massive data into precise actions. Neurosymbolic AI combines -- the approach combines the learning power of neural networks with the reasoning and transparency of symbolic logic to deliver AI systems that are more accurate, explainable and trustworthy at enterprise scale.

And our system has 4 components. The universal interface or the front door of the AI. It uses foundation models to allow for users to interact with the complex data using plain English. This is all of us use models, and this is the front door of the system. But there is a lot more architected in knowledge graphs that Chris talked about, the semantic foundation. It maps the complex nonlinear relationships between different data points. This provides the deep context that AI needs to make accurate connected decisions. When decisions matter, complex decisions you needed this deeper context.

The learning engine, it continuously ingests new data and outcomes to retrain and refine models automatically. As market conditions or fraud patterns change, the learning engine adapts the platform intelligence in near real time. This learning engine is refined by decades of TU experience, utilizing the leading-edge methods, specifically designed for explainability.

Lastly, the agents are specialized the AI programs to execute specific tasks or workflows. For example, flagging a suspicious application or optimizing a bid, ad bid. When all of these 4 components are working together, that's when you really unlock value. And we have all 4 operating on OneTru in what we call an analytics orchestrator agent that fits into the activation layer that Chris talked about.

Last week, we announced this analytics orchestrator agent in market in partnership with Google. We're getting great initial response from the market, including some customers who are ready to get started now. It's a very exciting step in our AI journey, and it's a great example of how these 4 components come together and live within the OneTru platform.

I'll let you see for yourself. Please roll the video.

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Thank you. Chris talked about the 800 data scientists on my team that have deep domain expertise that built thousands of models for our customers that make critical decisions every day. All of that domain expertise, that tribal knowledge is captured in the semantic layer, and we're -- they're using this agent to be able to do more with what they do for our customers, and we can serve more customers with the same resources. It is supercharging some of the customer engagements now.

We'll launch this as a core component of TruIQ suite, making a major shift from low-code to a no-code environment. And if you look at the data analytics value chain, what we mean by saying AI is embedded natively across the platform, that is not the only agent. It's a very important agent for the core modeling and analytical workflows, but across the value chain, any user has an agent, for example, the onboarding agent there, right? We have -- is used to automate the data onboarding process and the data ingestion process into the platform, which we do tens of thousands of data sources and petabytes of data into the platform, using conversational AI.

So with built-in governance and compliance, including human in the loop, this significantly improves the user experience and productivity of data operations users that are ingesting data into the platform. And on and on, AI is embedded across through the layer, and we have a robust road map, including in marketing and other services where we have MCP agents, enabling some of our data access through an agent to agent communication that some of our colleagues will talk later. We're excited about the AI road map and how we come in here, but also in a way that brings in reliable enterprise scale, trustworthy, governed and auditable and explainable way of how these agents work. This is very differentiating for us.

So we're seeing great results in both our products and internal use cases. Role-based agents such as the analytics orchestrator agent has allowed us to slash data scientist effort by 75%, while simultaneously accelerating our customer speed to insight. Said another way, our same resources can do 3 to 4x more engagements that they're doing. And these engagements, like we discussed, are sticky in being able to provide solutions that create sticky revenue on our platforms.

There are other product-specific examples that Mohamed will talk through later. And AI is also deeply embedded in our software development and operations. We've deployed context-aware tools to empower our engineering teams. It's delivering a 25% to 30% increase in feature throughput, allowing us to innovate faster. And then there are other areas where we are using AI to drive improvements like consumer dispute resolution, security vulnerabilities and patchings in technology areas. It's providing a lot of lift like you see there.

So AI was the last of our 5 differentiators, data, identity, flexibility, global reach and native AI. So how is this all coming together to unlock value? Let's look at the short-term lending bureau, we call FactorTrust. It's one of the first credit use cases completely migrated to the OneTru platform. Amazing progress there, amazing metrics. Jamal is going to talk a lot more about that, the incremental lift and how that's really enabling customer wins as a result of migrating to the platform. But let me touch a little bit in some of these great spaces, 25% faster response times in real-time API calls over a 12x faster batch processing, right, cutting from 24 hours to 2 hours.

Our customers are telling us they're already seeing lower rates of abandoned applications online in this space and higher win rate versus competition. And not only enabling the outcomes like we're seeing in credit, we're also obviously, Chris talked about this, creating a lot of cost savings efficiencies and leverage. By eliminating the technical sprawl and unifying our core, we have moved from a high-maintenance legacy model to a high-velocity platform.

We successfully consolidated the U.S. physical footprint from 30-plus legacy data centers to just 2. Most of the other applications running on cloud, we see a 50% reduction in maintenance activities, capacity that can be redeployed to innovation and growth. And we permanently lowered our capital intensity, reducing CapEx from 8% to 6% of revenue. Not to mention the $70 million in savings from the consolidation. And we're just getting started. So like I said, OneTru is just not a technology -- another technology upgrade or a technology transformation project, it's a growth and innovation engine that creates long-term value for TransUnion.

And to further delve more into how he's using this for innovation, I'll invite Mohamed here.

Let's talk about innovation. Nice to be here with all of you. I celebrate my 1-year anniversary with TransUnion this month. So very excited. It's been a great year. I want to talk a little bit about my background, add a little bit to what Chris said.

So I started my career in software development, worked to develop a lot of different solutions and worked with a lot of technology leaders, and I do have to say Venkat is a great visionary leader and a great partner to have in the journey that we're on. After software development, I spent 25 years in financial services. I first started at McKinsey, where I work with banks and insurance companies across the globe and then move to GE Capital and then Synchrony Financial, where, by the way, I was a customer of TransUnion. So I know the products well. I gave them a hard time when I was a customer.

And then I moved to Mastercard. At Mastercard, I led a global product organization. For those of you that are not familiar, Mastercard operates in over 120 countries across the globe. And what I did is I used the transaction data when you swipe a card to build products that help customers make better decisions and get better insights. That business, when I left, was a multibillion dollar business growing at 20%. For those of you that are familiar with MasterCard, the services business is a large part of MasterCard revenue. And what I built was a big portion of that services business. It represents over 40% of the company's revenues and is growing faster than the core payments business for Mastercard.

For us, at TransUnion, I see our noncore credit solutions in a similar way to the services business at Mastercard. Now what I will tell you is that TransUnion, we have a lot of very valuable assets. You've heard about the breadth and the scale of the data that we have. It is significantly larger than what I had at Mastercard. And it creates many avenues for innovation for us as a company.

In addition, you heard about the OneTru platform. The OneTru platform is allowing us to be able to take advantage of that data and create solutions at a scale, not possible at other organizations. So I've been here for a year. I've heard 2 big questions from some of you here. The first one is how does marketing and fraud fit in the overall TransUnion business? And the second is, how are we driving differentiation and innovation at TransUnion?

So if you leave this presentation, there are 4 things that I want you to walk away with. The first is the markets that we play in that Chris talked about, these large markets, we have an absolute right to play and operate. And what I would like you to leave with as well is to understand how marketing and fraud is a natural extension of what we do in our core business. I want you to be able to also understand the solution transformation that we've undergone and how that is helping us to be able to drive innovation at scale globally.

The work that we're doing and the products that we're developing is helping solve big problems for our customers. And all of the work that we've done is delivering real outcomes, real outcome for our customers and revenue growth for TransUnion. So we've been doing a lot of work, the transformations that Chris talked about. In solutions, we've transformed the global solution organization to be globally aligned. We moved from siloed teams in markets using these local tech stacks. That allows us to move a lot faster.

In addition, we are laser focused now on driving and solving customer problems and delivering customer outcomes. We've also enhanced the rigor and the focus and the agility in how we develop products across the solutions team. And finally, we've also elevated the focus across the solution lines to have much more financial and commercial rigor.

In the year that I've been here, we've achieved a lot. And I am extremely excited and more energized today about what we can achieve in the coming years. So over the next hour, I'll walk through the transformation work that we've done in solutions as well as the innovation and the solution leaders, Jamal, Brian, Steve and Jimmy will give you more details on each solution area.

So let me talk a little bit about how we're able to win and our right to win in the markets that Chris described earlier. These are large and growing markets. First, in our credit solution area. That is an area where we've had a natural leadership for over 50 years. It's an area where we're highly differentiated, and we are winning share and growing faster than our competitors. But what is really exciting is the growth opportunity in alternative data and in analytics and Jamal will give you a lot more color on what we're doing and the great work that we're driving in that area.

Marketing. All right. So let's address the question that I raised earlier. So just to be clear, we are not a marketing agency. We are not doing creative work, right? What we are doing is we're taking advantage of the customer identity of our data, of our analytics capability to help our customers be able to have better marketing outcomes, to be able to know who the target, to measure the performance and the ROI of their marketing campaigns. It is essentially exactly the skills that we've honed over the last 50 years in our credit business. We're using those same skills, the same capability and some common data to be able to develop these solutions, and it's working.

Today, we're a trusted partner of 70% of the Fortune 100 companies. Similar to marketing, fraud is another area where we take advantage of our leading identity graph, our proprietary data, we combine that with public data, analytics and AI to be able to help develop models and signals that are helping our customers prevent fraud. Some of the proprietary data that we have is quite unique. For example, our device consortium data. We have billions of device data globally, and we have the long-standing device consortium. Our phone data signals from our Trusted Call solutions, we see billions of phone calls every year.

Now if I move over to the consumer business, the consumer business is a natural extension of what we do in our B2B space and is an area where we're looking to drive even stronger growth. Today, we serve over 380 million consumers, primarily through our B2B partners like an issuer or an aggregator. We are the B2B leader in the markets that we operate. In our direct-to-consumer business, we have tens of millions of consumers that come to our web assets, to, for example, get credit monitoring or to do a credit correction. To be able to get that number of consumers would cost other organizations, millions and millions of marketing dollars.

Now what we've also done is we've consolidated and created a unified global consumer product suite. We had over 300 different products that were fragmented, unifying them and bringing them together into a single place, allows us to be able to be a lot more effective and a lot more efficient. And we've already migrated our customers, our B2B customers in the U.S. and in Canada on to the platform. It is, by the way, the same platform we're also using for our direct-to-consumer business.

So we have a lot of growth runways. It's going to come from different areas. The first is leveraging the offers. You've heard about the Monevo acquisition that we've done using that to help unlock potential in the offer space for our direct-to-consumer as well as for B2B partners, but also continuing to enhance our premium products. It's also about taking this global consumer suite of products and rolling out across all global markets. And the last is to make we're continuing to modernize and improve our direct-to-consumer business, and you'll hear more from Steve Chaouki on that.

Now we are helping our customers solve big problems. There's $1 trillion in credit losses that customers like ours experience every year from poor underwriting decisions or mispricing risk. Marketing grows every year by about $1 trillion. There is about -- we estimate at least $25 billion of wasted marketing spend. And frankly, that number is probably pretty conservative because some estimates go as far as half of the spend on marketing is wasted.

Over $500 billion is lost by businesses each year due to fraud in the areas that we operate. And that number is growing. I think you're all aware of the impact of AI that's happening and the new vectors of attack that AI is introducing. And as it relates to the consumer, there's over 600 million credit invisible consumers in the markets that we operate. For us, as TransUnion, financial inclusion is core to our mission, and we want to work with businesses and consumers to help them on their credit journey.

So our solutions help our consumers and our customers solve these issues by embedding identity, analytics and decisioning in the customer workflows. For example, our spoof call protection has blocked hundreds of millions of spam and scam calls to consumers.

Now let me talk about the customer life cycle. We help our customer solve the different problems that I mentioned by deeply embedding our solutions across the customer life cycle, from an engagement to acquiring a new customer, to managing a customer once onboarded, to recovering our customer. Our highly complementary solutions work together to make that possible, to help a business figure out who to target and get the right customers, to establish a relationship with a new customer, through, for example, our marketing business, to be able to manage our relationship to ensure that the customer continues to come back. And if the customer were to leave, to help the business figure out how to win the customer back.

For example, we work with the large U.S. issuer to help them be able to build a prescreen campaign. Our credit product helps find qualified candidates to go after. Our audience helps with the targeting of those. And our fraud ensures we're protecting from fraudulent actors coming in and getting access to that credit. Underneath all of that, our connected identity runs through every stage and enables our solutions to work together, so that customer can solve each step in that life cycle.

So I talked a little bit about our solutions transformation. I want to give you a little bit more color. Historically, our customers had a lot of powerful point solutions, but they were fragmented. They were siloed. It was complex for them to integrate these different solutions together. We have transformed that model. We have moved from siloed disconnected products to integrated and interconnected solution suites. Today, we have our integrated solutions delivered on OneTru across our solution lines. That shift dramatically reduces complexity, saves cost and delivers a better customer experience. It also enables us to be able to innovate at a much faster pace than we've been able to in the past.

Look at marketing, for example, we went from 90 products on 16 technology stacks to 30 products on the OneTru platform. I talked about consumer earlier where we had 3 different disjointed products that are now combined in a unified platform as well. This makes a difference and allows us to innovate at speed.

All right. I want to give you a slightly different way of looking at the OneTru platform from a customer lens. Now it all starts with data. So if you look at the bottom here, the data, the biggest challenge you have is a customer coming to work with a new company is taking that data and figuring out how to get it connected. It is -- a lot of time, it's expensive because you have to take your data, you have to move it, you need tech resources. We make it easy. We can directly access the data that sits in the customer cloud. No work required.

I would have loved that. I mean I used to be in software development. The amount of work to massage, move data is significant. The other choice the customer has is they could move and put it in our cloud. So it's a customer choice. Once that data is available, they are able to combine it with TransUnion's data and third-party data. Now what we do is we use our connected consumer identity to be able to link the different pieces of data, our data, the customer data, the third-party data together and enrich that data.

What does that mean? For example, adding an e-mail address, adding a phone number, having all of that together, you're now able to run analytics and AI to build better models, to get better insights on that data. Now what is really exciting is our ability to now interconnect our different solution lines. So imagine a customer that starts with our credit solution area. You have the data now already sitting in our OneTru platform or is enabled in your cloud using our OneTru platform. You could use that same data to be able to take advantage of our marketing solution or our fraud solutions, and build end-to-end workflows.

That is a powerful unlock. So for example, on our TruIQ platform, and Jamal will talk more about it, you're able to combine our credit solutions, our marketing and our fraud at the same time to deliver better customer outcomes. And the work I described is delivering real measurable outcomes for our customers. We are seeing improvements, higher conversion, faster time to insight, dramatically improved fraud capture and better customer engagement. For example, 162% improvement in fraud, remember that $500 billion number that I talked about, imagine getting an improvement like that.

On the other side of fraud, we're helping making sure that the right person is able to get through. So for example, we're seeing a 100% improvement in answer rate through our Trusted Call solution, and Jimmy will talk about that. In marketing, we're helping also prevent some of the waste. At 200 -- overall 280% conversion lift in optimizing audiences. So the takeaway is simple. Our connected consumer identity, our interconnected solutions, our interoperable platform and the analytics backbone is driving better outcomes for our customers and more superior results.

Let me give you a couple of examples, and you'll hear more examples from our solution leaders as well as from Steve Chaouki and Todd Skinner later on. This is a top 10 U.S. issuer that was already a credit customer of ours, but they wanted to find new ways to be able to improve the performance of their book. They wanted lower fraud, they better -- wanted better marketing results, they wanted to develop better risk models. They ended up combining multiple of our solutions, all seamlessly integrated, and that helped them be better engaged with their consumers, be able to drive more effective marketing campaigns and have less fraud.

This is a 20-year relationship that we managed to continue to extend and build even more trust with that relationship, but it also helped drive our noncore revenue 3x faster over the last 5 years. Another example, a top 3 payments player. This customer wanted to improve their analytics. They started with our TruIQ Data Enrichment capability, again, taking the data and enriching it with our information, and they combine their data with our data and third-party data. Now the interesting thing is we also brought other competitors' Bureau data into the TruIQ system.

Together, they've linked all of that in the cloud and use it to help build better identity information and to be able to build better analytics. This all happened within a span of 2 years. And they've also extended now to fraud and offers, and they want to replicate what they did with us in the U.S., in the U.K. market. This is an example where it shows you that the value of taking our solutions globally also allows our customers to follow -- our global customers to follow that expansion.

So our ability to bring and link different connected consumer data with our proprietary TU data and third-party data using our identity graph is able to unlock value for our customers. All right. Let me talk about AI for a second. I know there's a lot of questions across all businesses and what the impact of AI is to that business. And what I will tell you is for TransUnion, it is only strengthening our business. It is not just an overlay for us. We're embedding it across all of our solution lines.

OneTru's native AI capability that Venkat just talked about, it's quite powerful. It's allowing us to be able to innovate with AI much faster. We're able to move from raw data to tailored insights. We're able to create better and faster AI models and be able to make better decisions and we're able to simplify tasks and deliver a better customer experience. You saw earlier a video of the analytic -- the TruIQ Analytic orchestrator that Venkat showed. Now this tool is currently available to our own analysts, but we're soon extending it to be available to our customers directly in the TruIQ suite.

In marketing today, a lot of the audiences are predefined or preconfigured. We're using audiences by TransUnion as a way to be able -- where we're using AI in audiences by TransUnion to be able to allow our customers to create custom audiences to be able to suit what their need and who they're trying to target. For fraud, our AI model factory that you'll hear more about is enabling us to roll out new model at a much faster pace from months to days. That helps us be able to protect fraud and be able to address some of the newer fraud attack vectors that are emerging.

You will hear a lot more about our AI solutions in some of the solutions deep dives as well, but this is just the beginning, and there's a lot more that we have in the pipeline in terms of new products and innovation using AI. So we are enjoying measurable outcomes from all the work that we're doing. Our products are showing faster revenue growth. We are seeing higher retention and our sales pipeline is stronger than it's ever been. Our Trusted Call solutions, for example, is seeing 40% year-on-year growth. We're seeing the highest retention rate we've ever seen in our marketing business and we've doubled our pipeline across several areas.

But beyond commercial results, we are also getting independent recognition from Gartner, Forrester, Juniper Research and others. This underscores the strength of our innovation, execution and leadership across our solutions.

Now I am incredibly excited about the impact that solutions delivered in 2025, but there's a lot more potential in the years to come. In 2026, we're expecting to deliver over 70 new products and enhancements across our portfolio globally. We are focused on scaling through building once and deploying many that approach will help us to be able to move a lot faster across our geographies. This saves time and cost replicating our products in the different tech stacks across the markets.

And thanks to our high-performing teams and our transformation efforts and the OneTru capabilities, this work is expected to deliver over $500 million in incremental revenues over the next 3 years. None of this would be possible without a great leadership team. We have a team that brings a lot of domain knowledge and expertise and global experience across credit, fraud, marketing, consumer and communications. It's a team positioned to deliver great results. You will hear from some of them, I mentioned Jamal, on credit, Brian on marketing, Steve and Jimmy on fraud.

There's also demos outside. I know some of you might have seen it before. But during the breaks, please go out or even at the end of the day, they'll be there to showcase some of the products and some of the work that we're doing and the impact that we're driving.

But before I wrap up, I hope that you can now agree that we've made big strides in solutions and in the solutions organization that we're well set up to capture the market -- the big market opportunities that Chris mentioned earlier, that we are driving innovation at scale and that we're delivering results and impact for our customers and faster financial growth for TransUnion.

Thank you. I'd like to invite Jamal to talk about credit. But before that, we're going to play a quick video.

[Presentation]

Hi, my name is Jamal, the Global Head of Credit Solutions at TU. Before joining TU, I spent 25 years on the customer side of credit. Most recently, I was the Chief Data Scientist and Head of Personal Loans for LendingClub. And before that, I led consumer credit for HSBC across the U.S. and Lat Am. Throughout my career, I was able to create the most value when I had access to the right data and the ability to turn it into actionable outcomes.

I was a super user of data. I had access to credit, alternative and first-party data to build credit strategies and marketing programs. And this experience is shaping the way we are evolving credit solutions at TU. Our strategy is to provide customers with the most -- to provide the most print -- the most comprehensive data combined with advanced analytics to our customers to help them make smarter and faster decisions. So I'm going to repeat the statement one more time because I will keep coming back to it for the next 20 minutes. Our strategy is to provide the most comprehensive data combined with advanced analytics solutions to help our customers make faster and smarter decisions.

There are 4 key things that I'd like you to take away from the discussion from today. One is our core credit data is data-centric, built on proprietary -- data centric, built on proprietary data and operate in a highly regulated environment. It is very difficult to replicate what we do. It is also resilient due to strong performance driven by high demand for credit reports and scores.

Two, we are investing into 2 more growth factors. One alternative data, which you've heard about from Venkat. We believe that alternative data provides deeper visibility into the consumers for our customers. And advanced analytics solutions make it easier for customers to access our data, build and deploy models and activate marketing campaigns.

And finally, we believe AI to be increasing the demand for our data and accelerate the innovation. In 2025, credit risk generated $2.6 billion in revenue, about 50% of TU's total and grew at 13% year-over-year. If you look at the pie chart to the left, 95% of the revenue comes from proprietary data in core credit and alternative data. More importantly, 15% -- more than 15% now comes from new vectors, of what we call new vectors of growth in alternative data and analytics enablement. If you look at the bar chart to the right, 70% of our revenue comes from the U.S. and 30% comes -- 70% comes from the U.S. and 30% comes from international market.

We are only $2.6 billion within $27 billion TAM that is growing at 8% CAGR. So the opportunity is large and growing and most importantly, as 2/3 of our TAM comes from new vectors of growth in alternative data and analytics enablement.

So I mentioned the strategy a few times, so I'm going to spend now a few minutes to speak about the strategy. When we build the strategy, we built it from the customer's lens, where credit data, alternative data and analytics enablement are not separate products, but an integrated ecosystem to drive the greater value for the customers. And having led these functions myself, I know that the most outcome comes when all these 3 pillars of the credit strategy work together, but it's always starting with core credit.

For example, we power billions of credit decisions for customers annually with access to 1 billion consumer profiles. This is what we call our foundation of trust. And when it comes to alternative data, we continue to enrich the credit -- the consumer profile beyond what is in the credit file to help customers approve more loans, price risks more accurately and unlock additional use cases. So let me give you a couple of examples on how alternative data enhances the credit profile.

In the U.S., using FactorTrust trade lines help us expand the credit profile on 57 million consumers. And score 5 million more who were previously invisible. In the U.K., we use 145 million checking account records to assess ability to pay for consumers. And finally, the third inner circle, we bring all this rich data, and we combine it with advanced analytical solutions to create greater value for the customers. And the way we do it is very consistent with how Venkat mentioned it. We give them faster access to this data in the environment of their choice. And two, we give them access to advanced analytics solutions that helps them turn this data into actionable business outcomes.

And finally, Mohamed mentioned that somehow customers see 40% faster time to market for running their marketing prescreen campaigns. This strategy is resulting in higher approval, lower losses and business growth for our customers. So what I'm going to do over the next few slides is take each of these pillars and deep dive into each of them.

So if you look at core credit, this is the 83% of revenue on the pie chart. It has been a strong foundation for our business and core credit continues to grow faster than the broader market. We have the #1 bureau position in 5 of the 7 regions where we operate. We refresh 5 billion records each month through an extensive network of data furnisher across 30 countries. If you look at the chart, we have significant global reach and a very proven playbook for scalability. And as Mohamed mentioned and Venkat, we are expanding into Mexico in the first quarter of this year. And Todd Skinner will speak more about Mexico in his discussion.

Moving into the second pillar which is alternative data, alternative data makes actually more than half of our TAM. So we have been very deliberate in how we are building our portfolio of alternative data assets. But I'm going to go through a few examples to highlight some of the successes we had. In short-term credit and bill pay, we transformed FactorTrust to be the leading short-term lending assets. I have a full page on this after this. And we are extending buy now pay later trade lines in the U.K. to cover 190 million, which represents 95% of the market coverage.

In income and employment, we have now a solution that is live and delivered on our credit report powered by Truework that is active in mortgage, in auto and in consumer lending.

And finally, we are the only player in the market that provides benchmarking insights for cards and deposits at the transaction level through August. These alternative data assets, they help our customers see more consumers and find new opportunities for growth.

So when I get to the FactorTrust piece, FactorTrust represents the blueprint for transformation and innovation at TU. We acquired FactorTrust in 2017. We increased the transaction volume by 6x since we acquired it. And we just recently moved FactorTrust onto OneTru, as Venkat said, so to increase and enhance reliability and scalability.

We use TruIQ analytics capabilities to create the next-generation score, achieving 15% lift versus the previous score and the results are coming in and the market is rewarding us. So we are seeing 20% revenue growth year-over-year and we are winning 4 or 5 competitive deals against our key competitors. So we are extremely happy with how FactorTrust turned into the assets that is leading the market.

Now before I get to the third pillar, as a customer, accessing data faster and more frequently has always been a competitive advantage. So that meant faster time to market, more relevant offers, better credit decisions and ultimately higher conversion rates. And this is where TruIQ comes in to solve these type of problems for customers. So let's watch a quick video first, before we deep dive into TruIQ.

[Presentation]

The interesting part is when we were having breakfast, I was sitting with Joe and Josh, never met them. And we were actually demoing how we are now reducing the ability to go to market from a few weeks into a few days. So I encourage you guys to look at the credit in a demo when you have time.

So I just want to explain in simple terms what TruIQ again is, I'm sure the video is self-explanatory, but TruIQ gives customers a fully flexible and integrated solution, where data flows seamlessly all the way from insights to activation without multiple handoffs or third party. And this is huge, like me being in that seat for 25 years, having these type of solutions would have been life-changing. I would have been promoted faster probably. So this is really an exciting product that we believe is going to change how people start conducting their marketing campaigns.

The benefits are simple, faster time to market, more targeted and more frequent campaigns, better risk, higher conversions and ultimately more revenues. And as Venkat said, now with AI embedded in each of these modules, customers can unlock faster insights, model development and optimize their marketing spend and performance. So we are very excited about TruIQ.

So I'm going to give a couple of examples quickly. Couple of real examples of how IQ has been impacting the results of key clients. One is $100 billion-plus bank that was able to link our data to their data on the cloud and reduce their prescreen campaign by more than half. So they reduced it from 45 days to 21 days. Another client was able to use our analytical modeling environment, we call analytics studio along with our innovation lab data scientist and build their next generation of underwriting strategies using our advanced techniques and data together.

If you look at TruIQ, like I've mentioned, I gave you an example of FactorTrust as one blueprint asset in alternative data that has been doing exceptionally well. Well, TruIQ is one of those products in analytics enablement that is doing also exceptionally well. So we've seen 40% year-over-year revenue in 2025. We have 4 products in alpha or beta, we have the product in the U.S. and India and expanding to the U.K. in the next few months, and we are seeing increasing competitive wins in the market because we see more clients embed TruIQ in their workflows.

And this is an area where I believe AI is going to be helpful for us because we continue to integrate AI into the TruIQ modules and workflow. Finally, I just want to close by saying is, remember when I said comprehensive data and advanced analytics, helping customers make faster and smarter decisions. I repeated a few times. Hopefully, we've shown you that our core credit continues to perform at scale. That our alternative data expands access to credit and that TruIQ solutions, those innovative solutions are creating real customer impact and helping customers make faster and smarter decisions.

It is why customers continue to choose TransUnion and why we are very confident about the long-term growth opportunity that is ahead. We're going to play one more video, and I'm going to introduce Brian Silver, my colleague, who leads Marketing Solutions. Thank you.

[Presentation]

Welcome to a better way. No better way to say it. Good morning. Thank you for joining us, and I really appreciate the time today. As my colleague and friend, Jamal said, I'm Brian Silver. I run Marketing Solutions. I've been in the ad tech space for over 26 years. I got deep into data when I ran the business side of Yahoo! Mail data. And then when I left Verizon Media, I was brought in to join LiveIntent to create their identity business, and they just recently got sold by -- to Zeta Global. For the previous 3.5 years, I was at Oracle advertising, running strategy, BD and operations before coming over to TU.

I've seen firsthand how data shapes and drives value and better decisions. When I joined TU, I recognized a company with world-class assets, trusted relationships and solutions that when connected, tackle markets' biggest challenges. In the next 15 minutes or so, I'll share with you our journey, what I encountered just 11 months ago when I joined, the powerful foundation already in place, the market's readiness and how we're weaving these into solutions that are scalable, defensible and transformational.

Today, I will take you through a couple of key truths that set the stage for our discussion. We all understand that the marketing ecosystem is complex. New channels, increasing fragmentation and greater complexities. Marketers need a trusted partner to guide them through and consolidate away from, on average, 16 disparate solutions just to follow their consumers through their journey. When I first started meeting with customers, I asked what value does TransUnion bring to them? What they told me was all pretty unanimous.

