This is RELX
Who we are, what we do
and why it matters
RELX is an exciting place to be, and whether you're a new employee, a customer, an investor or someone else, we'd like to show you why that is.
Our website says that "RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.", but what does that actually look like in practice?
It means that if you have an operation, there's a good chance your surgeon has used our tools to increase the chance of a positive outcome. If you use online banking, our anti-fraud systems are likely to be verifying your identity to keep your money safe. If you ever need a lawyer, they might be using our tools to increase your chance of winning the case, and whenever you buy a product, someone along the supply chain has probably benefited from one of our hundreds of trade shows. And that's not all. Around the world, doctors, nurses, consumers, drivers, students and more all find their lives are improved every day as a result of our work.
Data might not sound very interesting, but what we do with it definitely is...
Intelligent Technology at RELX
RELX delivered strong revenue and profit growth in 2024. Our improving long-term growth trajectory continues to be driven by the ongoing shift in business mix towards higher growth analytics and decision tools that deliver enhanced value to our customers across market segments.
We develop and deploy these tools across the company by leveraging deep customer understanding to combine leading content and data sets with powerful artificial intelligence and other technologies. This has been a key driver of the evolution of our business for well over a decade, and will remain a key driver of customer value and growth in our business for many years to come.
Technology is a key enabler at RELX and we leverage our resources, capabilities and infrastructure across the organisation. We are continually building new products and data and technology platforms, re-using approaches and technologies across the company to create platforms that are reliable, scalable and secure. Even though we serve different segments with different content sets, the nature of the problems solved and the way we apply technology have commonalities across the company. We also leverage technology to improve operational efficiencies.
Around 12,000 technologists, over half of whom are software engineers, work at RELX. Annually, the company spends $1.9bn on technology. The combination of our rich data sets, technology infrastructure and knowledge of how to use next generation innovation allow us to create effective solutions for customers.
Here are some examples of the technology in use across RELX:
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RISK |
STM |
LEGAL |
EXHIBITIONS |
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A powerful weapon against poverty: Analytics are demolishing the barriers to financial inclusion |
Scopus AI: Change the way you view knowledge |
Generative AI and the Law: AI is here already, with the power to change the legal profession |
Unleashing the power of event data |
RISK
Risk provides customers with information-based analytics and decision tools that combine public and industry-specific content with advanced technology and algorithms to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency.
We help customers make better decisions and manage risk. We help detect and prevent online fraud and money laundering and deliver insight to insurance companies. We provide digital tools that help industries from aviation to banking improve their operations.
Risk accounts for around 34% of RELX revenue
You can read our latest Risk stories here, to find out how we help with demolishing barriers to financial inclusion, saving children from online predators, saving people money with telematics and much more...
LexisNexis Risk Solutions comprises the following market-facing
industry/sector verticals: Business Services, Insurance, Specialised Industry Data Services and Government Solutions.
Financial Crime Compliance Portfolio
Our integrated financial crime compliance offerings deliver comprehensive solutions for addressing financial crime risk. Business Services released three new modules within Firco Continuity. These include the Automated Hit Qualifier, which enables automatic remediation of recurring false positive hits across transactions; the Entity Resolution Filter, which reduces the number of alerts needing manual review and accelerates the handling of true alerts; and the Simulation Manager, which allows clients to test and refine customised configurations in a secure sandbox environment
Platforms Portfolio
Our platforms provide unified anti-money laundering, fraud, compliance and risk management capabilities with simple integration for customers. We launched several new apps and capabilities to improve our guided image capture for document authentication on RiskNarrative. Platforms added a Model Performance Report to its Dynamic Decisioning Platform, which enables customers to compare the performance of different ThreatMetrix models. The platform generates Model Governance documentation automatically to help ensure transparency and regulatory compliance
Fraud and Identity Management Portfolio
We provide digital, physical, device and behavioural risk signals to help organisations better assess consumers, prevent fraudulent transactions, improve operational efficiencies and protect accounts while minimising friction for trusted users. Fraud and Identity launched additional behavioural biometrics capabilities in 2023 with the completed integration of BehavioSec
LexisNexis Claims Compass
Our data analytics platform delivers LexisNexis Claims Datafill, VINsights, Carrier Discovery, Claims Clarity and LexisNexis Police Records solutions directly into insurer workflows to improve the claims process from first notice of loss, triage, investigation and resolution, through recovery
LexisNexis Total Property Understanding
Our complete property risk assessment solution helps home insurance underwriters more easily identify properties with risk or coverage opportunities and survey those priority properties using consumer-friendly, configurable AI-driven property assessment technology that delivers actionable insights into the underwriting workflow
DID YOU KNOW?
