Experian plc (EXPGY) Presents at Barclays 11th Annual Global Credit Data & Analytics Forum Transcript

SA Transcripts 162.18K Followers Follow Experian plc ( EXPGY ) Barclays 11th Annual Global Credit Data & Analytics Forum September 9, 2026 12:15 PM EDT Company Participants Jeff Softley - Chief Executive Officer of Experian North America Keith Little Vijay Mehta Lloyd Pitchford - CFO & Executive Director Conference Call Participants James Rosenthal - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division Presentation James Rosenthal Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division Hello, everyone, and welcome back. I'm James Rose from Barclays Business Services team, and it's great to welcome back Experian to this forum. In these sessions throughout the years, Experian has showcased the evolution of its products and innovations across financial services, verticals and consumer. And this year, continue that, and we have some familiar faces presenting to us. Our agenda for today, we start off with Jeff Softley, North American CEO, to give an overview of strategy in North America; then Keith Little, President in Software Solutions; and Vijay Mehta, Chief AI Officer, will update us on Ascend and other product developments. We then finish with a Q&A session with the team and also Lloyd Pitchford, Group CFO, will be joining us for that. [Operator Instructions]. But let's kick off. I'll hand over to Jeff Softley. Jeff Softley Chief Executive Officer of Experian North America Well, thank you, James. We really appreciate being in the forum. Good morning, good afternoon. I'm excited today because today, we're going to talk about how we're well positioned to usher AI into the end markets that we serve and use it as a growth accelerant, not only for the North America business, but for the enterprise at large, particularly during a moment of significant technological transformation. I'm also going to offer some tangible examples of the progress that we're making today against those key strategic initiatives. Rich, let's move to the next slide. So in North America, we