Good morning. My name is Kristie and I will be your host operator on this call. After the presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Instructions will be provided at that time. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this call is being recorded as of today, Tuesday, April 25 at 8:00 AM Central Time. I would now like to turn the meeting over to your host for today’s call, Aaron Hoffman, Vice President of Investor Relations at TransUnion. Please go ahead.

Good morning everyone and thank you for joining us today. This morning, I’m joined by Jim Peck, President and Chief Executive Officer and Al Hamood, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. We’ve posted our earnings release on the TransUnion Investor Relations website at www.transunion.com/tru. Our earnings release includes schedules which contain more detailed information about revenue, operating expenses and other items, including certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures are also included in these schedules. As a reminder, today’s call will be recorded and a replay will be available on the TransUnion website. We will also be making statements during this call that are forward-looking. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements because of factors discussed in today’s earnings release and the comments made during this conference call and in our most recent Form 10-K, Form 10-Q, and other reports and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We do not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statements. With that, let me turn the time over to Jim.

Thanks Aaron, and good morning to everyone joining us on the call and the webcast today. As you saw in our earnings release this morning, TransUnion delivered a strong first quarter. In particular, I would highlight our double-digit revenue, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS growth as well as another 290 basis points of adjusted EBITDA margin expansion. Importantly, our growth continues to be broad-based and driven by innovation with especially good results across U.S. IS within financial services and our growth verticals as well as both developed and emerging markets in our international segment. On top of that, we continue to prudently deploy our robust cash flow repurchasing almost 70 million of TransUnion stock and increasing our ownership stake in our fast-growing Indian business by another 10% during the quarter. Al will walk you through the details behind these results and actions shortly. Looking at the rest of the year and our long-term view of TransUnion, we continue to have deep conviction in our ability to generate top-tier growth with the market-leading EBITDA margin. At the core of this view is the foundational transformation we've made in building TransUnion into a leading information services company. It is the outcome of our strategy to fully and effectively leverage the powerful data assets and analytical capabilities within the company by layering end market and geographic growth opportunities on top of core assets to consistently deliver strong performance. Underpinning this broad strategy is a series of five focused, highly impactful strategies that provide the engine for our current and long-term growth. I discussed each in detail in our last call and we'll continue to talk to you about the business this way going forward. The strategies are: driving growth through innovation, expansion into new vertical markets, growth in international markets, capitalizing on growth…

Thank you, Jim and good morning. Today I'm going to walk through our consolidated and first quarter segment results. First quarter consolidated revenue was $455 million, an increase of 12% on a reported basis and 11% on a constant currency basis compared with the first quarter of 2016. Revenue from acquisitions contributed about 2 points of growth in the quarter. Adjusted EBITDA was $172 million, an increase of 21% on a reported basis and 20% on a constant currency basis compared with the fourth quarter of 2016. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 37.7%, an increase of 290 basis points compared with the first quarter of 2016. Adjusted net income was $80 million, an increase of 38% compared with the first quarter of 2016. Adjusted diluted earnings per share was $0.22, an increase of 33% compared with the first quarter of 2016. The adjusted effective tax rate for the first quarter was approximately 36% down about 70 basis points compared with the first quarter of 2016. Now let me walk you through the details of our P&L. As I mentioned, first quarter consolidated revenue was $455 million, an increase of 12% on a reported basis and 11% on a constant currency basis compared with the first quarter of 2016. Cost of services was $151 million, an increase of 1% compared with the first quarter of 2016 due to investments in people cost and key strategic growth initiatives, operating expense related to recent acquisitions and increased product costs related to the increase in revenue, partially offset by savings enabled by our next-generation technology platform and other productivity-related initiatives. SG&A was $145 million, an increase of 9% compared with the first quarter of 2016 driven primarily by the investment in people cost and strategic growth initiatives, increased incentive and stock-based comp related to strong…

