FRHC — FREEDOM HOLDING CORP (Financial Services >> Financial Conglomerates)

Description: Freedom Holding Corp., through its subsidiaries, provides securities brokerage, securities dealing, market making, investment research, investment counseling, retail and commercial banking, and insurance products. It operates through four segments: Brokerage, Banking, Insurance, and Other. The Brokerage segment provides investment banking services, including M&A, underwriting and capital markets advisory; margin lending services collateralized by securities and cash in the customer's account; capital raising solutions; and debt capital markets solutions that focus on structuring and distributing private and public debt, including buyouts, acquisitions, growth capital financings, and recapitalizations, as well as information processing services. The Banking segment encompasses retail and commercial banking services, including deposits, multi-currency payment cards, consumer and SME loans, payment and acquiring solutions, and money transfers. The Insurance segment offers life and general insurance products, such as life, health, annuity, accident, property, casualty, civil liability, obligatory worker emergency insurance, travel insurance and reinsurance. The Other segment includes payment processing, online ticket sales, telecommunications, media, and cloud services, as well as proprietary securities trading; payment processing, entertainment ticketing sales, online air and railway ticket purchase aggregation and online retail trade and e-commerce services. The company offers repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements, securities borrowed and loaned transactions; covers short positions and settles other securities obligations; and a Tradernet software platform for client margin risk evaluation and middle office security transfer requests. It operates in Kazakhstan, Armenia, Cyprus, the United States, and internationally. The company was formerly known as BMB Munai, Inc. The company is based in New York, New York.