Company: FRHC
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form Type: ARS
Source: 0000924805-25-000027
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Company: Freedom Holding Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form: ARS
Chunk 25
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 emissions and indirect energy-related emissions for all our environmentally material subsidiaries. These subsidiaries were identified based on their potential environmental impact, considering factors such as the number of employees, the nature and scale of operations, and financial performance. In March 2025, we completed the inventory of financed emissions under the guidelines of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, a global corporate standard for emissions of greenhouse gases. External Environmental Projects In 2024, through the Fund, Freedom Holding Corp. began providing financial support for the Oasis Project, a project focusing on planting black saksaul and other salt-tolerant plants on the dried-up bed of the Aral, aiming to restore the ecosystem of the region, which suffers from a long-term ecological crisis due to the sea's deterioration. INFORMATION SECURITY Information security, with a particular focus on cybersecurity, is a high priority for us. We have and continue to develop and implement safeguards, policies and technology designed to protect the information provided to us by our customers and our own information from cyber-attacks and other misappropriation, corruption or loss. We also consult advisory organizations and follow regulatory requirements regarding information security. For a discussion of risks relating to information security see "Risks Related to Information Technology and Cybersecurity" in "Risk Factors" in Part I Item 1A, and "Regulation" in "Business" in Part I Item 1 of this annual report. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY We rely principally on a combination of trademark, copyright, related rights and trade secret laws in the jurisdictions in which we operate as well as confidentiality procedures and contractual provisions to protect our proprietary technology and our brands. We enter into confidentiality agreements with our employees and consultants and confidentiality agreements with other third parties, and we rigorously control access to our proprietary technology. We generally obtain trademark protection and often seek to register trademarks for the brand names and images under which we market our services. As of March 31, 2025, we owned approximately 14 registered trademarks in Armenia, 13 in Cyprus and its European subsidiaries, 12 in Kazakhstan, 10 in the United Kingdom, 7 in Turkey, 2 in Azerbaijan and 1 in Kyrgyzstan. Our flagship technology product is our proprietary Tradernet software platform. We also believe our "Freedom" and other brands contribute to the appeal and success of our services. Despite our efforts to protect our intellectual property Table of Contents 19

rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy or otherwise obtain and use our brands and technology. In addition, third parties may initiate litigation against us alleging