Sustainability

Accounting

Standards Board

SASB Standards guide companies to disclose relevant information to investors based on their industry sector; SASB provide 77 industry sector standards identifying the sustainability related risk and opportunities most likely to impact an entity's cash flows, access to capital and cost of capital over the short, medium or long term. As of 2022 the International Standards Board (ISSB) of the IFRS Foundation assumed responsibility for the SASB standards. In future, we will align with ISSB's sustainability reporting standards.

The table below summarises LSEG's alignment to the SASB's Security & Commodity Exchanges standards.

Topic

Accounting metric

Unit of measure

Disclosure

1) Number and (2) average duration

of (a) halts related to public release of

Number/minutes

Not disclosed

information and (b) pauses related to

volatility

Percentage of trades generated from

Percentage

Not disclosed

automated trading systems

Percentage of trades generated from

N/A

We do not provide any advice to our clients about the content or timing of their disclosures. All responsibility for content and

automated trading systems

timing rests with the client

Publication of TCFD-aligned climate reporting guidance to educate the market and encourage best practice climate-related

disclosure

Publication of ESG reporting guidance to educate the market and encourage best practice disclosure

Application of FTSE Russell data and Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) methodology to provide listed companies with an

Promoting

assessment of their carbon management practices, helping identify areas for improvement in their climate disclosure and

Transparent & Efficient

integration of climate risks and opportunities into business strategy (Climate Governance Score)

Capital Markets

Provision of an online tool for issuers to receive personalised recommendations on how to improve climate-related disclosure

Description of policy to encourage or

(Climate Governance Tool)

On-demand training on climate disclosure and TCFD implementation available to educate listed companies via the Issuer Services

require listed companies to publicly

N/A

platform

disclose environmental, social and

Provision of one of the industry's most comprehensive ESG data feeds LSEG ESG data directly to London's issuers via the Issuer

governance (ESG) information

Services platform

Regular webinars and events with participation from LSEG experts and industry specialists on the importance of ESG disclosure,

covering regions and sectors

Established green economy equities classification (Green Economy Mark) to incentivise disclosure of revenues generated from

activities that contribute to environmental objectives

Annual report on the trends and performance of listed green economy companies and funds

Issuers with bonds listed on our Sustainable Bond Market must comply with mandatory annual post-issuance reporting

requirements to demonstrate continued eligibility for the Sustainable Bond Market

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Topic

Accounting metric

Unit of measure

Disclosure

Total amount of monetary losses

Direct engagement with issuers on market development and regulatory trends in ESG and climate disclosure

because of legal proceedings

LSEG did not sustain any monetary losses in the reporting period as a result of legal proceedings associated with fraud, insider

associated with fraud, insider trading,

Reporting

trading, antitrust, anti-competitive behaviour, market manipulation, malpractice, or other relevant financial industry laws or

anti-trust,anti-competitive behaviour,

Currency

regulations related to fraud, insider trading, anti-trust,anti-competitive behaviour, market manipulation or malpractice

market manipulation, malpractice, or

other related financial industry laws or

regulations

Discussion of processes for identifying

LSEG PLC maintains a Group Conflicts

of Interest

Policy which is subject to an annual review

Managing Conflicts

and assessing conflicts

of interest

The policy:

of Interest

- Provides guidance to assist in the identification

of both personal and business conflicts

- Sets out requirements to clearly identify all conflicts and, if

possible, take appropriate steps to avoid them

N/A

- Where conflicts cannot be avoided,

mandates that they will

be disclosed or recorded and effectively managed to mitigate any

associated risk that a Group entity or employee might be, or be perceived to be, unduly influenced by them

- Mandatory conflicts of interest training is provided to all employees annually to ensure the

provisions set out in the policy are

communicated, reinforced and understood. To confirm their comprehension of the training,

all employees must pass a test before

they are considered to have successfully completed the course

Completion of the course is tracked, with any non-completion escalated to the employee's people leader

(1) Number of significant

market

Number/hours

One incident due to a software defect in a FX Matching vendor product. This impacted customers for 1 hour 19 minutes. The issue

disruptions and (2) duration of downtime

has been remediated

(1) Number of data breaches, (2)

Number/

Managing Business

percentage involving personally

percentage

In 2023, LSEG did not record any reportable incident of PII wherein customers were impacted directly

identifiable information (PII), (3) number

of

Continuity &

customers affected

Technology Risks

Description of efforts to

prevent

N/A

LSEG aims to proactively detect and/or prevent technology errors and security breaches to minimise the risk of disruption to

technology errors, security breaches and

the business and safeguard data. LSEG has established layers of defence to mitigate against security breaches, ranging from

market disruptions

protecting the external-facing perimeter to defending the internal network. Our Global Security Operations Centre monitors and

rapidly responds to security alerts

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SASB Activity Metric

Activity metric

Unit of measure

Disclosure

LSE order book = 565,412

Average daily number of trades executed by

Number/minutes

Turquoise Lit = 441,913

product or asset class

Turquoise Plato = 51,883

Turquoise Plato Lit Auctions = 8,632

LSE order book = £ 3,699,221,575

Average daily volume traded by product or

Reporting currency

Turquoise Lit = € 1,068,759,134

asset class

Turquoise Plato = € 721,394,933

Turquoise Plato Lit Auctions = €55,501,821

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