First, TransUnion is foundational to their business. They were a trusted partner, and they brought the best data in the business. So you see TransUnion is that trusted partner. We offer a suite of solutions, all with a single view of the customer. This is vital as AI models depend on consistent identity signals across planning, activation and measurement. AI is accelerating marketing and the world, which is driving demand for connected data, shortening time to value and expanding expectations for marketing platforms and performance. But if you remember one thing today, remember this, because of our best-in-class data and deep connections in the industry, TransUnion's marketing solutions is perfectly positioned to be a global leading marketing player today.

And our momentum is building. In 2025, Marketing Solutions grew 25 -- sorry, 15% in Q4 and 7% over the year, our best year since the acquisition of Neustar. Our revenue is structured around 3 global pillars: identity, audience and measurement, and I'll get into more detail about those in the upcoming slides. But what's the most exciting part, we're just getting started. We're at a pivotal moment. Your data, your ability to connect it and whom to trust to give access to continue to be more critical and a hard decision each and every day. Change in our industry is constant, but the need for data and trusted partners remains foundational.

AI accelerates demand for richer connected data sets to support these, audience creation, personalization and predictive outcomes. But remember, AI is only as good as the data it learns from. Media fragmentation creates often too many disconnected and actually incorrect data signals. Marketers struggled to understand consumer preferences and make smart decisions. They need a trusted partner to connect data to a single view of the customer. As companies move data to the cloud, they want a reliable partner that can meet them where they already are. These dynamics heighten the strategic importance of a trusted identity and govern data, 2 of TransUnion's core strengths.

Here is our solution framework. We've organized our offerings into the marketing life cycle across -- sorry, we've organized offerings across our marketing life cycle into a unified customer experience we call TruAudience. Customers access these through modular suites, spanning identity, audiences and measurements. Everything resides on top of our OneTru platform, and this layer enables seamless collaboration that brings beyond a lot of these features privacy-enhancing technologies, which remain critical here and around the globe.

From a customer's perspective, we offer an enterprise, flexible way to buy across our solution, generating a flywheel effect. Clients can begin wherever they need, whether it's cleaning their data, buying third-party audiences, or purchasing additional audiences and then they expand to other solutions. Insights like wasted media spend or audience effectiveness, help drive outcomes that are established based on customer defined metrics. Our solutions provide the foundation and seamless integration clients expect for planning, activation and measurement. And these services are enriched by an expert service level that ensures our clients can expect the maximum insight value from their TU partnership.

The flywheel effect enables real cross-sell and upsell opportunities. It helps us deliver value to multiple marketing personas as needed. As I have said, all of these applications are built on the common foundation of OneTru and as OneTru continues to expand globally, we have the ability to move from point solutions to our full enterprise offering to new markets and to global players.

But the key to our solution is not just flexibility. It is the integrated partnerships in all phases of the flywheel. Identity reaches its full potential when activated through audiences, moving from insights to action. But activation isn't enough until measurement proves performance. When identity powered audiences drive measurable results, we don't just validate campaigns, we reinforce results -- sorry, we reinforce the value of our solutions, making every campaign smarter and meet and beat our customers' expected ROI. This is how the flywheel accelerates each campaign, learns, improves and propels to the next.

TransUnion stands apart by providing deterministic identity, high-quality audiences and comprehensive measurement, all connected end-to-end with high-quality service. We've proven our value with mature marketers. As Mohamed mentioned, we work with 70% of the Fortune 100 today. As we've consolidated and simplified our offerings, 20% of our customers utilize at least 2 of our solutions today, and this number is accelerating and growing rapidly. We are no longer looked upon as a single part of a solution, but a key partner for all of the solutions. If you think back to the legacy Neustar days, companies were coming to us because of our high valued and high performance in measurement.

Companies like USAA, the NFL, the NBA, GM, Ford, Walmart, et cetera, are excited to grow with us and for us to have the ability to provide the results to engage their current customers and their future customers. Our integration network covers 98% of the addressable media partnerships, including 10 global -- 10 global media platforms. As we move into more countries and regions, our partnerships are expanding as well. Connections build trust and emphasize interoperability, critical in today's landscape. As we discussed, marketers use many systems and AI-driven workflows require secure, consistent data movement. Interoperability is no longer optional. It's a requirement to create value across partners and solutions.

Trust, confidence, data fidelity, these are providing us with winds in our sails as we head into 2026 and beyond. In Identity, our best-in-class data delivers 30% higher conversion rates. Audience has allowed marketers to find the right customer at the right time, our measurement solutions report and optimize real-world outcomes. Unlike competitors who typically measure on a single platform, we report incrementality across multiple platforms, thanks to our strong partnerships and quality integrations.

Our solutions give teams what they need. Who are we reaching today? Who should we reach tomorrow? And what impact is our marketing actually having? These tailwinds are substantiated by our 2025 results. Across our pillars, as shown here on the right, let me highlight a few trends. Identity Solutions grew 21% last year with 40% of our new bookings coming from our native cloud integrations. And benchmark studies revenue grew over 190% last year, opening up many new mid-tail, mid-market and long-tail customers.

AI is helping us not just solve complex issues in the marketing space, but accelerate everything possible. Marketing solutions has already been utilizing this in our day-to-day for a long time. We started with LLM models and machine learning in our insights across MMM, MTA, attribution and experimentation. Remember, AI is only as powerful as the data it learns from. That's why we're focused on delivering trusted, connected and governed data at the core of every AI decision. Our best-in-class data is the ultimate competitive difference in the business.

In a recent study, utilizing TU's data, customers were able to see a 10% improvement in leading model fit, while also reducing false positives in audience targeting by almost 20%. But let me be clear, power's marketing solutions using AI today and more in the future. First, within our audiences by TransUnion product, we rapidly deliver audiences to customers with enhanced search and discovery, modeling through self-service portals. Next, as Venkat was talking about, we've begun to develop machine-to-machine agentic workflows or MCP agents, model context protocol agents from clients and partners can connect to our MCP servers to engage with our data and solutions.

Lastly, we're also creating predictive modeling to increase the probability of selected audiences and data sets to act in the customers' desired ways. At a recent sales kickoff, I was sitting on a panel with a leading auto data provider. He was telling the audience about his problem, which is to help solve his customers' biggest problem, which is they know that of all the people who buy a car brand today, 50% of that audience will not come back and buy that car brand again tomorrow. When we were going off stage, I said, hey, how valuable would it be if TU can not only tell you which 50% would come back, but then provide you with additional data sets to then convert that audience as well.

He turned to me, lit up like a Christmas tree and said, well, that would be worth its weight in gold. And I said, well, I kind of like silver a little bit better, but I get your point. Lastly, I'd like to take you through what this looks like when we package this all together. Here is a client example showing our enterprise solution in action built on trust and adaptation as the media ecosystem evolved. We started working with this top 5 U.S. retailer 14 years ago with traditional marketing effectiveness. As we improved campaign performance, the company expanded our measurement capabilities across their full marketing campaigns starting with brand and event marketing.

When that proved effective, they expanded to include performance measurement in Canada and Mexico. Throughout our measurement results, we discovered a need to shift to more personalization in the retailers' messaging and move to identity-based targeting messaging with our Identity resolution and customer intelligence solutions, building a 360-degree view of their customers and improving match rates by 20% for campaign performance.

This supported the creation of a single view of their customer through utilization of our identity enrichment services to bring all of the disconnected data sets that they had into one view. This increased their known customer database from 14% to 30% and drove the ability to track purchases and future marketing opportunities.

As the industry continues to shift towards retailers monetizing their own websites, we help to transition with tested audience strategies in media buying, leading to the launch of their retail media network. And then built, tested and scaled audience models: First, to support test and learn strategies and measure how these audiences performed and second, to scale audiences around specific customer types first-time homebuyers, do-it-yourselfers, et cetera. Through every step of this process, we expanded the use of new capabilities and reported on key performance metrics ensuring a balance of solutions to expected results.

This partnership drove significant benefits to both, customers and TransUnion. The retailer's paid media investment grew from $400 million to over $1 billion in the time in which they were with us. This, of course, was driven by the 20% increase of their identity match rates but ultimately, it was based on the fact that we hit their targets each and every step of the way. TransUnion, of course, benefited from this relationship as well. We increased our ACV by over 6x over the lifetime of this partnership. I would say, it was a really good partnership and continues to be one today.

So in closing, I know you had questions coming in today. Efficacy of our strategy, how important can this be for TU? Today, I focused on facts of our industry, where TU currently is established and more importantly, how big of an opportunity can this be? Ultimately, laying out for you our case that because of our best-in-class data and deep connections in the industry, that marketing solutions will be a leading global player.

The results speak for themselves, how our financials have rebounded, and we're poised for strong growth in the upcoming quarters and years. We're expanding globally -- sorry, we're expanding globally, capitalizing on our differentiators, leveraging AI for speed and usability and using best-in-class data to fuel their growth. I thank you for your time today.

But before I let you go, not that I'm competitive, but the outcomes-based measurement demo that's outside is first class, and I really like to win, and so you should go check it out. Well, let's watch a small video and then introduce my colleague, Steve, to come on to the stage.

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Oh, my goodness. I've got a confession. I've been in fraud, identity and security for more decades than I care to admit. And at least for me, a fraud guy, I get goosebumps when I watch that video. And the reason I get the goose bumps is we're not just fighting fraud here. We're actually enabling trust at a very human level. And we're doing that at a global scale. And for a guy that was used to writing code at Accenture decades ago, to standing up here and representing our ability to impact our clients and our customers and our consumers, fighting fraud is, frankly, it's humbling. So hopefully, I can share some of that goose bump with you, if that's an appropriate thing.

My name is Steve Yin. I'm responsible for our global fraud solutions at TransUnion. And together with my colleague, Jimmy Garvert, we're going to walk you through how we are going about not only fighting fraud, but enabling trust at a very human level. The topic of fraud is pretty uncomfortable. It's a little bit scary. It's a little bit mysterious. And the reason that is, I think everybody gets it, right, is that it can impact me and you and your family, your friends, any time, any day globally. Actually, it's kind of scary when you think about it in those terms.

In fact, we do this global survey, a fraud survey, a study every year, and we survey thousands of consumers and hundreds of companies and in the past 90 days, over 60% of the individual surveyed indicated that they had personally been or their family member had been a victim of or an attempted scam, it is happening all the time. And we've got solutions that help combat that. I'm going to share with you 3 things today: the success we've enjoyed to date, the opportunity that we see in the market going forward and how we are uniquely positioned to capitalize on our proprietary data and advanced analytics to accelerate growth.

And along the way, we might share a little bit about how fraudsters think and how we stay ahead of them. Four areas. We're going to deep dive into each one of these things as we go. The first, obviously, large growing and global market. Fraudsters don't care about borders. They don't have regulatory compliance that they're worried about. They don't have to check with legal before they do something. It is a very intense and dynamic market, and it's global. But guess what?

We've got best-in-class data, and it really does create a competitive moat from which we compete in. Our solutions span the entire consumer journey. We think about it in 3 primary areas: identity, digital risk and also communications. And the fourth thing to point out is, at the end of the day, fighting fraud is actually a fairly simple thing, right? It's you separate the goods from the bads. You treat the goods really, really well, and you kick the bads off to the side.

Simple is not the same thing as easy. And what you're going to find is fighting fraud is all about data. Always has been, will be for the foreseeable future and advanced analytics is how we unlock the value of that data when we're fighting fraud. So how big are we from a financial perspective? It's about a $760 million a year business, growing at high single-digit rates. You can see those 3 areas that I mentioned, digital risk, identity and trusted communications. That's how the revenue breaks out.

The thing that's not shown on this slide, though, is that our revenue actually breaks out not just within financial services, but it also -- we do quite a bit of business in all of the vertical markets that we serve. The market's big. We already know this $25 billion total market opportunity. The thing that's most interesting to me in that survey that we do on an annual basis, we ask executives to estimate how much of their top line revenue is lost to various types of fraud throughout the year. And this number is, it's actually a little bit higher than that. It's over 7% of revenue is estimated to be lost to fraud on an annual basis across the globe. It's a pretty intimidating number.

The second thing that I'd point out is that human level trust that we're enabling digital interactions over 75% of all the interactions that consumers have in the financial services space, are digital at this point. So how are we enabling trust when 3 out of 4 times, you don't even know you have no personal relationship with that individual, when you're making that transaction, when you're considering opening that account.

Diving into our 3 pillars a little bit more. Identity, we've talked a lot about identity throughout the day. Identity most people think in terms of off-line identity. What's your name, your address, your phone number, things of that nature, but any more identity is this, right? Everybody knows this. You were incredibly tightly tied. Your identity is tightly tied to this device that's sitting in your pocket right now or on the desk. And so what does that mean? Digital risk. If you think about how you're using the phone, we're able to identify you from your phone, not through cookies and things of that nature, but how you're utilizing the phone, where you're utilizing your phone.

And it's not just your phone. It's any of those 5 or 6 devices that you're using on a daily basis to interact with our clients. Imagine the amount of data that's flying off of your phone continuously, and we're capturing that. And the last area is trusted communications. I'm not going to dive into that one. Jimmy is going to spend some time talking about our unique capabilities in those trusted solutions in phone calls. Underpinning all of this, we've already talked about is orchestration and optimization, all of it AI-enabled. And then across the top, is analytics weaved throughout each one of those solutions and across the solutions.

Our portfolio is broad and deep. The circle is just a quick way to think about the life cycle of the consumers that are interacting with one of our clients, from unknown to the client all the way through creating a business relationship, transacting within that relationship and then ultimately, terminating that relationship over time. What you'll also notice is that quite a few of our solutions have major impact in multiple areas of that cycle, right? So think about the leverage that's associated with being able to deploy a single capability throughout different various areas of that consumer life cycle.

So I said we might talk a little bit about how fraudsters operate. And I'll give you a couple pieces of insight here. Fraudsters operate in the gaps Think about that. They operate in the gaps. The gaps can be data gaps. So data silos, think of silos. They can be process gaps. A handoff wasn't proper, so there's an opportunity to exploit that. The technology may have some gaps to it. But importantly, importantly, there's a human gap. I say there's a human gap because over 60% of the scams that are perpetrated on a global basis traverse the phone channel.

Imagine that. Our clients are talking to the fraudsters at some point, 60% of the time on scams. And yet these gaps exist. We're here covering those gaps, we're bridging those gaps. We're identifying the risk areas, and we're doing that through this bottom layer here, which is advanced analytics. I'm going to dive into that one a little bit more and talk about this thing we call the AI model factory.

So what is the model factory? It's a way for us to accelerate our ability to deploy AI into our clients' workspace, specifically to fight fraud. It's all built on OneTru. All of our data across all those pillars is in a single place. What does that do? It allows us early identification of emerging fraud threats. It doesn't matter where in the globe, we have a unique ability to see those threats as they're emerging.

What does that enable us? That enables us to create models that can fight those emerging threats. And oh, by the way, because it's all in this single hosted platform, we can create continuous learning in those models and continuous training in those models.

And then what if as we started to see a model degrade because they do degrade, especially in fraud very rapidly, we're able to alert our clients and say, hey, you know what, you may want to update the model. Here is now what's working even better and what if you're able to hit a button and that model now becomes live in your network for the very next transaction. That's what we're talking about when we talk about the model factory, okay?

We've got 3 examples that I'm going to walk through. And Brian said, you got to go check out the marketing solutions. I would recommend you go out and check out the fraud solutions demos out there, but before we get into those 3 examples, let's meet Jane real quick.

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Quick show of hands. Who thinks Jane -- that we made Jane up just to kind of give you an example? Whoa, no hands. You think we made up Jane? Jane is real. Jane is a little scary. Jane actually defrauded clients of $6 million over a 5-year period of time by what we call serial credit washing. You go out, you get some loans, you then dispute those loans because you're a victim of some sorts. Those loans get pushed off to the side, your credit rating goes up and you go out and you do it again. She did that for $6 million across 5 years. Real person doing this.

Exceptional, yes, but indicative of the types of things that we are able to uncover uniquely. We're the only ones in the industry with a solution that is targeted at this type of fraud. Oh, by the way, on here, you're already noticing that it says synthetic identity. Jane went on to then try to create 5 additional synthetic identities and rinse and repeat this. Again, well, with our synthetic identity score, we're able to identify that, that's actually not a real person that's doing that. And we do that through something we call proof of life, also unique in the industry. Proof of life, you're like, what does that mean? It means would a synthetic identity have a driver's license? Would they have a bankruptcy in their history? Would the fraudster go to that extent to create a 7-year ago bankruptcy in their profile in order to then become a synthetic identity. These are solutions that are coming out of that model factory, and they're sewing together, through analytics, those gaps that we have identified, in this case, in the data gaps.

The last thing I'll leave you with is this one. This one is especially -- it's special to me. And that is another product of our model factory. It's a new model, just brought it out. I think it's coming commercial like this week or next week. It had been in beta. And it's an AI model that sits on top of the largest device consortia in the world, our device consortia. And it's a model that identifies additional orthogonal risk versus what we had always historically been able to identify from a device risk perspective. This model has become the single most predictive feature of fraud at Starbucks. So if you're a Starbucks frequentler, I am, we're protecting not just the $50 that you've got in your Starbucks Card on your app, but the $2 billion of stored value that Starbucks has predicated on all the people that are walking around with $50 in their account. We're doing that all day, every day. And from a business model perspective, this is incremental business on top of that device risk revenue that we receive. So this is additive revenue through analytics, through AI.

With that, I'm going to hand it over to Jimmy, and he's going to walk us through communications fraud.

Thanks, Steve. Good morning, everybody. I'm excited to be here to talk about our trusted call solutions, the success we've had since we've joined TransUnion 4 years ago as part of the Neustar acquisition.

So when you think about phone calls, it is something that -- it is a personal environment for you. So think about your own experience with phone calls over the years. You got a lot of scam and spam calls, numbers you didn't know, things that caused you to stop answering the phone. And so what happened there? Legitimate calls, you stopped answering. So that has become a real market challenge.

Now TransUnion is now at the forefront of revolutionizing voice calling. And so when I think back to 20-plus years ago, when I helped build out one of the first next-generation digital networks here in the U.S., I never imagined kind of the evolution that would come associated with that, went from 3G to 4G to 5G, opened up all those gaps that Steve talked about, the risk that happened, that the bad actors were starting to exploit, free phone calls, very low cost to be able to spoof their identities and your identities and the business identities that created this lack of trust. So we built this opportunity to be able to restore trust in voice calling.

And it's something that, at Neustar, we've had a team of experts that we brought over as part of that acquisition. This team continued to innovate around things like call authentication to the point where the FCC mandated a call authentication standard that our team co-wrote that every carrier in the U.S. implemented. We went from being the thought leaders to the market leader. And we leveraged that market leadership position to get the integrations and the partnerships that allowed us to launch products such as Branded Call Display and Spoofed Call Protection that have shown phenomenal results over these past few years. We went from $27 million in revenue when we started here at TransUnion back in 2021 to over $160 million last year. We'll do well over $200 million this year with clear line of sight to over $300 million in 2028. It is a market need that the enterprises and consumers want to see. They want to see this reestablishment of trust.

So for us, it goes beyond just what we're doing for the large enterprises here in the U.S. We have the opportunity to continue to scale this because this issue is not a U.S.-only issue. It's a global issue. It's one as well that cuts into text messaging. We recently announced the pending acquisition of data assets from RealNetworks that start getting us into the text messaging analytics market. Again, there's a lack of trust, not just in voice communications, but text messaging, all forms that the enterprises want to engage with you.

We now have that opportunity. When we think about international and the markets that we serve, that's another $500 million-plus opportunity. SMBs here in the U.S. are another $1 billion plus. The text messaging and the ability to link text messaging with voice calls, we will be the only company capable of doing that. That's another $2 billion.

And the results speak for themselves as well on the effectiveness of this solution. We're stopping fraud before it happens. And we have the opportunity to educate consumers on what legitimate transactions are because fighting fraud just isn't stopping the bad, as Steve said, it's elevating the good. Consumer education on what is a legitimate transaction matters. And what we see associated with that are things like an 83% lift in credit card conversion from a bank leveraging our Branded Call Display. So we are very excited about the opportunities and the scale that we're achieving. We're just still, even though we've been doing this for a few years, at the infancy of what we can do.

So with that, I'm going to take a step back and talk about our overarching fraud solutions that Steve and I have just discussed. So as Steve said, that mobile device is now your digital identity. And it is -- it's the first thing you pick up in the morning. It's the last thing you put down at night typically. It's how enterprises want to engage with you. And it's why the bad actors, the fraudsters wanted to take advantage of the gaps that are created associated with that digital identity.

When you think about being able to stop the bad actors, what are the things you need to have? Identity of the individuals, we have that. You need to have digital assets things like device that Steve talked about. We have that. And you need to have the fundamental telco signals that you can understand what's really happening at the time of those transactions. We have that. We are the only company that has the breadth and depth of information that allows us to provide both the protection as well as the promotion of legitimate transactions. So we expect, because of this market position, to achieve, at a minimum, high single-digit growth over the coming years. We're very excited about what we are doing here within the fraud portfolio.

So before we get to a break, and you'll hear coming out of the break from our market leads who show how we've taken this solution set and take it globally as well, I wanted to just take again the opportunity to talk about the proprietary data assets that you've heard across all of our facets around identity.

I've had the honor to share the stage with market leaders across credit, marketing, fraud. They're showcasing the actual results of the integration that has happened associated with the strategic acquisitions that were made over the years. Now that these integrations are complete, it's not just about the cost savings that Venkat had. We're showing the tangible revenue growth that comes from the innovation of the platform that has been created here at TransUnion. So the last parting thought that I have associated with this is because of that market position, because of the unique data assets, the integrations that we have in the markets that we serve, TransUnion is one of those companies that sits in that enviable position where we can take the transformational nature of AI to really drive the growth and innovation of our solution set.

And so with that, I encourage everybody in this 20-minute break that we have to go to the solution showcase out there, all the demos that we have. Again, I'll do the plug for Branded Calling and Spoofed Call Protection like everybody else. But thank you for your time this morning, and we look forward to continuing the conversation after the 20-minute break. Thank you all.

[Break]

Alright, thank you, everyone. I'm going to pick up where my colleagues left off. I'm going to talk about how these great platforms that we built over the last 2 years and all the solutions families that were created, add value to our customers and thereby generate revenue for TransUnion.

I've been here 18 years almost. And I think even as we've emerged and evolved the business into this vast, heavy platform and solution company, we were trying to retain the things that made us historically successful in the marketplace. And that is our ability to understand our customers' business and our proximity to our customers, the amount of time we spend with them and our understanding of what they specifically need.

The U.S. business has really operated under these 4 pillars for a while now. And I think I'll just lay them out and then we'll go into them in more detail as the slides progress. We maintain market-leading positions in a large set of verticals across the country, about 20 of them. And there are subverticals within there, and we segment it. And we work very hard to make sure we have expertise in those spaces, and we serve our customers effectively through knowledge and leading with insights, which is the second point. We have an insights team and a specialized sales force that addresses and engages our customers regularly to understand them and serve them as well as we can. We leverage this vast set of solutions that you've learned about this morning and then use our proven playbooks to do this at scale repeatedly over and over again across all the industries in which we operate.

What are those industries? To reorient everyone, these are the main verticals that we serve in the U.S. today. Financial services is the probably most well-known vertical of TransUnion and the original vertical of TransUnion. It's just under half of our revenue right now. Within that, we operate 4 subverticals: mortgage, card and banking, consumer lending, and auto. We want to face our customers the way they face us. And that's usually how our customers organize their businesses even within their institutions. So we want to make sure that we're bringing the appropriate expertise to them. And that's the same across all these verticals. It's kind of the model that we employed everywhere.

Our consumer business is our second one. I'm going to go into much more detail on these shortly. That's our second oldest business. It's about 16% of our revenue. Most of it lives in that indirect bucket. About 3/4 of it is B2B2C. So it's really -- it's a consumer business, but it's B2B. And then those customers then serve consumers directly. And about 1/4 of it is our direct-to-consumer business. That's where we have our new freemium product. I'll talk about that as well.

On the emerging verticals front, insurance is our original emerging vertical. We started in the personal lines space in P&C. In that space, we are the market leader. We have the largest market share, but we've grown since then into life and commercial. And then we have a broad range of diversified markets, which are all actually quite big. Collectively, they're about 1/4 of our revenue, but they represent a variety of different verticals where we've chosen to engage the market and where we believe we have a special right to win.

Financial services is the first one I want to talk about. And as you can see here, mortgage is about 1/3 of the revenue there. Card and banking is a similar size, and then consumer lending and auto are both sizable, but a little bit smaller. We've had a very good growth profile in this business for the last couple of years, growing in the teens, as you can see. And in 2023, we were still able to grow. That's despite like the fastest rising rates in 40 years. I think rates have not risen as fast in '22 and '23 as they had since '80, '81. So despite that, which is probably the hardest thing to overcome in that industry, we were able to grow the business. And of course, as rates settle, they haven't come down really. They've kind of just flattened a little bit, maybe trickling down. We've been able to get nice growth out of that business. We serve about 12,000-plus customers in the space. We have long-standing relationships with every major lender, and we're the leading bureau for fintechs.

All that said, we've been able to grow the business ahead of the industry growth, and we're growing across all 4 of these verticals and across the risk spectrum from super prime all the way down to subprime and everything in the middle. So we have nice broad-based growth across a variety of different customer types and across the entire risk spectrum that serves in the space.

Our next area is Consumer Interactive, and I said I'd talk about this a little more. This bucket here is B2B2C. Think people who serve customers and then use credit data for them. It could be a bank, for example. If you use Capital One, you may go into their credit monitoring tool, and you'll find us there. We're very public, right? It's known that we are supporting that.

And then the direct side, of the house, which is 1/4 of the business. That's our freemium product that we launched last year. Growth in this set of verticals has been a little slower than others. Our B2B side has been growing more strongly. That's been buoyed mostly by -- or among many reasons, but very specifically by our breach business, which has grown rapidly for us. The breach business is a little bit lumpy. It's a breach services business. When the customer has a breach, we come and help remediate it for them. That has been growing rapidly, but it's lumpy. Those -- the big breaches, especially are coming in big buckets. So over time, it works itself out to be a fast-growing business, but we tend to tell you when those things happen.

And then our direct business has a new freemium product. That product is beginning to grow and beginning to show the signs of growth. Now -- but you have to remember, a freemium product needs 2 things. We need to fill it with consumers, which we're doing at a faster pace than we expected. So we're getting customers to come in and use it for free. Then we need to have the offers, which we're growing as well. And then we match the offers to consumers and over time, you generate the revenue. So it's not something where you hit the switch and instantly, you have a ton of consumers who are generating revenue. We have to build the momentum of the flywheel, which is what we're doing right now.

In our emerging space, you can see insurance. I'll start at the bottom and then go to the top just because of the timing. Insurance is our original vertical in the space, growing nicely through all cycles, started as a personal lines business, but we are getting material growth within commercial and life. We are the leading bureau in the space. We have primary share with many, many carriers and have more than our share within this in credit and driver history and things like that.

And then we're beginning to expand our share within commercial lines and life insurance and grow that sector. And then in the diversified space, you can see we have a broad range of verticals. We're expanding the growth there and building on it based on the solutions that you saw earlier today. Tech, retail and e-commerce being the biggest, but our media business is rapidly growing at 20%, and telco, very strong for us. We have relationships with pretty much all the major telco carriers, most of the top retailers and most of the entities within the media ecosystem, as my colleagues mentioned earlier.

So how do we do this? What do we do and how do we serve these verticals? We start with what we call robust thought leadership. We have a dedicated research and consulting team that creates top-of-the-funnel research to engage the market. I hope you have a chance to talk to some of them out there.

The leaders of that team are out there today. You can find them in the expo. We then take that and use deep vertical expertise, hiring people who worked at our customers or have a deep understanding of our customers to help us engage our customers as a peer, as a colleague, someone who truly understands their business. And then we serve the customers through a specialized sales team. These sales folks are organized around buyer personas. Not organized around products necessarily, but organized around how people buy the products. A buyer may buy several products or just one product family. We set our sales force up to look like them so they can carry the bag in that services that customer's needs. I think it's very important to do it that way. Otherwise, you find you wind up with a lot of product pushers in there. Here, you actually have an engaged seller who understands the customers' needs and can package things together for them in a way that works very well.

