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Good morning, and welcome to S and P Global's Second Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. I'd like to inform you that this call is being recorded for broadcast. All participants are in a listen only mode. We will open the conference to questions and answers after the presentation and instructions will follow at that time. To access the webcast and slides, go to investor.spglobal.com.

I would now like to introduce Mr. Mark Grant, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations for S and P Global. Sir, you may begin.

Good morning, and thank you for joining today's S and P Global second quarter twenty twenty five earnings call. Presenting on today's call are Martina Chung, President and Chief Executive Officer and Eric Abouaf, Chief Financial Officer. We issued a press release with our results earlier today. In addition, we have posted a supplemental slide deck with additional information on our results and guidance. If you need a copy of the release and financial schedules or the supplemental deck, they can be downloaded at investor.spglobal.com.

The matters discussed in today's conference call may contain forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including projections, estimates and descriptions of future events. Any such statements are based on current expectations and current economic conditions and are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from results anticipated in these forward looking statements. Additional information concerning these risks and uncertainties can be found in our Forms 10 ks and 10 Q filed with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

In today's earnings release and during the conference call, we are providing non GAAP adjusted financial information. This information is provided to enable investors to make meaningful comparisons of the company's operating performance between periods and to view the company's business from the same perspective as management. The earnings release contains financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP that corresponds to the non GAAP measures we are providing, and the press release and the supplemental deck contain reconciliations of such GAAP and non GAAP measures. The financial metrics we will be discussing today refer to non GAAP adjusted metrics unless explicitly noted otherwise. I would also like to call your attention to certain European regulations.

Any investor who has or expects to obtain ownership of 5% or more of S and P Global should contact Investor Relations to better understand the potential impact of this legislation on the investor and the company. We are aware that we have some media representatives with us on the call. However, this call is intended for investors and we would ask that questions from the media be directed to our media relations team whose contact information can be found in the press release. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Martina Chung. Martina?

Thank you, Mark. We're pleased with the strong results we saw in the second quarter this year. Revenue increased 6% year over year with subscription revenue increasing 7%. We are balancing important strategic investments with disciplined expense management, which allowed us to deliver 150 basis points of trading twelve month margin expansion. We continue our track record of very strong capital returns, returning nearly $950,000,000 to shareholders in the second quarter through dividends and share repurchases.

Impressive financial results like these are the result of consistent execution across our divisions, but we are particularly pleased with the results we're seeing from our Market Intelligence division, which saw an acceleration to 7% organic constant currency revenue growth and more than 200 basis points of margin expansion in the quarter. The new leadership team in Market Intelligence has made real progress on a revenue transformation effort, and we are seeing the impact across the global book of business. They have also linked arms with our Chief Client Office and embraced the opportunity to help each other engage more deeply with large customers, as I'll discuss in more detail shortly. We also continue to see strong growth in private markets revenue and we'll provide an update on our efforts in our ratings business today as well. We are pushing forward in exciting ways to expand our leadership in artificial intelligence.

In the last few months, we've introduced a number of exciting new products, but also reached meaningful milestones with hyperscale partners to expand distribution of our differentiated data and thought leadership content, while still preserving our intellectual property and direct customer relationships. Before I move into the deeper discussion of our results, I wanted to provide a quick update on the mobility separation we announced last quarter. We are excited to announce that Bill Eager, currently CEO of CARFAX, has been named the President of S and P Global Mobility and the CEO Designate for the planned standalone public company. Bill is a tremendous leader with over twenty years of experience at CARFAX, and we look forward to introducing him to investors and analysts at the appropriate time. Edward Tavernier will remain on as a strategic advisor through September 30.

Edward has been a great partner in our executive leadership team since the merger with IHS Markit. We want to thank him for the incredible leadership and vision he has provided for the Mobility division over the years and wish him all the best going forward. Shifting to what we're seeing in the markets and the business now. I want to begin with the momentum we've created in our commercial team so far this year. We created the Chief Client Office as part of our leadership transition late last year, and we have seen a very promising first couple of quarters.

