ASA INTERNATIONAL GROUP PLC (ASAI) — Investor Presentation

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the ASA INTERNATIONAL GROUP PLC 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 hand corner of your screen. Just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all the questions submitted today and publish responses where it is appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to Karen Kersten, CEO. Good afternoon to you. Thank you, Alessandro, and my name is Karen Kersten. I'm the CEO of ASA INTERNATIONAL, and warm welcome to you, investors or potential investors for ASA INTERNATIONAL or other interested parties. We would like to take you through short introduction to our company and then to the results of 2023 and the first part of twenty twenty four. So if you look to ASA INTERNATIONAL, we are one of the world's largest international stock listed microfinance institutions, and we provide financial services to low income female entrepreneurs in Asia and Africa. Our vision is to contribute to just and financially inclusive societies. Our purpose is, like ESG United Nation goal number one, to reduce poverty, and we want to enable female empowerment to female entrepreneurs, and we want to enhance our social as well as our economic position. Our clients are typically low income, and we want to increase financial inclusion. Our company values are professionalism, integrity, and teamwork. Teamwork not only applies to teamwork across colleagues, but also of colleagues with our clients. Our clients who come...