I'll give you an example, like you saw that credit washing product and how that goes through this ecosystem quickly. The credit washing product was identified through conversations with our customers and top-of-funnel research not that long ago, like a year ago, not very long ago at all. We then used our capabilities, and Steve and his team delivered a product to us rapidly. We launched it into the market at the very beginning of Q4 of last year. And within a few months, we had a $12 million pipe growing rapidly with sales converting. It's a very exciting process for us now that we have these platforms that are capable of rapidly developing products. We can now bring ideas that are very salient, relevant and timely and actually deploy solutions to them quickly so we can be first movers in the market and gain share and serve our customers as well as possible.

We then leverage a variety of metrics and best-in-class tools to make sure our sales force is as effective as it can be. In 2025, those tools and this 1,000-person approximately sales force just under delivered the best results we've ever had, and we continue to build on those results. We increased top-of-funnel pipeline by 23%. The opportunity size has increased by 21%. Our wins increased by 30%, and our increase in revenue from these wins was 13%, like a very good solid year, and this is setting us up for the future. A lot of these wins actually will flow into '26, like you win them at the end of '25. By the time you launch the solution with the customer, it's now. So these are very good top of funnel and bottom of funnel performance for our sellers.

How are they achieving this? Well, beyond having great sellers who face off to our customers the way they want to face off to us with great buyer persona service, we carry a large bag. Something we've joked about this for years at TransUnion. For years, when I got here, we carry what we call the light bag, small, had credit, a little bit of fraud. We could serve our customers very well with it, but we were limited in our capabilities. What you see here, I think you've seen this depiction before, the 4 products of the identity go down the middle, that's what we're carrying today. So our sellers have so many more tools. Our vertical leaders have so many more tools to actually address and serve the needs of our customers. And these tools overlap with each other, and I'll talk about it in a little bit. It's not isolated to like, well, this is a credit tool only and here's a fraud tool. Often, these tools interact with each other and create value that only TransUnion can unlock because of these capabilities that we have and allows us to be the best possible provider to our customers.

What are the results of this? So the first year after -- right before we bought Neustar 2021, we bought them in December, you can see our penetration of products into the customers that we have. 14% of our top 100 use 5 or 6 products from us; 39%, 3 or 4; and 47%, just 1 or 2. That's how this chart is laid out. Fast forward just a few years, last year, 21% of our customers use now 5 or 6 products, 50% increase from just a few years ago. 39 -- or 43% use 3 or 4 and only 36% are using 1. So we've had a lot of success, which is great. But as you can see on the dial, there's still a ton of opportunity. Our goal is to make that dial as blue as possible, make the whole thing dark blue if we can. So as we continue to move around, we have a lot of growth opportunity just within the customer base that we have by expanding our solutions to them in the way that we've proven that we can do.

I'm going to demonstrate how this works with 3 examples here, one from each of these key verticals. We'll start with financial services. We'll move into insurance and then into the DM space. These case studies show how TransUnion adds value to our customers. This is a pretty traditional relationship for TransUnion. You can see it up here. It's a top bank. Everyone would know it in this room. We've had a long-standing relationship with them. If you go back to 2022, we did about $16 million a year with this bank. Most of it was credit, but we had a nice fraud business and decent consumer and marketing business as well. As we've added these solutions and capabilities, we've been able to grow this dramatically. And you can see here, credit only grew 37%, but noncredit grew 85%. So had we not had these extra solutions, we could not have had this growth with this customer.

How did we do this? Our marketing solution, for example, in this case, was multi-touch attribution and analytic tool that help them with their credit card business. They have spend just like everyone else on marketing within the credit card business, trying to acquire customers. We were able to take that same exact spend using our analytic capabilities and partnering with them to deliver 4% more applications, which is good. I mean it's not like awesome, but it's pretty good.

But more importantly -- than 4% more applications, we delivered 31% more accounts. That's really good. That's the same amount of money delivering more accounts. How do we do it? By optimizing their spend and finding customers who have intent. Getting a consumer to apply who has no intent to take the card or doesn't qualify for the card is not very useful. Finding consumers who want the card and actually qualify for it, that's really useful. And we were able to do that for them and grow this with like not much extra spend.

Similarly, we have an Argus relationship with this customer. This customer leaned on us to say, "Hey, we're acquiring consumers to the bank, but we want to get them into credit cards." So we did an analysis leveraging our Argus capabilities, and we were able to increase their number of consumers taking a credit card by 500 basis points. That's a huge uptick, basically off the same base. A very, very good thing for them because multiple customers who have multiple accounts tend to perform better and be stickier for the bank. So very exciting for them, very exciting for us, obviously. We're very happy to be able to serve them in this way.

The next example is a P&C company, an insurance company. In this case, while I say we have leading market share in the space, it doesn't mean we have 100% market share. This was a P&C carrier where we did not have the leading position. In fact, we had a pretty weak position here. But Neustar, when we acquired them, had a very strong position within marketing. So we were able to bring the Neustar marketing capabilities into the space, using things like multi-touch attribution like I described and other benefits and other programs that we use here and grow our core business with a customer where we had very little penetration through a relationship that we now had via the Neustar acquisition and the marketing capabilities that this customer used. So you can see here, we had a 30% growth in this relationship but the credit business and fraud business grew rapidly with credit 3x in the space, like a reverse synergy, I guess, you'd call this, or a way to continue to serve them in different ways and penetrate markets in ways that we had not in the past.

The last example that I'm going to use is an audio streaming platform. I think you would all know who this is. It's a household name. Most of the people in the room probably have used it. It's a place where you go stream audio and then ads are placed in that audio streaming platform by brands who want to advertise to consumers. In 2021, this platform was generating about $2 million for TransUnion, mostly in the audience space. We enhanced this with TransUnion data. So we took the -- what was the heritage Neustar product at the time, enhanced it with TransUnion identity capabilities and made the identity much more refined, bringing it to be the best identity resolution capability in the industry. This customer purchased that capability to run their marketing ecosystem.

What does that mean? That means that I as a brand, want to find a customer, I use TransUnion's identity capabilities to reach them as they stream media through this platform. So it benefits both the platform itself and then the ecosystem that uses the platform, all the different brands. It gives them a one-stop shop. So the brands come in and look at like what Brian showed you in the video and what he talked about, the brands come in and talk to the streaming service in a single environment and deploy their audiences.

So what are the results? Great yield optimization. This is a really good example. Why would they give us 7x the volume or 630%, right? It's because we were able to drive up their CPMs. CPMs are cost per -- cost per million, cost per thousand, like the impressions that people pay to reach customers. But because the impressions were highly targeted, the brands are willing to pay more for those impressions, which made the media more valuable. And the brands are happy to do it because their results were better through more precision targeting. So the brands got better outcomes as a result of that highly precision targeting. This would not have happened had we not created this identity graph and dwell down the middle using all the capabilities that are specific to TransUnion. Super exciting for us and a great way for us to get out into the market and achieve the results that we want to achieve with our customers.

So within those 3 examples, I think there's so many more, right? I could go on and on and on. And I love this stuff. So I would do it, but they gave me only 20 minutes. So I want to leave you with a few takeaways. We have a great business model. We have awesome products and great platforms to deliver them. We have a team that is an expert in the markets that we serve and is very close to our customers and allows us to reach into them and help them create value.

Our value comes after we create value for somebody else in most of these cases, all these B2B businesses. And what we're doing is trying to unlock that value every day through all these capabilities that we presented to you today. This gives us a very durable, diverse and highly growing portfolio. It gives us a very special position in the marketplace and allows us to lead in these 19, 20 verticals where we operate, but also allows us to get into future verticals. We just haven't done it yet because we've been so focused on these, and we're able to serve them, but there are others where we can still go in the future.

So the growth profile in the U.S., despite it being the "mature market", the big market of the company is still very high. We still have a lot of potential to take all these products to the customers that we have, to deliver more value to them and understand and build new products quickly like we did with credit washing and then to create differentiated ROI accretive relationships with our customers.

As we expand our sales solutions, I think we -- or expand our marketing solutions and our suites, I think we're just going to get better and better. We are very well poised, I think, for high single-digit growth, which is what we think we can deliver. And I think we have a huge opportunity to continue to add value within the U.S. market and grow this business and achieve the potential that we're building for ourselves.

So I thank you all for your time. I'm going to hand it off to my esteemed colleague, Todd Skinner, who will talk about the international business.

Good morning. It's nice to see you all. As you know, my name is Todd Skinner. I run our International division. I've been doing that for 5 years, been with the company for 12, all in the International division. And what I like about Steve and Mohamed's conversation is it's very much a prequel to what you'll hear from an international perspective. And I think a lot of the things that Steve talked about, we're doing in the international space. But what I wanted to talk to you today about is why international is a compelling long-term growth story for us at TransUnion. And at its core, it's consistent with everything that you've heard today.

We operate in structurally attractive markets that are in both developed and emerging marketplaces. And we have a proven playbook to grow the value of our relationships with our customers that allows us to outperform in the long run. And increasingly, we're amplifying that through our global platforms like OneTru that will allow for faster solution diffusion, which meaningfully expands our long-term growth ceiling in international. And importantly, this isn't a story about hope or potential. It's actually grounded in results that we've already delivered in both our developed and emerging marketplaces, and we're still early in the journey. And so the international thesis is based on these 4 things.

First, that we hold market-leading positions across a broad and diverse set of markets that are not early-stage experiences. We hold #1 or #2 positions in many of these markets. Second, that we've demonstrated that our growth playbook allows for us to outperform underlying economic growth. That matters because our results are not simply a function of macro tailwinds. Third, that we're indexed to emerging markets that are large populations with low credit penetration and expanding financial ecosystems. And finally, the transformation that we're going through matters for us in international more so; that the global technology and operating model that we're building will allow for us to increasingly allow those innovations to cross our borders faster than ever before and create new growth vectors for us in international.

Now we operate in 30 countries and generate $1 billion in revenue. And what's important here is not just the size of the business but the quality and the balance of our portfolio. We have strong, durable positions in developed markets like Canada and the U.K., which generate consistent cash flow and are innovation testing grounds for us across international. And at the same time, we've scaled leading positions in faster-growing markets like Asia, India, Latin America, Africa and now Mexico. And this balance allows us to fund our growth internally, reinvesting in innovation and take a long-term view in emerging markets without sacrificing that near-term discipline that we talked about.

And so we have a proven growth playbook, and it's not accidental. They come from repeating the same process in every market, and the teams continue to generate success. We start with market growth, ensuring that we're in those structurally attractive marketplaces. With the technology modernization strategy that we're undergoing and the development of our product platform, OneTru will drive product innovation beyond core credit into fraud, marketing and consumer. We have established ourselves in credit and developed deep relationships with our customers that have allowed us to move from transactional to established partner status across the credit life cycle. We leverage that client approach to make sure that our solution sets will expand broadly beyond the existing relationships into new conversations.

And finally, with solution expansion, client engagement can allow us to expand into adjacent verticals, insurance, fintech, consumer, telco, gaming, public sector using the same underlying data, the identity assets to generate value for our customers.

And we see this in every market. From 2022 to 2025, international GDP in our markets grew, on average, 3%. In contrast, TransUnion outperformed by growing our revenue at a 10% CAGR. The gap exists nearly in every market where we operate. And that tells us 3 things about our business: that our growth is structural, not cyclical; that the value creation is value-driven, not volume-driven from our markets; and that there is still room to expand our share of wallet in the existing offerings that we have and we will increase share as we introduce new solutions and enter new verticals, the hallmark of a scalable, resilient international model.

So let's take a look at an example in action. Canada. Canada is probably the best example of our playbook at work. Through the period, the GDP and credit growth in the market grew at a modest 1.5%, and we were able to deliver double-digit growth at almost 11% over the 3 years. So how do we do that? First off, it's product innovation. It's a key differentiator for us in that marketplace. Led by our fraud solutions, not only our IDX identity solution used to detect fraud at origination, it now has moved up the funnel and is helping customers identify what was previously thought as risk as good consumers. This new solution has grown tremendously over the last 3 years, and we have 25 customers on this platform with more room for growth.

You heard Jimmy talk earlier about our branded call solutions, or branded call solution that allows for customers to make more connections. Imagine taking -- identifying more customers and more connections to help our customers grow. Our mature trended risk solutions and new iterations continue to show growth for us in this market. Through share gains, share shifts and new iterations, the solution has grown 22% over the period.

And lastly, Consumer Interactive, our indirect business continues to penetrate the market, supporting financial inclusion, education and our customers' objectives. We are the primary solution used by the 5 biggest banks, 2 of the largest monolines. We support 2 of the 3 aggregators, alternative lenders and offer our solutions through fintech.

Now these innovations drive different conversations. We're deepening our solutions in our largest customers' workflows, and we're working with growth-oriented mid-market firms. As they consume these innovative solutions, they're also consuming other core bureau solutions from us to get the greatest benefit from TransUnion.

The outcomes are clear. We have market-leading positions in financial services with the monoline card companies in insurance and breach services, and we've produced double-digit growth across consumer, fintech, telco and gaming in this marketplace. So Canada, even a mature market with benign macroeconomic headwinds, we can connect with our customers. We can drive innovation that solves problems and embed ourselves into their workflows so that we can drive sustained outperformance.

Now let's talk about our emerging markets. International is uniquely positioned with 57% of our revenue coming from emerging markets. And that matters because emerging markets drive 3 combined forces for us. First, demographics. Across our emerging market footprint, 1.6 million people under the age of 50 represent an economically active population entering the formal financial and digital ecosystem.

Second, from a financial inclusion perspective, only 1/3 of adults in these markets are credit active compared to roughly 2/3 in our developed markets. And that gap represents an extremely long runway, not just for credit growth, but for fraud and marketing as consumers move from first product to deeper engagement.

And third, digitization, and this is where the opportunity really starts to unfold, is Internet penetration across emerging markets is now approaching 60% and growing at double-digit rates, driven primarily by mobile access. Digital banking is expanding rapidly, up nearly 20 points from 2021 to 40% of adults in low and middle-income economies now using digital payments.

And lastly, and most importantly is e-commerce in markets like India, South Asia and Latin America growing at double-digit rates through smartphone adoption and digital public infrastructure investments. Digitization directly expands the demand for our portfolio. As consumers move online, they will have more choices and become more attractive to our customers across channels. Our credit, fraud and marketing solutions become mission-critical as risks move from physical to digital.

Let's talk about India. It's an important part of our international growth story. It's a fast-growing major economy with large and a digitally engaged population, and we're the clear market leader. This is a long-term growth engine, and we see beyond short-term cycle impacts. Since 2017, India has delivered 23% compounded growth even through significant volatility, a COVID-driven contraction, a sharp V-shaped recovery and most recently, regulatory and macro impacts. Importantly, even in 2025, a challenging year, we remain positive and profitable, reinforcing the resilience of our franchise. The track record gives us the confidence that India is a double-digit growing market over the long run.

The long-term thesis in India rests on 4 pillars: demographics and inclusion. India is the world's largest population with broad participation in the financial ecosystem and significant headroom in product debt. Second, product innovation. With movement towards high-frequency data submissions, you heard Chris talk about earlier, analytics, fraud, trusted communications, marketing and platforms like OneTru and TruIQ, we materially expand our value with our customers.

Third, deeper client engagement. We've been moving away from data supply to insight-led consultative selling with our customers. And last, vertical expansion. We will deepen our relationships in financial services and fintech and consumer and expand more widely into insurance, telecom and marketing. All these verticals represent incremental growth vectors.

Now India has made enormous progress from a financial access with nearly 90% of adults now having a formal financial account. Households, however, in India is -- wholesale credit in India is roughly 40% to 50% of GDP, where in developed markets, it's more 70%, which underscores the significant runway as incomes rise, digital adoption accelerates and first-time borrowers move deeper into the credit life cycle.

We're seeing early signs of success and product expansion beyond credit in India. We're now providing marketing solutions to the largest Indian organized retail jeweler and one of the largest Indian automobile OEMs. We've also secured our first global IPI fraud solution with one of the large private sector banks. This is why we view India as not fully penetrated across credit and our other solutions make us early in the monetization life cycle.

Now let's talk about Mexico and our acquisition that happened last week. It is the next great market opportunity for us at TransUnion. With the access of Buro de Credito, we are now the #1 bureau player, providing predominantly credit solutions to the market. With majority ownership, we can now start to prove our playbook from end-to-end in this marketplace.

Mexico combines scale, demographics and accelerating digitization, which together create a very compelling growth setup for TransUnion. Starting with scale. Mexico is the second largest economy in Latin America, the 12th in the world and the population soon to reach 138 million by 2027.

From a financial inclusion standpoint, Mexico remains materially underpenetrated. Only about 50% of adults have at least one financial product compared to Colombia, 90% and Brazil at 80%. Credit card penetration has improved in the last 5 years, up to 23%, but that's still 1/3 of what the U.S. markets are.

At the same time, digitization is accelerating rapidly. Internet penetration continues to rise, driven by mobile access and smartphone adoption, exceeding 70% of all connections in the country. Digital banking usage is expected to double by 2027 from roughly 20% to 40% of adults and e-commerce and digital payments are growing at double-digit rates.

For TransUnion, these trends translate directly into demand. As consumers transact digitally, more lenders acquire customers online, identity verification, fraud prevention, analytics and trust-based engagements become mission-critical. That's why Mexico represents a multiyear runway for growth, not just from expanding credit access, but from increasing solution intensity over time as clients move from basic bureau usage to fraud analytics and marketing.

Our focus in Mexico in the first year is very clear. First, we want to upgrade our client engagement, moving from customers from just report usage to embedding our solutions deeper into their workflows that solve problems and become their trusted advisers. Second, modernize the platform. You heard Venkat talk earlier that we will standardize our global data and migrate to OneTru. And lastly, expand the solution stack, particularly trended data from a credit perspective, fraud and analytics.

This is the same playbook that has worked everywhere else now applied to a market with exceptional structural tailwinds. Transformation. So everything I've discussed so far talks about the growth potential in international, but it becomes more powerful with the transformation that we're undergoing. Transformation is not just an internal efficiency for international. It's actually about unlocking new revenue pools, increasing solution intensity and extending our growth runway across all of our markets.

So let's talk about how transformation augments our proven growth playbook. So we start with what already works, market growth, client engagement, product adjacency, product innovation in the adjacent verticals where we operate. Transformation adds new dimensions for us to each one of those levers. On the solution expansion side, there's significant white space to scale marketing, fraud and communication solutions using the global IP that already exists.

From a technology and a platform perspective and modernization, OneTru standardizes data, identity and analytics across markets. That reduces the repeated local customization. It improves performance and allows us to deploy capabilities in months instead of years. And critically, these 2 reinforce each other, that better platforms enable faster solution rollout and broader solution adoption increases the return on our platform investments.

You heard Chris mention earlier that international is still early in the solution diversification compared to the U.S. We run at about 30% of our total revenue versus 50% in the U.S. We have a plan to diffuse solutions faster through OneTru, and we see a clear path of outsized growth and revenue mix diversification from that.

We've prioritized markets where our solutions provide the greatest benefit to our customers, and we'll be rolling this out through 2026 and 2027. Now you also heard Venkat talk about OneTru at the enterprise level. And let me make it a bit more real for you because this is one of the most important foundations for the next phase of growth for us in international.

Historically, international bureaus have grown through a strong playbook, great client relationships, localized product development, predominantly credit and expanding into adjacent markets. The limitation wasn't demand. The limitation was how quickly we could industrialize and scale innovations across our markets without rebuilding the same capability twice.

OneTru changes that. OneTru is a common global foundation for data, identity, analytics and delivery, so we can build once and deploy across our global markets with consistent performance and controls. There are 3 very practical things this enables for us in international: faster product velocity for all of our global markets; better product performance and consistency at scale that drives better outcomes for our customers; and lastly, materially lower friction to expand the solution stack.

So I'll close with 3 key messages that international is a high-quality, high-growth portfolio with strength in developed and skewed towards attractive emerging markets. Second, that we have a proven growth playbook that consistently outperforms local economies as shown in the Canada example. And third, transformation on OneTru materially expands and accelerates the long-term growth opportunity for us in international. Taken together, we believe that international can easily and sustainably deliver low double-digit growth over the medium term, creating meaningful value for our shareholders.

Let me introduce our CFO, Todd Cello, and he'll walk you through how all of our presentations translate into financial results. Thank you very much.

Okay. Thank you, Todd, and thank you to everyone for your engagement throughout the day. I get to close this out and tell you what this all means from a financial outcome perspective. After everything that you've heard today, I'm certain you're confident about the upward trajectory of TransUnion's business. In the recent years, you, as shareholders, have been with us as we've navigated an uncertain market, but we've continued to drive value and build a better and stronger TransUnion.

So my message for you today, TransUnion's next era positions us for scalable growth and compounding cash flow. I recently celebrated my 28th anniversary with TransUnion, the last 8-plus years I've been the CFO. My tenure has spanned private family ownership, 2 leverage buyouts, an IPO and a continuous evolution of the business.

I am confident as I've ever been about what's ahead, not just as the CFO, but as a long-term shareholder. So with my time today, I'm going to walk you through 3 items. The first is a financial-oriented retrospective of our recent journey that brings us today. Second, a reintroduction of our medium-term financial framework and the drivers behind them. And finally, I will close with why TransUnion is a great investment and a best-in-class information and insights company.

So let's get going. So since our last Investor Day in March of 2022, there's been 2 distinct phases that have impacted the business. So first, in 2022 and 2023, despite a rapid rise in both inflation and interest rates, resulting in declining U.S. lending volumes, we still grew our revenues.

But during this challenging time, we responded proactively by launching our transformation program, voluntarily prepaying debt to reduce our leverage, and we executed on 4 refinancings. In 2024 and 2025, U.S. lending volumes found their bottom and they stabilized.

And what you saw is that we delivered accelerating and broad-based revenue growth during that time. We also delivered on the transformation program that we announced in November of 2023. And we did that both on time and within budget. And most importantly, we secured the $200 million of free cash flow benefit that we originally committed to.

And during this time, we also significantly reduced our leverage ratio and began to deploy a portion of our free cash flow towards share repurchases. So let's zoom out a little bit, and let's take a look at the last 4 years are just a portion of the decade-long track record that we've had of delivering industry-leading growth since we've been a public company.

TransUnion has shown resilience during this period of time throughout varying economic environments, including the COVID-impacted 2020. Overall, we've compounded revenue at high single digits organically. And this is a testament to our purposeful diversification across verticals, geographies and solutions. And during this time, over the last 5 years, we've made investments that laid the foundation for strong compounding earnings.

We deployed $4.8 billion across 5 acquisitions: Neustar, Sontiq, Verisk Financial Services and Monevo added key solution capabilities. Mexico, which you just heard Todd talk about, closed last week, and it represents a highly complementary international credit bureau asset that we've been seeking to acquire for a long time.

So we're really excited to have that asset in the fold. Outside of the inorganic activity, we also invested about $700 million during this time in transformational programs to build out the best-in-class global operating and technology platforms. We completed our onetime spend at the end of 2025 related to these programs, and we do not expect any additional programs going forward.

Neustar was our most transformational investment, and it has created a significant value across the enterprise. In addition to scaling our capabilities in marketing and fraud, Neustar provided us with the OneID technology platform that became OneTru, which you've heard about throughout the morning today.

This is going to be our destination technology platform for all solutions and geographies. So put simply, the pace and the breadth of the innovation that Venkat and Mohamed spoke about earlier, it wouldn't have been possible without Neustar.

So let's take a look at the numbers. At acquisition, Neustar had $115 million of adjusted EBITDA, which was about a 21% margin. Four years later, we doubled adjusted EBITDA to $255 million through revenue growth and cost synergies. The margins now for the Neustar business are in the TransUnion like mid-30s.

In addition, our enterprise-wide technology consolidation onto OneTru has delivered $70 million in savings annually. Venkat gave you all the details about that in his presentation. I think what's really exciting about that is we expect that number to continue to grow as we migrate more countries onto OneTru.

So the net of all of this is Neustar is delivering about $325 million of cash benefits, which brings that 27x multiple back in 2021 down to 10x. I consider that to be a highly compelling cash-on-cash return. The Neustar acquisition along our other transformational actions position us for this next era of TransUnion.

Innovation-led and scalable revenue growth, strong cash generation with balanced and shareholder-friendly capital deployment. So this slide, which Chris introduced earlier today, depicts our value creation flywheel. And I'm going to take you around each section of this flywheel to emphasize the drivers. But before I do, just to highlight, our growth and what you've heard so far, it's increasingly diversified, and we're embedding ourselves deeper into our customers' workflows to solve their increasingly complex problems.

We're going to scale the business through the revenue flow-through, cost savings from our continued technology modernization, but there's also further operational productivity benefits that we're going to be able to enjoy by leveraging AI. And our strong free cash flow is going to increase capacity for capital deployment.

So I want to dig into each one of these. So the manifestation of the value creation flywheel is our medium-term financial framework. Revenue, we expect to be high single-digit organic growth, and this excludes the no-margin FICO mortgage royalty. So earlier, you heard from Jamal talk about our core credit market. It's mature, but it's very growthful.

You heard Brian Silver and Steve Yin and Jimmy Garvert talk about the significant opportunity and the right to win that we have in the multibillion-dollar marketing and fraud markets. Just a little while ago, Steve Chaouki walked you through how our diversified products, coupled with domain expertise, drive growth across the vertical markets. And right before I came on, you heard from Todd Skinner, and he walked you through the huge opportunity in our international markets, which skews to emerging markets and has a long way to diffuse our intellectual property.

From a margin perspective, we're expecting 50 basis points of annual margin expansion. So like what I just talked about with revenue, this excludes the FICO mortgage royalty pass-through. And then finally, adjusted diluted EPS, we expect low to mid-teens growth, and this is inclusive of the benefit from accelerated capital deployment.

So let's look at a summary of the growth targets by the solution families that you already heard earlier today. So we believe credit, marketing and fraud can all grow single -- or high single digit or greater. Consumer Solutions will be a mid-single-digit grower, powered by a unified global platform and our freemium offering stabilizing our U.S. direct business.

There's still some work to do here. However, we're confident that we have the right strategy, the right capabilities and the right people in place to make this growth a reality. This slide looks at our expected growth from a market lens. So for U.S. markets, we expect financial services and emerging verticals to grow high single digits. And we expect the Consumer Interactive business to grow mid-single digit.

I want to pause there because what's important about these targets is they're grounded in what we've already built and what we're executing on today. So that's important to remember, especially when I get to EPS in a moment. The other thing that's important is there's no assumption of any type of U.S. lending volume recovery in these targets. So think about it as stable and where we're at today. So a good example of that would be U.S. mortgage. Any type of recovery would be upside to these targets.

From an international perspective, we expect low double-digit growth. We believe strongly in the track record of this portfolio, great opportunity in the key emerging markets, which you already heard about with India and Mexico. So let's move along the value creation flywheel, and let's talk about scale.

We expect to continue to deliver healthy underlying margin expansion from revenue growth and structural savings opportunities. And as we noted in our February earnings call, given that the FICO mortgage royalties impact revenue but not profit, we believe the best way to judge underlying performance is to exclude these numbers from our margin calculations.

So when you look at it on this basis, you could see that we have significantly expanded our margins from 2023's level at 35.8% to the high end of our guidance in 2026 at 38.2%. That's 240 basis points of margin expansion during that period of time. And I want to take a second here and just look at what we've been doing during that time, going from '23 to '24, the 35.8% to 37.1% expansion was the first benefit from our transformation program as we optimized our operating model and we're able to secure significant efficiencies in how we do our work by centralizing and standardizing work.

The other area to highlight would be '25 to '26, and you see a significant amount of margin expansion there. That's the completion of our tech modernization. So as I said earlier, the benefits that we enjoyed from our transformation, you're seeing right here. And the last point that I would leave you with on this margin is that this is with kind of a tepid U.S. lending market.

And if you know anything about credit transactions, they're highly profitable. So again, to what I was saying earlier, any type of recovery is going to have a high flow-through to margin, thus having a favorable impact here. So going forward, we expect to deliver 50 basis points of expansion per year while also balancing that with thoughtful investments to be able to sustain the top line revenue growth.

Our investments in building scalable and global technology and operating platforms position us for continued cost savings. So from a technology perspective, we're going to deploy OneTru across all of our geographies to enhance solutions. And we'll fund those investments within the normal course of business. Each migration eliminates a siloed technology stack and lowers maintenance cost.

More importantly, and this is why we're doing it, is the true global platform will enable us to deploy our intellectual property faster to innovate and drive revenue growth. From an operating model perspective, I just spoke about this when I was talking about margin. Our focus here is centralization and standardization of work.