The CCO is focused on making sure that our largest strategic customer accounts view S and P Global as an essential partner in their success. Currently, about 130 customers are part of our CCO initiative, and we will continue to add customers selectively over time. We're maintaining some flexibility as we continue to learn, but the ultimate goal will be to capture the largest and most strategic relationships we have while making sure we can still provide individualized attention to these accounts and keep the team relatively small. We've strengthened relationships at the C suite with these customers, and we've established efficient communication channels with dedicated reps who can help address any subject across all divisions. We continue to focus on increasing awareness with these customers and making sure that they know everything that we can do for them.

This is especially impactful when we can align our world class products with the strategic priorities of our customers like private markets, wealth management, AI and energy transition. In recent months, we've been able to demonstrate that value clearly to a number of customers, evidenced by a $20,000,000 multiyear contract we signed for direct indexing in the wealth space and the multiyear strategic partnership we announced just last week with Barclays. That contract includes a comprehensive suite of S and P global products, data and solutions powered by Capital IQ Pro and will support Barclays businesses across the enterprise. I also wanted to provide an update on the transformation we're driving in our Market Intelligence division With 7% organic constant currency revenue growth in the second quarter, it's clear our initiatives are already bearing fruit. Sagata and his team have led a remarkable effort to align the product and commercial teams and improve sales execution and customer engagements.

With new leadership across the commercial organization, we have already seen the results of the discipline, operational excellence and focus on execution. We simplified sales programs to better align with our key priorities with respect to customer retention, new sales, pipeline performance and competitive wins. Beyond the headline financial metrics, we're also seeing further improvement in retention rates with our net renewal rates up more than one full percentage point year over year. Our deep engagement with customers is helping them to realize more value from S and P Global's products and allowing us to better realize the economics of that value while still improving win rates. Just to offer a few more examples in the second quarter alone.

In addition to the deals I already mentioned, the team closed a multimillion dollar deal with a large global technology company that included a 20% increase in annual contract value. Another multimillion dollar deal with a global investment bank that included a 25% increase at ACB and a multimillion dollar expansion deal with a large European bank. This is nowhere near a comprehensive list of wins in the quarter, but highlight the clear trends that we're seeing that our largest customers are looking for ways to consolidate vendors and they increasingly view S and P Global as a strategic partner that can help them do that. We're excited about what we're seeing in the division and remain confident in our ability to continue accelerating the organic growth and deliver the financial results we've guided to. These results are even more impressive given the uncertainty we saw to start the second quarter.

Build issuance declined 4% year over year in the second quarter. As noted in our last call, the issuance environment was negatively impacted by global trade and tariff uncertainty, especially in April. We saw market concerns moderate as we progressed through the quarter leading to better than expected build issuance. Bank loan build issuance was materially below the levels we saw in the second quarter of last year. Recall last year's second quarter included a triple digit increase in bank loan issuance, which we lapped this quarter.

Importantly, we saw some recovery in June, which was the second highest June we've seen since at least 2019 coming in just shy of last year's high watermark. Structured Finance was strong in the second quarter, though we did see a modest decline as we lapped a 60% growth quarter from last year. Equity markets were also stronger than we expected in the second quarter, with U. S. Equity markets rebounding quickly from the lows we saw in April.

We also benefited from strong net inflows for our indices and strong volumes in our exchange traded derivatives. As Eric will discuss in a moment, our outlook for the rest of the year assumes flat build issuance in the back half of the year and assumes that U. S. Equity markets are flat from June 30. To touch briefly on the broader macroeconomic picture, we're expecting one to two rate cuts from the U.

S. Fed in the second half of the year and we're expecting slow but positive GDP growth across all major economic zones. We're also expecting oil prices to be slightly lower in the back half compared to the first half with dated Brent crude expected to be in the mid-60s. Now turning to private credit. While private credit still represents a relatively small portion of our total ratings revenue, our private credit strategy is an important part of our broader private markets initiative.

