Thomson Reuters Mona Vernon CTO Thomson Reuters Labs

Thomson Reuters Mona Vernon CTO, Thomson Reuters Labs @monavernon 1

THOMSON REUTERS: WHO WE ARE FINANCIAL & RISK $6. 5 Billion Delivering critical news, information and analytics, enabling transactions – connecting communities

Our Business: Financial, Risk, Legal, Tax and Accounting Delivering the tools, platforms, services, news and content to enable our customers to act quickly, discover more opportunities and make crucial decisions with confidence. 3 KEY SOLUTIONS AND PRODUCTS TYPE OF PRODUCT/SERVICE TARGET CUSTOMERS Thomson Reuters Eikon® Desktop and mobile access to trusted news, data, analytics, trading connectivity and collaboration tools for the financial community. Investment bankers/professionals, portfolio/wealth managers, economists, private equity professionals, traders, brokers, corporate treasurers, financial analysts Customer and Third-Party Risk: Thomson Reuters World-Check® Information, software and managed services that enable Compliance and risk management professionals, MLROs, organizations to understand who they are doing business with, general counsels, supply chain and procurement managers, be more transparent and manage reputational and financial risk. business leaders Thomson Reuters Canada Legal, regulatory and compliance information-based products and services offering authoritative content, powerful search functionality and research organization, team collaboration features, and navigation tools to find and share specific points of law and search for analytical commentary. Layers, Law firms and corporate legal professionals Checkpoint® An online research platform integrating information, expert guidance and workflow tools for continuing professional education and training. Professionals in private companies, public companies, small to large accounting firms ONESOURCE® A wide range of software and services that integrates global tax CFOs and key tax and accounting executives compliance software with local tax tools; it manages the entire tax workflow, including global trade flows for medium and large corporations. Thomson Reuters: The Answer Company

Thomson Reuters History A Canadian company with global reach 1930 s 1990 s Thomson acquires West Publishing (legal) 2002 Thomson Corporation goes public 2003 Thomson sells its last newspaper 2008 Thomson Corporation buys Reuters Group to form Thomson Reuters 4 Reuters Thomson newspapers begin in Canada. Roy Thomson acquires first newspaper – The Timmins Press, Ontario Thomson Reuters: The Answer Company FOUNDED OVER 165 years ago 1880 s Reuters starts reporting from Canada 1980 s Reuters innovates with video terminals 1990 s The first international computerized matching service foreign exchange rates The new Reuters Trading for Fixed Income and Trading for Foreign Exchange shake the industry 2005

The Thomson Reuters Technology Team Our global group brings together nearly 12, 300 employees and approximately $3. 3 billion of our total operating expense across nearly 200 locations. Our data and content have powered industries for 150 years and our technology is how we deliver it to our customers. Below is our Canadian footprint: Thomson Reuters Canadian Footprint Toronto Technology Centre 400 new technology jobs by the end of 2018 and up to 1, 500 jobs total Center for Cognitive Computing TR Global Center for Cognitive Computing is located at the Tech Centre Thomson Reuters Labs - Waterloo Region Thomson Reuters Labs collaborate with customers, entrepreneurs and academics to rapidly prototype and validate new solutions 5 Thomson Reuters: The Answer Company

The Thomson Reuters Technology Story Our data and content have powered industries for 150 years. We enable business professionals to make faster, more informed decisions by delivering trusted, relevant, integrated information across platforms and global markets. Our technology is what delivers it to our customers. Financial & Risk Tax & Accounting Legal Thomson Reuters Technology Priorities AI / COGNITIVE 6 Thomson Reuters: The Answer Company BIG DATA BLOCKCHAIN CLOUD

