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Question: Ashish Sabadra - RBC Capital Markets Inc - Analyst
: Maybe I'll just kick it off with a discussion of the LTFF, particularly the revenue growth. When I -- my question there was, you provided the organic
and reported, but how do we think about the core growth? And the core growth was 21% in 2021, and it's expected to be like 14% in '22. So is it
fair to assume that you're baked in conservatism in your LTFF and we should see a much faster growth in the near and midterm?
Thanks, Mark.
Question: Ashish Sabadra - RBC Capital Markets Inc - Analyst
: That's very helpful color, Mark and, John.
And absolutely, as you pointed out, there are a lot of great things that have happened over the last several years. So one thing in particular I do
want to focus on is the cloud and NPI that's driving 200 to 300 basis points of incremental growth with 150-plus NPI annually going forward.
Can you just elaborate where you think you could see business segments or growth areas where we could see potentially higher contributions
from the NPI?
Question: Ashish Sabadra - RBC Capital Markets Inc - Analyst
: Very helpful color. A lot of good points you brought up and we would love to get into more details on those.
But before I do that, I just had a quick question on the margins as well in the LTFF, long-term framework. Obviously a very strong 500 pieces point
of margin expansion from (multiple speakers) that's right. And we're going to see a big step up in '22. Question was as we think about from '22 to
'25, the 300 to 350 basis point, is there -- could we potentially see another step up from '22 to '23 as we complete the cloud migration or how should
we think about that trajectory for the next three years?
Question: Ashish Sabadra - RBC Capital Markets Inc - Analyst
: Yeah, no, that's very helpful.
And maybe just drilling down further on the EWS, as you mentioned, Mark, it has been a phenomenal growth driver in terms of number of records,
it's very impressive on how many records you've added over the last several years. Question we get from investor always is how do we think about
the record growth going forward. Is it driven by signing up one employer at a time or just adding more payroll providers that may not have shared
the employment record so far? Or also how do you go beyond the core traditional employers and go as you mentioned into the pensioner -- people
who are on pensions and other gig economy contractors all of those things?
Thanks.
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Question: Ashish Sabadra - RBC Capital Markets Inc - Analyst
: Very helpful color, Mark and John.
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And actually, that was going to be my next question, but I think you might have already answered it. It's just if you could talk about the competitive
environment there and the [moat] around the business, if you could just provide some more color on that front.
Question: Ashish Sabadra - RBC Capital Markets Inc - Analyst
: Yeah, definitely (multiple speakers)
Question: Ashish Sabadra - RBC Capital Markets Inc - Analyst
: Absolutely.
And then switching gears, talking about digital identity. As you mentioned, identity is a large $19-billion addressable market. Kount was such a
great acquisition. I was wondering if you could talk more about your identity offering, but also, are you predominantly focused on fraud or is there
an opportunity to also leverage the assets that you have for helping your customers with marketing? Thanks.
Question: Ashish Sabadra - RBC Capital Markets Inc - Analyst
: Yes, and it's definitely an area which is growing really fast, plus, with the data the assets that you have very strong motor on that business.
Just switching gears and talking about USIS, you mentioned the opportunity with unbanked -- underbanked customers. Can you talk about that
opportunity and how big that could be? Thanks.
Question: Ashish Sabadra - RBC Capital Markets Inc - Analyst
: That's helpful.
And maybe just to segue into my next question would be leveraging this alternate data assets for fintech customers. So historically, and this is prior
to your tenure, I believe Equifax didn't have as much presence with the fintech customers. Obviously with (multiple speakers) technology
transformation that's changed. So can you just talk about how you've -- the technology transformation plus alternate data has helped you gain
greater access to fintech customers. And then maybe if I can just add BNPL on top of it if you can help explain how the BNPL credit decisioning
differs and what the role that you play in that process. Thanks.
Question: Ashish Sabadra - RBC Capital Markets Inc - Analyst
: That's very helpful color, John.
And maybe that's a great segue into my next question around international. Again, here, pretty strong long-term financial framework of 79%
growth, but it's a modestly lower than your prior guidance. Again, is that baking in conservatism as we see the benefit of this technology
transformation, all the incremental data element, could we see that growth accelerate as well going forward?
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Question: Ashish Sabadra - RBC Capital Markets Inc - Analyst
: Yeah, and maybe just a follow-up question here would be we haven't really talked about free cash flow, but on the at the Analyst Day you talked
about the solid free cash flow generation plus your ability to take on more like get into that -- sustain in the 2.5 times leverage. So how should we
think about use of cash and is that could be a catalyst also to further accelerate growth as you buy growth accretive acquisition or acquisitions
which have huge revenue synergies with the core business.
Question: Ashish Sabadra - RBC Capital Markets Inc - Analyst
: Absolutely, that's a lot of cash and to be deployed, which is great news.
And then, maybe just, I know we are on top of the 30 minutes, so any closing comments, Mark and John?
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Question: Ashish Sabadra - RBC Capital Markets Inc - Analyst
: Thank you and absolutely very exciting story going forward. So thank you. Thanks, Mark. Thanks, John.
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