Our total private markets revenue saw solid growth in the second quarter with the private credit component being a major driver of that growth. For decades, S and P has brought transparency, credibility and objective assessments of risk to the public debt markets, and we are focused on creating that same value in private credit markets. We offer an array of products in private markets, including middle market CLO ratings, fund ratings, structured credit ratings, entity ratings, credit estimates and private credit analysis. Crucial to our and our customer success of this market is the fact that our criteria and methodologies are consistent across public and private markets. When assessing private credit, utilize the same risk factors that we use to assess public market debt.

That consistency across public and private markets empowers us to create similar customer value and realize similar economics across those markets. That consistency is highly valued by the various important stakeholder groups we serve in private credit. We moved early several years ago to engage frequently and deeply with major private market participants to make sure we were well positioned to serve that market. We have very strong relationships with sponsors, bankers, institutional investors, and asset owners. These crucial stakeholders frequently reach out to S and P Global to leverage our expertise across the broad spectrum of risk, and we see incredible opportunities to further develop these relationships.

We have taken a global approach over the last several years as well. Even before the spike in private credit that began in 2022, we were engaging with stakeholders not just in The Americas, but also in Europe, The Middle East and in Asia. Regions outside The US and Europe have rapidly developing and evolving credit markets, and there is a growing interest in private markets. Now looking to the latest in our AI innovation. In the last few months, we've seen some incredible progress in our AI and data distribution strategy as we work with hyperscale partners across the ecosystem.

Through the introduction of AI ready datasets from all divisions, we're able to make our differentiated data available through hyperscale platforms around the world. We've made our renowned thought leadership content from commodity insights available through Copilot. And we announced a collaboration with Anthropic to integrate S and P Global datasets with Claude through the model context protocol or MCP. Through MCP, Claude users can access our proprietary datasets in real time during conversations, but only for S and P Global subscribers. Our data is not part of Anthropic's training data.

These are just two examples of the many Jenniei collaborations leveraging our model agnostic Kensho LLM Ready API. These integrations require customers to have subscriptions to these datasets from S and P Global, and we maintain both the intellectual property rights and the direct customer relationships. We're really excited about the growth opportunities these partnerships present as we look to give customers access to our data and products wherever they want to work. Ultimately, we may also see new customers accessing content over these channels. We also launched the GenAI powered Credit Companion for Ratings Direct on Capital IQ Pro.

Credit Companion has been fine tuned by our ratings analysts who use it in their own research work, and now Ratings Direct customers will have access to this powerful tool. Credit Companion was designed to enhance credit analysis workflows and powers comparative credit risk analysis between peers. It also provides intelligent summaries and insights from the vast library of published research. We're confident that Credit Companion can improve productivity and efficiency for our customers because we've seen it work for our own analysts already. We're also very excited about the innovation in the digital world space with our indices division.

We've recently developed the SPICE Index Builder, which gives professionals access to over 400,000 indices and enables them to create custom indices. While we've enabled custom indices for some time, the launch of an AI powered index builder can decrease the time to develop equity indices from an average of approximately one month down to two days. Lastly, our efforts to upscale and develop our people are showing incredible progress. When we first started talking about Spark Assist, our internally developed AI assistant, we noted that in its first few months, we had seen 14,000 of our people start to use the tool, representing about 30% of our workforce. In the years since then, we've seen that increase to more than 65% of our people globally actively using Spark assist.

Our people continue to build out new use cases and publish those Sparks to our internal Spark store so colleagues around the world can also use them. The number of Sparks on the store has more than doubled since February with well over 3,000 published Sparks now available to our people. These innovations are enhancing the productivity of our people in meaningful ways. This innovation is all part of a years long strategy we've had in place to build out this functionality with the ultimate goal of powering agentic ecosystems and really unlocking the potential of the data and technology we have at S and P Global. Building on the foundation of differentiated data, we've built an embedded powerful AI enablement tool through Kensho, and we now see GenAI enhancements are becoming a standard across our product portfolio.