We're going to leverage the TruOps operational platform that Chris spoke about earlier today to drive positive customer outcomes, but also operating efficiencies. And we're going to do that by leveraging the global capability centers that are at the center of this strategy, home to about 5,700 of our over 13,000 associates. These centers have evolved into true innovation hubs for us. And these platforms will enable us to deliver more value from AI by deploying rapidly and at scale.

Earlier, you heard from Venkat talk about one of the big successes thus far has been OneTru Assist, and that's our AI developer tool. We're already seeing a 25% to 30% productivity lift using those tools. The second area where we've been able to leverage AI to drive efficiencies is within the consumer experience.

We've deployed generative AI for consumer disputes, resulting in a more effective experience for the consumer, but we also enjoy a 20% productivity gain as a result of that. So we're going to continue to push AI across the enterprise to drive process improvements as well as automation.

So let's move to the last piece of the value creation flywheel. Let's talk about deploy. And as I said initially at the beginning of my remarks, TransUnion's next era positions us for scalable growth and compounding cash flow. The combination of scaling earnings and no onetime spend for investments means we expect the strongest cash generation in TransUnion's history over the coming years, which obviously provides capacity for capital returns.

And as you can see on the left-hand side of this slide, we continue to expect a 90% plus free cash flow conversion. And then based on the growth algorithm that I just took you through, we expect that we'll be able to generate about $3 billion in free cash flow from 2026 to 2028. And here's how we're thinking about deploying this cash over the next several years.

We expect an increased bias towards shareholder returns going forward while making sure our leverage ratio is at or below our target of 2.5x. We're going to continue to grow our dividend alongside our earnings, and we'll do that within the payout ratio of 10% to 15%. And as we demonstrated in 2025, we plan to increasingly deploy our cash to repurchase shares.

We expect the pace of repurchases to only increase as cash generation builds. And with that said, we're equally focused on disciplined and active management of our balance sheet. We remain on a glide path to an investment-grade credit rating in the coming years, which we feel is appropriate for a business of our size and maturity. And we're also going to continue to look for ways to optimize our debt stack and prepay debt when appropriate.

And regarding M&A, you've heard a lot throughout the day that we have a high conviction that we have a generation of growth ahead of us. So that means that the bar for M&A is very high. We're not seeking large-scale acquisitions, but only highly strategic bolt-ons. We provided the slide that's up now during our February 2025 earnings call alongside our refreshed capital allocation framework.

The slide remains unchanged, like any good strategic M&A slide should. So our focus on M&A continues to be on non-U.S. credit bureaus, like you heard Todd Skinner talk about with the Mexico acquisition. We're always looking for data assets centered around enhancing our consumer identity capabilities. And then we're looking for complementary capabilities for core solutions, like the pending acquisition of the mobile division of RealNetworks to bring text messaging capabilities to our trusted call solutions. M&A options will always be compared to every alternative to ensure the best return for shareholders.

To close out the financial review, we are very confident in the compounding growth algorithm with several sources of upside that could make our earnings even higher. So in 2026, the high end of our guidance assumes $4.71 of adjusted diluted EPS. For illustrative purposes, if we deliver on our new medium-term guidance of low to mid-teens adjusted diluted EPS through 2028, EPS would be $6 plus. But there's more. Any benefit from an eventual recovery in mortgage would be in addition to this.

So if we just simply assumed mortgage volumes from 2019, if we return to that level, that would be $1 of benefit to EPS over this period of time. And in addition, on the right hand of this side, we laid out what we believe to be other opportunities to continue to grow our adjusted diluted EPS.

The first is normalization of non-mortgage U.S. lending volumes. We talked about mortgage, obviously, is a big source, but there's more that could be there in auto and credit card and banking as well based on the historical trends.

Adoption of VantageScore is a source for us from a profitability perspective. The further scaling of our platforms and our solutions is another. Remember what I said earlier that we're not assuming any material volume uptick and the targets assume what we have built today, not a bet on something that's going to be built in the future. So that's an important point.

And then as I talked about in scale, we're going to be relentless in our approach towards leveraging AI to drive growth and productivity. So simply put, the earnings power at TransUnion is stronger than it's ever been. So before I bring my colleagues up to start Q&A, any good stock pitch finishes with a reiteration of the thesis.

So the management team has high conviction in what TransUnion has built and continues to build. We have the right combination of unique data, powerful technology and deep domain expertise to continue winning in the market. Our interrelated solution sets suit solve our customers' most pressing needs, and our products are getting better and better.

We have clearly inflected into a period of accelerated innovation and scalable growth. And AI is an accelerant. It's going to accelerate demand for our data, empowering us to do more and to do it better for customers and enabling the efficiency across the enterprise.

So the net of all of this is TransUnion is a structurally higher return business with a repeatable earnings model, durable growth, expanding margins and disciplined capital deployment, driving compounding earnings power. Our momentum is real. The opportunity in front of us is significant, and we are just getting started. Thank you for your time.

All right. No questions or... All right. All right. Let's start with Mr. Steinerman here.

Hang on. Before we start, and I appreciate all the enthusiasm. I'm good. I just want to call out to you -- you noticed the music selection. That was Can You Feel It by the Jacksies. I'm Head of Strategy, Martin, there is a college DJ, and he's responsible for all of this music. So I just thought I'd -- thank you for setting the tone and can you guys feel it.

Okay. Andrew Steinerman, JPMorgan. I really appreciate how your team laid out the organic revenue growth, high single digit over the medium term by both geography and by verticals. I think of info services companies build up differently. And I was just wondering if you'd willing to build up for us how to get to high single digits by thinking about what's your volume assumption? I kind of heard it wasn't a notable volume assumption, pricing, pricing for your products, retention and cross-selling of products to make the high single-digit organic revenue growth profile.

Okay. Well, thanks for the question, and we'll take kind of a team approach to answering some of these so we can give you the fulsome answers. Well, look, on the fly, I'm not going to reconstruct that in the manner that you just described, but I definitely understand where you're coming from.

A couple of points that Todd emphasized in his kind of walk up to $6 and then $7 per share with mortgage normalized. We're not assuming any inflection to the positive in volumes at this point. We're still dealing with a market that is stable and muted. As one of you said in one of your notes, it's just an okay market right now.

So if we do return to the longer-term lending volume trend lines in the U.S., in the U.K., in India, where there are some policy-inflicted wounds and all of that, that's EPS upside to the $7 per share, right?

And then that's in addition to the acceleration of revenue that we expect as we roll out this platform to markets around the world, the profitability improvements that we expect because of all of the ways in which standardization and platforms and AI are going to help us be more productive.

So not a big -- not like an enthusiastic or an unrealistic volume assumption, quite the opposite, very conservative. Now pricing, pricing is individual market, individual product. I do think that our pricing leverage is going to increase substantially as we start selling more multiple products, more solutions, more integrations, et cetera, based on OneTru to all of our clients, right? So price has not been a huge part of our story.

But the markets themselves are pretty high growth and compounding. And as you saw some of the various TAMs that we showed over the course of the day, there's a lot of runway, right? We're in no danger of tapping out in these markets anytime soon. So what I would say is a fairly down the middle and conservative guide, if you will, gets us to $7, but there's any number of additions to that $7 depending on how things develop. And of course, what's in our control is the pace and effectiveness of rolling out the platforms. That's going to drive us north of $7 a share.

And do you think maybe the cross-selling would be the biggest of all those and much on volume, [indiscernible]

Well, look, near high single-digit compounding in all of our solution markets is a big driver. A completely reimagined product on this platform, massive amount of cross-sell and more price juice there. So I definitely would expect that.

And then look, AI enablement, our ability to deliver analytics at scale to improve the frequency of analytic delivery, so clients aren't revisiting their credit origination models every 3 years because it's so hard. We can evolve into a world where that is more consistently done annually, quarterly, continually, right?

So it unlocks a lot of potential and a lot of volume growth there. And again, I think that's all -- I mean, Todd tried to say at best. The projections that we outlined for the medium term, that's the business that we have today. It's the business that we've already built. As all this innovation rolls out, it's a step function improvement for the business of the future.

We'll do Kelsey and then -- Toni and then Kelsey.

Toni Kaplan from Morgan Stanley. Historically, the bureaus have enjoyed the moat of lenders providing the data to the 3 of you. Today, you talked a lot about the alternative data piece of the pie. I guess how does the moat on alternative data compare? You said a couple of times that it's proprietary, you combined it into the 95%. So just explain the proprietariness, talk about the sources and why aren't others able to get this data or are they, but combining it with your other data makes it sort of even more special.

Yes. Great. Well, look, as many of you know, I've been in information services for a long time. Typically after 50 years, products peak in their value and start to compound at inflationary rates. That's not the case in the credit market because clients are so hungry for differentiated signal to make better decisions to solve really big problems. Mohamed talked about the size of the problems that incremental data sets can be really valuable.

Now you're talking about the moats around it. Let's talk about some specifics. One of our biggest extensions in the credit space was going downward, down the risk spectrum and starting to get coverage from payday lenders and from online unsecured lending, et cetera.

There are lots and lots of people in America who are taking on those types of loans and by and large, repaying them exactly with the terms. Now that's additive. But still, you got to go to a lot of different places in order to aggregate it. You have to be trusted by the market, right? These individual lenders just don't give that data to anybody. And again, there is the regulatory moats and the regulatory -- and litigation penalties if you don't do it right. The same is going to be true on utilities furnishing, rental furnishing, a whole variety of other datasets. Perhaps you want to elaborate or...

Yes. So I mean, within the credit ecosystem, it follows a very similar path to traditional credit furnishing, and there are thousands of them, I think 10,000. I mean it's a lot. So it's the same normalization, management, linking. We have to be able to link these credibly across all the different datasets. These are very difficult things to do accurately. You think how many John Smiths there are, even within New York City, even probably within a couple of blocks in New York City, like getting this level of fidelity and then doing it all over the world, it becomes a very important part.

Similar to our fraud assets, like you talk about device. Device is a give-to-get consortium, you join this, you give your device data and then we build out the largest network of devices, I believe we're in every country in the world because fraudulent devices exist in every country in the world. We may not be getting revenue in every country in the world, but we're tracking them everywhere they are. And these are billions and billions of devices that are coming into us regularly. So this is -- while that may not be traditional credit per se, it follows a similar kind of pattern.

Yes. And look, these markets need a neutral party and a trusted party to act as the aggregators between all of the different potential contributors, be it banks or insurance companies or phone carriers, et cetera. And so that's the role that we fill.

This is Kelsey Zhu from Autonomous. Chris, maybe you can talk a little bit more about your decision on cutting VantageScore pricing and what you're hearing from lenders in terms of potential adoption rates, but also what you're hearing from Director Pulte for implementation time line for VantageScore and FICO 10T, as well as if there's any updates on the tri-merge single file conversation.

Was there a cut of VantageScore pricing? I haven't. No. No, obviously, yesterday was an exciting day in credit reporting. We don't get many days like that very often. And we led the group by issuing new $0.99 pricing on VantageScore 4.0, which is a material reduction from where we had been in the market at $4 a share.

And look, stepping back a little bit, we look at this as a generational opportunity that we've got, again, enabled by the FHFA and Director Pulte, but to kind of reset the economic value around scores versus data. Now as we've argued for many quarters now, the inherent value, it's all about the data, right? No data, no score. The quality of the data determines the predictiveness and the accuracy of the score.

Now somehow in mortgage, and it's not somehow, it's because of limited choices, the value proposition got turned upside down, right? And we're all kind of, I think, familiar with that story. So we look back -- we looked at it and looked at a variety of factors and decided that we wanted to take advantage, full advantage of the opportunity that Director Pulte and the FHFA had created to bring real choice on scores into the market because lenders have not had a choice up to this point, also to reduce the cost of mortgage affordability as part of the overall kind of affordability agenda of this administration, which is great, and again, to reset the economic value. And so right now, we're just trying to facilitate as rapid adoption of Vantage 4.0 as possible.

And look, the market needs it. The incumbent score hasn't innovated in 20 years. It's not based on trended data. It doesn't use any alternative data like utilities or rental payments or other things like that. And that means that there's an inefficiency around who gets approved, who gets rejected, the size of the market, the overall safety and soundness, right? So we need to modernize the scores. So for all of those reasons, we decided to eliminate really any obstacle to market adoption and share shift.

Now in terms of dynamics with the government and all of that, I mean, it's been -- let's be clear. FICO has had a monopoly over scoring in mortgage inadvertently, created years ago, decades ago, but in fact, it has been a monopoly. A lot of directors of the FHFA had a chance to change that, none did, but Pulte did to his credit in this administration. And so we are greasing the skids for rapid market adoption, right?

Now the FHFA needs to deliver on some remaining logistical issues in order to support the full scaling of adoption. We're encouraged that they're already experimenting and they already have been accepting loans at one of the GSEs and securitizing those loans based on Vantage in the marketplace, right? And I think this is our effort to accelerate that overall process.

Now the fact that our competitors responded so quickly in the same day just means that we're all focused on it. We all see the same market opportunity and societal need, and we're full throttle toward implementation.

Let's go with Faiza and then Ashish.

I just want to thank you all for providing so much information in the deck around revenues by business solution and regions and all of that. So I hesitate to ask the question because I don't want to discourage disclosure. But I do want to ask about the opportunity around marketing solutions within financial services because it does sound like there's been an inflection within marketing solutions, but it's not as apparent on the financial services side. So I'm just curious, kind of what's the dynamic behind that? Is it just timing? Is it sales resources? Just a bit more color around that opportunity and kind of what you're seeing there would be helpful.

So I'm going to let Steve talk about the adoption of marketing solutions in financial services in the U.S., and then Todd can speak from an international perspective. But thank you. Thank you for noticing the inflection point in our growth rates in marketing.

When we acquired Neustar, we believed we could grow high single digits and then get it to low double-digit compounding. We delivered kind of mid-teens growth in the fourth quarter, kind of walked that back. There were some big jobs there that perhaps took it up a bit, but there's no guarantee we won't have those big jobs again this year, but we thought we'd be conservative. But I think the performance of marketing in the second half of the year, particularly in the fourth quarter, it just demonstrates how growthful this market is.

Now it's taken us some time to pull all the right assets together in that kind of end-to-end workflow that I described, right? We started off with 90 different point solutions. Now we have integrated it down to a clean workflow that has a beginning and that has an end. You can use the entirety of the workflow or you can just get the piece that you want, depending on your needs, lots of ways to monetize, a lot of ways to win. That's why you saw the growth. Now financial services?

Yes. Look. So there are two reasons why we're growing. One is we are penetrating the markets where we are effectively and two is the great work that Brian and the marketing team did to create a solution that is more sellable and consumable by our customers.

I don't want to misquote, but many, if not most, of the large financial institutions and insurance providers who are our customers, which are pretty much all of them, are using some form of marketing solutions from us now. And we have the opportunity to continue to upsell many more into them. And we have unique integrated capabilities straddling both the credit space and the marketing space that allow us to deliver value to regulated institutions who use credit in their underwriting, which extends beyond just financial services and insurance to things like cell phones and other kinds of utility providers usually go down the list. And we are able to provide unique signal and unique measurement capabilities for them as well as unique audiences and better ways to reach their customers. So we are much more effective now with the marketing solutions in that space.

As the fraud solutions come to bear that you're seeing now, the same thing is happening there. I think fraud is about 1.5 years behind marketing in terms of its evolution of product, and we're very excited about the things that are going to come forth in fraud as well with a similar customer base and expanding the base of customers who are buying these new solutions from us.

Yes. I would just say a couple of things. So first of all, we're early in the Marketing Solutions selling process in the international space. We're working with Brian Silver's team. We have created in 2025, just started building an international sales team. And so that international sales team from creation to the end of the year has been able to generate roughly $15 million in pipeline going across 5 different markets.

So what's really important about that is they're selling directly into the countries that they're operating in and supporting a few markets like into the U.K. and Canada to develop that Marketing Solution Services in the market. I think what Steve talks about in the U.S., you'll begin to see in the international markets over the coming years.

This is Ashish Sabadra from RBC Capital Markets. Great presentation. I wanted to focus on the $500 million of innovation revenue over the next 3 years. I was wondering if you could drill down further on that in terms of the time line. Is that going to be back-end loaded or throughout the 3-year period? Any color on how do we think about like whether it's from pricing, upsell, cross-sell versus new logos, similar to the question Andrew asked.

But also, how should we think about the proliferation of agentic commerce because that's a question that we get a lot as consumers start to interface through agents rather than directly, could that be a potential tailwind or a headwind to that $500 million of innovation revenue?

So two questions there, right? It's the $500 million, and then we can talk through the agentic.

Yes. Let me at least answer the $500 million. So the $500 million is part of our 3-year plan and the process that we built. So the numbers that Todd has sort of shared with us already includes that number. And the number is coming from enhancements to existing products where we've identified incremental revenues, but as well as new products. So for every new product before we decide to invest in building the product, we obviously will build a business case around it to identify the value.

So the exciting thing here is that, I mean, the timing is -- think of it as sort of spread out, obviously, a little bit more in the year 2, year 3 versus year 1, given the development time line. But some of the enhancements will be delivered this year and are going to already -- some of them like credit washing is already delivering real results for us this year.

What I will tell you is what's exciting here is the pace of innovation, right? So the message is the number that you're seeing is based on the work that we're doing in 2026. Our goal is to continue to accelerate the innovation and deliver even more next year and the year after that. So on the agentic, I don't know.

Yes. Steve, maybe you want to share your thoughts on how agentic AI is going to impact demand for identity and others of our services.

Yes. Look, I think it was said earlier, so I'll reiterate it. Agentic AI is a very positive thing for us.

Why is it a positive thing? We think of our customers kind of in three segments. There's the most sophisticated, the biggest ones, the ones who spend the most with us, we call it do it myself. They are big banks with lots of resources. They want to do everything themselves. And the middle section is called do it with me, still pretty sophisticated, many household names, but they need more help from us. And a large, small segment that's do it for me, and they do basic things, perhaps as simple as score-based underwriting, which is not a great idea, like not the best thing to do. But we think that agentic AI is going to expand the top two segments. And those are the bigger spend segments with us. It will increase consumption of our data because agents can now consume the data instead of people.

The biggest like bottleneck to getting revenue and delivering on sales is not selling power or TransUnion's capabilities. It's getting our customers to validate, consume, understand, go through their governance processes. All these things just take a long time. And the more you can automate those things, the more you can consume, the better off we all are.

You can just -- here's a simple example. Many, many years ago, perhaps -- not perhaps, like refreshes on your portfolios were probably done quarterly. Then they moved to monthly. Now sophisticated players moved to daily on the triggers. When you go from quarterly to monthly, you don't get 3x as much money. You get more, though, like we charge more, but we give them a volume discount. And when you go from monthly to daily, we charge even more in aggregate.

We're going to have more customers who are able to do that kind of stuff to go from model refreshes every few years to model refreshes a few times a year or maybe even more often than that to consuming data periodically to consuming data continuously. Lots of really exciting opportunities for us using our agents, but also using their agents, too. And that's okay. Like they're still going to need to buy the data in order to power those agents.

So we're very excited about it. In fact, we're already starting to see it with certain customers. Not a lot, but we're seeing customers increase their consumption, speed up their validations. And I think it's just the tip of the iceberg. It's going to go pretty quickly when it goes.

Yes. And look, that's a great lens on the credit part of the business, and you can see how agentic AI is going to improve the velocity or the frequency and all of that. But already if you look at marketing, marketing models are refreshed much more frequently, right? And in fraud, I mean, you just can't refresh them frequently enough. And with AI and agents, including bad guy agents running all over the cyber world, there's going to be a tremendous, I think, increase in demand for authoritative information that leads to really good prediction and outcomes that is refreshed as frequently as possible.

Let's go down this row here, Jeff, Andrew, Brendan.

Jeff Meuler, Baird. So when I see the acceleration in marketing in 2025, I want to tie it to kind of all of the transformation and product or platform consolidation. I don't see the same acceleration in fraud, which I would think would be benefiting from similar factors. It continues to have good growth, but not acceleration. So is there any reason why the benefit would be more pronounced in marketing today than fraud?

And then on marketing international, I know you talked about building out the sales force, but it's really small as a percentage of revenue, and you have a lot of like Fortune 100 customers that operate globally. Are there any other missing pieces to really unlock that opportunity like you need more local customer data or something like that?

Yes. Good questions. So first, on the rate of growth in marketing and in fraud. So with all the assets that we acquired when we were restructuring the portfolio, it took varying lengths of time to bring them all together and create the new product offering, if you will. And as Steve just mentioned, in terms of commercializing the goodness that resulted from that, fraud is a year or 18 months behind marketing. Now it's already growing at a nice rate, but fraud and marketing have the potential to compound in the low teens and perhaps even better if we execute well. So be patient. I think you're going to continue to see fraud revenues accelerate.

In terms of marketing and rolling it out around all of our different geographies, the rules -- well, the state of the marketing game in different countries varies based on regulations and industry practices and the availability of data. In the -- in advance of rolling out the OneTru platform, our teams like in the U.K. or in India are working to pull together the types of data that we need to fuel our marketing solutions.

And so first, we've got to finish converting the U.S. over to the OneTru platform. That's the focus of this year, right? And it's going to have an enormous impact because the U.S. is still about 78% of our global revenues. But then we're going to go to these other markets that have attractive potential for our solutions, and they're doing the prep necessary to get new products in market and to start scaling them quickly once we land.

Andrew Nicholas with William Blair. I wanted to ask a question on Consumer Interactive. I think the guide for this year is low single-digit decline. The medium-term target is mid-single digits. So I guess the first part is, should we expect that to accelerate even beyond the mid-single digit in '27 and '28 and we kind of aggregate to a mid-single-digit growth rate?

And second, it sounds like you've gotten even more customers than you expected onto this platform. You're fleshing out the offers capability, monetization is a little bit later. How should we think about kind of the phasing of that and how long that process takes, at least as the way you're thinking about it strategically?

Okay. Great. Well, thank you for reiterating the guide. And you're right. No, it's not a problem. It's like -- let's start with that. That's a representation of kind of this is where we are. Mohamed, why don't you talk about what we're building and where we're going?

Yes. Well, first of all, I -- as I mentioned, we are the leader in the B2B2C space in the consumer business. And in the international markets where we're primarily focused on that and even in the U.S., we are growing at a faster clip. Actually, international is growing at double digits for us, and we're expecting that to continue.

So the opportunity for us here is the work that we've done to unify and consolidate a lot of these solutions together and to be able to deliver on a better experience and enhance our solutions. We just hired a new leader for our Consumer Solutions business globally, Francesca. She just joined us from Capital One, where she was leading the consumer business there. And she's coming in and she's helping us essentially replicate the kind of work that we talked about in marketing, the kind of work that we're already doing in fraud and doing the same thing in consumer.

The challenge is some of the fragmentation, bringing that together, making sure we're delivering the solutions in a timely fashion and getting that right consistently. That's how we're going to unlock the value. But we see a lot of potential in consumer. So to your point, is -- the long-term vision, is that for us to get it -- to keep it mid digits? I mean, look, obviously, our goal is, we think there's a lot of potential, and we're going to lean in to try to capture that potential for that business.

Yes. Look, I think that's right. And a slightly different spin on it is, obviously, we talked about a lot of platforms in our day. It was a platform-centric kind of presentation, and Mohamed is alluding to yet one more. The consumer platform, the global consumer platform, that's the core of our consumer enablement.

And our strategy is to be an enabler in the consumer business, right? So it's a B2B2C play, and we are the largest player in the U.S., but there's opportunity to enable other businesses to tap into consumer markets in countries around the world. That's why we built the platform. That's why it's one of our four core product solutions. And it's a different play from spending a lot to build a direct consumer brand, right? And that's not our business, right? We think those needs are well met in the U.S., but we can enable a lot of other players to capitalize on their brands and their marketing spend.

Brendan.

It's Brendan Popson from Barclays. I just wanted to ask if -- Todd, if there's any way to quantify the margin sensitivity as it pertains to credit volumes from that 50 bps expansion expected? And then also, you clearly -- it sounds like you're expecting noncredit to become a bigger part of your business over time but still planning on 50 bps expansion. I know in the past, there's been sometimes some modest mix headwinds. So is there -- is this just simply a matter of OneTru or anything else you can call out on why you still have that confidence even as -- even if noncredit becomes a little bit bigger over time?

Yes. Thanks for the question, Brendan. So I think what -- probably best is if you recall the slide that I presented with the margin expansion. And one of the key points that I was making, I think it's Slide 137 or something like that, if I remember. But if we -- if you go back to that page because I think you guys all have print-outs, like think of the underlying -- it was 137.

Think about the underlying credit volumes during that period of right? And they were relatively subdued, right? Mortgage went down significantly. Card and banking have been doing okay. Recently, we've seen consumer lending take off and auto has also been kind of tepid. We posted that type of margin expansion with core credit volumes being lower than like a historical run rate.

And what's happened is we've seen the mix of our -- to your question, the mix of our products has also changed as well, too, especially newer products that initially might carry a lower margin, but ultimately, the way that we plan for our products is that they're going to scale and have a margin that's ultimately higher than TransUnion's margin. So during this period of time, we were dealing with that, and we were still able to deliver really significant margin expansion.

Clearly, there were some productivity programs in there. So in my prepared remarks, I talked -- I highlighted '23 to '24, and then I highlighted '25 to '26, but look at what happened between '24 and '25, right? We still grew 40 basis points, really didn't have a benefit from a productivity program in those years, right? So that gets to -- again, if you look at the subdued kind of lending volumes, we were still able to expand margins, I think, meaningfully during that period of time.

So what we're trying to do with this guide is be very balanced in regards to how much margin that we want to be able to show on an annual basis, but also be very thoughtful about how much reinvestment we want to make back in the business. I mean you've clearly heard today a high degree of conviction from this team about what's ahead of us.

My job as the CFO is I got to figure out how do we make certain that we continuing to fund these things, right? Because the runway that we have is real. So there's a constant tension, which is a good thing within the organization to figure out what the right balance is on the margin.

So look, this is a really important point, and we want to make sure that we're understood. And it's great now that we can show our margins with and without FICO, which has distorted our margins.

So some investors in recent years have asked whether the business still has the same operational leverage that it once did because to the blue bars here, you would see flattish margin progression after the cost takeout program. But again, that's because the overall margins were being distorted by disproportionate price increases by FICO. If you strip that out, you see that over this period, we increased margins by 240 bps, pretty good in a really difficult environment, which was not a robust credit environment and lower credit volume has a high decremental margin impact on the business. And at the same time, we were integrating other solutions like marketing and fraud that had lower margin, and we were bringing it up.

So having done all of that work and with those headwinds, to grow margins 240 bps in the period, I think, is impressive. And that gives us confidence to project 50 bps a year improvement, which to Todd's point, is balanced. It's balanced between margin harvesting but continued investment in the business.

Let's go, Curt and then Jason.

Curt Nagle, Bank of America. Todd, maybe just going back to that point you just made about margin progression and noncredit versus credit. Could you go a little bit more into detail in terms of -- for those noncredit products in terms of what's driving that accretion? I guess was the point more just a maturation and then deployment of product versus higher inherent margins? And then maybe just talk through, if we could, underlying assumptions on India growth for that low double-digit growth?

Okay. So I'll take that. That's a very different question. So I'm going to let Todd take that one. But let me start high level with -- when we look at our solution profitability, first of all, every single one of them carries a margin higher than TransUnion's adjusted EBITDA margin, right? So in many cases, meaningfully. Credit, to the point I was just making to Brendan's question is the highest margin, right? But other products that we sell where maybe we have to purchase some data as an example, it's going to have an impact on the margin but not that significant. These contribution margins are very attractive to us, right? So that's kind of a broad perspective when you just think about the solution suites themselves.

What I was referring to was more of a product early in maturity and that there is a little bit of a ramp-up period during that time and that in that period of time, margins aren't going to be at a TransUnion like. That's the investment that we're making. So our job as a management team is to place those bets and make certain that you as shareholders, don't see them, right? And that we're -- and I'm not trying to be facetious there, but that's the balance, though, right, that we're trying to continue to grow, but then how do we fund it is really what I'm getting at there. So that's how -- that's what I meant. It's more of a maturity thing. So hopefully, that clarifies.

And so any of these solutions are very attractive, right, from a contribution margin perspective. There was some macroeconomic noise, though, in this period that impacted the margins of some of the newer solutions. So in the '22 time frame with the spike in inflation, the spike in rates and the decline in lending volumes, on the marketing side of the house, businesses were squeezing hard too, right? So there were fewer campaigns, which meant less identity resolution and less audiences. And those are two of our more profitable areas, right?

