Preliminary 2018 London Stock Exchange Group PLC Earnings Call Transcript

Mar 01, 2019 / 09:00AM GMT
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CFO; as well as Waqas Samad, our Director of Information Services. Dan Maguire may be popping in a little bit later as well.

It's been a busy 8 months since I joined LSEG in August of last year, and my early positive impressions of the group's strength have only been reinforced. We have a set of world-class businesses across the Capital Markets' life cycle and a strong team of committed colleagues. The group's open access and customer partnership approach really distinguishes us in the market infrastructure space. And since I joined, we've made 2 strategic and accretive investments, both in the Post Trade space, took a minority stake in Euroclear, and we increased our majority stake in LCH, reinforcing our partnership approach in driving innovation for our customers. We've also continued to focus on group-wide efficiency and operational excellence, including driving further integration after a period of M&A growth. We've been exiting some low-margin businesses, consolidating property and investing in low-cost centers.

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