Company: KD
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001558370-25-008282
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Company: Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 

NOTE 1. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES​Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (“we”, “the Company” or “Kyndryl”) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, the Company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. Description of BusinessOur purpose is to design, build and manage secure and responsive private, public and multi-cloud environments to serve our customers’ needs and accelerate their digital transformations. We have a long track record of helping enterprises navigate major technological changes, particularly by enabling our customers to focus on the core aspects of their businesses during these shifts while trusting us with their most critical systems. We provide engineering talent, operating solutions and insights derived from our knowledge and data around IT systems. This enables us to deliver advisory, implementation and managed services at scale across technology infrastructures that allow our customers to de-risk and realize the full value of their digital transformations. We do this while embracing new technologies and solutions and continually expanding our skills and capabilities, as we help advance the vital systems that power progress for our customers. We deliver technology services capabilities, insights and depth of expertise to modernize and manage IT environments based on our customers’ unique needs. We offer services across domains such as cloud services, core enterprise and zCloud services, applications, data and artificial intelligence services, digital workplace services, security and resiliency services and network and edge services as we continue to support our customers through technological change. Our services enable us to modernize and manage cloud and on-premises environments as “one” for our customers, enabling them to scale seamlessly. To deliver these services, we rely on our global team of skilled practitioners.Kyndryl’s HistoryPrior to November 3, 2021, the Company was wholly owned by International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM” or “former Parent”). In November 2021, our former Parent effected the spin-off (the “Separation” or the “Spin-off”) of the infrastructure services unit of its Global Technology Services segment through the distribution to IBM stockholders of shares of Kyndryl’s common stock representing 80.1% of total shares outstanding. Kyndryl’s stock began trading as an independent company on November 4, 2021, and IBM disposed of