Now that we've stabilized and we're starting to come back, that growth and the flow-through from those products is also improving the margins, the contribution margin and the overall margin of the marketing business.

So Curt, on the India story, I assume you're good on the back story. You kind of understand how we got to where we are today and you're more interested going forward. Yes. So a couple of things I would say. So we've guided single digits through the rest of this year. What I can tell you is that early in the year, we see our online volumes and the expectations that we have, we see it coming back. It's still a bit bumpy, and I think that's normal from a market that's coming back.

I think it goes back to the thesis that we've covered today, right, which is around innovative new solutions. So we're launching TruIQ in the marketplace at the end of this month. We have eight customers and a pipeline built for them to consume the product. Back to Steve's point, as customers start to use our solutions that have AI enabled, I think you're going to see more data consumption that comes from that. In particular, India is moving towards data frequency on a daily basis from a consumption basis or from a -- providing it to us. And I think that will flow back to customers from a consumption perspective.

The second thing I would say is that from -- on a credit side, we're building scores on a regular basis. We built our Grameen score, which is for rural populations. We've rebuilt our MSME score. We're enhancing our current commercial and CreditVision trended scores with alternative data that we get through our Consumer Interactive business. So in the core business, we see credit coming back.

Now the other things I would add is that India from a marketing perspective and a fraud perspective are early stages. Steve talked about our global fraud solutions. Up until about 3 months ago, we were unsure of the data privacy in India that restricted our ability to use that global platform that was situated in the U.S. Now that, that has cleared the hurdle, we see a lot of customers talking to us. I mentioned that we have one of the big private banks buy a 5-year IPI deal from the global fraud solution that's based in the U.S. We believe we'll see more of that coming along.

I also mentioned that we talked about marketing solutions in the marketplace, one of the largest Indian retailers, one of the largest OEMs. We also have a couple from the region that we're servicing. One is a large aircraft -- an airline that services the area. We see lots of traction that will slowly come. It's a new market in India, but we're getting in very early from a marketing perspective.

And then lastly, Jimmy talked about Trusted Call Solutions. If you look at the Indian market, fraud is call scams, fraud is prevalent. And we're having conversations with all the major telecoms around the solution that we have. I think they see the benefit in India as they do in Brazil, Canada, U.S. and the U.K.

Jason Haas from Wells Fargo. I'm curious if you're seeing any growing interest from your customers in cash flow underwriting and if there's any way for you guys to be able to play in that space more and capitalize on it?

Yes and yes.

Go ahead, Steve.

Yes. So there is -- of course, it's been an interesting thing for them for some time, especially fintechs and certain ones. It works well in certain categories. I don't think it's a universal thing. It's not -- for example, in credit cards, it's not overly valuable. It's not -- income in general is not overly valuable in credit cards. In the high end of auto, it's not, but in the more sensitive parts of auto, it is. And in larger loans, it is. And so I think there's definitely good interest from our customers, and we are working with them on a variety of different fronts to help enable that. We'll have more to come, I guess, in the future.

All right. Let's go with Surinder, Ryan, and then we can wrap it up.

Following up on the first question about just putting together the financial framework for especially the revenue guide here. Given that the recent conservatism in how you've been beating in the past year or so the 12 months, the 18 months of the past year, what is the lens that we should apply to the framework that you've provided here? Is the idea that with 0 volume growth and given those other assumptions that aren't in there, that this is a conservative number that you should hit? Or is this more realistic in terms of the expectations? And then what's kind of the puts and takes outside of those other assumptions?

Yes. So I think that our guidance philosophy is always centered around providing the market what we have a high degree of certainty to and then orienting investors to the high end of that to that guidance, right? So in essence, what the long-term guide is doing is it's keeping stability. So I'm glad you asked the question because I never said 0 volume growth. I said stable. And clearly, there has been stable growth, and we expect that to continue. So that's a really important clarifying point. So hopefully, we all got that, right? So that's what we're looking for.

And then the second part of it really goes to the question we had earlier about the $500 million that Mohamed presented right? Like what I said when I gave the medium-term guide, we're -- the guide has only got what we've built so far as well in there. It doesn't have the incremental benefit of the scaling of these solutions that we went through throughout the morning. So what I'd like you to take away from this is we're putting a guide out in the medium term that we have a strong conviction that we're going to be able to deliver on.

And when I went through the EPS slide where I took the high end of the 2026 guide and did the illustrative example to walk you to $6, but more importantly, $7, the right hand of that slide is really where you should be focused at because that's where the outperformance is at. So medium-term guide is consistent with a guide that you get for us from a quarter or for the full year. It's grounded in what we have visibility and conviction in today with levers for outperformance.

Yes. And so a couple of additional tidbits. I think part of what you're asking is we've put out this medium-term financial framework. And should you expect that we're going to outperform the high end of that guide by the same degree that we've been outperforming our guide in '24 and '25. That wasn't our intention, okay?

I would also point out that, that guide is at the top of guidance in our market and also in information services. So it's a strong guide, but it's a guide that we have confidence and conviction in, but it's in a higher bar than we had, say, in 2024 when we guided then.

And then we outlined at least half a dozen ways, half a dozen opportunities to create upside based on all the innovation that we showed you today. And then, of course, part of it is macro. I mean in a more certain environment with more favorable interest rates or just stability, I would expect loan volumes to increase beyond what's [ assumed, ] but we didn't bake any of that acceleration of volume to Todd's point and all. So hopefully, that gives you the color you were looking for.

Ryan Griffin from BMO Capital Markets. I just had a quick question on fraud and marketing. I think you said that those businesses could compound in the low teens and even better if you execute well. I was just wondering what degree that depends on the cyclicality of those markets. And then in a prior question, you also referenced that the FHFA, one of the GSEs is accepting the loans and securitizing. Can you unpack that comment a little bit more as well?

Okay. So we'll handle those separately. But first, in terms of the cyclical risk of our revenue performance in marketing and fraud. Unfortunately, fraud doesn't appear to be cyclical, right? So we just have to get the best version of all the data and analytics that we have in fraud in the TruValidate solution. Now what we have is really good and very compelling, but there's a robust pipeline of improvements and that plus Todd and Steve continuing to improve their go-to-market and their commercialization, that's going to increase the rate of growth in fraud.

There's a bit of cyclicality in marketing. I mentioned it when answering the other question just a minute ago. In very difficult economic times, businesses will reduce the marketing spend. They will squeeze their suppliers, right? Now a high proportion, greater than a majority of our revenue in marketing is subscription oriented, right? So it's not as transactionally at risk as perhaps other product lines, but there is a little bit of cyclicality.

Honestly, I'm not worried about cyclicality in marketing right now impacting our revenue growth because I think we've delivered so much value in the integrated product suite, and I think the data is so differentiated that we can grow through those headwinds, those potential headwinds.

The GSEs, yes, I mean, look, we are obviously in contact and collaboration with the GSEs pretty frequently. All the bureaus are. We were gratified to learn that they have run a pilot. They have securitized a loan portfolio and issued it that was based on Vantage 4.0, and that's just what I was mentioning.

Any closing remarks?

Well, first of all, you guys have been great. I know we threw a lot of information at you. Did I mention we have some platforms, right? But look, it was a great day. And after 4 years of working hard, it was exciting to get to spend time with you and hundreds of other investors that are dialed in and tell our story.

And what I would say is in that '21, '22 time frame, we made some bold moves because we believe we needed to do that to fulfill the full potential that we had in this business. And there were some times along the way where there were concerns about leverage. There were concerns about transformation risk. There were concerns. But we kept our heads down. We executed through it. And I think now you can see the business that we have created and you can see how the financial performance can inflect and be really attractive go forward.

So thank you for your time and attention. Let's get some food.

Good morning, and welcome to the TransUnion 2025 Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]

Please also note that this event is being recorded today. I would now like to turn the conference over to Greg Bardi, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Good morning, and thank you for attending today. Joining me on the call are Chris Cartwright, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Todd Cello, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

We posted our earnings release and slides to accompany this call on the TransUnion Investor Relations website this morning, and they can also be found in the current report on Form 8-K that we filed this morning. Our earnings release and the accompanying slides include various schedules, which contain more detailed information about revenue, operating expenses and other items as well as certain non-GAAP disclosures and financial measures along with their corresponding reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures. Today's call will be recorded and a replay will be available on our website.

We also will be making statements during this call that are forward-looking. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements because of factors discussed in today's earnings release and the comments made during this conference call and in our most recent Form 10-K, Forms 10-Q and other reports and filings with the SEC. We do not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statements.

With that, let me turn it over to Chris.

Thank you, Greg, and good morning, and welcome, everybody, to the call. Kind of excited to share our fourth quarter results with you today. We had a really good quarter, as you can see, and it was a great capstone to another strong year of growth and profitability at TransUnion.

So I'm going to start focusing on the fourth quarter results themselves and also provide an overview of our 2025 accomplishments. And then we'll get into the 2026 guide and our strategic priorities. And then I'll pass it over to Todd, who's going to give you the full financial details on Q4, as well as providing the first quarter guide and the full year 2026 guide.

So 2025, we finished very strongly again, exceeding revenue, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted diluted EPS in the fourth quarter. In total, revenues increased 12% organically and the U.S. market grew 16%, and both of these are some of our strongest underlying performance since 2021. We grew adjusted diluted EPS by 10% in the quarter, actually in the mid-teens, 14% if you exclude the impact from the tax rate reset this year. And with robust business fundamentals and strengthening cash flow, free cash flow, we continue to emphasize shareholder-centric capital deployment, particularly at the current valuation level. So we repurchased roughly $150 million of shares in the quarter for a total of $300 million over 2025. And of course, we retain ample capacity under our recently increased $1 billion repurchase authorization. And we also raised our quarterly dividend by 9% to $0.125 a share.

Now the fourth quarter results demonstrate continued execution against our growth strategy across our solutions, our market verticals and our geographies. Within the U.S., Financial Services grew 19%, 11% excluding mortgage. Mortgage, consumer lending and auto were all double-digit growers. Across all lending types, we outpaced volume growth through new business wins across our solutions suite.

Emerging Verticals accelerated from 7% in the third quarter to 16% growth in the fourth, with insurance, media, tenant and employment screening, tech, retail and e-commerce all growing double digits. And across U.S. markets, our core B2B solutions families grew double digits. Marketing and fraud grew 15% and 14%, respectively. Now this is our best quarter of growth for both of these since the Neustar acquisition.

Our results reflect the power of our streamlined product suites, the accelerated pace of innovation, and our improved go-to-market activities. Our innovative solutions are really resonating with our customers, and they're driving new levels of growth for TransUnion. So internationally, we grew 2% on an organic constant currency basis. Canada and the U.K., our 2 most established markets, they both grew double digits, and they continue to outperform their overall market significantly. Our emerging markets continue to navigate some moderating economic conditions and some credit volume -- moderating credit volume conditions.

India declined 4%, below expectations in what we're viewing as a reset year for unsecured lending and for credit card originations in the Indian market. Now we believe that we are experiencing a bottoming of unsecured lending and card volumes in 2025 and probably early into '26 as well, but we expect a slow and steady improvement in volumes over the course of 2026, supported by using capital restrictions and now with the U.S.-India trade agreement, a lot less uncertainty. We anticipate mid-single-digit growth in India in '26, and a return to double-digit growth thereafter. And again, India is an immense growth opportunity for us, driven by their favorable economic and demographic trends and our unique market position and the coming deployment of all of our global products and IP into this marketplace. Todd is going to provide a more comprehensive review of India in our fourth quarter results shortly.

So 2025 marked a milestone year for TransUnion. We delivered strong financial results. We accelerated the pace of our innovation, and we executed very well on our business transformation. So in 2025, we delivered our second straight year of high single-digit revenue growth and double-digit adjusted diluted EPS growth or mid-teens excluding the impact of the tax rate reset. We also expanded adjusted EBITDA margin by 50 basis points in the year, excluding the impact of FICO mortgage royalties. And this underscores the underlying operating leverage in our business. We significantly outperformed the high end of our initial guidance in February by $183 million on revenue and $56 million on adjusted EBITDA and $0.22 per share adjusted diluted EPS.

Our strong earnings and free cash flow enabled a thoughtful and accretive capital deployment throughout the year. We returned in total $390 million to shareholders through buybacks and dividends. We completed the acquisition of Monevo, our new credit offers engine, and we announced our agreement to acquire majority ownership of Trans Union de Mexico.

Now moving to our solutions. Our complementary and scalable solutions have really powered diversified revenue growth that is very durable. We now generate roughly half of our U.S. markets revenue outside of core credit. And in international, we generated over 1/4 of our revenue from noncredit solutions, but with expansive opportunity as we deploy fraud marketing and consumer solutions in our countries around the world.

Slide 7 provides the 25-year breakdown by solution family. This is our second year of providing this breakdown, and we simplified the reporting around 4 strategic solutions areas of credit, fraud, marketing and consumer. Our communications products, which include Trusted Call Solutions, are now largely reported within our fraud mitigation solutions. We also allocated our market-specific solutions, including our investigator tools to these main solution families.

On '25, we drove accelerated innovation and growth across solutions. We launched over 30 major enhancements and new products, by far the largest cohort ever, and we have a significant pipeline and long-term revenue growth potential. In addition to driving strong new business, these solutions and enhanced go-to-market supported record retention rates and record new sales in U.S. markets. So to highlight our growth drivers in each solution family. So Credit Solutions grew 13%, driven by U.S. nonmortgage volumes, consistent pricing, sales acceleration in FactorTrust and TruIQ analytics.

Marketing solutions accelerated from flat growth in '24 to 7% organic growth in '25, enabled by our tech replatforming, an integrated and simplified solution suite as we've gone from over 90 products down to 30 and, of course, a strengthened leadership team. So we drove robust bookings in identity, increased sales and usage of our audiences and strong retention in our measurement solutions, setting up marketing solutions for another strong year in '26.

Fraud solutions grew 8%. Trusted Call Solutions or TCS, led the way, growing by $40 million or over 30% year-over-year to $160 million. We expect TCS revenue to exceed $200 million in 2026, and our recently announced tuck-in acquisition of the mobile division of RealNetworks is expected to close in the first half of the year and only adds to this potential growth. The acquisition augments our TCS voice channel capabilities with highly complementary messaging solutions to fight fraud and improve customer engagements. So our fraud and other products are poised for accelerating growth with strong demand from our new AI-powered fraud models for synthetic fraud detection and credit washing.

Finally, consumer solutions grew 6%, excluding the large breach win in 2024. Our indirect channel grew well and direct-to-consumer freemium offerings continues to add users at a healthy pace. We also continue to see strong growth and demand for our consumer solutions across international markets. Our ambitious business transformation enabled us to accelerate our pace of innovation and growth. Through several years of investment in execution, we have built a truly scalable global technology and operating platform.

In '25, we strengthened our global operating model with key talent additions and process improvements. So first, we added several new solutions and operations leaders throughout the year. Most recently, Francesca Noli, who previously led Capital One's CreditWise product has joined us as the Head of Consumer Solutions. We also standardized our global product management best practices to better align our resources, streamline decisions and enable a faster pace of product development and introductions.

We significantly advanced our tech modernization in '25. We migrated over 100 U.S. credit customers to OneTru by year-end, proving the platform's ability to deliver the most complex and sophisticated use cases. We augmented our underlying OneTru capabilities, including integrating additional identity data such as our public records to strengthen our industry-leading coverage and density. We also implemented agentic AI across core processes such as data onboarding, identity resolution, analytics and delivery. And globally, we deployed key TruIQ analytic capabilities into the Indian, Canadian and U.K. markets.

So these achievements reflect the results of our disciplined multiyear investment. The fourth quarter marked the completion of our transformation investment program on schedule, on budget, and we're going to realize the full target savings in 2026.

So in '26, we expect to deliver another year of strong financials. We anticipate growing 8% to 9% organically in constant currency for revenues, 7% to 8% adjusted EBITDA growth, and 8% to 10% adjusted diluted EPS growth. The high end of our guidance implies a third consecutive year of at least high single-digit revenue growth and double-digit adjusted EPS growth. And our guidance assumes continued healthy operating leverage with 70 basis points of adjusted EBITDA margin expansion when excluding the FICO mortgage royalty payments.

So our initial guidance maintains our prudently conservative approach. We expect modest U.S. lending growth similar to recent quarters and a gradual recovery in our international markets. Now assuming a continuation of these current trends, we would again expect to deliver toward the high end of our range.

Our strategic focus on '26 is to build on our momentum and to drive innovation-led and scalable growth. The priority is really turbocharging our innovation. We expect that the pace of major product enhancements and introductions will accelerate further in '26. Across our portfolio, we are launching new AI-powered solutions to boost product predictiveness and capture more value within a customer's workflow.

In credit, we're embedding role-based AI agents in TruIQ analytics for faster data exploration and easier accessibility. In fraud, advanced machine learning and AI already power our newest models and will support rapid development of customized models for clients at scale. In marketing, we're enhancing our robust identity data with AI models to create advanced consumer behavioral models. And in our international markets, we continue to deploy our fastest-growing U.S. solutions, including TruIQ analytics and Trusted Call Solutions into target local markets. We believe our broader solution suite will enable continued outperformance in mature markets like Canada and the U.K., and adds to our growth potential across our attractive emerging markets.

Our solutions portfolio is the strongest it's ever been, and it's only gaining momentum. And to ensure commercial momentum, we continue to sharpen our go-to-market approach and have added specialized sellers capable of selling our newest solutions. So we're unlocking the full potential of our global technology and operating platform to fuel these innovations and growth. We're on track to complete U.S. credit migrations onto OneTru by midyear. And further, we plan to migrate credit and analytic capabilities for Canada, the U.K. and the Philippines onto OneTru over the course of '26.

From an operating standpoint, we remain focused on continuous improvement, standardization and automation. Scaling our technology and operating platform, we also anticipate ongoing cost savings that will boost margins and support future growth investments.

And finally, I wanted to finish with a few thoughts on AI, given the recent noise in the information services and software space. So AI raises concerns about commoditization, especially for information services companies that manage more readily accessible and unregulated data. However, I believe that TransUnion's data assets are protected from this risk because they're broadly sourced, they're proprietary, they're highly regulated, and they're continuously enhanced by [indiscernible] from providing services across our networks. And this creates a significant entry barrier.

Now with our market-leading identity resolution, we integrate all of this data to enable advanced analytics and deliver great predictions of credit and fraud risk to clients as well as marketing effectiveness. This helps our clients make smart decisions about their resource allocation. Also, AI can accelerate our growth by increasing the data consumption by our clients to improve their AI-enabled models, but also by substantially automating our internal analytic processes. And I'll remind you that today, our most AI-enabled clients also consume the most data.

So we think we're in an advantageous position. We have a ton of domain-specific data and a position in our customer workflows that's going to allow us to drive substantial value and be enabled by AI rather than [ erode it. ]

So if I can double-click a bit. I'd start with our credit solutions and remind you that these are broadly sourced proprietary data. In the U.S. alone, at any point in time, we have 12,000 to 14,000 active lenders furnishing data. This represents individual contracts and individual ongoing supervision for each one of these data contributors. Additionally, they can only contribute the data to authorized reporting agencies, and we can only use it for very specific and highly regulated purposes.

Before we provide this information to a customer, we have to research them. They go through an elaborate credentialing process. They can only use the data for specific uses. We have to monitor their usage of the information on an ongoing basis.

Credit information is deeply important to consumers, each year the bureaus handle millions of consumer inquiries and thousands of regulatory inquiries. And unfortunately, credit reporting is also one -- receives like the highest volume of litigation from consumers of any industry in the U.S. So obviously, the combination of the broad sourcing networks, the proprietary and highly regulated nature and all of the challenges around selling this information and supporting its usage in the market create quite a barrier to entry.

Our fraud and marketing solutions also leverage fast contributory networks of data and an industry-leading data craft. Most of this information is proprietary and sourced from industry consortiums. For instance, our fraud models use data from our device consortium alongside with anomalies that we did [indiscernible] and in credit files or from our public records business. This device consortium represents hundreds of corporations around the world and has engaged with over 14 billion devices over the last 15 years.

In marketing, our measurement solutions capture information on consumer interactions with ads across hundreds of leading e-commerce entities. And this includes the walled garden, streaming platforms, most of the prominent publishers out there. And these entities provide us with this data because we represent multibillions of dollars of brand spending from their consumers, rather from their customers. And they're looking to us for independent and entrusted measures of advertising effectiveness.

And so our marketing identity solutions, they take in all of this data input, plus they gather additional information from our clients' range of internal systems and they bring it all together to assess, to provide insights into the effectiveness of a client's marketing initiatives and just assess the probability that a prospect is going to convert within the marketing funnel.

So we're also actively leveraging AI internally, and we're seeing some enormous benefits, driving software development productivity, speed of product development, improving our customer experience and the consumer experience and operations, and just allowing us to do a lot more with less. AI is enhancing each phase of our analytic data insight process within OneTru, empowering our newest products.

So net-net, I think AI is going to be a revenue and profit growth enabler for TransUnion. And I'll remind you that our most AI-enabled customers consume more data than our traditional customers and adopt our newer solutions more quickly. So increasingly, TransUnion can capture value with AI agents by performing the work that's done upstream, either by internal client teams or encroaching on automation in workflow solutions that rest upon our data and analytics.

So I'm sure we'll get some questions on this in the Q&A. I look forward to that. But now I'm going to hand it over to Todd for more depth on the financials.

Thanks, Chris, and let me add my welcome to everyone. As Chris mentioned, we exceeded guidance in the fourth quarter, led by U.S. financial services and emerging verticals. Consolidated revenue increased 13% on a reported and 12% on an organic constant currency basis.

The Monevo acquisition added 0.5% to growth. The foreign currency impact was immaterial. Mortgage contributed 3 points to growth. Adjusted EBITDA increased 10%. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 35.6%, in line with our expectations as we made targeted investments in the quarter behind strong revenue growth. Adjusted diluted earnings per share was $1.07, $0.05 ahead of the high end of our guidance and an increase of 10%.

In the fourth quarter, we incurred $25 million of onetime charges related to our transformation program, $6 million for operating model optimization and $19 million for technology transformation. The fourth quarter marked our last quarter of onetime charges related to our transformation program.

Looking at segment financial performance for the fourth quarter, U.S. markets revenue grew 16% on an organic constant currency basis versus the prior year. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 37.9%. Financial Services revenue grew 19% or 11% excluding mortgage. The environment remains positive. Lenders have sufficient capital, credit performance is strong and consumers continue to show resilience due to low unemployment and rising wages. We continue to outperform underlying volumes on the strength of our broad-based solution suite.

Credit card and banking rose 3%, with healthy lending volumes and good demand for our alternative data, fraud and marketing solutions. Consumer lending rose 21% as fintechs and personal lenders continue to expand activity. Delinquency trends remain stable even with the pickup in activity and fintech funding remains strong. FactorTrust finished the year well and grew nearly 20% for the year. Auto grew 12%, driven by volume growth, pricing and new wins. Mortgage revenue grew 37% against inquiries up 4% due to third-party scores pricing and non tri-bureau revenue. Mortgage represented 13% of TransUnion's 2025 revenue. Emerging Verticals accelerated to 16% growth, up from 7% in the third quarter with strength across our verticals. Even excluding some onetime project revenue, underlying growth was still over 10%.

Insurance again grew double digits. Tech, retail and e-commerce, media, and tenant and employment also accelerated to double-digit growth. Communications grew mid-single digits and public sector grew modestly. Insurance delivered its first $100 million revenue quarter, a testament to strong execution and our unique position as the clear leading bureau serving the insurance space. Double-digit growth in insurance was supported by consumer shopping and healthy credit-based marketing activity as insurers benefit from improved rate adequacy.

We continue to execute a broad-based growth playbook with strong sales across core credit, driving history, marketing and Trusted Call Solutions.

Turning to Consumer Interactive. Revenue grew 8% on an organic constant currency basis driven by strength in the indirect channel and breach remediation wins. For my comments about International, all revenue growth comparisons will be in organic constant currency terms. For the total segment, revenue grew 2%. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 43.1% as we controlled expenses for moderating revenue growth.

Looking at the specifics for each region. Our U.K. business grew 10%, a second straight quarter of double-digit growth. We benefited from healthy volumes from our largest banking and fintech customers as well as new wins across verticals. Canada grew 13%. Broad-based growth was driven by fintech wins and customer expansion, innovation-led gains in financial services and growth across Consumer Indirect, insurance and auto.

2025 was our third straight year of double-digit growth in Canada, reflecting our proven global growth playbook. Latin America declined 3% due to softer economic and lending conditions. Colombia grew low single digits despite political uncertainty that weighed on activity. Our other Latin America countries declined modestly impacted by uncertainty linked to recent trade and immigration policies. Our smaller Brazilian business also declined. Asia Pacific declined 11%. The Philippines grew low single digits, but Hong Kong faced soft volumes and continued to lap onetime consulting revenue from the prior year. In both Latin America and Asia Pacific, we expect similar growth rates and dynamics in the first quarter of 2026, with improving performance as the year progresses. Finally, Africa increased 3% with good growth across banking, insurance and fintech.

Turning to India. Revenue declined 4% in the quarter and grew 2% for the year. Here are our expectations. As a reminder, in 2024, we experienced strong but decelerating growth throughout the year, and the Reserve Bank of India took proactive actions to support financial stability and slow lending by tightening regulations and targeting lower loan-to-deposit ratios industry-wide.

In 2025, India experienced stable GDP growth and inflation, and the RBI steadily eased some of the lending restrictions. With that said, unsecured personal loans and credit cards, which drive our volume and revenue remained sluggish due to capital constraints and lender conservatism.

Overall, consumer loan growth in the year predominantly came from secured products like gold loans, where credit pull penetration is not significant. Unsecured personal loan and card lenders prioritize existing customers and higher notional loans as opposed to new to credit opportunities, which also impacted credit polls. This dynamic weighed on growth, particularly after U.S. tariff announcements dampened commercial lending to export-oriented sectors. Despite volume challenges throughout 2025, we continue to drive solid sales throughout the year of our innovative credit and direct-to-consumer solutions.

For 2026, we expect mid-single-digit growth with high single-digit declines in the first quarter, followed by improvement over the course of the year. Our guidance assumes a tempered recovery in the unsecured personal loan and credit card markets. Economic conditions are favorable and the recently announced trade deal between the U.S. and India reduces some uncertainty.

That said, lenders remain cautious, and we will monitor conditions closely. We believe our accelerating pace of product innovation also supports improved growth in 2026 with several new consumer and small business credit scores, additional TruIQ analytics tools, and an expanded direct-to-consumer offering.

Longer term, India remains a unique opportunity for TransUnion, and we believe a healthy double-digit growth compounder. We are the market leader in the world's fastest-growing market. In addition to highly favorable demographic trends with 850 million consumers under 35 years old, rapid digitization plays into our strength in fraud and marketing. We plan to expand our offerings in India with our leading global IP, including marketing solutions, True IQ and trusted call solutions. Secular trends combined with significant vertical and solution, whitespace present multiple avenues for growth across our Indian business.

Turning to the balance sheet. We ended the quarter with $5.1 billion of debt and $854 million of cash. Our leverage ratio at quarter end declined to 2.6x as we continue to push toward our long-term target of under 2.5x. Our strengthening free cash flow and ongoing delevering positioned us to return capital returns to shareholders. We repurchased $150 million in shares in the fourth quarter, bringing the total for 2025 to roughly $300 million. We view valuation as attractive at current levels and plan to continue being active in the repurchase market over the course of 2026. We also raised our quarterly dividend from $0.115 to $0.125 per share, underscoring our commitment to growing our dividend alongside earnings growth.

We expect to complete our acquisition of a majority ownership of Trans Union de Mexico in the first half of 2026. We are excited to expand our global reach and bring our expertise and solution to Mexican consumers and businesses. Based on current exchange rates, we expect the purchase price to be approximately USD 660 million. We plan to fund the acquisition with cash on hand and debt. Ahead of the acquisition in February, we upsized the capacity on our revolving credit facility to $1 billion.

Before turning to guidance, I want to provide final comments on our completed transformation investment program. In late 2023, we announced this program to optimize our operating model and modernize our technology capabilities. In addition to driving structural cost savings, the program was a clear enabler of our current innovation and growth momentum. We met all financial commitments for the program, completing it on time, and within our $355 million to $375 million budget.

