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OneConnect Announces First Quarter 2021 Unaudited Financial ResultsOneConnect Financial Technology Co., Ltd. ("OneConnect" or the "Company") (NYSE: OCFT), a leading technology-as-a-service platform for financial institutions in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2021. First Quarter 2021 Financial Highlights
1 For more details on this non-IFRS financial measure, please see the section entitled "Use of Unaudited Non-IFRS Financial Measures" and the table captioned "Reconciliations of IFRS and Non-IFRS Results (Unaudited)" set forth at the end of this press release.
CEO and CFO Comments "We are pleased to have had a solid quarter to start the year 2021," said Ye Wangchun, chairman and CEO of OneConnect. "We built on the momentum from the rollout of the cloud services platform last year, more than offsetting the gap from the exit of low-value products and achieving 41.1% revenue growth year over year. This period of consolidation is critical to aligning our resources and positioning the company to better support the digital transformation of financial institutions." "Optimising the portfolio of solutions remains a top priority this year. The sequential trend provides an indication of the progress made," commented CFO Luo Yongtao. "Both gross margin and revenue contribution from third-party customers demonstrated a rebound quarter on quarter. Net loss also further narrowed, both year over year and quarter over quarter." Operational Highlights
Revenue Breakdown
Revenue for the first quarter of 2021 rose year over year by 41.1% to RMB820 million from RMB581 million. Of note, the cloud services platform was the biggest driver for the increase. Launched last year, it now makes up 22% of total revenue. Another major contributor was operation support services, where revenue rose 29.1% year over year to RMB212 million from RMB164 million, reflecting the growth of solutions such as roadside assistance for auto insurance and AI customer service. Business origination services, however, posted a drop in revenue, to RMB118 million from RMB181 million, due to product phase-out. Retail loan volume processed by the Company's systems during the quarter increased to RMB14.1 billion from RMB12.7 billion. SME loans processed was RMB7.1 billion, compared with RMB5.7 billion. Total fast claims checks carried out during the quarter amounted to 1.56 million, compared with 995 thousand in the prior year. First Quarter 2021 Financial Results
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Operating Loss and Expenses
Loss from operations for the first quarter of 2021 decreased to RMB346 million from RMB445 million. Operating loss margin was 42.2%, compared with 76.7% in the prior year.
Net Loss
For the quarter ended March 31, 2021, the Company's weighted average number of shares used in calculating per share net loss was 1,104,667,130. Number of outstanding shares as of March 31, 2021 was 1,169,980,661.
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Conference Call Information
An archived recording and the transcript of the conference call will be available at OneConnect's investor relations website at ir.ocft.com. About OneConnect OneConnect is a leading technology-as-a-service platform for financial institutions in China. The Company's platform provides cloud-native technology solutions that integrate extensive financial services industry expertise with market-leading technology. The Company's solutions provide technology applications and technology-enabled business services to financial institutions. Together they enable the Company's customers' digital transformations, which help them increase revenue, manage risks, improve efficiency, enhance service quality and reduce costs. Our technology-as-a-service platform strategically covers multiple verticals in the financial services industry, including banking, insurance and asset management, across the full scope of their businesses - from sales and marketing and risk management to customer services, as well as technology infrastructure such as data management, program development, and cloud services. For more information, please visit ir.ocft.com. Safe Harbor Statement This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements constitute "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "confident" and similar statements. Such statements are based upon management's current expectations and current market and operating conditions and relate to events that involve known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Company's control. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: the Company's limited operating history in the technology-as-a-service for financial institutions industry; its ability to achieve or sustain profitability; the tightening of laws, regulations or standards in the financial services industry; the Company's ability to comply with the evolving regulatory requirements in the PRC and other jurisdictions where it operates; its ability to maintain and enlarge the customer base or strengthen customer engagement; its ability to maintain its relationship with Ping An Group, which is its strategic partner, most important customer and largest supplier; its ability to compete effectively to serve China's financial institutions; the effectiveness of its technologies, its ability to maintain and improve technology infrastructure and security measures; its ability to protect its intellectual property and proprietary rights; risks of defaults by borrowers under the loans for which the Company provided credit enhancement under its legacy credit management business; its ability to maintain or expand relationship with its business partners and the failure of its partners to perform in accordance with expectations; its ability to protect or promote its brand and reputation; its ability to timely implement and deploy its solutions; its ability to obtain additional capital when desired; disruptions in the financial markets and business and economic conditions; the Company's ability to pursue and achieve optimal results from acquisition or expansion opportunities; the duration of the COVID-19 outbreak and its potential impact on the Company's business and financial performance; and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company's filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law. Use of Unaudited Non-IFRS Financial Measures The unaudited consolidated financial information is prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Non-IFRS measures are used in gross profit and gross margin, adjusted to exclude non-cash items, which consist of amortization of intangible assets recognized in cost of revenue, depreciation of property and equipment recognized in cost of revenue, and share-based compensation expenses recognized in cost of revenue. OneConnect's management regularly review non-IFRS gross profit and non-IFRS gross margin to assess the performance of our business. By excluding non-cash items, these financial metrics allow OneConnect's management to evaluate the cash conversion of one dollar revenue on gross profit. OneConnect uses these non-IFRS financial to evaluate our ongoing operations and for internal planning and forecasting purposes. OneConnect believes that non-IFRS financial information, when taken collectively, is helpful to investors because it provides consistency and comparability with past financial performance, facilitates period-to-period comparisons of results of operations, and assists in comparisons with other companies, many of which use similar financial information. OneConnect also believes that presentation of the non-IFRS financial measures provides useful information to its investors regarding its results of operations because it allows investors greater transparency to the information used by OneConnect's management in its financial and operational decision making so that investors can see through the eyes of the OneConnect's management regarding important financial metrics that the management uses to run the business as well as allowing investors to better understand OneConnect's performance. However, non-IFRS financial information is presented for supplemental informational purposes only, and should not be considered a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with IFRS, and may be different from similarly-titled non-IFRS measures used by other companies. In light of the foregoing limitations, you should not consider non-IFRS financial measure in isolation from or as an alternative to the financial measure prepared in accordance with IFRS. Whenever OneConnect uses a non-IFRS financial measure, a reconciliation is provided to the most closely applicable financial measure stated in accordance with IFRS. You are encouraged to review the related IFRS financial measures and the reconciliation of these non-IFRS financial measures to their most directly comparable IFRS financial measures. For more information on non-IFRS financial measures, please see the table captioned "Reconciliations of IFRS and non-IFRS results (Unaudited)" set forth at the end of this press release.
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