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Freedom Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: FRHC), a financial services and technology company has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan to develop a $2 billion Sovereign AI Hub in Kazakhstan. The hub will be operated by Freedom Holding Corp. and powered by sovereign exascale NVIDIA AI infrastructure, as part of a major strategic initiative to accelerate Kazakhstan's and Central Asia's AI leadership.

Freedom Bank, part of Freedom Holding Corp. (Nasdaq:FRHC), a diversified financial services and technology group, has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Chinese company UnionPay Business. The signing took place at the Kazakhstan-China Business Council meeting in Beijing, during the official visit of Kazakhstan's President, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, to China.

As part of its scheduled portfolio rebalancing, the First Trust Financials AlphaDEX Fund (NASDAQ: FXO) acquired 185,000 shares of Freedom Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: FRHC), adding them to its portfolio. As a result of this transaction, the fund has become the second largest shareholder of the company, following its founder and CEO, Timur Turlov. FRHC now holds a 1.22% weighting in the index that underlies the fund's structure.