Hong Kong Exch & Clearing (HKXCF) Q1 2022 Earnings Call

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to HKEX 2022 Q1 Results Analysis Presentation. Today, we are delighted to have our Chief Executive Officer, Nicholas Aguzin, and our Group CFO, Vanessa Lau. We will first present our key highlights in 2022 Q1, Financial Performance Review, followed by Business and Strategic Update. Then, we are happy to take some of your questions. Those of you dialing in to this call may follow the instructions of the conference call moderator to ask questions later. Meanwhile, Those of you joining us through the webcast may send us written questions through the webcast portal as usual. With no further ado, over to you, Guqiu. Thank you very much, Ricky, and good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. It is my pleasure to be talking with all of you investors, analysts, both in Hong Kong and all around the world. Today I'm actually presenting from Wanzhou, which is part of a trip that I've done for the last month in mainland China to meet with some of our partners and stakeholders. It has been a very fruitful visit so far. I have been in Beijing, Shenzhen, As I'm introducing our new strategy to all of our friends, our colleagues in the mainland and sharing ideas on how to develop our capital markets and also how we can further enhance the connectivity. And today, on behalf of HKEX, I'm pleased to present our financial results for the first three months of 2022. I will let Vanessa go into more details on the numbers later, but let me share some key highlights. In the first quarter of 2022, HKEX continued to deliver robust results, despite the very challenging macro backdrop due to the ongoing market volatility and geopolitical fragility. Key financials held steady from the fourth quarter of 2021, But we're down from a very stro...