Thanks Al. As I lay out our guidance a couple of quick points about our assumptions for acquisitions and FX impact. For both the full year and the second quarter acquisitions stood at approximately one point revenue growth while we expect FX to have no significant impact in either period consistent with previous guidance. Now turning to our updated guidance for full year 2017. We're raising our full year 2017 guidance for revenue, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS. We now expect revenue to come in between $1.845 billion and $1.860 billion, up 8% to 9% on a constant currency basis and an increase of $10 million compared with our guidance last quarter. Adjusted EBITDA for the year is now expected to be between $720 million and $735 million, up 13% to 15% on a constant currency basis and an increase of $10 million compared with our guidance last quarter. With the increase in revenue and adjusted EBITDA, at the mid point of our guidance, adjusted EBITDA margin is now expected to be slightly above 39%, an increase of about 30 basis points from our guidance last quarter and more than 150 basis points compared to 2016. This is a result of a strong revenue growth, the benefits of the investments we made in the company product mix and productivity improvements across the business as well as the favorable impact of the recent M&A. Adjusted diluted earnings per share for the year are expected to be between $1.74 and $1.79 up 16% to 19% and an increase of $0.03 per share compared to our guidance last quarter. And for the second quarter 2017, we expect the following. Revenue should come in between $460 million and $465 million, an increase of approximately 8% to 9% on a constant currency basis. Adjusted EBITDA is expected to be between $176 million and $180 million, an increase of approximately 10% to 12% on a constant currency basis. Adjusted earnings per share are expected to be between $0.42 and $0.43, an increase of 14% to 17% compared with the second quarter of 2016. To wrap up, TransUnion delivered outstanding broad-based top and bottom line financial results in the first quarter, se up for a strong 2017. As I discussed, we are focused on growing through innovation, diversifying through new faster growth verticals, expanding internationally, continuing to strategically build our consumer interactive business and leveraging global operational excellence. We remain in an enviable position of significant growth prospects, meaningful opportunities to invest organically and through acquisition and should benefit from a largely positive macroeconomic backdrop. All of these points give us great conviction in 2017 and beyond. Now let me quickly turn the time back to Aaron.

That concludes our prepared remarks. For the Q&A, we ask that you each ask only one question so that we can include more participants. Now we’ll be glad to take your questions.

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Thank you. Your first question comes from the line of Shlomo Rosenbaum with Stifel. Your line is now open.

Hi, good morning. Thank you very much for taking my questions. Hey, Al and Jim, if you could talk a little bit more about what was behind the accelerated growth in credit marketing services, very often I think that is kind of a precursor to growth in some of the area – other areas of the business like online data services. And if you can give us more detail as to what's going on there and whether we should think of that as a precursor to growth in the online, that would be helpful. Thank you.

Hey, Shlomo. It’s Al. Credit marketing services for U.S. IS did grow 14% in the quarter. It is broad-based growth across our larger customers as well as the FinTech space predominately on acquisitions in the credit card space. It's consistent with what we said about it healthy and buoyant credit market as we head into 2017 and as we exit the first quarter. Now that there is some lumpiness with credit marketing services but we didn't see any systemic trends either significantly better or lower than what we said. So we feel good about it in the context of overall guidance and it was strong. And you're right it could lead to future better online volumes but we don't want to get ahead of ourselves on that point.

Thank you.

And your next question comes from the line of Manav Patnaik. Your line is now open, Barclays.

Hi, good morning, gentlemen.

Hello.

Congratulations on the quarter, I guess I’m just trying to understand I think you guys are always typically conservative with your guidance and you let that move along throughout the year. But maybe the question is have any of the macro assumptions that you used at the beginning of the year change in terms of mortgages of the U.S. outlook. And then maybe you alluded to South Africa being a little bit weak maybe you can help quantify that and also just if the India demonetization is now behind you is that still holding things back?

