Operator

Hello, and welcome to OTC Markets Group First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast. [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to hand the conference over to Dan Zinn, General Counsel. You may begin.

Daniel Zinn
Chief of Staff, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

Thank you, operator. Good morning, and welcome to the OTC Markets Group First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. With me today are Cromwell Coulson, our President and Chief Executive Officer; and Antonia Georgieva, our Chief Financial Officer.

Today's call will be accompanied by a slide presentation. Our earnings press release and the presentation are each available on our website.

Certain statements during this call and in our presentation may relate to future events or expectations and as such, may constitute forward-looking statements. Information concerning risks and uncertainties that may impact our actual results is contained in the Risk Factors section of our 2025 annual report, which is also available on our website. For more information, please refer to the safe harbor statement on Slide 3 of the earnings presentation.

Before I turn the call over to Cromwell, I want to take a moment to remember our friend and colleague, Elik Topolosky, whom we tragically lost in March. Elik was an exceptional person. He was smart, reliable and deeply trusted. But what made Elik truly special was the way in which he connected to and cared for the people around him. He made our team better simply by being part of it. Those who worked alongside him