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| In particular, as Leaf mentioned in the opening remarks, we have launched free floating interest -- floating rate note, FCN products in the past two quarters and record a very strong growth |
| Notably, total client assets in Singapore achieved double-digit sequential growth for the fifth consecutive quarter, which is partially driven by higher new asset quality |
| Net income margin expanded to 41% from 39% in the same quarter last year, mainly due to strong revenue growth and the lower selling and marketing expenses |
| And we do think this kind of product offering will further -- helpful to our client engagement in these markets and also increase the client participations in our platform and also will -- our topline will also be benefit arising from that |
| This acceleration in client acquisition was driven by the relief rally in the first half of the quarter and successful marketing around the government's Green Bond and Silver Bond issuances in the second half |
| In Singapore, we launched successful marketing campaigns to promote our cash management product, Cash Plus, thereby growing our paying clients by 35% year-over-year |
| We continue to observe improvement in client quality in the U.S |
| Trading volume in the third quarter rebounded as clients traded more actively amidst heightened volatility |
| stock trading volume to grow by 19% quarter-over-quarter |
| stock trading on our platform grows, we also expect FX revenue to make a meaningful contribution |
| Three quarters into 2023, we have exceeded our full-year guidance by acquiring over 163,000 paying clients |
| Total client assets in wealth management grew to HKD52 billion as of quarter end, up a 100% year-over-year and 19% quarter-over-quarter |
| stocks and ETFs to enhance the accessibility for novice investors |
| While the market pullback dragged the valuation of our clients' stock holdings, total client assets remained stable quarter-over-quarter due to robust net asset inflow |
| So, over the past four years, it has more than doubled |
| We do appreciate the very rapid growth of our AUM in wealth management and per management introduction just now, money market fund is a major reason behind that |
| As a result, private fund balance grew by 52% quarter-over-quarter |
| Brokerage commission and handling charge incomes was HKD1 billion, an increase of 5% year-over-year and 6% Q-over-Q |
| Total client assets increased by 27% year-over-year to HKD468 billion |
| As a result, total gross profit was HKD2.2 billion, an increase of 28% from HKD1.7 billion in the third quarter of 2022 |
| We think these products will further diversify our clients' asset allocations and help them to navigate different interest cycles down the line |
| Despite various sentiments across global equity markets, we recorded another quarter of over 98% paying client retention rate |
| Other income was HKD137 million, up 28% year-over-year and 8% Q-over-Q |
| Hong Kong stock trading volume increased by 5% sequentially, mainly driven by raising trading interest and leveraged and inverse ETFs |
| Interest income was HKD1.5 billion, an increase of 71% year-over-year and 7% Q-over-Q |
| Our total paying clients reached 1.65 million, up 14% year-over-year |
| In Singapore, total client assets in wealth management increase by fivefold year-over-year, driven by tripling of wealth management clients and higher average asset balance |
| Higher contributions from derivative trading lift the blended commission rate from 8.8 basis point in the third quarter last year to 9.3 basis point this quarter |
| Total revenue was HKD2.7 billion, up 36% from HKD1.9 billion in the third quarter of 2022 |
| Total trading volume increased by 14% sequentially to HKD1.1 trillion, of which U.S |
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| And in order to start account opening soon, we leveraged some of these outsourced systems which really have a negative impact on our users experience and thus impacted the conversion rate from account opening to asset deposit |
| And, so far, the mid to back office in the Japan brokerage industry are still characterized by a lot of outsourced systems that have really unsatisfactory user experience |
| And the second reason behind this low conversion rate so far is the lack of key trading products |
| Margin financing and securities lending balance slipped 4% quarter-over-quarter as some clients unwound their bets against popular U.S |
| So, right now, in Japan, the user to client conversion rate as well as the client to paying client conversion rate are both lower than what we have observed in other international markets, and we think there are two main reasons behind it |
| Brokerage commission and handling charge expenses were HKD63 million, down 24% year-over-year and 14% Q-over-Q |
| We noticed that the blended commission fee rate declined sequentially in third quarter |
| Processing and the servicing costs were HKD86 million, down 6% year-over-year and 13% Q-over-Q |
| As a result, our net income increased by 45% year-over-year, and it declined by 3% Q-over-Q to HKD1.1 billion |
| And, going forward, we do not think, you know, the Fed's rate cut will be very fast |
| So, I'm sure this is partly because of the high U.S |
| But, over time, as we increase the number of clients in Japan, the CAC will gradually come down |
| R&D expenses was HKD360 million, up 15% year-over-year and a down marginally by 1% Q-over-Q |
| Chiyao Huang [Foreign Language] The first question is on idle cash, and we saw some sequential decline in idle cash |
| Selling and marketing expenses was HKD212 million, down 10% year-over-year and up 21% Q-over-Q |
| The year-over-year decrease was mainly due to saving from cloud service fee as a result of system optimization and the Q-over-Q decrease was mainly due to lower system usage fee |
| And, so far, the turnover of the U.S |
| We caution you that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements |
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