Sure. So Manav, as far as the macro trends are very much largely in line with what we described and I think we got very specific with mortgage and again that’s right in line with what we thought might happen with kind of a slowdown in originations and maybe a slightly accelerated refis but overall the market would be down. But I think we told you that only affect 7% of our revenue. And ultimately that if that headwind were to play out, it will be about 1% decline, however for us that’s offset by our tier pricing which kicks in when the volume is down and also offset by as you know CreditVision going into the market. And all the other trends are its like Al just said it's a buoyant credit market. So we are feeling very good about, the trends being largely in line with what we said we were going to do. So it's not like they're building up our numbers because a lot of our growth has been driven by the innovation and also in international markets. You mentioned South Africa, of all the countries were in that’s the geography that I struggle the most. There's a little bit of political instability there and their economy really hasn’t grown. But that's more than offset by our established markets in Canada and Hong Kong and then our emerging markets Colombia, India and others. And as far as the demonetization in India, we did see a slowdown in the fourth quarter of last year. But we're largely through that. And although the business still grew very well in the fourth quarter, it's back to the kind of volumes we’ve expect going forward. So to kind of summarize, we are largely in line with all our assumptions around trend and then from a country standpoint, all the countries are performing very, very well except in South Africa which continues to kind of have a struggle. But we're – as you can see from the results, we're more than offsetting the struggle with the solutions we are putting in these markets and also the – just the kind of the building the middle-class M&A in these emerging markets. Next question?

And your next question comes from the line of Tim McHugh with William Blair. Your line is now open.

Thanks. Just want to ask on the profit margins. Obviously, a good result this quarter and you increased the EBITDA guidance this year about the same of the revenue increase or your guidance increase. So I guess just, is there anything particular part of, I guess, the business that is seeing better incremental margins I guess than you would have thought coming into the year? Or even I guess 6 months ago, just the margin trajectory, it seems pretty broad-based but if there’s any one or two things you can highlight that are driving the strength, will be appreciate it. Thanks.

Yes, it’s Al. I would say first and foremost as a reference point, comparing to 2013 to our 2017 guidance, we've grown adjusted EBITDA margin by almost 500 bps. It is broad-based, like you said. And it's really across several factors including strong revenue growth, benefit from investments and productivity-related initiatives, we talked about our technology transformation. Favorable revenue mix, previous investments and innovation that were caught that are now turning to returns, very positive returns. And then scale achieved from M&A. When you first do an M&A deal, generally speaking, they're slightly depressed. Margins below our corporate standard but they have a line of sight to those. So it is broad-based there's not any particular one timer, not in the quarter that we see or in the year that's driving it. And feel like margins today adjusted EBITDA margins are our market leading and feel very good and positive about those in the way revenues are flowing through.

And your next question comes from the line of Gary Bisbee with RBC. Your line is now open.

Hey, guys good morning. Let me just follow-up on that one now. So the growth in cost of services has slowed, I think, it's something like five, four five quarters in a row. And you mentioned two things in your commentary about that the benefits, savings from the technology work you've done several years ago and scale and whatever else. Where are we in those tech savings? I mean would it be reasonable to expect that growth rate in that expense line to accelerate at some point in the near future? Because as I recall, you are expecting to have – most of those savings already in the rearview mirror at this point. Thank you.

Yes, I want to make – this is Jim. As far as the technology savings are concerned, yes, we’ve mostly seen kind of a year-on-year benefit of the reduction already in the U.S. then you can expect, I think you're saying the expenses to accelerate will go up. But unfortunately, no, we really don't anticipate that because we've gotten so much more efficient in both our OpEx and CapEx spend. And so that was kind of the beautiful thing about this is that we took down cost but we also increased our capacity at the same time. And the capacity came and we're able to apply our CapEx dollars to new development versus maintenance and then we're also able to apply our OpEx dollars to new development. So we've actually unleashed another kind of source of funding let's call it, for these things without really negatively impacting our P&L and we'll continue to do that going forward. So we become very efficient and by the way that people who are working on our big technology transformation came off of that and are now working on things that are going to not just be base growth that are driving new revenue opportunities, things like that we've talked about, Prama and other things that we're doing with fraud, et cetera. So with the innovation kind of engine is getting fed in a way that will allow that to keep going without some kind of pronounced increase in either CapEx or OpEx.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And your next question comes from the line of Andrew Steinerman with JP Morgan. Your line is now open.

