Takumi Kitamura | CFO |
Masao Muraki | SMBC Nikko |
Futoshi Sasaki | Bank of America Securities |
Koichi Niwa | Citigroup Securities |
Kazuki Watanabe | Daiwa Securities |
Natsumu Tsujino | Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley |
Hideyasu Ban | Jefferies |
Good day, everyone, and welcome to today's Nomura Holdings Second Quarter Operating Results for Fiscal Year Ending March 2023 Conference Call. Please be reminded that today's conference call is being recorded at the request of the hosting company. [Operator Instructions] During the presentation, all the telephone lines are placed for listen-only mode. The question-and-answer session will be held, after the presentation. Please note that this telephone conference contains certain forward-looking statements and other projected results, which involve known and unknown risks, delays, uncertainties and other factors not under the company's control, which may cause actual results, performance or achievement of the company to be materially different from the results, performance or other expectations implied by those projections.