The next evolution is true grounded AgenTic ecosystems, and we are looking forward to sharing the broader multiyear vision for S and P Global's AgenTic AI strategy at our Investor Day in November. Now turning to our financial results. Eric will walk through the second quarter results in more detail in a moment, but we've had a great first half of the year. In the second quarter, we had revenue growth in every division and our disciplined execution drove 150 basis points of margin expansion on a trailing twelve month basis. We're encouraged by the results so far and confident that we'll be able to deliver a strong second half as well. Eric, over to you.

Thank you, Martina, and good morning, everyone. Starting with Slide 13, you'll see on the left panel that despite the challenging operating environment experienced earlier in the quarter, we achieved relatively strong growth across all divisions. Reported and organic constant currency revenue each grew 6% and expenses grew 4% allowing us to deliver 70 basis points of margin expansion year over year and adjusted diluted EPS growth of 10%. As Martina mentioned earlier, we're confidently moving forward in our commercial initiatives and we're continuously innovating our products and services to meet the evolving needs of our customers. This was evident in our second quarter results and provides us with great momentum as we move into the 2025.

Slide 14 illustrates the progress we are making in key strategic growth areas. Energy transition sustainability revenue grew 7% to $93,000,000 in the quarter, driven by demand for data and insights from market intelligence and sustainability products in our Indices division. Growth was partially offset by the softness in demand for our consulting services and commodity insights, mainly driven by some of the regulatory uncertainty around energy and energy transition. While this represents a lower growth rate than we're used to in this product family, we remain confident in the long term growth for non carbon energy sources and we expect that this growth to reaccelerate as we get more clarity around the regulatory environment and its impact on the energy mix. Moving to private markets, revenue increased by 11% year over year to $148,000,000 As Martina mentioned, growth was driven by demand for middle market CLOs, ABS and project finance ratings as well as strength in private market solutions within market intelligence.

We continue to pursue the many opportunities in private credit and expect the ratings business to be the leading contributor to private markets revenue growth for the full year as well. I'm pleased to report we've achieved 95% of our targeted revenue synergies. We exited the second quarter with run rate revenue synergies of $332,000,000 and remain ahead of pace to achieve our target of $350,000,000 by 2026. Finally, we delivered a vitality index at or above our 10% target. In the second quarter, we saw contributions from new and enhanced products in every division and are pleased to see the financial impact of the product investments we've made in recent years.

Turning to our divisions. Market Intelligence reported revenue increased 5% in the second quarter, but organic constant currency growth was a strong 7%. As Martino mentioned earlier, this is the result of significant improvements to execution and customer engagement in the division and we're confident we'll be able to achieve the full year guidance we've reiterated today. Data Analytics and Insights reported revenue growth of 6% with organic revenue growth accelerating to 5% year over year. Second quarter revenue in the business line includes a net contribution from Visible Alpha less the lost revenue from the PrimeOne divestiture.

Enterprise Solutions benefited from strong demand for our subscription based offerings, including Wall Street Office and Notice Manager. Reported revenue growth of 2% includes the impact of 21,000,000 in Fincentric revenue in the year ago period. Excluding that impact, organic growth accelerated to 10% year over year. Credit and Risk Solutions grew 7% benefiting from demand for ratings data feeds that are catering to client needs for digitization and automation. Adjusted expenses increased 2% year over year, primarily driven by higher compensation and currency translation, but this was partially offset by the impact of divestitures I mentioned earlier and productivity savings.