Hi, I wanted to ask about consumer interactive. Could you go over why the CI margins were so strong this quarter despite the known revenue drags? And will revenue growth prospectively in CI be more skewed to the indirect channel?

Yes, obviously, as we told you, we were going to have a little bit of a decline there based on re-upping the Karma contract for the long haul and then a customer based on an acquisition. But what we did, as we looked at the business, we're continuing to optimize the advertising. We actually made a choice based on the kind of client base we wanted to move away from television advertising which helped there. And we also, I think as you just noted, we have a revenue mix shift where we continue to close indirect deals. We talked about the Chase deal. And of course, those have a different margin structure that's maybe a little more attractive which enabled us to increase margins in that business for the quarter. I think the other side of your question, might be its either you are not investing in that business where you should be. And that's not the case, both on the direct side and the indirect side, we're doing the things we think need to do to grow the business in the U.S. and we're very bullish that we'll get back to attractive growth. In addition, on the international front, in that business in particular, we talked about Canada both on the direct and indirect side, with India, Hong Kong, Colombia, there's a tremendous amount of upside. So we are – we need to get through this fast. And when you take all things put together, that business is going to be a nice grower for us going forward.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And your next question comes from the line of Toni Kaplan with Morgan Stanley. Your line is now open.

Good morning everyone this is Patrick in for Tony. It seems like competition among credit card issuers picked up late last year as a number of new cards came on the market. And it appears that may have carried over into the first quarter of 2017. Could you give us an update on what you're seeing in the credit card market and I'm wondering specifically if you'd expect that strength maybe taper off as we progress through the year?

Yes, look we see that that credit card market is a buoyant market. You're right. There's competition among the issuers and I can't really comment on what they're doing. But I can tell you, we haven't seen any kind of slowdown and we don't anticipate, based on the kind of information we see, any kind of slowdown in that space.

Thanks Jim.

Thank you.

And your next question comes from the line of Kevin McVeigh with Deutsche Bank. Your line is now open.

Great. Thank you. Is there any way to kind of quantify where we are in kind of the trended data, evolution, if you would, in terms of across the business lines? And ultimately, how big that market can become over the course of time?

Yes, so we don't really try and pin down any specific numbers. Obviously, CreditVision now, our trended in CreditVision Link, our two trended data products have been in the market for a little, we were the first to market and we've more or less fully penetrated the mortgage space with Fannie Mae and that's still going to run out through the first half of the year and into the second half of the year. I think we're a month in there. But in our case, in particular, we built these products to work across the workflow, not just in mortgage but also in card and auto and others and in FinTech space in particular where our customers are going to have probably a little more of an ability to move quickly. We've penetrated that space fairly well but we still have room to grow. In auto, they use both CreditVision and CreditVision Link. And we still have a lot of runway there to go. But we're starting to get uptick and then in card as well. And so we believe there's still a significant amount of runway for both CreditVision and CreditVision Link in the U.S. that will continue to take advantage of. And our customers now range from very small to Tier 1 and through established businesses, more like the FinTech. So we think being the first to market has enabled us to get in this space outside of mortgage in a much bigger way. So we're learning a lot. And that's allowing us to continue to penetrate that market going forward. Internationally, lots and lots of runway there as you know, we've talked about, we're in Canada, not nearly fully penetrated. We're in Hong Kong. We'll be releasing the product into India, South Africa, Colombia which we are at zero right now because we haven't released yet and we feel like we have continued strong growth there as well. So as you analyze that market, again, we're not going to kind of try to put a size on it. Like the important things to take away are that we are in it, not just in mortgage, our products are being used in the other forms of credit already and we still have a lot of runway to go.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And your next question comes from the line of George Mihalos with Cowen. Your line is now open.

