Scale Update - Top-line growth offset by higher investment

EQS’s first half results show good revenue growth in its domestic market, boosted by the consolidation of ARIVA (67.5% owned). The build-up of business in new markets is starting to register, with Asia now breaking even. The costs of this expansion and investment in a number of new products and services is constraining operating profits, which were marginally (3%) below the comparative period. The group remains well positioned to benefit from trends in digitisation and globalisation and the growing complexity of corporate compliance requirements.