This resulted in Market Intelligence's operating margin improving by two forty basis points to 35.3%. Finally, we anticipate that reported revenue growth will continue to accelerate in the 2025 as Market Intelligence lapsed cancellations from 2024 and the division benefits from the broader revenue transformation. Now turning to ratings on Slide 16. While tariff related concerns brought about considerable volatility in the debt capital markets in early April, As the quarter progressed, we saw an improvement in financing conditions, which led to a resurgence in issuance volumes. Ratings revenue increased 1% year over year, exceeding our internal expectations.

However, there was mixed performance among our revenue categories. Transaction revenue decreased by 4% in the second quarter as we saw softer demand relating to bank loan and structured finance ratings. This was partially offset by moderate growth in revenue related to high yield and investment grade issuance. Non transaction revenue increased 8%, primarily due to an increase in annual fee revenue. Our expectations for revenue growth in the back half of the year haven't materially changed, but flowing through the second quarter performance drives an increase in our full year financial guidance, and we now expect growth in the range of 2% to 5%.

Adjusted expenses increased 2% with investment spending mitigated by decreased performance related incentives. And now turning to commodity insights. Revenue increased 8% following the seventh consecutive quarter of double digit growth in Energy Resources, Data and Insights. Our two largest business lines, Price Assessments and Energy Resources, Data and Insights, each grew 10%. We continue to see commercial momentum as we transition more customers to enterprise contract relationships.

We're approximately a third of the way through the eligible customer base in that transition and expect to be nearly halfway through by year end. While we expect strong growth in both of these lines in the second half as well, we expect some modest headwinds in price assessments from incremental sanctions that have been introduced in recent weeks, which might cause a one to two percentage point headwind at most just in price assessments in the back half. Advisory and transactional services revenue grew 5%. Once again, we had a record quarter in Global Trading Services that was fueled by market volatility. However, the complexity of the energy market, regulatory environment and uncertain spending for many of our customers led to a decline in our consulting revenue in the quarter, which mitigated some of that GTS growth.

Upstream data and insights revenue grew 1% year over year as growth was impacted by elevated cancellations due to the customer consolidation we've seen in the energy space. As we discussed last quarter, softness in upstream is likely to continue. We expect slight revenue declines in the second half, which could persist into early next year as well. We're actively engaged with clients in accelerating product innovations to stabilize growth in this line going forward. Given the points around sanctions and upstream, we're modestly reducing our revenue guidance for Commodity Insights for the full year by 50 basis points.

We expect to manage expenses in a way that will allow us to still deliver the margin guidance we've reiterated this morning. Adjusted expenses increased 5% due to higher compensation costs and ongoing investment in growth offset by productivity initiatives. Operating profit for Commodity Insights increased 10% and operating margin improved by 130 basis points to 48.6%. Now turning to Mobility. Revenue increased 10% year over year.

The strength of the business model and the essential nature of the Mobility products is increasingly evident, allowing us to raise our full year forecast despite some lingering uncertainty around tariffs and manufacturing. Dealable revenue increased 11% year over year, driven by new business growth in products such as CARFAX and Automotive Mastermind. Manufacturing revenue grew 3% year over year, impacted by the low recall transactional revenue and sensitivity to tariff related uncertainty. Financials and other increased 12% as the business line continues to benefit from strong underwriting volumes and commercial momentum. Adjusted expenses increased 7%, driven by higher compensation and increased advertising investment we've called out previously.

Margins for the segment improved 140 basis points year over year to 42.3%. Finally, as we announced last quarter, we plan to separate the mobility business from S and P Global. We are on track to meet our key milestones and we'll keep investors updated on the progress of the separation. Now turning to S and P Dow Jones Indices. Revenue increased 15% primarily due to strong growth in asset linked fees, which benefited from higher AUM and strength in exchange traded derivative revenue.

