Information Services Corporation

Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the ISC second quarter 2021 earnings conference call and webcast call. At this time, all participants are in the listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct question and answer session, and instructions will follow at that time. If anyone should require assistance during the conference, please press par, then zero on your touchstone telephone. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Mr. Jonathan Hackshaw, Senior Director, Investor Relations and Capital Markets. You may begin.

Thank you, Jerome, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to ISC's conference call for the quarter-ended June 30, 2021. On the call with me today are Jeff Stusik, President and CEO, and Sean Peters, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Jeff will start us off by providing some opening comments about the quarter, followed by Sean, who will take us through the highlights of the operational and financial results for the quarter. Jeff will then make some closing remarks before we open up the call for the question and answer session. Before we begin, we would like to remind everyone that we will only be summarizing results today. ISCs and audited condensed consolidated interim financial statements and notes and management's discussion and analysis for the period ended June 30th 2021 have been filed on CDAR and are also available in the investor section on our website under financial reports We encourage you to review those reports in their entirety I would also like to remind you that any statements made today that are not historical facts are considered to be forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws and The statements may involve a number of risks and uncertainties that are described in detail in the company's CDAR filings, in particular in ISE's annual information form for the year ended December 31, 2020, and ISE's unaudited, condensed, consolidated interim financial statements and notes, and management's discussion and analysis for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021. Those risks and uncertainties may cause actual results to differ materially from those stated earlier. Today's comments are made as of today's date and will not be updated except as required under applicable securities legislation. Today's conference call is being broadcast live over the Internet and will be archived for replay shortly after the call on the investor section of our website. With that, I would now like to hand the call over to Jeff Stusek.

Thank you, Jonathan, and good morning to everyone joining us for today's call. To date, 2021 has been an exceptional year for ISC. Our financial performance for the second quarter of 2021 is well above the previous year, where the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was evident in our second quarter last year. Hence, the increase in the quarter this year is partly due to some recovery against the COVID-impacted quarter, but more importantly, it is also a result of strong growth over and above that in both our registry operations and services segments. For more details on the quarter, I'll now ask Sean to summarize our financial and operating performance for the quarter.