{"id":46335,"date":"2026-05-23T05:26:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/46335\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T05:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:26:32","slug":"lseg-launches-3bn-buyback-and-leans-into-ai-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/46335\/","title":{"rendered":"LSEG launches \u00a33bn buyback and leans into AI debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fb7e69a13c9a133bbddaa5cc25563cd5.jpeg\" alt=\"LSEG launches \u00a33bn buyback and leans into AI debate\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"445\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> LSEG launches \u00a33bn buyback and leans into AI debate Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/LSEG.l\" data-ylk=\"slk:London Stock Exchange Group PLC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;London Stock Exchange Group PLC&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London Stock Exchange Group PLC<\/a>\u00a0has unveiled a fresh \u00a33 billion share buyback after sharply increasing profits last year, thanks to strong growth across its data and markets businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The FTSE 100-listed group\u00a0leaned into the debate around artificial intelligence, after being caught up in the eye of the &#8216;AI fear trade&#8217; in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Chief executive David Schwimmer said LSEG is positioning itself as \u201cthe partner of choice for licensed, trusted data as the use of AI in decision-making scales \u2013 and we are seeing very positive signs of adoption\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">AI-focused partnerships were highlighted with Anthropic, Databricks, Microsoft, OpenAI, Rogo and Snowflake, built on its data infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The results showed total income excluding recoveries\u00a0rose 5.8% to \u00a39\u00a0billion, or 7.1% on an organic constant currency basis. Including recoveries, income increased 5.5% to \u00a39.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Operating profit jumped 45.4% to \u00a32.1 billion, while reported pre-tax profits leapt 56.5% to \u00a32\u00a0billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The group generated \u00a32.4 billion of equity free cash flow. As well as the new buyback, the full year dividend was increased 15.4% to 150p per share.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Schwimmer said: &#8220;We have achieved another year of very strong financial performance, driving continued top line momentum through significant investment in our product right across the business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">For 2026, LSEG expects organic constant currency income growth of 6.5-7.5%, with EBITDA margin expansion of 80-100 basis points and equity free cash flow of at least \u00a32.7 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LSEG launches \u00a33bn buyback and leans into AI debate Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock London Stock Exchange&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21266],"tags":[21325,20194,9582,23294,9581,11151],"class_list":["post-46335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london-stock-exchange-group","tag-buyback","tag-data-infrastructure","tag-david-schwimmer","tag-increasing-profits","tag-london-stock-exchange-group","tag-lseg"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116622234940305918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}