Revenue associated with asset linked fees was up 17% in the second quarter. This was driven by higher ETF and mutual fund AUM, which benefited from both market appreciation and net inflows. Exchange traded derivatives revenue grew 15%, primarily driven by a 12% increase in average daily volumes across our product suite, including SPX and VIX CTDs. Data and custom subscriptions increased 8% year over year, driven by new business growth in NFA contracts, which saw mid teens growth for the second consecutive quarter and growth in our custom subscription offerings, partially offset by real time offerings. Adjusted expenses increased 12% year over year due to various factors including a normalization of bad debt expense, strategic investments and compensation expense.

Indices operating profit increased 16% and operating margin improved 60 basis points to 71.3%. Our outlook for 2025 assumes U. S. Equity markets are flat from June 30 through the end of the year and we expect modest year over year growth in ATDs. Now turning to guidance.

Slide '20 outlines our enterprise guidance on a GAAP and adjusted basis. We are now expecting total revenue growth in the range of 5% to 7% and continue to expect adjusted margins in the range of 48.5% to 49.5%. We remain confident in our ability to deliver solid revenue growth, strong margins and growth in adjusted EPS this year. As I'll discuss on the next slide, we do expect slightly higher growth in ratings, indices and mobility, partially offset by slightly lower growth in commodity insights. We now expect adjusted diluted EPS in the range of $17 to $17.25 in line with the initial guidance we provided back in February and representing 10% growth year over year at the high end.

Moving to our division outlook. Our revenue guidance for Market Intelligence is unchanged as we expect continued strong performance. For Ratings, based on the current expectation for Flash build issuance in the second half, we expect revenue growth of 2% to 5%, which is slightly higher than previous guidance given the outperformance in 2Q. For Indices, we've seen a strong recovery from the April equity market lows and now expect revenue growth back in line with our initial forecast of 8% to 10%. For mobility, we are slightly raising our outlook for the full year given the strength of our subscription business.

While we do expect some impact from the trade uncertainty in the manufacturing line, this is more than made up by the strength we're seeing in the dealerships and financials. We are lowering outlook slightly for commodity insights based on the external factors I described previously. On the next slide, we are reiterating the margin outlook for all five of our divisions. While we do expect somewhat higher revenue in ratings, mobility and indices, we also expect margin impact from the Austro divestiture and planned strategic investments that will drive future growth. With that, I'll turn the call back over to Mark for your questions.

Thank you, Eric. Operator, we will now take the first question.

Thank you. Our first question comes from Toni Kaplan with Morgan Stanley. You may ask your question.

Thank you. Really nice acceleration in the organic growth in MI this quarter up to 7%, really the highest we've seen in a while. You talked about a number of the steps that you took to drive it like the sales execution and simplifying the incentives there and the customer engagement. I was wondering if you could just talk about your ability to sustain that level of growth? I noticed you didn't raise the MI organic growth target for the year.

And also just wondering if AI contributed there and if you're able to share any sort of incremental revenue metrics or usage on AI? Thanks.

Hi, Toni. It's Martina. Thanks so much for the question.

Maybe just to start with some comments on the, I will call it, the revenue transformation that Sagat and his leadership team have implemented in Market Intelligence. I I break that down maybe into three areas. Firstly, starting with the overall structure and operating model for the commercial teams, reducing silos, for example, having clear account ownership. Those were some key changes that were implemented. On the incentive piece of it, the team actually took our incentive comp plans down from north of 60 to about 10.

And this was after a lot of consideration around buying patterns of customers. So it really reduces the amount of friction, if you like, that the sales teams are handling as they deal with with customers and engage with customers. And and the last point I would make, and I think there's been a really strong partnership here between the finance team under Eric as well as Sagada's leadership team, is really fine tuning the metrics that we focus on across market intelligence, whether it's ACV growth, competitive wins, new sales, NRR, etcetera. Now I think as it relates to the sustainability of this, we're certainly very encouraged by the strength of organic ACV growth. In the quarter, that was in line with both reported revenue and or and organic constant currency revenue, both of which accelerated.