Great. Good morning, guys and congratulations on another good quarter.

Thank you.

Just wanted to go back to the margins, if I could for a minute. Obviously, a lot of outperformance in the first quarter plus 290 year-over-year. The second quarter guidance at the high end seems to imply something around 120 basis points of expansion. And I'm just curious first quarter to second quarter just on a year-over-year basis, what maybe some of the challenges or maybe some of the dynamics that could cause the EBITDA margin growth to decelerate year-over-year relative to 1Q. And then may be Al, related to that, how should we be thinking about the stock-based comp over the remainder of the year. It was a bit more elevated than we're anticipating in the first quarter. Thank you.

I think our implied guidance has us coming in for the full-year over 39% from an adjusted EBITDA margin standpoint that’s 30 bps higher than what we said and 150 bps or almost 180 bps over prior year. We really are balancing adjusted EBITDA margin and overall margins on the whole year. We're looking at investments and incremental opportunities to invest when we see the opportunity as well as how quickly some of the returns that we originally planned are coming into our base. So I don't think we give second quarter guidance. And from that, you can get the implied adjusted EBITDA margins which due on a sequential basis, actually show an uptick. And you can also look at the second half of the year implied guidance and you'll see an uptick in margins on a sequential basis and feel very good that’s a trajectory we're on, not only this quarter but as we look at the next three quarters, is very good. But having said that just like last year, right, as we went through the year, when we raised guidance, it wasn't necessarily because we were trying to achieve a margin number. It's because either revenues were flowing in faster, the mix was coming in a little bit better. Returns on our investments were coming in a little bit quicker, or in some instances when we significantly outperform as opposed to giving all of that street we took some of that back and reinvested in new opportunities. So you'll continue to see us play that way and participate that way while achieving and exceeding, hopefully, our guidance as we continue to move forward throughout the rest of the year. The other thing I would say is it’s still early in the year, right. In Q1, we have three more quarters to go. And as a company, one of the things that has been great is our ability to generate market-leading top line growth and we're able to do that because of the way that we're looking at investments. So we'll continue to do that as well as we progress throughout the year.

And your next question comes from the line of Jeff Miller with Baird. Your line is now open.

Yes, thank you. You hit on some of the sales force changes in Colombia, I think specifically. But Jim, in your letter, you also talked about building global sales and marketing capabilities.

Sure.

We just love a little bit more color there in terms of what's changing and how far along you are on making the changes?

Sure. So this has been a journey that started when I got here right at the beginning of 2013. Starting off of some systematic things you might think about doing around geographical sales force dispersion, the number of accounts, trying to maximize sales force selling time versus doing administrative things or kind of farming, if you know the figures of speech in this area. So a lot of it started there. And then as we also upgraded talent through change and also through training and we are I think we're in a portion of our journey where the solutions that we're building and the ability to kind of bring them to our customer requires a much more sophisticated sales approach. And so we're kind of dovetailing that as we kind of build towards that with our sales force. It’s taken time to do that over almost now a five-year period. And we are not done yet because we continued to bring more and more to market. And we maybe started even creating specialization so that we can talk to customers across their full workflow. So while we still have generalist, of course, we also have specialists because we're just getting that much more sophisticated, if that's the best way we find to work with our sales, I mean to our customers, both in the U.S. and this is happening internationally as we kind of copy the model. You can see it most clearly in Canada, probably. The other thing we're doing, I think it's important we talked about our Innovation Lab, which is a big deal. You can find it with our Prama platform. And this is where you see it all come together. A salesperson we can hold their own having the sophisticated kind of conversations but also bringing…

Fabulous. So that brings us to the end of the call today. Thank you, everyone for joining us and have a wonderful day.

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