Additionally, CapEx was roughly 8% of revenue in 2024 and 7% of revenues in 2025, better than expected as we manage capital investment throughout the period. The program delivered $200 million in free cash flow savings, inclusive of roughly $130 million of operating expense savings and a reduction in capital intensity to approximately 6% of revenue starting in 2026. In 2026, there will be no onetime spend related to this investment program. We expect free cash flow generation as a percentage of adjusted net income to be 90% or greater in 2026 and going forward.

Turning to guidance. We have maintained a prudently conservative approach. We assume modest U.S. lending volume growth and a tempered recovery in our international emerging markets. If conditions and business momentum continue, we expect to deliver results towards the high end of our guidance range.

Additionally, our acquisition of Trans Union de New Mexico, which we anticipate being modestly accretive in its first year upon closing is not included in guidance. Throughout the year, we plan to provide transparency on the impact of FICO mortgage royalty increases, which increased our reported revenue this year but have no profit impact.

That brings us to our outlook for the first quarter. FX impact is expected to be a 1 point benefit to both revenue and adjusted EBITDA. At this point, we assume minimal impact from acquisitions. Revenue is guided to be between $1.195 billion and $1.205 billion, 8% to 9% on an organic constant currency basis or 5% to 6% excluding the impact from FICO mortgage royalties. We anticipate total mortgage revenue growing roughly 35% in the quarter compared to a modest increase in inquiries. We anticipate adjusted EBITDA to be between $414 million and $420 million, up 4% to 6%. This implies an adjusted EBITDA margin of 34.6% to 34.9%, down 140 to 160 basis points. However, excluding the 110 basis point margin drag from FICO mortgage royalties, we expect our margins to be down modestly in the first quarter. We expect our adjusted diluted earnings per share to be between $1.08 and $1.10, up 2% to 5%.

Turning to the full year. We anticipate FX and acquisitions to be immaterial to revenue and adjusted EBITDA. Revenue is guided to be between $4.946 billion and $4.981 billion, 8% to 9% on an organic constant currency basis or 5% to 6% excluding the impact from FICO mortgage royalties. Specific to our segment organic constant currency assumptions, we anticipate U.S. markets to be up high single digit or mid-single digit excluding mortgage.

Within U.S. markets, we expect another strong year from our B2B solutions and verticals and a transition year from Consumer Interactive as we lap breach wins and ramp the monetization of our freemium channel. We are guiding Financial Services to be up mid-teens or high single digit excluding mortgage, Emerging Verticals to be up mid-single digit and Consumer Interactive to decline low single digit. We anticipate international growing mid-single digit.

Turning back to the total company outlook. We expect adjusted EBITDA to be between $1.756 billion and $1.777 billion, up 7% to 8%. That would result in an adjusted EBITDA margin of 35.5% to 35.7%, down 30 to 50 basis points. However, excluding the impact of FICO mortgage royalties, we expect to expand adjusted EBITDA margins by 70 basis points at the high end of guidance, driven by flow-through on revenue growth as well as the remaining savings from our transformation program. We anticipate adjusted diluted earnings per share to be $4.63 to $4.71, up 8% to 10%. Our adjusted diluted earnings per share guidance assumes no benefit from our acquisition in Mexico nor other capital allocation actions.

For other guidance items, we expect depreciation and amortization to be approximately $600 million or $310 million excluding step-up amortization from our 2012 change in control and subsequent acquisitions. Additionally, we expect net interest expense to be about $220 million. The adjusted tax rate to be approximately 26%, and capital expenditures to be about 6% of revenue.

Before handing it back to Chris, I want to provide our perspective on the mortgage market and how our assumptions inform 2026 guidance. Given the growing -- given the number of moving pieces, I want to provide our high-level view on industry structure and dynamics.

First, credit data is a foundation to safe underwriting mortgage in all lending categories. Any score or analytic depends on credit bureau's data stewardship. We differentiate our data from peers as the only bureau with 30 months of trended data plus alternative data sets like rental and utility trade lines.

Second, our pricing actions preserve the profitability of our mortgage vertical while prioritizing lower costs for consumers and promoting lender choice. In 2026, we are offering VantageScore at $4, a 60% discount to a FICO score. We are also keeping the price of our credit data plus VantageScore flat in 2026 at $15. Our pricing approach [ influence ] TransUnion's profitability from potential changes in third-party score delivery models. Finally, VantageScore adoption represents incremental profit and margin opportunity for TransUnion. We have had very constructive discussions about VantageScore 4.0 and expect customers to test and validate throughout 2026.

That brings me to our underlying U.S. mortgage guidance for 2026. We anticipate generating $425 million of mortgage revenue excluding FICO royalties, up roughly 6%. This expectation is driven by core data pricing as well as new wins in TruIQ and Trusted Call Solutions. Inclusive of FICO royalties, we expect $750 million of reported mortgage revenue, up 28%.

A few underlying assumptions to this guidance. We expect mid-single-digit inquiry declines based on the extrapolation of current origination trends. Given the presently low level of mortgage activity, any additional reduction in interest rates represents upside to our guidance. We assume no shift to the FICO direct licensing program in the year, informed by current observations and customer feedback. No customer has shifted to this program to date. Again, absolute profitability is similar regardless of whether TransUnion or the reseller calculates the score.

Finally, any VantageScore adoption represents profit and margin upside to our guidance. Timing and pace of adoption will be dependent on key milestones, such as the FHFA publishing its loan level price adjustment matrix for the GSEs. Given that FICO mortgage royalties impact revenue but not profit, we believe the best way to judge underlying performance is to exclude these revenues from our metrics. In 2024 and 2025, we grew high single digits even when excluding FICO mortgage royalties and expect to deliver 6% growth based on the high end of 2026 guidance. Excluding no-margin FICO royalties also uncovers the underlying operating leverage of the business over the last several years.

Based on the high end of guidance, we expect to deliver 38.2% margins with 70 basis points of expansion in 2026 or 240 basis points of expansion since 2023. This underlying operating leverage across the 3 years is again driven by strong revenue growth and the benefits of our transformation cost savings.

Finally, the secular trends in mortgage remain the same, and any recovery in mortgage activity represents upside to our financial results. There are now almost 10 million mortgages with rates above 6%, creating a significant refilable population if average rates fall below 6%. Every 10% increase in volumes would add over $40 million of adjusted EBITDA and $0.16 to earnings. A full recovery to 2019 levels equates to close to $1 in earnings or over 20% upside to our earnings base. This upside is in addition to the significant opportunity from VantageScore adoption.

I'll now turn the call back to Chris for closing remarks.

Well, thank you, Todd. So to summarize, we finished 2025 with a great fourth quarter, growing our revenues by 12% organically and surpassing guidance. Assuming business conditions remain stable, we expect another strong year in '26. We're guiding for 8% to 9% organic constant currency revenue growth and 8% to 10% adjusted diluted EPS growth. Our '25 results and our '26 guide reflect the benefits of our multiyear strategic transformation. We remain focused on leveraging this transformation to drive innovation-led and durable growth.

So we plan to share more details around our strategic momentum and our future growth prospects at our Investor Day coming up on March 10 in New York City. We've got a robust schedule planned with opportunities to hear from our senior leaders and to see demos of our newest products. And we plan to spotlight our AI-enabled OneTru platform, our reinvigorated innovation engine and how our robust product portfolio is driving growth across our verticals and geographies. We'll also provide an updated financial growth framework.

Our strategy emphasizes driving industry-leading organic growth, enhancing our earnings and our cash flows and strengthening return of capital and shareholder-friendly capital deployment. So I hope you can all join us. Please reach out to Greg and the IR team for more details.

And with that, back to you, Greg.

That concludes our prepared remarks. For the Q&A, we ask that you each ask only one question so that we can include more participants. Operator, we can begin the Q&A.

[Operator Instructions] At this time we will take our first question, which will come from Jeff Meuler with Baird.

My question is on the U.S. emerging vertical guidance. It's good, but you just put up really strong growth, even excluding, I think, one timers, you said it was double digit. It's broad-based. And I would think that there would be building benefits from the product replatforming and capabilities, consolidation along with the tech transformation. So just any specific call-outs on the U.S. emerging verticals outlook beyond just the general prudent conservatism?

Yes, Jeff, and thank you. Yes, it was a great quarter, wrapping up another really strong year of top line organic growth. And emerging was certainly a big part of the story. We're happy to get into the guidance and the approach. Probably a good way to start the call, given some of the chatter early on here. But as you know, we're starting the year, and typically, we guide a bit on the prudently conservative side to set us up for beats and raises over the course of the year. That's been the approach over the past 2 years, and we've been outperforming consistently over the last 8 quarters. I think it's very much the same posture in '26. So I do understand your question on emerging.

Let's just have Todd take us through a quick comparison of the '25 guide versus the actual achievement and then how we're setting up in '26.

Okay. Thank you, Chris, and Jeff, thank you for the question. It's a good place for us to start this morning. I think it's important just to ground us and everybody in what we feel is a very strong guide starting off 2026. And I would start with, at this point in the year, this is a guide that we have a high degree of confidence in being able to achieve. And if you were to look back to last year at this time, we were guiding our organic constant currency revenue growth at 4.5% to 6%, and we ended up growing 9%. And if you look at the guide that we put out for 2026, we're contemplating 8% to 9% growth.

So a continuation of 2025, again, a high degree of confidence. And as we typically do, we would orient you more towards the high end of that guidance just based on the assumption that conditions that we're seeing, if they stay the same, we should be about at that level. And if you look at our results, ex FICO compared to the guidance and specifically FICO mortgage, last year, we were guiding 2.5% to 4%, and we ended up at 8% growth. And this year, we're guiding 5% to 6% growth. So you saw a significant outperformance in products and services that TransUnion is delivering into the market and adding a significant amount of value.

Specific to your question on Emerging Verticals, last year, we were guiding mid-single digits, and we ended up posting an 8% growth for 2025. And right now, we're starting at mid-single digits. And again, it's just back to that, what we have high confidence in and conviction in being able to achieve at this point in the year. So we feel that it's a healthy guide at this point. But again, we oriented towards more of the high and we see upside as the year goes on.

And just from a profitability perspective, I know you're asking about revenue, but I want to round this out. Last year, we were guiding adjusted EBITDA growth at 3% to 6%. We ended up growing 10%. And right now, we're guiding 7% to 8%. And similarly, adjusted diluted EPS last year, 1% to 4%. That 4% was burdened by a change in our tax rate due to some Pillar 2 impact as well as FX at the time. We ended up delivering double digits for 2025, which was an outstanding result for TransUnion, and it's the second year in a row of double-digit EPS growth. And what you could see for 2026 is we're guiding 8% to 10%. So we're already at the high end where we're orienting investors towards that high at 10% double digit. So if we achieve that, that would be 3 straight years, which we feel is indicative of the earnings power that we have created at TransUnion.

Yes. And so good detail. I mean we've leaned in more for the total guide this year as you can see. And we would expect to hit the high end and hopefully outperform that as well.

On the emerging side, it's great that we have got that part of the business growing high single digits. I would expect that we can continue to do that despite a lower initial guide over the course of the year. It's really important to point out the strength that marketing solutions and fraud are showing both for full year '25, where both were, again, at the high single-digit level. And then we exited low double digits in the fourth quarter. Now we're not going to extrapolate from the fourth quarter in our '26 guide. That's a bit too aggressive. But again, you should think of the Emerging Verticals as a high single-digit compounder now, and that's half of the revenues in the U.S., which is 80% of our total business. And you can also expect that, that is being driven by marketing and fraud now, which are now positioned post Neustar asset integration on the OneTru platform to compound mid-single digits to low double digits, which is what we told investors we would achieve when we acquired Neustar back in early 2022.

And the next question will come from Toni Kaplan with Morgan Stanley.

Chris, you talked a lot about AI, which was very helpful. And I was hoping you could talk even more about within marketing and fraud, you talked about this already, but just maybe nail down your differentiation versus competitors and maybe more about the data assets in those areas, specifically where the data is coming from and why competitors can't get the data. All of that would be super helpful.

Okay. Thanks, Toni. Well, with the first component of value in our digital marketing suite is our identity data asset and our identity resolution capabilities. And all of our data has been consolidated on the OneTru platform on a common identity spine or graph. We have several different views of that. One is the individual, of course, one is the devices and one is the geo location. And now that we've achieved that, and that was a delivery over the course of '25, we consistently hear from customers that we have the best identity information in the market, period. And every effective marketing campaign starts with clean data in a clean sense of where you can access these customers digitally.

So one, I would emphasize that unless you are operating a credit bureau, fraud contributory networks, a marketing measurement platform, and you own all the public records in the U.S. plus, you're going to struggle to have the identity data that we have, plus again, we're hovering in from thousands of sources, individually contracted, a whole degree of other information that augments the identity graph. In fact at Investor Day, we're going to drill into this even more deeply. That's the first point, I would say. And that's proprietary and that's differentiated.

On the audience side, it's a variety of behavioral, demographic, [ psychographic ] and some real-time consumer intent data that's flowing in. That data, less differentiated, but also not a large percentage of our growth or profit, but very complementary to identity. And what we find is if you win identity, they then leverage from that to audience purchasing. And then from that, it moves into activation where we have invested a lot to extend the number of connections we have with publishers and platforms throughout the digital ecosystem so we can more directly activate.

And then when you get to measurement, in order to measure the effectiveness of advertisements and influencing prospects within the marketing funnel, you have to negotiate and program integrations into hundreds and hundreds of different points within the digital ecosystem. Some will be massive walled gardens that we all know about. Others will be streamers and prominent publishing sites, et cetera, et cetera. All of those contributions, which can come at an individual consumer level or a cohort level to protect privacy have to get integrated and interpreted and normalized and then aggregated for subsequent analysis.

So there's a lot of proprietary information. There's a lot of proprietary integrations, a lot of data science and a lot of analytics to get coherent answers as to whether advertising is working and who you should prioritize for the next round of ads.

Similar dynamics in fraud. I mean we have hundreds and hundreds of customers around the world who run our fraud mitigation software on their computers. We see every device that connects to it. We can relate many of those devices back to individuals. We understand if there's any questionable behavior that these devices engage in. That helps us form a reputation. We're analyzing the geo locations from which they connect and the IP addresses to see if there are anomalies there. And then we're aggregating the behavior of these devices and comparing it to patterns of good and bad device behavior from a fraud perspective. All of this are proprietary integrations, individual sales, ongoing relationship maintenance that leads again to proprietary network effect enabled data flowing into these assets.

So again, there's a lot of proprietary information in the fraud and marketing world, it's difficult to access, too. You just don't get it by crawling the web or licensing a book library from a publisher.

And the next question will come from Andrew Steinerman with JPMorgan.

I'm looking at Slide 23, the $750 million of U.S. mortgage revenues for '26 being up 28%, which, of course, includes the FICO reps. Does that 28% figure make any assumption about market shift from FICO to Vantage? And also, are there any assumptions in your '26 guide in terms of VantageScore adoption benefiting TransUnion today, meaning in '26?

Andrew, I'll take that question. So right now, in our guidance, what we are assuming is status quo. We are assuming that there is no shift to the FICO direct program based on customer feedback that we've had at this point in time. And we also are assuming that there is no VantageScore adoption as well.

So needless to say, in both of those situations, if that were to happen, if we were to see a migration to the FICO direct program that would enable our profit margin to increase, similar with VantageScore as well, too. So there's just nothing but upside. So we've taken a conservative posture with both of these assumptions to start the year. Just that there's just so many unknowns at this point in time. But the net of it is, if we do get either to move, you'll see higher profit margin.

Yes. We just thought it was a cleaner and clearer way to present our numbers for '26 because different of our competitors could have different assumptions around share movement and conversion and the like. So this is clear, and it's clean.

But just to reinforce what Todd said, if the direct license program does get traction over the course of the year, that may erode some of our revenue, but it won't erode any of our profits. In fact, our profitability will increase because we don't have a margin on FICO royalties within mortgage. And then once these LLPA matrices are published by the FHFA, we would expect that we're going to start selling Vantage scores that will be additive to revenue and highly accretive to profitability. And look, the whole industry is waiting impatiently for those things to come out because there's a heck of a lot of interest amongst lenders. And we're working with lenders currently, providing them with free scores and supporting analytics so they can do their backfile estimates and performance conversions and get ready for share movement.

The next question will come from Faiza Alwy with Deutsche Bank.

I wanted to ask about consumer lending. It was interesting to see that growth rate accelerate, and I know you talked about a prudent die, but I'm curious if you can talk about the trends that you're seeing there? Is it just better market performance? You touched on some of the fintech activity. But just curious to hear a little bit more about that and what you're embedding for the guide and your confidence there.

Sure. So happy to talk about consumer, probably should zoom out a bit and just talk about the health of the marketplace. Again, I would reinforce what you heard the banks say that the macro conditions are still solid and stable. We've got good GDP growth. We have low levels of unemployment. Obviously, job creation is not as robust as we would like, but perhaps a little bit better than was assumed. Real wage gains, we're still eating out gains there, which is good for the consumer. And the consumer leverage ratios are still acceptable. They're still within range. Although if you're on the lower end of the economic spectrum, you're under stress. That's unfortunately been the story, at least over the past decade that I've been here.

The banks are all reporting good earnings. They're optimistic about loan growth. Their delinquencies are low or within a manageable range certainly, which is a positive. And a lot of the banks and a lot of economists are forecasting a stronger second half to the year, which is great, right? Because over the course of '24 and '25, you've seen how fast we can grow revenue in this business and the flow-through to profits and what are just kind of stable but still somewhat muted economic conditions.

We are forecasting those conditions over the course of '26. We think that's sensible and conservative to start the year at. But if we do have any improvement, we're going to have material, we're going to have nice upside to the guidance that we're giving. And again, I would point out, our organic revenue growth rate is strong. It's been at the top of the industry in '24 and '25. We're guiding at the top of the industry in '26. We would point you to the high end of our guidance, and we're going to work really hard to outperform that.

Yes. And Chris, I would just add, when we talk about consumer lending, I think it's important to call out that we've had some really good success, both with FactorTrust in that space, and that grew 20% for us. And that is a really good indicator of what we've done with the OneTru platform, and that was the first product that we went and replatformed. That's embedded in the numbers. So it's a good proof point on where we're headed with OneTru. And hand in hand with that, also TruIQ was a winner in the consumer lending space for us as well, too. So I think our data analytics and the capabilities that we'll bring to our customers, a lot of good momentum in the consumer lending space in those 2 areas.

Yes. And I guess just to finish up on consumer lending. We expect continued strength in that area. All the players have been able to resupply their balance sheets. We think there's still a good environment for loan consolidation and conversion of revolving card balances and the like.

I think over the past, say, 4 or 5 years, because of the experience in '22 and '23, where consumer lending was hard hit, there's been an assumption that it's a more volatile space than it actually is. Consumer lending has always been an important part of the U.S. lending landscape. It's far more robust and [ growthful ] and I think you've seen that over the past couple of years, and we expect more strength this year.

The next question will come from Andrew Nicholas with William Blair.

I was hoping to ask on the margin trajectory this year. I know that there's some difficulty. You provided a lot of information on what margins look like ex FICO. But it does look like it's modestly down year-over-year in the first quarter before improving as the year progresses. Can you just kind of flesh that out a little bit further, what impacts or informs expansion as the year progresses or accelerating expansion as the year progresses ex FICO?

Andrew, and thanks for the question. So let's dig into this. So in the first quarter, our high guidance, we are calling for a margin of 34.9%, which would be down 140 basis points. We think it's probably best to look at our margin, though, excluding the FICO mortgage royalty. At that level, we're at 37.5%, which would be down 30 basis points.

When you compare that to the full year guide. Full year, we're guiding 35.7%, which at the top, all in with the FICO mortgage royalties. So we'd be down 30 basis points. Really, where your question is at is an ex FICO, we're going to grow our margins 70 basis points to 38.2%.

So several factors here. The first one, the first quarter of any year for TransUnion is our seasonally lowest revenue amount in dollar terms. So needless to say that if you don't have higher revenue, you don't have that flow through in dollars down to profit. So that's the first thing of why Q1 is the way it is.

Second, if you look at the growth rates that we've provided in the guide relative Q1 and then relative to what we would -- you'd imply for Q2 through Q4, and then we're at the high, that growth rate ex the FICO mortgage is relatively stable each quarter throughout the year. So meaning we're not necessarily assuming that there's a significant increase in the revenue growth rate. So there's a stability in that growth rate.

So then where this then leads to then is in the margin expansion that we're expecting, a lot of that's going to happen in the second half of 2026. And as a reminder, in 2025 in the second half, we were opportunistic with our performance and making onetime investments back into the business to continue to solidify the really strong advances that we made with our technology and our product teams of augmenting sellers to continue the really good momentum that we have on the top line.

So we're going to lap some of those onetimes. We won't have them in '26, so that will provide a benefit. And from a compensation perspective, in the second half of 2025, we did have higher incentive compensation accruals. We're at this point in time right now we've reset those accruals back at target, right? So that provides a natural upside for us with the margin in the second half.

Yes. And so look, in the [ big, ] over the past couple of years, some investors have asked whether our business still has the same degree of operating leverage that we enjoyed previously. And it's because we've been growing high single digit, and you haven't seen the top line margin flow through.

As we explained, it was being masked by the FICO price increases that have been quite considerable over the period. Now that we're breaking this out, you can see that margins have expanded by 240 bps over the past several years, which is terrific. And so you can see the operating leverage is still here. And again, we are now also supporting marketing and fraud and analytics product line that has lower margins at this point than does core credit, and we're also investing heavily in the business.

So I hope from this, investors are reassured that we still have tremendous operating leverage, and you're going to see that in our profits and our EPS as we continue to compound the top line high single digits.

The next question will come from Manav Patnaik with Barclays.

Just one question from this AI debate that's out there, and that's more tied to your selling model. Like how seat count tied or enterprise tied is your business? Just touching on the angle that everyone's worried or believes that because of AI, every industry will have materially less headcount, more efficient, et cetera. So just trying to appreciate how you think that could impact your business.

Yes. Well, Manav, as you know, we are a highly recurring transactional business at the core with a material chunk of subscription that's not tied to seat count necessarily more to utilization or ranges that factor under the annual subscription that we would charge a client. So I don't think there's going to be a model disruption because of anything on the AI side.

I do think, to the latter part of your point, we're going to apply AI and are applying AI to drive productivity internally. You're going to see a dramatic productivity increase in our software developers. That's not really going to translate into fewer developers because we have so many innovation opportunities that a 30% or 50% increase, I'm going to put the work on product and revenue growth. But in our analytics organization, there's going to be a massive productivity improvement.

We're launching a new product, a new analytics platform that's all AI-enabled. We call it the [ Analytics Orchestrator. ] You'll see that at the upcoming Investor Day, and that's going to enable orders of magnitude improvement in the speed with which we can create models and insights across the credit risk marketing and fraud value chains within our clients.

The point of this is that more and more of our analysts will be forward deployed in the clients. There will be more of a consulting and consultative selling and an enablement aspect to how we engage in the market because now we have 3 strong product lines with highly interrelated workflows that we've pulled together on this common platform, and we want to show clients how they can become a lot more productive by consolidating their work on this platform. And the best people to show them that are in the analytics organization. So I mean I think that's how the go-to-market model is going to evolve in the coming years.

And our next question will come from Ashish Sabadra with RBC Capital Markets.

I just wanted to drill down on the international side. You provided a lot of good color on India, but I was just wondering if you can also talk about Canada and U.K. or other countries as well.

Yes, for sure. Well, look, obviously, the international division in total didn't grow as fast as we have become accustomed to. The business is in the mature markets. Canada and the U.K. are doing exceptionally well. They're growing well above the market, and we're confident that we're taking share in both markets. And look, it's because we have strong management teams. We've incorporated a lot of our new products into those markets in both Canada and the U.K., the TruIQ analytics platform has been localized for their use. And I just feel like we get great value propositions and an opportunity to grow above market for quite a bit of time.

We've had macroeconomic -- kind of macro-driven softness in India, and in Latin America to a degree as well. Focusing on India. I mean, look, India has been [ buffeted ] by some macro forces over the past couple of years. We've talked about the RBI intervention in the unsecured lending market to calm that down. We've also seen lenders reviewing the profitability of their card portfolios and also pulling back a little bit there. The tariffs of 50% that were imposed in the fourth quarter really jolted the market. A big part of the Indian economy are small- to medium-sized businesses that are export oriented. The U.S. market was important. Those tariffs kind of froze exports. And the banks looked at that and said, "Hey, this sector of the market is less lendable, we have to be cautious here, too, right?"

Now we think the fourth quarter in India and the first quarter of '26 are going to represent a bottoming out from a volume perspective, kind of a financial lending retrenchment, if you will. And then we're going to start resuming our growth. We're forecasting mid-single digits for the year. Clearly, over time, India has far better growth potential than that. Demographics are great. The economy is still growing almost 7%, inflation is manageable. There's a lot of goodness. And I do think that the broad outline of the deal that the U.S. and India have announced is going to be helpful to bringing some stability back to that market.

So we're bullish on India longer term. We are bringing our fraud marketing and analytics products into India. This year, those are going to be entirely new vectors of growth. And so we're looking forward to just getting in there and continuing to drive growth in a very fundamental way, and we're confident that over time, the macro is going to heal itself and be supportive of growth.

And our next question will come from Jason Haas with Wells Fargo.

When we think about the annual guidance, excluding FICO, the 5% to 6% organic growth and the 50 to 70 bps of EBITDA margin expansion, is that a fair framework for thinking about how the business should grow longer term? Are there still costs or anything weighing on the business in 2026?

Yes. So look, as Todd was detailing earlier, net of FICO in '26, it's 5% to 6% organic guide. And look, as we have reminded the market, we start off with a prudently conservative guide at the beginning of the year, and we steer you guys more towards the high end, which would be 6%. And for the past 2 years, we've been able to beat and raise.

And so I would just say, think about those factors in your own deliberations. But as I've said in prior calls, I think this is a business that can now organically compound in the high single digits, perhaps more annualized. And in fact, we did in '24 and '25 ex FICO, right? So organic revenue growth was 8% in '25 ex FICO, similar in '24. So we're proving that we can grow at that level.

We have exited our period of incremental investment and add-backs. We're not adding anything back. We don't need to. That is going to -- it has helped our cash flow tremendously. We're very confident in a low 90% cash flow conversion in '26. I want to reiterate that for all of you on the call this morning.

And then look, in terms of just operational efficiencies and flow through EPS. As we continue to grow at this level, particularly ex FICO, you're going to see really good flow-through to profits and you should expect double-digit growth, perhaps even mid-teens compounding in EPS. That's not the official guide, but that speaks more toward what we've delivered in '24 and '25 into the potential of this business.

And remember, our tech transformation is different, right? We have built a global platform to run credit marketing and fraud businesses with this integrated analytic layer on one single platform. We're converting the U.S. to it. We're also going to convert Canada, the U.K. and the Philippines over the course of the year. That gives us a way to continually take cost out of the business, right? And so that's another initiative that's going to improve the profitability of the business.

Now with those profits, we can invest more in product innovation, in larger and more consultative selling and also in improving margins for the business overall. So I think that's an often overlooked or certainly underappreciated dynamic that we've created in our business. But you can look for us to leverage that in the coming years.

And our last question will come from Kelsey Zhu with Autonomous.

Could you talk a little bit more about your assumptions behind the mid-single-digit declines and mortgage increase guidance for 2026? And how the trigger leads or legislation affect total volume growth there? As well as if you're seeing any competitive pressure from Equifax credit file that also includes the work number indicator?

Sure. Right. So a good topic to talk about. First, I would say that triggers will not have any negative impact at TransUnion. We've been out of the mortgage triggers business for quite a while now. Other players in the space, we'll have to address that.

With regard to any share movement because of bundling credit and some incoming information off the work number. Look, you can look at our mortgage results. We're still doing very well overall, relatively speaking. We've seen no share movement because of -- we had no share movement in the prequalification space. We are aware of 1 large customer that moved between our 2 competitors. We look at that as really a case of price discounting. That trade happened at a 25% discount to the prevailing prices. So I'm not sure I would attribute it to any market innovation.

Now in terms, Todd, of the setup for mortgage and the assumptions for the year, maybe some color on that?

Yes, sure. So the volume assumptions in the first quarter, we're expecting to be up modestly. But for the full year, it's going to be down mid-single digits. So obviously, what that says is that Q1 is our easiest comparable because we saw volumes modestly improve throughout 2025. And then again, looking at mortgage outside of the FICO mortgage score, our mortgage business is still expected to grow 6% on a year-over-year basis, and that has to do with some of our own pricing but also driving innovation through.