So we're quite comfortable with that. We feel that execution is very strong, and it was not just sort of a one time thing or, you know, low hanging fruit. It was a really fundamental transformation of the the commercial teams, and I feel that's gonna win the day going forward. Now I think in terms of back half the year, we've also said, that we'd expect, lapping cancels from second half last year to have an impact on revenue growth as well, but we're really happy with the execution on this. Eric, is there anything you'd wanna add before I touch on AI?

I just say, Tony, that, you know, as Martina described, we're pleased with the execution first quarter, second quarter, but there are two more quarters to go. And, you know, the the performance that you've seen was in line with our budgets and plans, on a quarterly basis. And, that's why we've, we've kept our, our guidance as is. We're we're comfortable with it, but, you know, two more quarters to go here.

And, Tony, as it relates to GenAI, the MI team is is extremely innovative in this area. In the quarter, they launched actually six enhancements to customers around generative AI. Now, you know, we we don't disclose the numbers, but we do expect that to contribute to revenue over time. One thing that I was excited to see in the quarter from a Gen AI perspective is we told you in the last call that the team had acquired Pronto NLP. And in q two, they were very quickly able to launch GenAI driven filings analytics powered by Pronto NLP, which is already now available in express feed and on Snowflake.

And so, lots and lots of great innovation, very strong customer reception and adoption of the enhancements, that, the teams have launched both in q one and q two. And and I would say more to come in terms of how we think about scaling that going forward. Thanks for the question.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Faiza Alwy with Deutsche Bank. You may proceed.

You've had really strong margin and expense management this quarter, particularly Market Intelligence. And again, I understand you're not raising the margin guide, wanted to ask about what you're doing to achieve these better expenses or if there was, you know, something one time in the quarter that we should be mindful of.

Faiza, it's Eric. There are really two factors here. First, you know, as we described in some of our prepared remarks, we continue on driving productivity across our various divisions. I mentioned that in particular in MI and CI. It's true in ratings.

It's true in a number of different areas, and that's helping to control spend and create some room for for investments. At the same time, there is patterning of investment spending, in particular, in MI, just because of what we're launching on the product, region, sales side is is more back end loaded this year and, you know, are are important for us to to continue to drive growth on an ongoing basis. So a little bit of both cases or both drivers that that that you've seen here.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Scott Wirtzl with Wolfe Research. You may proceed.

Hey, good morning guys and thank you for taking my question. And I appreciate the commentary on the Chief Client Office. Just wanted to talk about that a little bit more. I'm wondering if you can maybe share a little bit more about your criteria for moving strategic clients into the Chief Client Office? Thanks.

Hey, Scott. It's Martina. Thanks so much for the question. Well, I mentioned that we have around 130 clients in the Chief Client Office. And specifically, we would think about we would think very selectively is how we're characterized in terms of additional clients we would add over a period of time.

This is group of clients that's managed by a reasonably tight team, And our goal there is really to deliver the best possible experience and, of course, partner with those clients for, value creation. And, we do that with a, you know, tightly knit team, that can provide deep and, independent and and individualized attention to those clients. So, you know, if I was to maybe characterize this as saying we'll be selective in how we add clients over time to this, we think there is a lot to be done. We've learned a ton in the first couple of quarters here, and there's a lot more to be done. We think some of the deals that we talked about, including the Barclays deal, for example, are really emblematic of the type of engagements that we're working on with these clients and continuing to see really good and strong momentum in strategic areas like direct indexing. Thanks for the question.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Ashish Sabadra with RBC Capital Markets. You may proceed.

For taking my question. Just wanted to follow-up on Thuli's question on MI. Obviously, pretty strong momentum. So just on the competitive wins, just wanted to better understand how these competitive displacement are driven by also products, if those are resonating much better with customer in addition to better execution? And then just maybe on Enterprise Solution, the 10% growth that we saw really strong acceleration there.

Can you provide more color about the puts and takes going forward? Thanks.

