Letter to Shareholders
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To our Shareholders,
The explosive growth of
leading-edge technologies was the dominant theme in 2024. Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is poised to redefine how professionals work and at Thomson Reuters we plan to play a critical role in supporting our legal, tax and risk customers
through this journey.
Thomson Reuters is committed to providing innovative content-enabled technology, driven by our purpose, To Inform the Way Forward.
We are committed to a trusted customer experience, in which AI is used responsibly, and data privacy is paramount. Thats why we publicly pledged that our
customers confidential data will never become an output for a third party, and we urged our peers to do the same.
2024 Achievements
Thomson Reuters is moving faster and more nimbly than ever to ensure every professional we serve has an AI assistant. In 2024, we achieved significant progress on our
Build, Partner, Buy strategy, enabling us to better meet the needs of our customers with an expanded portfolio of cutting-edge technology.
Our 2024 AI
product investments exceeded $200 million to advance the build component of our strategy. CoCounsel, our professional-grade GenAI assistant, is enabling our customers to work more efficiently, and positioning them to deliver greater
value to their organizations. New CoCounsel skills were introduced for our legal customers, along with deeper CoCounsel integration for Westlaw and Practical Law. For tax and accounting professionals, we launched Checkpoint Edge with CoCounsel, and
rolled out Audit Intelligence, our suite of AI powered audit solutions.
Thomson Reuters Ventures made significant investments in
AI-powered startups and strengthened existing partnerships for the partner element of our strategy. In 2024, a collaboration with Microsoft was announced that leverages the power of autonomous
agents to enhance customer efficiency and revenue. We also worked with AI tech providers to license our trusted, fact-based Reuters news content to train Large Language Models (LLMs) with accurate, unbiased information. Furthermore, our
partnership with Oracle was expanded to enable turnkey e-invoicing capabilities.
Investment in strategic acquisitions
comprised $1.6 billion during 2024 and the first quarter of 2025 to add meaningful new capabilities for our customers and support the buy element of our strategy. We acquired Pagero, a global leader in
e-invoicing and indirect tax solutions, along with Materia, which provides more specialized tools to our tax, accounting, and audit customers. We also acquired Safe Sign Technologies, a UK-based startup that
is developing legal-specific LLMs. The acquisition of World Business Media Limited brought important products, including The Insurer, into the fold of Reuters Professional.
2025 commenced with our acquisition of SafeSend, a leading cloud-native tax workflow software provider that advances our tax automation strategy and builds upon our
2023 acquisition of SurePrep.
In December, Thomson Reuters was recognized as a leader in three IDC MarketScape awards spanning our OneSource and Pagero corporate
tax and trade offerings, highlighting success with the build and buy strategies.
Our second Future of Professionals Report surveyed 2,200-plus professionals and found that those adopting AI solutions are already seeing tangible business value. These findings reinforce our commitment to leading innovation of cutting-edge technologies, including
AI, while protecting client privilege and data privacy.
We delivered strong financial performance for the year, delivering both total company and organic revenue
growth* of 7%, ahead of the initial 6.5% total company and 6% organic revenue growth* outlooks provided in February 2024. In May 2024, Thomson Reuters sold our remaining stake in the London Stock Exchange Group. In December 2024, we completed our
divestiture of FindLaw. Finally, we successfully completed our multi-year Cloud Conversion Program, which positions us to be more agile, secure, and efficient.
Reuters News continues to provide award-winning journalism to billions of people worldwide, while winning two Pulitzer Prizes, a World Press Photo Award, Loeb Awards,
Royal Television Society Awards, and more. The critical importance of Reuters News being able to pursue its mission safely cannot be overstated. We faced tragedy in September when Ryan Evans, a Reuters safety advisor was killed in a missile strike
in Ukraine.
Our Opportunity
Thomson Reuters is laser-focused on
delivering on our vision and executing on our strategy through a robust product and innovation roadmap. We have termed 2025 The Year of Execution.
The
world-class talent at Thomson Reuters is vital to our success. We empower colleagues to learn, grow, and thrive including by adopting leading-edge technologies. For example, over 19,000 of our employees are using Open Arena, our
enterprise-wide large language model learning environment that supports a broad variety of their daily work.
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