Yes. And so perhaps, when we wrap, I'll just emphasize to everybody, Fourth quarter was a great exit to a great year. 12% cumulative growth is awesome, 6% and [ 16% ] in the U.S., we're super encouraged by. Macro factors buffeted us a bit in our emerging markets, which pulled down international. But as we've shown, that's a consistent high single-digit, low double-digit grower over time. I would expect that we can resume that pace in the coming year or so. But there's still a lot of incremental revenue and profit fall through to come because of the transformation that we've achieved.

In every country that we convert to the OneTru platform, that country will be able to bring to market the best of our credit, best credit analytics, in addition to marketing and fraud and our new analytics platform. We now have 4 market-leading horses pulling our wagon, so to speak. I think that's going to be additive to our growth rate and profit fall through.

So we're excited. We're excited with where this business is at and what we can deliver for investors and we're ready to get at it.

All right, Chris. I think that's a good place to end. Thanks for all your questions today, and have a great rest of your day. Thanks.

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This is the TransUnion session. I'm with Chris Cartrich, CEO, IR, Greg Bardy. This is the [ Info Services ] track. The business services track is there. The payment services track is here. Welcome to the Ultimate Services Investor Conference. Chris, welcome back. Thanks for joining us.

Thank you, Andrew. Always a pleasure.

So most recently, I've been hearing you talk about high single-digit organic revenue growth. My question to you is pairing that up with double-digit EPS growth and the term you used, that's indicative of TransUnion's earnings power. My question is, what gives you confidence? It seems like you're kind of rolling out that message more recently. So it's truly on your mind. And what needs to happen to achieve those medium-term targets?

Yes, good question. So we're going to be hosting an Investor Day next year in March, I believe it's March 10. And obviously, then we will officially roll out our growth guidance. And -- but I thought it was important to start sharing with the market our views as to how fast we can grow and the type of EPS that we can deliver in normalized market conditions. I guess the first kind of proof point is just the inherent growthfulness of our portfolio as we've demonstrated since our IPO in the middle of 2015.

We have consistently grown in the high single-digit range with the exception of the turmoil of COVID and also the lending recession that happened in the '22, '23 time period, largely because of a huge spike in inflation and a corresponding spike in rates and loan prices. As the markets return to first, a subdued, but at least a stable market, which is how I would describe the '23, '24 period. And then now in '25, we have stability, but we actually have some volume improvements, you're starting again to see how growthful our market positions are, particularly in U.S. financial services, positions that we've built through a combination of having the leading trended data and analytic attributes in the industry and the leading kind of down market small dollar unsecured credit information, right?

And that, plus the combination of our go-to-market and our vertical specialization allows us to really benefit from market growth in this kind of high single-digit level. Now in addition to that, we have been investing heavily in the business for the past 3 to 4 years. A number of product rejuvenation or platform innovation initiatives and even internally, things to position us for structural cost savings over time. I would point to the development and the launch of our OneTru platform, which is a next-generation global configurable platform upon which we run our credit marketing, fraud and investigative solution businesses as well as having an analytics sandbox that cuts across the top of them, all based on a unified pool of identity data that is common across all of those various interrelated applications.

That was a heavy lift technologically. We have completed the majority of the investments and launched the platform and are now running parts of our credit marketing and fraud portfolio in the U.S. on that platform. '26 is a big year of migration. But already, we're seeing the benefits of that innovation in terms of higher growth rates in revenue than we have seen previously. And so all of that product development on top of the next-generation platform is additive to the inherent growthfulness of the market positions that we've built over time.

As we move our revenue to the new platform, we're going to be able to save by demising all of the infrastructure and people costs associated with the old. So we're going to be transitioning over the course of '26. Currently, the P&L reflects that we're maintaining 2 environments, right? At the end of '26, we will be demising in the old environment, which will give us a structural improvement to our costs. Now as we roll into '27, we'll take a portion of that and flow it to margin, but we'll also retain a portion so we can continue to expand our go-to-market resources, right, sellers and fuel continued innovation and product development to keep the top line revenue growing, which has really good profit fall-through.

But we also need to preserve some of that so we can go to the next country and the next country and maintain duplicative costs while we move from the old to the new. And when we do that, the next country, say, the U.K. or Canada or the Philippines, as is the case, we'll get the benefit of our best-in-class products, right, that are represented on the new platform on a more modern technology and then we'll demise all of the related old costs of the infrastructure, a lot of the development resources, even some of the product management resources as the org shifts to a common configurable global platform that creates both growth and scale in the business.

We've been also doing similar investments on our internal technology, right? We call that true ops. So we're going to a standard set of processes and technologies and even people through our offshore capability centers for actually running the business and supporting our customers and managing all of our consumer disputes. Again, as we move from the legacy old, which is fragmented to the consolidated new, there's going to be ongoing cost efficiencies that will fuel revenue growth and profit expansion. And then finally, having a lot of this investment behind us, we're generating more cash, more free cash flow. We will have 90% plus free cash flow conversion next year.

And we've been buying back shares at an accelerated rate because we don't like our current valuation, and we want to take advantage of that. So you can expect us to be more aggressive on the capital allocation front in terms of share buyback, debt retirement and if rates do drop, refinancing the entire debt stack, all of which is going to further drive EPS.

Okay. So in that answer, I heard your view on U.S. consumer credit activity as with some volume improvement. I hear any caveats. So if you wanted to make any caveats to that language about the consumer credit backdrop, it would be good to do it inside this question. I'm looking at U.S. Financial Services, and the company has seen double-digit non-mortgage revenue growth over the last couple of years. So obviously, that's more than just volume recovery in the market. So if you could pull apart for us, again, non-mortgage revenue growth within U.S. Financial Services, how much of that is volume improvement in the marketplace versus just TransUnion winning more cross-selling, et cetera?

Yes. So I guess, first, some comments on the health of the market and what we're seeing in real time. In the Q3 earnings, and we've done this for, I think, the past couple of quarterly earnings presentations, we have said that if the market conditions that we were experiencing at the time persisted, we expect it to be at the high end or above of our guidance. And we said it again in Q3. And again, we're seeing that the market conditions are persist. October is in the books. It was good. We're in November now, and I look at the volume reports daily. I'm not seeing any declines in any lending categories thus far. And I hope that continues over into '26.

And you say you don't see declines is volumes continuing to improve?

I guess what I'm saying is I'm seeing a continuation of the strong volume trends across all consumer lending categories that we experienced in the third quarter. And so we would -- we're very comfortable and confident with how we have guided at this point. And look, I've had a couple of meetings this morning. There's been a series of questions about are you seeing deterioration in Subprime and are you seeing deterioration in lower income consumers. And we're not, which is why I'm sharing the loan volume perspective that we are currently experiencing. And look, as we all know, there have been a lot of really negative forecasts about the implications of trade or economic policies that have not come to pass yet.

The consumer has proven to be pretty resilient. The consumer is still employed with some real wage gains and a reasonable level of debt of leverage and supporting the debt volumes that they've got with low and manageable delinquencies. So, so far, so good.

Right. I just want to say, like I heard you said no deterioration in Subprime, but is it also the case that super prime is doing better than Subprime in terms of volume improvement? Or are they both constructive?

They're both constructive. They're both constructive. And look, one of the reasons why we're seeing such good growth in consumer lending, and I think pivoting to the other part of your question is, certainly, there's some overall market growth in the U.S., which is great, and I think things can remain healthy. We are also enjoying some share gains because we're competing really effectively. For example, we replatformed our payday lending credit solution, which is called FactorTrust before onto OneTru.

In the process, we reengineered the data. We built on a lot more of the analytic attributes that are necessary to create more predictive models. So the data and the models are producing better predictions than ever. That's allowing us to take share and to win at a higher rate. Our growth rate from that area alone is going to be 20% plus this year and the pipeline that we've built is considerable. So innovation through this OneTru platform and the rejuvenation of the various products that rest on the platform is increasing our growth period.

And then on top of it, we have added a lot of relevant growthful products to core credit, marketing services, call authentication services, fraud mitigation and a new analytic platform, TruIQ. All of that is driving our dollar growth beyond what you would get if it was simply explained by volume growth or volume growth in any one lending category.

Okay. So let's talk about the mortgage market. I know it's been very hard for anyone to predict the mortgage market in terms of volumes, but I'm going to ask you to do this kind of looking at 2026. I want you to talk about what you sense will be driving your business in 2026. I'm going to mention 3 things: lower mortgage rates, the commercialization of Vantage 4.0 with GSEs? And then also any moves around or really towards [ prequal ] and pre-approvals?

Yes. So in terms of the rate and the volume environment, I'm not going to prognosticate at this point. We're planning for a steady volume environment. If rates do dip, I mean, currently, the 10-year is floating between 4 and 4.1%, something like that. If it drops into the high 3s, if we get [ 3.7, 3.6, ] it will lead to more refinance activity. We saw that in mid- to late '24 when the 10-year [indiscernible] like 3.6, 3.7 levels. We saw an uptick. It only lasted for a few weeks and then the market began to worry about inflation again. and the rates went back up.

So look, in a steady-state environment, I expect that we will continue to grow our mortgage revenues and drive profits independent of changes in the relationship with FICO or the cost of the FICO score in mortgage. And I know we can talk about that in a bit more detail. The new pricing that we've put out in the market preserves and grows our '25 level of profitability from the mortgage segment. It also gives us more degrees of freedom in how we manage it. And then as the market gets comfortable with 2 scores and begins to choose between FICO and Vantage, every VantageScore sold in the market is a new revenue opportunity with a very high profit fall-through for the bureaus, right?

We've never been able to enjoy any profits on the mortgage score before. But the mortgage score has been a rapidly increasing cost that's driving up the top line, but not producing any profit. And so it's been a consistent pressure on our margins, right? Now with a different relationship with FICO, we can separate that out, and we'll be able to show the core of the business independent of the FICO score, the growth rate, the profit pool and the considerable margin health of that part of the business. And then we can focus on the impact that the score has on the profitability of the enterprise and the like.

You think we'll learn a lot in '26? Like is there enough interest in Vantage that you'll actually see [indiscernible] adoption [indiscernible] '26.

The starting point that I would say is -- all the lenders are familiar with the VantageScore. All the lenders use the VantageScore today. They use it for portfolio management. They use it to value their collections before they sell it to third parties. They give it away to consumers. They use it for internal analytic purposes because they want to manage their costs, right? They haven't been able to use it in mortgage origination because of a regulatory hurdle. That's been lifted.

And the securitization markets, right?

And yes, for 30 years, there was only one score permitted. And all of the elements within mortgage origination through securitization and purchase are kind of calibrated around FICO, right? But it's not like the banks are starting from -- it's not a standing start and familiarity with the Vantage. It's also important to point out that there are large players like Synchrony and card that only use Vantage and securitize with. right? And that there are players in the auto market that also use Vantage.

And there are plenty of lenders that originate mortgages that they hold on their own books that use Vantage because they wanted to have a more predictive score at a lower price point. So there's a lot of familiarity. That said, there's also a lot of learning and experimenting and just gaining of comfort in a year of transition. So I think '26 is going to be about allowing free access to the VantageScore for all of the lenders so they can do the analytic work and the calibration to understand what, if any, impact Vantage would have and then grease the skids for greater adoption and share transfer in '26 and '27 and I think increasingly thereafter. And again, it's important to point out that we have retained and will grow our pool of profits on mortgage in '26 with the pricing that we put in place.

And there's a lot of upside as market share shifts to Vantage, which it inevitably will, we're going to have something new to sell that has a very high flow-through to profit. It's going to drive EPS. It will be helpful to margin, et cetera.

I didn't quite hear if you had said anything about [ prequal ] and pre-approval. So...

Thanks for the reminder.

In originations, you have to go by what the GSEs want or let's say, to what securitization markets want and you're going to have a tri-merge. But in [ prequal ] and pre-approval, when lenders are looking for consumers to lend to in mortgage, they could use 1B. And somehow, there really has been a trend. I can't exactly say when it started, but it was somewhere about 1.5 years ago, where in prequal and preapproval, and I assume it's just because of cost because they don't know if that's going to originate or not, that there's more use of 1B and 2B. Just tell us where we're at. Like do you feel like that has stabilized? And then, of course, I'm going to ask you, how does TransUnion position itself to be that in that 1B or 2B?

Yes, for sure. So the early assessment program, which now allows a lender to pull credit score and submit it to the GSEs and get an indication of whether the GSEs would ultimately purchase that loan has been in place for a while. And so I think initially, there was thinking that we would go from 3 to 1, but that hasn't happened. And part of it, of course, is transitions take time. But the more important factor is just understanding the revenue dynamics of lenders and brokers. And when they are working with a prospect and it's a revenue opportunity, right, and they're competing for that business, if they pull only one, right, there's a chance that they may not get approval for that client because the bureau score may not be high enough or it may not be optimized to get that client the lowest price.

And without the lowest price, the client may shop more. And so they're incented to pull more than 1, which is why today, they're pulling 2-plus bureau files per origination. But then on top of it, the compensating positive is that with the early assessment program, you can pull a credit report and not have a hard inquiry show up on the credit file and hard inquiries degrade your credit score, right?

Now it's a soft pull. So now the consumers know that, they can shop more. And so you're seeing shopping activity compensating for some of the pull savings that the prequal program was intended to produce, right? So the net of it is not that great a diminishment in the upfront credit diligence that we're seeing.

Okay. So you're saying it's sort of a wash at this point, close to a wash.

Yes, it's close to a wash or certainly not concerning diminishment, right, for the industry. The other thing I would say is, look, we have been well positioned and I think performed well from a share perspective in that part of the mortgage chain because there's a lot of respect for our trended data. There's a lot of respect for the innovation that we've produced in alternative data, whether it's going down market and having the Subprime and the unsecured type of data as well as a leading share of rental payments that are contributed that can now be used. And so I'm -- I think you've seen us gaining share in that segment since this has been announced a couple of years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to disrupt that.

Okay. Great. Turning to Emerging Verticals. In the third quarter, you achieved 7.5% organic revenue growth, which is really the fastest organic revenue growth that we've seen in years. My questions are sort of multifold. Like one, what sort of made that happen? And is it sustainable? And particularly, would you be pointing to fraud prevention and marketing solutions?

Yes, and I would, yes, kind of across the board. I do think a higher growth rate is sustainable. And maybe the first thing is just to orient roughly 78% of our revenue, which is $4.5 billion plus in '25. comes out of the U.S. So it's 80% in the U.S. And of that 80%, it's a 50-50 split between the traditional credit information and then things like consumer, fraud, marketing, analytics, communication solutions, investigative solutions, the related products.

I would say that part of what gives me confidence in high single-digit revenue growth go forward is that all of those products have been substantially retooled and improved and are starting to grow at faster rates. And that's certainly true of marketing and it's very true of the communication solutions, which has been compounding low double digits since we acquired the business.

It's been amazing, and it's a huge market. And the type of authentication that we're providing to inbound and outbound phone calls, we will also expand and begin providing to text messages, which are another vector of fraud. And then in this era of AI, bots can make phone calls and impersonate people, but we have technology that can listen to the content of that call and identify whether it's a bot or a human, right? So there's a lot of vectors for growth around communications authentication, which is part of fraud mitigation or marketing effectiveness and then core to our strategy.

So all of the products that are overweighted relative to credit in the emerging sector are better and starting to grow faster and thus lifting the growth rate in the sector. If we can continue to execute and grow those things more rapidly, and it's a combination of having built better products, but also adding sales resources, which we are doing substantially in the second half of this year, we're going to permanently get higher growth rates out of that part of the portfolio.

Okay. That makes sense to me. When you're talking about OneTru, one of the biggest things is an enhanced identity graph. I would say core to a credit bureau is identity graph. How do you know that OneTru is a leading identity graph? And do you feel like you're winning some of those solutions in marketing and fraud preventing the course of OneTru's identity graph compared to other choices?

Sure. Well, look, identity data in the identity graph underpins every information product. It just happens that credit reporting agencies have particularly broad and accurate and current identity because consumers maintain the quality of that information because they don't want to get evicted from their homes or have their cars repossessed or their credit cards cut off. So it's kind of the gold standard for identity.

So having that as a foundation is helpful. But we're also the only bureau that also has a public records business in the U.S. And so -- and I always hate to say this, but we're kind of -- we're #2 behind LexisNexis in public records. We hoover in publicly available information at the federal, at the state, at the municipal level, all of that produces tremendous identity signal. And that is core in our data foundation and part of our identity graph. We're also a leading provider of marketing information.

Marketing information helps us substantially enrich the identities in the underlying graph. And then finally, because we are one of the leaders in online fraud mitigation and phone-based fraud, right, we're getting a ton of device-based identity signal that we're able to then associate back to individuals and individual addresses and then the entire range of information that we have. So in short, we have the best identity in the market because we have the most expansive collection of relevant data. And we've been able to all associate this around that core object.

That core identity object, again, is common across our whole suite of solutions. So if you're doing credit analysis and you develop the prioritized list of consumers that you want to market to, when you then pivot to enriching those with marketing information and developing audiences to then market to, there's no degradation. There's no identity signal loss as you move between credit, marketing and fraud. It's all common and it persists across the process. And that is unique in a structural industry change that we have created with these investments in the OneTru platform.

And so I don't know if you said this or others have said this before, they've said, look, everybody's got identity. Everybody talks about identity. Every restaurant has food, too. It doesn't mean it's the same, right? You can go to McDonald's or you can eat a multi-michelin star. We're more of the latter.

But are you -- like have you ever had any third-party benchmarking of your identity graphs. Like to me, it seems...

No, but I'll tell you what, because there is no third party, but I'll tell you what. Identity is growing in the high teens since we have innovated in the way that I just described. And the clients bake it off every day in the course of their decision-making around credit marketing and fraud. We know it performs extremely well. And not only is it a great repository of data, around which we -- that we have appended to these customer identities. But we can take identity as a service and push it out into the data ecosystem where our clients' data lives.

So they don't have to ship the data back and forth, which they very much don't want to do, right? So I can push my identity graph and my identity resolution capabilities into some big banks data center where they've got conflicting and unreconciled consumer information coming in, and I can bring that together in a golden copy that they can use for all of their internal sources. If those banks have pushed into a public cloud provider or into the Snowflake stack, again, we're there as a consumable service.

So it's not just our identity that we can do that with, we can do that with all of our data and all of our data enrichment capabilities. We can push that widget out. We can connect it to our clients' data sources, and we can provide ongoing enrichment and rationalization of their underlying data.

Okay. Something that stood out to me in the conference call was you said that you've been tracking your AI-enabled customers and that they consume more data than, let's just say, a benchmark traditional cohort. I was hoping you could just talk more about that, like what are these AI-enabled customers doing differently with TransUnion? And then, of course, how is that going to lead to more revenue growth?

Well, I think AI in general, performs better, the more high-quality content you can put into it, right? And so clients that are increasingly relying on AI for parts of their analytic and either underwriting or fraud mitigation or marketing processes want the greatest volume of high-quality data input. And so if you are a data provider and you've got really good stuff, you're well positioned because they want to buy it and use it because it produces a better outcome for them. And we see that across the piece with clients that are kind of leading in AI adoption.

Okay. Question from the audience? Go ahead, [ Raj ].

What sort of customers -- so in terms of new customers, are you getting fraud first customers? Or are you getting credit first customers and cross-selling into one another? And then maybe a follow-up on that would be, by 2030, would you be known as a credit bureau? Or would you want to be known as a fraud data solutions provider company?

Sure. I would say from 2025 and even earlier, we are a global information and analytics company around consumer insights, anchored by credit certainly, which is a great data set and super predictive. But the information that we bring to bear for clients is far broader simply than credit as you look around our portfolio globally and as represented by 50-50 mix that we talked.

In terms of the synergy, the process complement between credit and marketing, you're going to see more cross-sell and more interplay there, right? Because -- I mean, look, think of it. If you're a risk officer and you want to originate more loans, you may look to the credit file first, and you may look to the credit file combined with other internal experience your bank has or your insurance company has with the market and figure out what segment of the market is most desirable for you.

But then you have to go actually get those customers. You have to plan the marketing in an intelligent and cost-effective way and then measure the success. And so you bridge over into marketing. So on the platform, we have built integration between the credit origination process as it goes from credit data analytics to marketing effectiveness and measurement. And that loop, that circle is going on every day, every month within our big clients. So I expect more cross-sell there going back.

Okay. I think we have to end. Chris and Greg, thank you very much. So next up is NIQ. If you want to grab an information service data book, they're up here. Thanks, everybody.

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With me on stage is CFO, Todd Cello. Also with us at the conference are the IR team of Greg and Jason.

Maybe to start out, it's been an interesting, I guess, 5 years. So just to help investors -- give investors a framework of how they should think about what type of growth company TransUnion is or what type of environment is required to generate high single-digit to low double-digit growth.

Over a long period of time, you've grown really well. 2 years ago, things were a little bit more challenged in 2022 and 2023. The last 2 years have been really good. So how much of that's the environment? How much of that is TransUnion-specific factors? Just kind of like frame up what kind of growth company TransUnion is?

Okay. Sounds good. Thank you for having us, Jeff. This has been a great conference. And I think it's a great place to start our discussion just so investors can get an appreciation of where we drive growth.

So clearly, '22 and '23 were unusual years in that the United States was impacted by significantly high inflation. And as a result of that, interest rates were on the rise. So what happened during that period of time is it created a significant amount of uncertainty for our core group of customers focused on lending.

Nobody really knew at that point in time when interest rates were going to stop rising. So that uncertainty slowed our customers down in regards to acquiring new business. So in both years, in '22 and '23, we grew 3%. We clearly do not aspire for 3% growth. But considering what had happened during those years, also some banking failures during that time as well that had an impact, not indicative of the company, but being able to grow 3% did show the overall resiliency of the portfolio and the design of it overall.

I'd characterize the growth that we've seen in '24 and '25 is more like what you should expect from TransUnion on a year-over-year basis, that high single-digit growth, perhaps even getting to double-digit growth. And when I think about where the growth has come from in '24 and '25, I mean relative stability in the U.S. in core financial services.

We still see lending volumes up. We were calling it subdued in the middle of the year. I think now we're calling it more stable. We're seeing a good uptick in areas like consumer lending, where we have a terrific position with fintechs. We saw strong growth in the third quarter there. We also saw good growth in our core credit and credit card and banking customers, but a little bit more modest growth. They're starting to acquire customers and originate, but perhaps at a slower rate.

Auto has had kind of fits and starts throughout the year because of tariff impact. There were some pull forwards a couple of times this year, but overall, relative stability. And I'd highlight auto as an area that we have had outsized growth considering that the volumes have been somewhat tempered. And really what that is, is it's more of a testament to the diversification of the products that we're able to sell into auto.

Products like our trusted call solutions as well as our marketing products have really taken hold in that space. And that's what you should expect from us as we go forward. And in particular, those products, they're really going to resonate more in our emerging verticals. And we were pleased with the performance in the third quarter where we grew 7.5%.

In those businesses, it's outside of core lending in the U.S., and we're focused on areas like technology, retail, e-commerce, media and a whole host of other vertical markets. But we're driving into those businesses are our new products. So the trusted call solutions, the marketing, the fraud capabilities.

So when you think about the transformation that TransUnion has been under for the last several years, moving all of our data assets to what we call OneTru, the results that we're seeing in the emerging verticals are indicative of what we're expecting on a go-forward basis.

Outside of the U.S., our international portfolio has had -- it has a balance to it. If I were to go back a couple of years, I'd say India, when we were growing 3%, India was growing really strong. And then this year, what we're experiencing is more the developed markets of Canada and the United Kingdom where we're growing. And that's all intentional, the design of the portfolio to be able to perform when one area is up and the other one is down. So think of this business more high single-digit grower on a go-forward basis.

Is the consumer or your end markets does it feel like they're improving? I think you said you were characterizing them as subdued. Now you're talking about being stable. Some of the labor market data has been weak, so that might be different than some investor perceptions.

So we continue to see a relatively healthy consumer. That's the best way to characterize it. And clearly, we've seen news with layoff announcements that are now a little bit more prevalent in the marketplace. But for our business, through what we've experienced, we do see a consumer that is living up to their financial obligations because they are employed and they have real wage growth. I mean those are key drivers for our business.

And when they're employed and they have the real wage growth, that enables them to pay their financial obligations. So that feeds right into delinquencies. And the delinquencies, needless to say, we have a great perspective on that because of the data that we maintain. And what we've seen is a normal level of delinquencies. I would characterize what happened again, going back to '22 and '23, kind of unusually low delinquency rates because consumers had forbearance programs. So the delinquencies went down meaningfully.

And I'd say where we're at right now is we're back at more of a normal level. If you look at the delinquencies across areas like consumer lending and auto and mortgage and credit card and compare it to pre-pandemic, we're about at those same levels. So that's a good indicator for us about the overall health of the consumer. I would say, though, we are seeing a little bit of a bifurcation in consumers. And what I mean by that is we're seeing more consumers that are -- would be considered super prime. There's more of a percentage of those super prime consumers now in the latest quarter.

And at the other end of the spectrum, the subprime consumers, there's more of those consumers. And just to give you the numbers, it's about 40% are in the super prime category and about 14% are in the subprime category. So what's happening is the middle is compressing. So the lower income consumer is under more -- a little bit more pressure, but the consumer in the super prime is performing well. And that's really -- you see that in how purchasing and like retail sales have held on because those are the consumers that are pretty much driving that.

TransUnion puts out a study called the Credit Industry Insights report. We just put it out in our newsroom last week. All the details are in there. So I'd recommend checking that out. Otherwise, in the market, we also look at our customer health as well, too. And with the recent earnings season wrapping up, a lot of the large banks, but also the medium and small-sized banks had good earnings. And of course, when you put away -- put aside some of the businesses that we wouldn't support like investment banking, and you look at their lending operations, we were encouraged by what we consider to be strong results. And what's indicative there is that we didn't see an increase in loan loss reserves, anything that would be kind of a trouble spot for the customers.

So we look at it from a balanced perspective. And right now, it's stable, and that's how we're planning the business right now, but cautiously watching.

So is it a fair characterization that you put up like 3% organic growth when you're facing macro headwinds in the 2022 and 2023 years, you put up high single-digit growth without a lot of macro tailwind. Is that how you see it?

I think what happened in '22 and '23 was such an outlier as far as how fast interest rates went up and the Federal Reserve's response was something we hadn't seen in decades. So I think that, that was just such an anomaly. But I think it's -- if you were to look at and think about the overall performance of the portfolio in a time when maybe there's not as much growth, as I've been saying, the design is intentional, whether it's in the U.S. markets, core financial services is always going to be what it's going to be, but we're intentional about the vertical -- the emerging verticals that we operate in to be able to have a countercyclical play. And the same thing happens within our international business as well too.

And do any markets feel like they're running hot for you or where like you worry that there's -- what's been a growth driver that may not repeat? Or I don't know if you can hit on FICO pricing as part of this?

I would say right now, I don't feel like there is any one particular market that's running hot. I would say that where we do have outperformance in areas like in Canada and the U.K., where we've posted high single to double-digit growth. A lot of that has been on our team and their execution being able to drive innovation, but also to take share with that innovation. So those areas have been performing pretty well. Otherwise, I wouldn't look in anything in the U.S. as I would say it's like overheated or running too hot. Happy to go into the pricing, but how did you want me to handle that one?

Let's just -- before we get there, you kind of gave a look in one of your slides, I think it was Slide 4 of the most recent investor presentation where you deconstructed your U.S. markets growth. It was 13% underlying growth, 4% volume or new wins. You just mentioned some of the new wins. 5% pricing. Before we get to there, you also get 4% from noncredit growth. Talk about what's driving the noncredit growth.

Yes, absolutely. So when you -- when we look at -- and that's intentional, too, right? As far as the diversification of our product offerings, you know us as a credit reporting agency, but we've invested in concept of identity resolution, right, and being able to take our data assets and resolve a consumers' identity so our customers and the consumer can transact with confidence in a digital world. And natural offshoots of that would be going into areas like marketing and fraud.

So when I look at the growth that we're experiencing outside of credit in the most recent quarter, we're seeing good growth coming from our marketing suite of products. And that's a couple of years' worth of effort in replatforming product, our TruAudience product, also just changing our go-to-market strategy as well, too. It's starting to yield some very significant benefits for us.

Our trusted call solutions is another area that I would highlight. This is a business that we expect to generate about $150 million in revenue in 2025. Just 3 years ago, this was a $50 million business for us. And what in essence is doing is it's bringing the voice channel back into interactions with consumers. I don't answer my mobile if I don't recognize the number. So we're bringing trust back into that area, growing significantly, there's international applicability to it. So we could take this outside the U.S. So there's a lot of momentum going there.