Hi, Ashish. This is Martina. Thanks for the question. I would say that we've seen pretty broad uptake from the competitive displacements across the full range of our products. And it is, I would say, coupled with the very strong execution from the sales teams.

And I think one of the things that's been quite remarkable was, Sagat and the leadership team's ability to put in place, single account ownership across the entire book. And so we see that being a combination of these additional intention and engagement as well as the ability to really, tell the story, very, very strongly with, with the incredible breadth and depth that we have. You know, I will say there have been a lot of, enhancements and additions that are really resonating. I'm very proud again of the teams who were able to get the visible alpha integration on Cap IQ Pro one quarter ahead, for example. That's been very, very well received by our clients.

And so it's it's broad based, I would say, and and execution oriented and delivered as well. Let me hand over to Eric on the enterprise solutions performance.

Ashish, I just add enterprise solution, you know, really should showed a good growth this quarter. Part of that was our workflow solution in Wall Street office, which is well regarded and was one of the reinvestments over the last couple years. And so that we're seeing a real significant product lift there. Notice manager was another breakout. And so it really shows as we reinvest in products, services, data functionality, the value we bring our clients and the take up we're getting. So we're quite pleased with the performance.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Alex Kramm with UBS. Your line is open.

Yes. Hey, good morning, everyone. Just a lengthy discussion from you, Martina, on the private credit side. Just wondering if you can talk a little bit more about your traction, in particular, when it comes to competitive dynamics. Obviously, a lot of it is still white space, I think.

So but also, we're hearing and seeing some of the smaller rating agencies a lot more active in that space so far. So just wondering how you think you can find the same leadership position in that market that you have, for example, on the public corporate side?

Hey, Alex. Thanks so much for the question. Maybe just to take a step back, there's maybe two framing responses first. You know, obviously, we don't, compete on outcomes. We compete on quality from the perspective of our ratings.

So, you know, our view has always been we're racing wherever it comes, whether it's public or private with a consistent methodology, which we believe is enhanced value for investors and other market participants given the the nature of allocations between public and private. The second point I would make is we've been extremely engaged over the last several years and made a lot of investments in areas that private credit has grown in. In particular, as you know, we've seen a lot of growth in ABS, and other, structured finance after classes over the last couple of years, and we've been making sure that we have the talent and capacity to meet the demand. I would also say that as part of the overall engagement that we've been doing, we hear from the largest sponsors that they wanna do more with us, and so we'll continue to invest there. Generally, I would say we're very pleased with the strong growth from private credit.

It's benefiting across the various different asset classes. And, you know, the maybe the the only other point I would mention here is, you know, from our perspective, with the methodology, you know, being comparable between public and private, we've also made the point in the past that we would definitely see, you know, similar value and then also similar economics whether we rate public, private. Maybe just one other characterization of the market that I think is sort of interesting here. You know, we we see issuers being more agile in moving between public and private. So, you know, as you know, the high yield market had quite a challenge '22 '23.

And during '22 and '23, we saw more deals refinancing from public to private. In '24 and year to date '25, we've seen more deals and deal volume migrate from private back to public. And so this is a very interesting thing, it it really, for us, reinforces the importance of an S and P global rating and a comparable methodology for investors and market participants. Thanks for the question.

Thank you. Our next next question comes from Andrew Steinerman with JPMorgan. You may ask your question.

Hi. I wanted just to ask about the second half ratings revenue assumption. I surely saw and heard you say that you pushed up the 25 rating revenue assumption really by just the second quarter outperformance. That does surprise me a little bit. Maybe I was kind of asking you why did you keep the second half performance assuming June was the strongest month of issuance in the second quarter?

And I'm assuming that that issuance momentum continued into July.

Hey, Andrew, it's Martina. Thanks for the question. Look, I think the back half, there's a few things here. First and foremost, we're still looking at the market situation with the volatility and the uncertainty. And, you know, while we think the volatility will be manageable in the second half, there's always a chance of the flare up and something like what we saw with the April freeze.

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