ALFA FINANCIAL SOFTWARE HOLDINGS PLC (ALFA) — Half Year Results

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Good morning, and welcome to the ALFA FINANCIAL SOFTWARE HOLDINGS PLC half year results investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time by the q and a tab situated in the right corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received in the meeting itself. However, the company can review all the questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to Andrew Denton, CEO. Good morning to you, sir. Good morning, and good morning, everybody. I'm Andrew Denton, the CEO of ALFA, and I'm joined by Duncan McGrath and Matthew White, ALFA's CFO and COO. We will follow, an agenda that will be fairly familiar to anybody who's seen any of our results presentations before. But, essentially, you'll get some highlights from me before Duncan takes us through the financials. Matthew will then step through our delivery performance, leaving me with the business and sales updates before we move into q and a. And to reinforce the the request, please please ask questions. We're really pleased to be able to answer them. So moving on to the overview. We've had an excellent first half with trading in line with our expectations as we made room to invest in our product and as major new projects began to ramp up strongly. Major wins in US auto and multi country European equipment finance have driven really strong TCV growth, up 40% from this time last year. This month saw another marquee win in US auto, and this win included our first sale of our new total originations product line. And this i...