JF SMARTINVEST (09636) subsidiary obtains qualifications for virtual asset business, connecting the full chain of virtual asset services including "trading + consulting + asset management".

JF SMARTINVEST (09636) announces that its fully owned subsidiaries, Fung Tak Securities Limited (Fung Tak Securities), Fung Tak Intelligent Investment Limited (Fung Tak Intelligent), and Fung Tak Capital Management Limited (Fung Tak Capital), have the following recent business developments: 1. The flagship store in Sheung Wan has started operating. Fung Tak Securities' physical flagship store in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, officially opened. The flagship store is four stories high with a total area of approximately 19,337 square feet. It features a customer experience center and intelligent center, providing personalized advisory services, as well as investment seminars and a special area for high net worth clients. It also includes private meeting rooms and a salon space to ensure customer privacy while enhancing service quality and the group's brand image. 2. Launch of the Fung Tak AI Stock Robot. Fung Tak Intelligent has officially launched the "Fung Tak AI Stock Robot", a smart investment terminal tailored for individual investors in Hong Kong. It combines global market trading, AI intelligent investment assistance, professional investment research services, and smart trading tools in one platform, empowering individual investors with institutional-level research and decision-making capabilities as a new generation AI stock investment assistant. 3. Completion of licensing upgrade, adding virtual asset business qualifications. With approval from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, Fung Tak Securities and Fung Tak Capital have expanded the scope of their regulated activities. Fung Tak Securities can now provide virtual asset trading services to clients under its Type 1 regulated activity (securities trading), and provide advice on virtual assets under its Type 4 regulated activity (providing advice on securities). Fung Tak Capital can now provide virtual asset-related asset management services to professional investors under its Type 9 regulated activity (asset management). Following this approval, Fung Tak Securities and Fung Tak Capital now hold licenses for regulated activities including Type 1 (securities trading, including virtual asset trading services), Type 2 (futures contracts trading), Type 4 (providing advice on securities, including providing advice on virtual assets), Type 5 (providing advice on futures contracts) and Type 9 (asset management, including providing asset management services related to virtual assets). Therefore, clients can now access virtual asset "trading + advisory + asset management" services all under one account, bridging traditional and digital asset management scenarios. Virtual asset-related services will be provided in strict accordance with the regulations and guidelines of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, and are only available to professional investors. The Board of Directors believes that these business developments will continuously enhance the group's overseas business layout, strengthen the "technology + research" dual-drive strategy, improve the group's competitiveness in overseas markets, and have a positive impact on the group's long-term development.