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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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<ul><li>After two years of significant investments in AI infrastructure, investors are counting 2025 to be a transformational year for AI.</li><li>As market leaders will continue to deploy a large amount of capital in AI infrastructure buildout to widen their competitive moats, new themes in the downstream are rising, including AI agents, humanoid robots, robotaxi, etc.</li><li>We remain bullish on AI demand. We continue to rank AI theme as our top pick for 2025. Market leaders will continue to enjoy the AI tailwind beyond 2025.</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

After two years of significant investments in AI infrastructure, investors are counting 2025 to be a transformational year for AI.As market leaders will continue to deploy a large amount of capital in AI infrastructure buildout to widen their competitive moats, new themes in the downstream are rising, including AI agents, humanoid robots, robotaxi, etc.We remain bullish on AI demand. We continue to rank AI theme as our top pick for 2025. Market leaders will continue to enjoy the AI tailwind beyond 2025.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

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