91%
We do business with 91% of the Fortune 100; 85% of the Fortune 500; nine of the world’s top ten banks and 23 of the world’s top 25 insurers
99%
We work with 99% of US personal auto and home insurers, and the top 25 US life and commercial auto insurers, offering a view on 231m+ US insurance purchase decisions a year
121bn
The LexisNexis Digital Identity Network
analyses more than 345m transactions daily and more than 121bn transactions annually
150k
More than 150,000 websites and mobile
applications around the world implement
the LexisNexis Digital Identity Network
Scientific, technical & medical
Scientific, Technical & Medical helps researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes by combining high-quality scientific and medical information and trusted data sets with leading technology to deliver analytical tools that facilitate insights and critical decision-making.
We deliver insights that help universities, research institutions, governments and funders achieve their strategic goals. We help researchers discover and share knowledge, collaborate, and accelerate innovation. We help librarians provide trusted, high-quality information to their universities. We help innovators transform the latest knowledge into new products. We help health professionals improve patient care, and educators train the next generation of doctors and nurses.
Scientific, Technical & Medical accounts for around 33% of RELX revenue
You can read our latest STM stories here, to find out how we help boost academic careers, how providing access to research saves lives, how The Lancet has been applying humanity to science for almost 200 years and much more...
Elsevier’s customers are scientists, research leaders, librarians, medical researchers, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and students, as well as hospitals, academic and research institutions, health insurers, managed healthcare organisations, research-intensive corporations, funders, and governments.
Elsevier’s services across Academic & Government, Corporate and Health markets focus on: Databases, Tools and Electronic reference; Primary Research; and Print products. In each of these markets, our objective is to be a trusted partner to the customers we serve and to be known for quality. Databases, Tools and Electronic Reference, together with Corporate Primary Research, accounts for around 45% of STM revenues, with Academic & Government Primary Research accounting for a similar amount, all in electronic format. Under 10% of revenues are derived from Print sales.
OUR BRANDS, BUSINESSES AND SERVICES INCLUDE...
ScienceDirect
The world’s largest platform dedicated to peer-reviewed, full-text primary scientific, technical and medical research across all disciplines
Scopus
An expertly curated abstract and citation database with content from over 30,000 academic journals from 7,000 publishers to help track and enhance researcher and institutional data and discover global research in all fields.
New Scopus AI helps researchers get deeper research insights faster, navigate and understand different disciplines more easily and support interdisciplinary collaboration
ClinicalKey
Clinical knowledge solution helping healthcare professionals and students find the most clinically relevant answers through a wide breadth and depth of trusted content across specialities. New ClinicalKey AI combines the latest and most trusted medical content with generative artificial intelligence to help clinicians at the point of care
Complete Anatomy
The world’s most advanced 3D anatomy platform, Complete Anatomy is revolutionising how students, educators, health professionals and patients understand and interact with anatomy
Reaxys
The largest chemical database, Reaxys combines over a billion chemistry data points from journals and patents with AI to support innovation in drug discovery, chemical R&D and academia. Chemists can quickly access relevant patent, substance and bioactivity insights, and an award-winning retrosynthesis tool
SciBite
SciBite’s semantic infrastructure, which combines machine learning with an ontology-led approach, delivers answers to business-critical questions in real-time from unstructured data. New SciBite Chat combines this information retrieval with responsible AI to interpret natural language questions and generate answers for researchers in Life Sciences
DID YOU KNOW?
17%
We help ensure quality research accelerates progress for society by helping validate, improve and disseminate over 17% of the world’s scientific articles
3.5m
Elsevier’s over 3,000 journals published
more than 720,000 articles in 2024, from
over 3.5m submitted
243
243 of 244 science and economics Nobel Prize winners since 2000 have published in an Elsevier journal
22m
ScienceDirect, the world’s largest platform dedicated to peer-reviewed primary scientific and medical research, hosts over 22m pieces of content from over 5,100 journals and over 48,000 e-books, and has over 20m monthly researchers.
Legal
Legal helps its customers improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes and increase productivity by providing tools that combine legal, regulatory and business information with powerful analytics.
We help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better, and grow their practices by deploying advanced analytics and latest, cutting-edge technology, including artificial intelligence (AI). We assist corporations in better understanding their markets and monitoring relevant news. We partner with leading global associations and customers to help advance the Rule of Law across the world.
Legal accounts for around 20% of RELX revenue
You can read our latest Legal stories here, to find out about Generative AI and the Law, how Law360's data and analysis keep readers in the know, how we are helping to ensure democracy works fairly and equitably, and much more...
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is organised in market-facing groups, focused on Law Firms & Corporate Legal, Government & Academic, and News & Business markets. Services are delivered primarily in electronic format, with print formats available where there is customer demand. Content and tools are tailored to the specific geographic markets served, supported by global shared services organisations providing platform and product development, operational and distribution services, and other support functions.
OUR BRANDS, BUSINESSES AND SERVICES INCLUDE...
