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Abby
Conference Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. My name is Abby and I'll be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the SSNC Technologies second quarter 2025 earnings call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during that time, simply press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, press star one again. Thank you, and I would now like to turn the conference over to Justine Stone, Head of Investor Relations. You may begin.

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Justine Stone
Head of Investor Relations

Welcome, and thank you for joining us for our Q2 2025 earnings call. I'm Justine Stone, Investor Relations for SS&C. With me today is Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Rahul Kanwar, President and Chief Operating Officer, and Brian Schell, our Chief Financial Officer. Before we get started, we need to review the Safe Harbor Statement. Please note the various remarks we make today about future expectations, plans, and prospects, including the financial outlook we provide, constitute forward-looking statements for the purposes of Safe Harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors. including those discussed in the risk factors section of our most recent annual report on Form 10-K, which is on file at the SEC and can also be accessed on our website. These forward-looking statements represent our expectations only as of today, July 23rd, 2025. While the company may elect to update these forward-looking statements, it specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. During today's call, we will be referring to certain non-GAAP financial measures or reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to comparable GAAP financial measures is included in today's earnings release, which is located in the investor relations section of our website at www.sfctechs.com. I will now turn the call over to Bill.

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Bill Stone
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Thanks, Justine, and welcome, everyone. Our second quarter results include record adjusted revenue of $1,537,800,000. up 5.9%, and adjusted earnings per share of $1.45, a 9.8% increase. We delivered record adjusted consolidated EBITDA, passing $600 million in the quarter for the first time, up 7.4%, resulting in a quarterly adjusted consolidated EBITDA margin of 39%. Second quarter adjusted organic revenue growth was 3.5%, with performance driven by GLOBOP, GIDS, and WIT businesses. Globop organic growth of 7.3% was driven by double-digit growth in private markets and retail alternatives. GIST continues to win key clients and deliver high-level professional services. Health finished with a quarter with flat organic growth. Q2 financial services recurring revenue growth was 3.9%, which includes software-enabled services and maintenance revenue. Internationally, we are seeing strength in Europe, Australia, and the Middle East, spanning multiple business units. This broad success reflects a positive trend of increased international win rates attributable to the investments we have made over the past several years and our ability to provide increasingly sophisticated services. Overall, we deliver our service with a client-focused approach, and our retention rate is stable at 97%. For the six months into June 30th, 2025, cash from operating activities was $645.1 million, up 14% year over year. In Q2, we bought back 3.4 million shares for $269 million at an average price of $77.99. We will continue to buy back shares opportunistically and recently grew our share repurchase authorization to $1.5 billion. We are continuously investing in our AI strategy. We believe some of our most significant competitive advantages lies in partnering Blue Prism with our business units to identify workflows, build new AI agents, and deploy them internally. Our approach successfully resulted in our first AI agent sale to an insurance conglomerate in the Midwest. The client processes hundreds of credit agreements monthly, and the AI agent produces manual effort by up to 80%, speeds up processing by 3x, and improves accuracy to 99% plus. We believe this win is indicative of future opportunities across our 22,000 strong client base. I'll now turn it over to Rahul to discuss the quarter in more detail.

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