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Moody’s J.P. Morgan 2025 Ultimate Services Investor Conference summary
Complete event summary combining all related documents: earnings call transcript, report, and slide presentation.Conference overview
The session focused on trends in issuance, ratings, and revenue growth, with a particular emphasis on M&A activity, infrastructure financing, and the impact of AI on the information services sector.
Issuance and ratings revenues exceeded initial expectations due to increased M&A activity, robust corporate issuance, and resilient economic growth.
M&A pipelines are strong, with expectations that deal announcements will further boost issuance in the coming year.
The environment for debt issuance is seen as more favorable now than during the ultra-low interest rate period post-COVID.
Key growth drivers include refinancing needs, private credit expansion, infrastructure investment, and the rise of digital and transition finance.
Asset class and revenue outlook
Corporate issuance remains strong, while structured finance growth has slowed, particularly in consumer finance, reflecting a two-speed economy.
Infrastructure financing is distributed across multiple rating lines, with some quarterly downticks but broad long-term opportunity.
Medium-term organic revenue growth targets remain high-single to low-double digits, with headwinds from specific partnership and distribution changes.
Investment focus is on banking, lending, insurance, cyber, and KYC, leveraging proprietary data and AI to unlock new value.
AI is viewed as a major opportunity to monetize proprietary data across new customer segments and use cases.
AI and digital transformation
AI is expected to benefit data-rich firms, enabling new pricing models and broader content distribution through digital fulfillment.
Proprietary catastrophe models and credit data can be leveraged for new applications in banking and insurance.
Digital fulfillment platforms are being developed to enable scalable, situational access to content and support diverse pricing strategies.
Early adopters of AI solutions show nearly double the growth rate and deeper engagement, especially among large, regulated banks.
Pricing will be based on utility and use case, maintaining pricing power as digital channels expand.
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