Lexis+ AI
Lexis+ AI is a generative AI platform designed to transform legal work with an initial emphasis on enhanced search, summarisation and drafting Lexis+ is a legal analytics ecosystem that uses AI and superior search technology to deliver legal research and news, data-driven insights, and practical guidance seamlessly into legal workflows
Intelligize
Intelligize is the leading provider of content, news, regulatory insights, and analytics for compliance, transactional and financial reporting professionals
Lex Machina
Lex Machina provides Legal Analytics to law firms and companies, enabling them to craft successful strategies, win cases, and close business
CounselLink
CounselLink is a leading enterprise legal management solution designed to help corporate legal departments gain 100% visibility into their work, matters, and invoices
Nexis
Nexis is our flagship business product that provides access to an expansive collection of news, company, legal, and regulatory data necessary to make smart business decisions
DID YOU KNOW?
161bn
LexisNexis hosts over 161bn legal and news documents and records
1.6m
On average, over 1.6m new legal documents are added daily from over 50,000 sources, generating over 161bn connections with over 38m legal documents processed per day
39k
Nexis news and business content includes over 39,000 premium sources in over 50 languages, covering around 180 countries, with a content archive that dates back 45 years
322m
LexisNexis content includes more than 322m court dockets and documents, over 172m patent documents, over 5.19m State Trial Orders, and over 1.6m jury verdict and settlement documents
Exhibitions
Exhibitions combines industry expertise with data and digital tools to help customers connect face-to-face and digitally, learn about markets, source products and complete transactions.
We help customers build their businesses through face-to-face events and digital tools, enabling innovation and supporting the economic development of local markets and national economies around the world.
Exhibitions accounts for around 13% of RELX revenue
You can read our latest Exhibitions stories here, to find out how we are getting smart about face to face events, what is involved in running a global exhibitions business, to get the inside story on MCM Comic Con and much more...
RX organises influential events in key markets focused on addressing the needs of each particular industry, where participants from around the world meet face-to-face to learn, network, source products or leads, and trade. Its events encompass a wide range of sectors. They include construction, cosmetics, data analytics, electronics, energy and alternative energy, engineering, entertainment, gifts and jewellery, healthcare, hospitality, interior design, logistics, manufacturing, media, pharmaceuticals, real estate, recreation, security and safety, transport and travel.
The 280+ events we ran in 2024 included...
The world’s property market
Premier global event for the travel industry
The North American jewellery industry’s premier event
International Security Conference & Exhibition
International exhibition for personal care ingredients
One of the largest business gifts & home fairs in China
The East Coast’s largest pop culture convention
Japan’s one-stop shop for office related products and services
Our approach to corporate responsibility
Corporate responsibility (CR) begins with the purpose of the company. RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.
Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets, and complete transactions.
Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.
We act with the highest ethical standards, while using our strengths to make a positive impact on society. To us, CR is not a programme or prescriptive set of activities, it is how we conduct ourselves and our business on a daily basis. It is the responsibility of everyone at RELX.
Our focus on CR gives us a long-term sustainable, competitive advantage. It inspires confidence in our stakeholders, and provides a licence to operate in the communities in which we live and work. It underpins our business strategy to deliver improved outcomes for our customers by combining leading content and data sets with powerful technologies. It helps us build leading positions in long-term global growth markets and leverage our skills and assets.
We believe in timely, comprehensive reporting. Key non-financial metrics, including for environment, people and supply chain are independently assured. CR is an integral part of the statements of the Chair, CEO and CFO
We also align the objectives we set for our unique contributions, as well as those for the significant areas that affect all companies – governance, people, customers, community, supply chain and environment – with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to support the achievement of these 17 global goals by 2030.
We pursue robust governance of CR issues for which the CEO is responsible to the Board. The leaders of our four business areas and our functional leaders all have accountability for our CR performance, reinforced by objective setting and monitoring by our CR Forum and the involvement of over 4,800 colleagues in our internal CR networks.
Our employees, products and shows are regularly recognised for excellence. In 2024, for example:
Risk
LexisNexis Risk Solutions won the Governance, Risk and Compliance Solution of the Year category at the Asia Risk Awards
Scientific, Technical & Medical
Elsevier won gold at the Employer Brand Management Awards for Best Ongoing Commitment to Employer Brand
Legal
LexisNexis Legal & Professional was named as the Best Overall AI Company at the AI Breakthrough Awards
Exhibitions
RX Germany was named the winner of the UFI Marketing Excellence Award
Our people
We owe our success to our people. They are driven by a strong sense of purpose, and a supportive work environment where they can achieve their full potential.
What makes RELX special
Our people tell us, through our annual employee opinion survey, that they are engaged, motivated and committed and believe RELX is a great place to work. We attract and retain talented people, including those whose skills are in high demand.
Our competitive advantage is driven by our purpose, culture, talent and a combination of behaviours and attributes, including:
- Knowing our products and exactly how they add value for our customers
- Understanding emerging technologies and how they might be used to add more value
- Being thought leaders
- Being intellectually curious and eager to learn
- Being fact based, analytical and data driven
We owe our success to RELX’s talented employees, including technologists, researchers, event directors, product managers, data scientists and many others. And they count on us to create a fair, challenging, rewarding and supportive work environment where they can achieve their potential.
Find out more about us at www.relx.com
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