I'd highlight another area would be our FactorTrust database. It's not core credit. It's a short-term lending credit bureau that we have. And we used that as a proof of concept for our transformation or tech modernization. And in the most recent quarter, we saw 20% growth out of that. And that area fuels a lot of the good growth that we see in financial services, consumer lending. So just another good example of innovation.

And yes, I'll leave it at those 3.

And then for pricing, so you get 5 points of growth from pricing in U.S. markets. How much of that is FICO? And how much of that is other pricing initiatives?

Yes. So as far as pricing initiatives that TransUnion undertakes, I mean, we have a regular process on an annual basis. We look at our pricing and we pass regular increases on a CPI, CPI plus type of outlook. The vast majority of the price increase, though, is in mortgage just because of the magnitude of what the FICO price increase was. But I don't want you to take away from this that we don't have pricing power because we do. We just haven't taken it to the extent that one of our partners did.

And then there's a change in the market where FICO is offering an option where resellers can buy directly from FICO instead of buying from the bureaus. How will that impact your business and your financials?

Well, I think it provides us with a tremendous opportunity to put the value back on the data as opposed to on the score. So if you think about any type of scoring algorithm, it doesn't work unless there's data behind it. So our approach towards this new price dynamic that's been introduced in the market is we're going to put all the value on the data where we feel that it rightfully belongs. So that's been our primary focus with this.

And then you also think about what TransUnion does with the data and what it enables. And to expand on that, we're creating credit files on consumers. So there's a lot of expertise linking and matching to pull disparate pieces together to create a comprehensive file on the consumer. We have cybersecurity issues that we have to make certain that we're safeguarding this data asset that we're entrusted with.

We have regulatory obligations as well being a credit reporting agency. We have -- as an example, we have to handle consumer inbounds if they have a dispute on their credit report. So all of those things are critical part of being a credit reporting agency that any type of score is going to benefit from that infrastructure.

But before we get to the opportunity for VantageScore adoption within mortgage, I guess, do you make yourself whole on the bundled pricing because of the value of the data? Or is there any impact on your 2026 or go-forward financials from the changes that FICO has enacted?

Yes. So the way that probably the best way to think about this would be just the pricing that we've put into the market. If I look at the pricing that we have in place in 2025, a credit report plus FICO in one bundle or a credit report plus VantageScore in another bundle, we have those priced exactly the same today. Now clearly, there's not many people using VantageScore, but we do have them priced the same.

When we go into 2026, that same bundle of the credit report and VantageScore will carry the same price. So there's really no price increase going on there. But where the price increase is happening is TransUnion received a $10 royalty now or will receive in 2026 from FICO. So our approach is to pass that expense on to our customer and charge a processing fee. And the processing fee is really a reflection of all the things that I just talked about, about what a credit reporting agency does and the value that we have.

So what we've been solving for with all of this is to protect our profit dollars related to this change. So what I would expect as we go forward and VantageScore hasn't been adopted. The GSEs haven't set it up yet. What that will mean for us is the status quo as we go into 2026. We'll have higher revenue because we're going to pass through the FICO score as well as the processing fee, but our margin percentage will be a little bit lower and the -- but the margin dollars will be protected.

Now what happens is if -- as we move forward and if there's migration to the VantageScore, what we'll see happen is we'll generate less revenue because we're no longer going to pass through the $10 royalty to the -- to our end customer. And then we'll have the VantageScore on there. So we'll have a higher profit margin in that scenario. So these are going to be important dynamics as we get into 2026. And when we have our earnings call -- our next earnings call in February, we will clearly lay all of this out so you can understand.

What if a customer just goes to the tri-merge reseller the bundler and if they're buying the FICO score from FICO instead of you, is that a revenue headwind to you?

It would be a revenue headwind to us, but it would be accretive to our margin percentage in that scenario.

And what are the most important steps to driving adoption of VantageScore, uptake of VantageScore for mortgage where the market now for the first time is a choice in the conforming market?

Right. So the first thing that has to happen is the GSEs, so Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae need to change their systems. And it's called the loan level price adjustment matrix that they need to change, right? And they're working on that right now because up until this point, that's only been set up to accept FICO. So this is a big change once we're hopefully sometime in early 2026, that will be in place, that will enable our customers to be able to use the VantageScore. While that's going on our lenders, the lender customers also need to change their origination systems. So they can work on accepting the VantageScore as well, too. So those -- I would say that those are the 2 biggest things that need to happen.

And I would say from a Vantage adoption perspective, where we're proactively working with our customers is just to show the predictive -- the better predictive power of VantageScore. The VantageScore is based on trended data, so not a point in time. And if you follow TransUnion, we're the pioneers in credit -- trended credit data. And so that's a huge uptick because if you think about just using point-in-time data, it doesn't give you a full picture of how a consumer is performing.

So the VantageScore picks up that trended data. It also picks up alternative data as well, too. And what alternative data simply means is noncredit data. So think about -- a good example of that would be rental data as a consumer paying their rent on time. So what we see with VantageScore is we could score about 33 million more consumers than what we could see with the FICO score because of the dynamics that I just went through.

But that's relative to classic FICO, not relative.

Correct.

FICO 10T. How does Vantage perform relative to FICO 10T?

And unfortunately, we haven't been able to do that test yet. And from what we're hearing is it's forthcoming. Obviously, FICO is claiming that it's a stronger score. We just haven't been able to validate it to this point.

And are there other reasons, I guess, to use VantageScore? Or we'll just have to wait and see the data once like there's a bake-off relative to 10T? Price is the big one.

Well, I don't know -- I think it's a better score. Price will be a component of it. But the way we're leading is just the better predictive power of the score is really what we want the differentiator to be.

Got it. 2025 margins based on guidance are around 2022 margins, and you've had 2 years now of high single-digit organic underlying growth. Normally, when you have that kind of growth, you see margin expansion. Is there something that's different about the incremental margin model today? Or what are you incrementally investing in?

Yes, sure. So I'm going to take you back a couple of years ago to answer your question. So 2 years ago, we announced a transformation program to optimize our organizational model as well as to modernize our technology. We said it was a 2-year program. We'd spend up to about $375 million. We're wrapping that up. As part of that transformation -- part of that program, we enjoyed a 90 basis point increase in margin in 2024. So we went from 35.1% to 36% and as part of the program, it was always our intention that 2025 was going to be limited. The reason for that is the first leg of the margin expansion really came from us working on our org design and leveraging our global capability centers to standardize and centralize processes.

So we did that work largely in 2024, but our tech modernization needed all of 2025 to get that completed. So there's another $35 million worth of cost savings that we will secure at the end of 2025 at the conclusion of the program as we complete it. Now when we -- the tech transformation, we will stop the onetime spending, so no more non-GAAP adjustments as we go into 2026. However, the piece that's remaining is our customer migration in the U.S. And we want to handle that with the utmost care.

So we've decided to push the time line out to completion until Q2 of 2026. But we're going to do that, delivering the same $35 million of cost savings as well as doing things like we also committed to lowering our capital expenditures from 8% of revenue down to 6% of our revenue. In essence, what we're doing is we're running -- we're going to run 2 operating environments to make certain that we get the customer migration right. So we've been able to secure cost savings elsewhere in the business to be able to still live to the financial commitments that we gave 2 years ago.

So that gets -- we're at 36% this year. We made a small acquisition. But if you remember back in February, we actually guided at 36.2%. So when I look at this organically, excluding an acquisition, a small acquisition we made, we are putting up 20 basis points on an organic basis. As we go forward into 2026, the expectation is the cost saves from the program I just talked about, plus some other organic initiatives will give us some margin expansion opportunities.

However, the dynamics that we just talked through with the mortgage pricing is an important one to think through as far as what the -- maybe the margin percentage impact will be in 2026, not the dollars, dollars will be protected, but just the margin percentage. And it's all going to pertain to adoption of either the VantageScore or in the example, the question you asked, Jeff, about the reseller calculating the FICO score themselves, right? So there'll be some scenarios to walk through when we get to our February earnings call.

And when you said solid margin expansion in '26, is that on an organic basis before considering the accounting-driven margin headwind from the Mexico acquisition. Talk through the implications to margins from the Mexico acquisition.

Yes, for sure. So TransUnion today owns a little bit less than 26% of the largest credit bureau in Mexico. In January, we announced an acquisition of that business. We're currently going through the regulatory approval process. We're expecting the transaction to either close here in the late fourth quarter, more than likely, though, in the first quarter.

As part of owning a little bit less than 26% of the business, we have been accounting for that business under the equity method. So what that means is we've been picking up minority interest. And that's been benefiting our EBITDA. So when you think about when we make the acquisition, we will be able to consolidate 100% of the revenue, but we'll -- when we get the entire EBITDA, there's already a piece that we have. So we'll need to adjust for that. And again, when we close, we will make certain that, that's very clear and lay out all the moving pieces on that.

Are you going to be an AI winner? Or is AI a risk factor for you?

We think that we are going to be an AI winner for sure. I mean machine learning has been at the heart of what TransUnion has done for a long time and how we're able to leverage what we have to drive product innovation as well as operational efficiencies, we see just a tremendous amount of opportunities.

On the revenue side of things, just some early wins we've seen have been in our fraud suite of products, helping to detect synthetic fraud or something called credit washing, in essence, where a consumer disputes a credit -- a trade line on their file and it's pulled and then they go apply for credit when they don't have that dispute on there.

If you think about the unique position we're in where we're able to see all of that, AI plays a pretty cool role in enabling us to detect those types of things. So that's just an example. There's a whole host of others that are on our OneTru platform. From an operational perspective, just a tremendous amount of opportunity as far as how we interact, make interactions with consumers easier by leveraging AI. We have a lot of touch points with consumers that maybe we can have them be a lot more self-service, which I think they would appreciate as well as in our OneTru environment, we're using it today with something called OneTru Assist, which, in essence, is enabling our developers to speak to clean up code or to modify code. So not enough time to go through, but there's other examples.

Any revenue or data sources that you have that are more reliant upon the aggregation of publicly available data that you're watching from a risk perspective?

I would say, for the most part, that our data assets are unique to us. And the value really is being able to pull together that data around a common ID. And when you think about the credit header, what sits on top of a credit report, the indicative information on a consumer, that, in essence, we're able to leverage to be able to piece disparate pieces together, and that's really what I think differentiates us.

Got it. Thank you.

Thank you.

That's all that we have for questions in this room. Todd and the team will be available for a follow-up now in the Oak room. Please join me in thanking the team.

Good day, and welcome to the TransUnion's Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Greg Bardi, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Good morning, and thank you for attending today. Joining me on the call are Chris Cartwright, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Todd Cello, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. We posted our earnings release and slides to accompany this call on the TransUnion Investor Relations website this morning, and this can also be found in the current report on Form 8-K that we filed this morning.

Our earnings release and the accompanying slides include various schedules, which contain more detailed information about revenue, operating expenses and other items as well as certain non-GAAP disclosures and financial measures along with the corresponding reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures. Today's call will be recorded and a replay will be available on our website. We will also be making statements during the call that are forward-looking. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements because of factors discussed in today's earnings release in the comments made during this conference call and in our most recent Form 10-K, Forms 10-Q and other reports and filings with the SEC. We do not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statement.

With that, let me turn it over to Chris.

Thanks, Greg. During the third quarter, TransUnion again exceeded all key guidance metrics and achieved its seventh consecutive quarter of high single-digit organic revenue growth. These results demonstrate the growing momentum of our innovation-led strategy. I want to outline 4 key highlights from the quarter. First, we delivered market-leading and diversified growth with revenue increasing by 11% on an organic constant currency basis, excluding the significant breach remediation win from last year, which represents our strongest underlying performance since 2024.

Second, we are raising our 2025 guidance across all metrics, reflecting our strong third quarter performance stable lending trends in the U.S. and new business wins. U.S. lending conditions continue to be solid, characterized by modest GDP growth, still strong employment, stable delinquencies and lower interest rates and manageable inflation, and this is despite emerging concerns regarding a slowing labor market and stress first for lower-income consumers.

Third, we advanced our technology modernization with successful migration of our first U.S. credit customers. OneTru is accelerating our pace of innovation in credit and noncredit products. We remain on track to achieve our remaining structural cost savings in 2026 as anticipated. And fourth, we accelerated our share repurchases to take advantage of highly attractive valuation levels. During the third quarter, in October, we repurchased $160 million in shares, bringing the year-to-date total to $200 million.

Additionally, we increased our share repurchase authorization to $1 billion underscoring our commitment to delivering value to shareholders. Further details on each of these highlights are discussed below. Now our third quarter results demonstrate effective execution against our growth playbook, with strength evident across our solutions, our verticals and our geographies. U.S. markets delivered 13% organic constant currency revenue growth when excluding last year's breach win. Financial Services grew 19% or 12% excluding mortgage, reflecting continued broad-based outperformance in a stable and modestly growing market.

Emerging Verticals accelerated to 7.5%, their strongest growth since 2022. Our noncredit solutions, which account for over half of U.S. markets revenue grew 8%. We -- these results reflect the emerging commercial benefits across our vertical markets from our accelerating innovation in credit marketing, fraud and communications. Now international revenue grew by 6% on an organic constant currency basis. Canada, the U.K. and Africa all exceeded expectations and achieved double-digit growth despite muted economic conditions in each market. India grew 5%, slightly below our outlook as new tariffs impacted U.S. export-dependent small- and medium-sized businesses, which tempered the pace of lending recovery. We now expect high single-digit revenue growth in India in the fourth quarter. On a positive note, we experienced some volume improvement in the first days of the festival season in late September and early October. This is supported by further pro growth actions from the RBI and the Indian government. Todd will provide a comprehensive review of our results in just a minute.

Now looking ahead, we're raising our 2025 outlook based on our strong third quarter results, stable U.S. lending trends and our continued commercial momentum. Our guidance raise maintains a prudently conservative approach, which offers likely upside if current lending conditions continue. Now at the high end of guidance, we now expect 8% organic constant currency revenue growth or 9% excluding last year's large breach win. 9% adjusted EBITDA growth and 9% adjusted diluted earnings per share growth. Excluding the 400 basis point impact of a higher tax rate in 2025 and our results show another year of double-digit EPS growth, supported by our consistent execution and the strength of our diversified and resilient portfolio. Now we continue to advance our technology modernization to drive cost savings, accelerate innovation and enable sustainable growth. In the third quarter, we completed the migration of our first U.S. credit customers key milestone. We're enabling these clients with faster processing speeds and seamless access to our newest innovations, including TruIQ analytics.

Additionally, we expanded our dual run program for key customers. We're partnering closely with our customers to ensure smooth transitions ahead of a full migration. And by year-end, we expect OneTru to power a critical mass of our run rate U.S. Credit volume and revenue. and we plan to complete all U.S. migrations by mid-2026. Over the year, we identified incremental third-party spend and other internal savings to deliver our targeted savings for 2026 and allow additional time to complete U.S. credit migrations.

In '26, we expect to deliver $35 million of operating expense savings and reduced capital expenditures to 6% of revenue. We will leverage these savings to drive margin expansion in '26 and fund growth investments. We anticipate no technology-related onetime expense add-backs in 2026. Next year, our technology modernization will shift to our international markets. We've launched True IQ analytic platform in Canada, the U.K. and India in 2025. Next year, we plan to export other entree enabled solutions to these markets and start modernizing the core credit capabilities across Canada, the U.K. [indiscernible]

OneTru is our definition platform. and we expect to fund these migrations through normal operations, driving additional savings in 2027 and beyond while diffusing our innovative solutions globally. Now our technology modernization is enabling commercial success across our solutions. We see new products rapidly gaining market traction, and we've built a robust innovation pipeline to fuel our next phase of growth.

FactorTrust has delivered exceptional results. We secured multiple new wins in the quarter and continue to expand the pipeline. FactorTrust has been a key driver of outperformance in our consumer lending business throughout the year. and we anticipate roughly 20% growth from FactorTrust in 2025. TruIQ data enrichment launched on Snowflake with the first few live customers. The Snowflake partnership expands the market opportunity for data enrichment and underscores our commitment to meet customers wherever their data lives. Data enrichment has quickly become one of our most successful recent product launches. In fraud, we experienced strong demand for our newest synthetic fraud models and credit washing solutions. These new tools are built on OneTru and leverage our augmented identity graph which now includes integrated public records and delivers better fraud signals.

With OneTru, we're beginning to penetrate the large and fast-growing global market for advanced fraud analytics. We're accelerating growth in our marketing suite as well, driven by strong demand for our enhanced cloud-based identity resolution and audience activation capabilities. Over the last few years, we streamlined our marketing suite down from 87 products across 6 separate platforms into a single integrated marketing platform on OneTru. This integrated solution improves performance and simplifies our product portfolio for sellers and customers.

Trusted call solutions continues to scale with new customer wins and ongoing capability enhancements. We expect to deliver over $150 million in revenue in 2025, a 30%-plus increase year-over-year, and we also continue to pursue global expansion opportunities for TCS. And in Consumer Solutions, our freemium model is increasing in users and offers available. We're also migrating our indirect customers globally onto a new platform that combines our credit education identity protection and financial offers behind a single set of APIs.

OneTru brings together our unique data within a single workflow platform. making it easier to deploy AI solutions across use cases and at scale. And TU is well positioned for AI-led growth. Our credit solutions are based on proprietary data contributed by thousands of individual furnitures. This data is not publicly available and can only be gathered and utilized within demanding regulatory frameworks. Our noncredit solutions also are developed from data gathered from tens of thousands of sources, many unique to TransUnion and then combined with proprietary data exhaust from our fraud and marketing solutions. This vast ray of data fuels our credit, fraud and marketing predictive models, which already use advanced machine learning and AI to boost accuracy and to facilitate actions based on their better predictions.

And increasingly, TransUnion will capture value with AI agents by performing work currently done by internal client teams or automation upstream from our data and analytics. And our most AI-enabled customers already consume more of our data than our traditional customers, and they adopt our newer solutions more rapidly. So we are actively leveraging AI across the enterprise to drive faster product development to enhance customer experience and improve ops efficiency.

Internally, OneTru Assist and OneTru AI studio are driving productivity gains for our software developers and data scientists but also for nontechnical teams. Within the OneTru [indiscernible] platform, Agentic AI is enhancing core processes such as data onboarding, ID resolution, analytics and delivery. And at the product level, we're embedding AI into our solutions, including role-based agents for TruIQ analytics, our next-generation fraud detection model and advanced consumer behavioral analytics in our marketing suite.

So in summary, the tech modernization is driving rapid innovation and ops efficiency, but it's also positioning us to lead in the next phase of AI-driven growth. Our strong earnings and solid balance sheet have enabled us to boost capital returns for our shareholders. In the third quarter and October, we ramped up share repurchases to $160 million, increasing our total for the year to $200 million, and this reflects our ongoing commitment to shareholder value. The board recently raised our share repurchase authorization to $1 billion and we believe buying back shares is especially attractive given our current market valuation.

Now with that, I'll hand it over to Todd.

Thanks, Chris, and let me add my welcome to everyone. As Chris mentioned, we exceeded guidance across all key financial metrics in the third quarter, driven by U.S. Financial Services and Emerging Verticals. Consolidated revenue increased 8% on a reported and 7% on an organic constant currency basis. The [indiscernible] acquisition added 0.5% to growth. The foreign currency impact was immaterial. Excluding the comparison to last year's large breach remediation win, organic constant currency growth was 11%. Mortgage contributed 3 points to growth. Adjusted EBITDA increased 8% with margin at 36.3%, above our 35.6% to 36.2% guidance due to revenue flow-through.

Adjusted diluted earnings per share was $1.10, $0.06 ahead of the high end of our guidance and an increase of 6%. In the third quarter, we incurred $34 million of onetime charges related to our transformation program, $12 million for operating model optimization and $22 million for technology transformation. Cumulative onetime transformation expenses total $49 million, and we remain on track and within budget for our $355 million to $375 million in onetime expenses by the end of 2025.

Looking at segment financial performance for the third quarter. U.S. markets revenue was up 7% on an organic constant currency basis versus the prior year or 13% excluding the impact of last year's large breach win. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 38.4%, up 70 basis points due to revenue flow-through and lower product costs compared to the prior year. Financial Services revenue grew 19% or 12% excluding mortgage. In the U.S. consumers remain resilient with still low unemployment and positive wage growth and lenders well positioned with adequate capital and healthy credit performance.

Our growth reflects strong performance against the favorable and stable market backdrop. We continue to outperform the market by driving new business wins across our solution suites. Credit card and banking rose 5% against modestly improving online volumes. We continue to see good sales momentum with trusted call solutions and alternative data.

Consumer lending grew 17%, driven by healthy marketing and origination activity from fintech and point-of-sale lenders. FactorTrust also delivered another strong quarter. Auto grew 16%, driven by pricing as well as growth in communications and marketing solutions. We saw an uptick in activity in the quarter including increased electric vehicle sales in September ahead of the expiration of the federal EV tax credit. We anticipate volumes to normalize in the fourth quarter.

Mortgage revenue grew 35% on flat inquiry volumes, benefiting from third-party scores pricing and non tri-bureau revenue. Mortgage now represents 12% of trailing 12-month revenue. Emerging Verticals grew 7.5%, led by double-digit growth in insurance. other verticals accelerated as well, driven by strength in trusted call solutions, marketing and specialized risk, tax retail and e-commerce and collections posted double-digit growth.

Media & Communications grew mid-single digits and tenant and employment grew low single digits. Public sector declined due to revenue timing. In Insurance, we delivered another strong quarter. Consumer shopping remains elevated credit-based marketing activity continues to normalize as insurers benefit from improved rate adequacy complemented by new wins in our modern marketing solutions. Commercial momentum continued in core credit and driving history products as well as trusted call solutions.

Turning to Consumer Interactive. Revenue declined 18% on an organic constant currency basis due to last year's breach remediation win. Excluding this impact, Consumer Interactive grew mid-single digits with growth in both the direct and indirect channels. For my comments about International, all revenue growth comparisons will be in organic constant currency terms. For the total segment, revenue grew 6%. Canada and the U.K. delivered double-digit growth, demonstrating our ability to outgrow market volumes in our most mature markets.

Africa and the Philippines also grew double digits. Other markets, including India, Latin America and Hong Kong experienced below-trend market volumes and growth rates. Adjusted EBITDA margin for our International segment was 43.2%. Looking at the specifics for each region. India grew 5%, slightly below our expectations as recent trade actions tempered the pace of volume recovery. We now anticipate the high single-digit revenue growth in India in the fourth quarter.

In late 2023 and throughout 2024, the Reserve Bank of India took actions to slow lending by tightening regulations and targeting lower loan-to-deposit ratios industry-wide. These actions included temporary bands of several nonbanking finance companies. Volumes troughed in the fourth quarter of 2024 with gradual improvement throughout 2025. We Conditions overall are favorable with manageable delinquencies and modest inflation.

The RBI lowered rates by 100 basis points throughout 2025 and lifted lending bands on the impacted nonbanking finance company. The recovery has been measured. Loan-to-deposit ratios are still modestly elevated and non-bank finance companies have conservatively returned to the market. Lenders are prioritizing existing customers and lower volume, higher notional loans over new-to-credit opportunities. These dynamics have underpinned our guidance throughout the year.

Recent U.S. tariffs of 50% on Indian imports, however, introduced uncertainty and has dampened commercial lending particularly to small and medium-sized businesses in export-oriented sectors. This has resulted in new pressures on CapEx, employment and credit demand. On a positive note, the Indian government recently enacted tax reforms and the RBI proposed further regulatory easing to support lenders and stimulate growth.

Volumes in the early festive season in late September and early October, while still dampened from tariff effects showed some improvement. We will monitor ongoing trends. From a TransUnion perspective, we continue to deliver double-digit growth in business wins and new product introductions, outperforming the broader market and our competitors. We remain highly confident in India's robust long-term growth potential. Our U.K. business grew 11%. Our strongest performance since 2022 driven by healthy volumes from our largest banking customers and new business wins across verticals. We also continue to expand our consumer indirect offering to new partners now serving over 27 million U.K. consumers. Canada also grew 11%.

We drove innovation-led share gains across financial services, telco, insurance and auto as well as new and expanded wins in fintech and Consumer Indirect. Latin America revenue was flat amid softer economic and lending conditions. Colombia delivered modest growth despite political uncertainty that weighed on government revenues and lending activity. Brazil declined as we lapped one-time project revenue.

Our other Latin America countries grew modestly, impacted by consumer uncertainty linked to recent trade and immigration policies. Strategic campaigns and innovation-led wins offset some of the near-term volume pressures in the region. Asia Pacific declined 8%. The Philippines remain strong, but Hong Kong faced a soft economic backdrop. We also lapped onetime consulting revenue from the prior year. Finally, Africa increased 12% and with broad-based growth across financial services, retail and insurance.

Turning to the balance sheet. We ended the quarter with $5.1 billion of debt and $750 million of cash on the balance sheet. Our leverage ratio at quarter end declined to 2.7x as we continue to push toward our long-term target of under 2.5x. Our strengthening free cash flow and ongoing natural delevering positions us to accelerate capital returns to shareholders. We repurchased $160 million in shares in the third quarter and October, bringing the year-to-date total to $200 million.

We remain on track to complete the Mexico acquisition in late 2025 or early 2026, which will be funded with cash on hand and debt. We look forward to adding Mexico to our leading global portfolio and bringing our state-of-the-art technology, innovative solutions and industry expertise to Mexican consumers and businesses.

Turning to guidance. As Chris mentioned, we are raising our full year outlook, reflecting strong third quarter results, stable U.S. lending conditions and new business wins. Our guidance remains prudently conservative. If current conditions continue, we expect to deliver results at or above the high end of our guidance range. That brings us to our outlook for the fourth quarter. FX impact is expected to be minimal to both revenue and adjusted EBITDA. We expect our [ Monevo ] acquisition to contribute roughly 1% to revenue. We expect revenue to be between $1.119 and $1.139 billion, up 7% to 9% on an organic constant currency basis.

Our revenue guidance includes 2 points of tailwind from mortgage. In the fourth quarter, mortgage inquiries are expected to increase modestly. We expect adjusted EBITDA to be between $393 million and $407 million, up 4% to 8%. We expect an adjusted EBITDA margin of 35.1% to 35.8% and down 70 to 130 basis points. We expect our adjusted EBITDA margin in the second half of the year to be roughly 36%, consistent with the first half of the year and full year expectations. We expect our adjusted diluted earnings per share to be between $0.97 and $1.02, down 1% to up 5%.

Turning to the full year. We anticipate FX to be immaterial to revenue and adjusted EBITDA and the Monevo acquisition to contribute 0.5% to revenue. We expect revenue of between $4.54 billion and $4.4 billion. We expect organic constant currency revenue growth of 8% and an increase from our prior guidance of 6% to 7%. Excluding mortgage, we expect organic constant currency growth of 5% to 6%. These growth rates include a 1% headwind in from last year's breach win comparison. Specific to our segment organic constant currency assumptions, we expect U.S. markets to be up high single digits or mid-single digits, excluding mortgage.

We now anticipate financial services to be up mid-teens or roughly 10%, excluding mortgage. We expect mortgage revenue to increase by nearly 30% against modest declines in mortgage inquiries. We expect emerging verticals to be up mid-single digit. We anticipate Consumer Interactive decreasing low single digit, but increasing low single digit when excluding the impact of last year's large breach win. We now anticipate international growing mid-single digits.

Turning back to the total company outlook. We expect adjusted EBITDA to be between $1.62 billion and $1.637 billion, up 8% to 9%, an increase from our prior guidance of 5% to 7% that would result in an adjusted EBITDA margin of 35.9% to 36.0%, down 10 basis points to flat. The anticipated adjusted diluted earnings per share to be $4.19 to $4.25, up 7% to 9%, also an increase from prior guidance of 3% to 6% growth. Our expected adjusted diluted earnings per share growth reflects strong double-digit underlying performance, excluding a 400 basis headwind from a higher tax rate in 2025, we expect depreciation and amortization to be approximately $570 million.

We expect the portion excluding step-up amortization from our 2012 change in control and subsequent acquisitions to be about $285 million as technology modernization initiatives go into production and start to depreciate. We anticipate net interest expense will be about $200 million for the full year. and we expect our adjusted tax rate to be approximately 26.5%. Capital expenditures are expected to be about 8% of revenue.

We continue to expect to incur $100 million to $120 million in onetime charges in 2025 related to the last year of our transformation program. Given those investments, we expect our free cash flow conversion as a percentage of adjusted net income to be 70% in 2025 before improving to 90% plus in [ 2026. ]

I will now turn the call back to Chris for closing remarks.