According to Zhitong Finance APP, on September 23, 2025, the &#34;JF SMARTINVEST Strategic Investment in EX.IO and Strategic Cooperation Signing Ceremony between Dongfang Securities and EX.IO&#34; was held in Hong Kong. The financial technology company JF SMARTINVEST (09636) joined hands with the global Web3 innovation group EXIO Group Limited (hereinafter referred to as &#34;EX.IO&#34;) and the well-known internet brokerage Dongfang Securities Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as &#34;Dongfang Securities&#34;) to jointly achieve a series of important collaborations, marking a key step in the collaborative innovation and ecological co-construction of the three parties in the digital finance field.
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<h2>JF SMARTINVEST Strategic Investment in EX.IO, Enhancing Global Digital Finance Strategy</h2>
At the ceremony, JF SMARTINVEST's wholly-owned subsidiary completed a strategic investment in the global Web3 innovation group EX.IO. This strategic investment will become an important deployment for JF SMARTINVEST to deepen its overseas digital asset business and improve its on-chain financial service system.
It is reported that EX.IO is a global leading company connecting traditional finance (Web2) with the Web3 ecosystem, providing innovative, compliant, and secure financial solutions. Its subsidiary EXIO Limited has obtained an operational license from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in December 2024, primarily engaged in providing digital asset trading, custody, distribution, and other services.
Following the completion of a strategic placement of approximately $100 million in July, JF SMARTINVEST further intensifies its layout in the overseas digital asset business, promoting the company's internationalization and diversification strategy. By investing in EX.IO, JF SMARTINVEST quickly enters the compliant digital asset market in Hong Kong and overseas, providing license support and compliance assurance for subsequent business expansion. At the same time, by combining JF SMARTINVEST's advantages in intelligent investment advisory with EX.IO's leading position in blockchain and Web3, both parties will collaborate to leverage each other's advantageous resources, creating an integrated service closed loop covering digital asset issuance, trading, custody, and investment advisory, and jointly exploring the innovative application of &#34;AI + research&#34; in digital asset scenarios to promote the implementation of intelligent services for digital assets.
<h2>Dongfang Securities and EX.IO Reach Strategic Cooperation to Expand Hong Kong's Digital Asset Market</h2>
Subsequently, Dongfang Securities and EX.IO signed a strategic cooperation agreement, leveraging their respective advantages in licensing resources, technical capabilities, and market experience to jointly seize the development opportunities in Hong Kong's digital asset market.
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Fangde Securities and EX.IO Reach Strategic Cooperation
It is reported that Fangde Securities is an internet brokerage focused on providing trading services for Hong Kong and U.S. stocks to global Chinese clients. The company has been based in Hong Kong for many years and holds licenses of types 1, 2, 4, and 5 issued by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. With new opportunities in digital asset businesses such as stablecoins and RWA in Hong Kong, Fangde Securities will upgrade its type 1 and type 4 licenses to offer digital asset trading services and digital asset investment consulting services, actively promoting the upgrade and iteration of Fangde Securities from an internet brokerage to a tokenized investment bank and investment institution.
It is worth mentioning that previously, JF SMARTINVEST announced its intention to acquire Yintech Financial and its subsidiary Fangde Securities.
As an internet brokerage deeply rooted in the Hong Kong market, Fangde Securities possesses excellent local market experience and customer base. In the future, by combining EX.IO's compliant trading platform and technological capabilities with JF SMARTINVEST's intelligent investment advisory service system, the three parties will form a strong ecological complementary effect, creating a closed loop of digital financial business of &#34;exchange + brokerage + investment advisory,&#34; significantly enhancing comprehensive on-chain financial service capabilities and providing clients with a more comprehensive and diverse investment experience.
<h2>Three-party Collaboration, Building Ecology, Creating a New Benchmark for Hong Kong's Digital Finance</h2>
With the new release of the &#34;Hong Kong Digital Asset Development Policy Declaration 2.0&#34; in June, Hong Kong is accelerating the construction of a well-regulated, institution-led, and diversified digital asset ecosystem. According to statistics from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the total trading volume of bank-related digital asset products and tokenized assets reached HKD 26.1 billion in the first half of 2025, an increase of 233% compared to the same period last year, surpassing the total trading volume of the previous year.
Under continuous policy guidance and market opportunities, financial institutions with traditional financial foundations and technological strength are actively seizing the Hong Kong digital finance market through resource integration and collaborative innovation, promoting the industry towards a more professional, stable, and integrated high-quality development direction. This collaboration among JF SMARTINVEST, Fangde Securities, and EX.IO is not only a complementary advantage and strong alliance at the business level but also a typical case of co-building the digital financial ecosystem, expected to inject new momentum into the industry's high-quality development.

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JF SMARTINVEST signed a strategic cooperation agreement with EX.IO and Fangde Securities in Hong Kong on September 23, 2025, completing a strategic investment in EX.IO. This move aims to deepen JF SMARTINVEST's overseas digital asset business and improve the on-chain financial service system. EX.IO is a leading company connecting traditional finance with the Web3 ecosystem, providing compliant digital asset trading solutions. This investment will support JF SMARTINVEST's expansion of compliant digital asset business in Hong Kong and overseas markets

JF SMARTINVEST joins hands with EX.IO and Fangde Securities to build a new ecosystem for digital finance in Hong Kong