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

2. THOMSON REUTERS: WHO WE ARE
We provide the information, technology and human expertise you need to find trusted answers. We empower customers to act with confidence in a complex world, helping them to make the decisions that matter most.
Financial
& Risk
LEGAL
Tax & Accounting
$6.5 Billion
$3.4 Billion
$1.4 Billion
Delivering critical news, information and analytics, enabling transactions – connecting communities of financial and corporate professionals
Unrivaled legal solutions that integrate content, expertise, and technologies
Powerful tax and accounting solutions to make your work easier, faster, and more profitable

3. 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.
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 organizations to understand who they are doing business with, be more transparent and manage reputational and financial risk.
Compliance and risk management professionals, MLROs, general counsels, supply chain and procurement managers, business leaders
Thomson Reuters Canada Legal
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 compliance software with local tax tools; it manages the entire tax workflow, including global trade flows for medium and large corporations.
CFOs and key tax and accounting executives
Thomson Reuters: The Answer Company

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

5. 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
Thomson Reuters: The Answer Company

6. 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
CLOUD
BLOCKCHAIN
BIG DATA
Thomson Reuters: The Answer Company

7. 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
Cable from GB to US laid, enabling Reuters to expand its expertise in global currency exchange
Reuters first to report President Lincoln assassination by telegraphing news to London
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
Reuters Monitor Dealing Service launches enabling FX trades via video Quite literally the first Social Network
WHAT MARKETS WILL THOMSON REUTERS EVOLVE IN NEXT?
1989
1999
2001
2006
2010
2016
DEALING 2000
REUTERS 3000XTRA
RMDS
TREP
EIKON
EIKON APP STUDIO
Reuters launches Dealing 2000 enabling automated communication between traders and their back office
Private network links to Reuters gives live prices from global stock, commodity, futures, derivative and bond markets as well as FX price makers.
Reuters Market Data System launched to help clients integrate and distribute third-party data
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)
Thomson Reuters: An Open Platform Business

8. 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
Over 40,000 customers around the globe
$250 billion in bond trading supported daily
Largest global professional FX community, with over 1,700 institutional clients and 160 providers
400,000+ end-users in more than 150 countries
2 million news stories per year
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
Our greatest resource is our trusted content. And there is an enormous amount of it. For example, this data explosion is just one sign that we are in the midst of a Findustrial Revolution: a confluence of events – tougher regulation, massive pressure on cost, newer technologies, new platform models and thousands of technologists leaving the incumbent banks, full of ideas, money and time to disrupt the old model.
5,000+ investment firms and hedge funds supported worldwide
2 million+ individuals and entities that can pose a potential risk to the international business community are tracked daily
2.5 million~ price updates distributed per second to the financial markets
11 million+ Messaging interactions daily
10 billion bytes of real- time pricing data distributed every day
Thomson Reuters: An Open Platform Business

9. 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’.
BIG DA·TA –
Noun: COMPUTING
‘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
DATA MANAGMENT ENSURES DATA IS LINKED TOGETHER INTO A KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING EXTRACTS FACTS
KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
RELATIONSHIPS
Successful projects require expertise in content, data governance, technology and need to deliver business value early in the process.
COMPANIES
EVENTS
IDENTIFIERS & META-DATA
PEOPLE
LOCATIONS

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

11. Global ecosystem grounded in data
7 Global Innovation Labs
Global ecosystem grounded in data
London
Data science, Blockchain Fintech
Thomson Reuters Lab Formula
Startup ecosystem
University partners
Early Customer
Engagements
Waterloo Region
Data Science, Startups, University
San Francisco
Quant Research
Data Science
Zurich Region
TR Startup incubator, Blockchain
Boston
Data science, Fintech
Singapore
Data science, FinTech
The main point: We have 7 labs
Cape Town)
Data science,
Startups

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

13. We are hiring! Why Join Thomson Reuters Canada?
Be part of a positive culture
High energy, meritocracy, open & transparent, innovative, customer- centric focus
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
Thomson Reuters named a Best Workplace for Women in Canada in 2017
Thomson Reuters named a Top 100 Employer in Canada and a Best Workplace in Canada in 2017
Great Place to Work
Thomson Reuters: The Answer Company