INNOVATION IS EMBEDDED IN OUR DNA We are the world’s first Fintech, enabling our customers and partners to efficiently gather and distribute information and technology has been a key pillar of our business for over 150 years. 1850 1858 1865 1964 1973 1980 1981 PIGEON CABLE TELEGRAPH STOCKMASTER MONITOR TRIARCH DEALING Paul Julius Reuter used carrier pigeons and the new Calais-Dover cable to transmit stock market quotations 1989 DEALING 2000 Reuters launches Dealing 2000 enabling automated communication between traders and their back office 7 Cable from GB to US laid, enabling Reuters to expand its expertise in global currency exchange 1999 REUTERS 3000 XTRA Private network links to Reuters gives live prices from global stock, commodity, futures, derivative and bond markets as well as FX price makers. Thomson Reuters: An Open Platform Business Reuters first to report President Lincoln assassination by telegraphing news to London 2001 RMDS Reuters Market Data System launched to help clients integrate and distribute third-party data Market prices carried from New York to London for delivery around Europe on Stockmaster machines Monitor Money Rates Service launches, creating the first electronic marketplace for FX Launched Trading Room Architecture (Triarch) – our first API 2006 2010 2016 TREP EIKON APP STUDIO Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform launches, delivering massive increase in latency in the movement of complex financial content between counterparties Thomson Reuters launches next generation desktop Eikon, providing access to trusted news, data & analytics for the financial community Open platform approach taken to a new level with Eikon App Studio and Thomson Reuters Professional Developer Community (TRPDC) Reuters Monitor Dealing Service launches enabling FX trades via video Quite literally the first Social Network WHAT MARKETS WILL THOMSON REUTERS EVOLVE IN NEXT?

THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKET BENEFITS FROM THIS INNOVATION THE INTELLIGENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN EXPERTISE TO FIND TRUSTED ANSWERS $420 billion+ in FX trading per day and unparalleled access to deep liquidity $250 billion in bond trading supported daily Largest global professional FX community, with over 1, 700 institutional clients and 160 providers Over 40, 000 customers around the globe 2 million news stories per year 400, 000+ end-users in more than 150 countries 5, 000+ investment firms and hedge funds supported worldwide 40, 000+ regulatory alerts supplied to the world’s banks per year 79 billion market messages managed during 24 hours following the Brexit vote & US elections 2. 5 million~ price updates distributed per second to the financial markets 10 billion bytes of realtime pricing data distributed every day 8 Thomson Reuters: An Open Platform Business 11 million+ Messaging interactions daily 2 million+ individuals and entities that can pose a potential risk to the international business community are tracked daily

MAKING SENSE OF BIG DATA big da·ta ‘extremely large volumes of unstructured or semi-structured data that are challenging to store, process and mine for patterns, trends and associations’. 80% OF ALL DATA WITHIN THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY IS UNSTRUCTURED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING EXTRACTS FACTS DATA MANAGMENT ENSURES DATA IS LINKED TOGETHER INTO A KNOWLEDGE GRAPH RELATIONSHIPS COMPANIES EVENTS PEOPLE 9 LOCATIONS IDENTIFIERS & META-DATA

THOMSON REUTERS IN THE FINTECH ECOSYSTEM • Applied Research • AI, Blockchain • TR Labs: Center for Cognitive Computing & Engineering 10 TR Labs: Innovation Labs Opening Access Strategic financial investments • Partnerships and Investments • Seven regional labs which identify and pursue new business opportunities through agile experimentation with customers Customers Partnerships • Customer Co-Creation University Partnerships Thomson Reuters: An Open Platform Business Accelerator Enablement Making our expertise, content & technology available to Fintechs

7 Global ecosystem grounded in data Global Innovation Labs San Francisco Quant Research Data Science Waterloo Region London Data science, Blockchain Fintech Data Science, Startups, University Zurich Region Boston Data science, Fintech Thomson Reuters Lab Formula Startup ecosystem TR Startup incubator, Blockchain University partners Singapore Data science, Fin. Tech Cape Town) Data science, Startups Early Customer Engagements

DELIVERING VALUE FROM UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS Boston E. g. Building brand alongside customers Prominent role in the Systemic Risk Management theme 12 Waterloo London E. g. Collaborative research E. g. Thought leadership Lecturer in Financial Informatics and Data Science Insights series featuring: • Head of Dynamic Pricing at Uber • Panel on data and supply chains TR globally leading in Leading research on open data. E. g. work data quality and on Open Perm. ID; and cleaning Shareable by Default Thomson Reuters: An Open Platform Business E. g. Collaborative research

We are hiring! Why Join Thomson Reuters Canada? Be part of a positive culture Great Place to Work • High energy, meritocracy, open & transparent, innovative, customercentric focus • Thomson Reuters named a Best Workplace for Women in Canada in 2017 Be part of a growing team • Long-term plans for the site provides lots of opportunity Co-located with headquarters • This is unique in the Toronto market for technologists. Be part of a Canadian global success story Excited by the problems we’re aiming to solve and related technologies • Cloud, machine learning & big data 13 Thomson Reuters: The Answer Company • Thomson Reuters named a Top 100 Employer in Canada and a Best Workplace in Canada in 2017