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STATUTORY CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2024
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STATUTORY CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS | STATUTORY CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS The Company has two insurance subsidiaries operating in Kazakhstan: Freedom Life (a regulated life insurer) and Freedom Insurance (a regulated property and casualty insurance entity). The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 126-II "On Insurance Activities" (the "Insurance Law") is the main law regulating the insurance sector in Kazakhstan. It establishes a framework for insurance activities, registration and licensing of insurance companies and regulation of insurance activities by the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Regulation and Development of Financial Market (“ARDFM”). Freedom Life and Freedom Insurance is required to notify and receive verbal approval from the ARDFM of any proposals to declare or pay a dividend on its share capital. The amount of dividends these subsidiaries are permitted to declare is limited to the relevant subsidiary’s realized retained earnings and dividends can only be paid to the extent they will not cause a breach to the minimum solvency and capital requirements of the relevant subsidiary. As of March 31, 2024 and 2023, Freedom Life and Freedom Insurance were in compliance with the ARDFM dividend, minimum solvency and minimum capital requirements. Freedom KZ in its capacity of an insurance holding is also limited in declaration and payment of dividends if such payment leads to breach of capital ratios applicable to insurance Freedom Life and Freedom Insurance. There are no significant differences between the statutory accounting practices and statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP for the insurance subsidiaries. In addition, our subsidiaries operate under various securities brokerage, banking and financial services regulations and must maintain such licenses in order to conduct their operations. As of March 31, 2024 and 2023, we, through our subsidiaries, held: (a) brokerage licenses (i) in Kazakhstan issued by ARDFM and the Astana Financial Services Authority (the "AFSA"), (ii) in Cyprus issued by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission ("CySEC"), (iii) in the United States issued by FINRA, (iv) in Armenia issued by the Central Bank of Armenia, and (v) in Uzbekistan issued by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan; (b) a banking license for foreign currency operations license in Kazakhstan issued by the ARDFM; (c) a banking license for corporate and retail banking services in Kazakhstan issued by the ARDFM (including for currency exchange operations); and (d) payment service provider in Kazakhstan is specially registered in such capacity with National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, payment services providers in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan hold licenses from the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Central Bank of Uzbekistan, respectively. The table below presents net capital/eligible equity, required minimum capital, excess regulatory capital and retained earnings as of March 31, 2024 for each of the regulated entities that is material for our consolidated financial statements.
(amounts in thousands) |  | Regulated activities |  | Net Capital/Eligible Equity |  | Required Minimum capital/solvency |  | Excess regulatory capital |  | Retained earnings
Freedom KZ |  | Brokerage |  | $ | 107,064 |  |  | $ | 413 |  |  | $ | 106,651 |  |  | $ | 122,416 |
Freedom Bank KZ |  | Bank |  | 329,738 |  |  | 196,594 |  |  | 133,144 |  |  | 193,376 |
Freedom Life |  | Life Insurance |  | 50,757 |  |  | 12,395 |  |  | 38,362 |  |  | 57,085 |
Freedom EU |  | Brokerage |  | 269,424 |  |  | 10,868 |  |  | 258,556 |  |  | 319,484 |
Freedom Insurance |  | Property and Casual Insurance |  | 30,011 |  |  | 12,395 |  |  | 17,616 |  |  | 19,773 |
Freedom Global |  | Brokerage |  | 16,428 |  |  | 12,352 |  |  | 4,076 |  |  | 117,468 |
Freedom Armenia ("Freedom AR") |  | Brokerage |  | 7,317 |  |  | 763 |  |  | 6,554 |  |  | 6,447 |
Other regulated operating subsidiaries |  | Other |  | 8,533 |  |  | 155 |  | 8,378 |  |  | (11,665) |
|  |  |  | $ | 819,272 |  |  | $ | 245,935 |  |  | $ | 573,337 |  |  | $ | 824,385 |
According to the requirements of National Bank of Republic of Kazakhstan, the regulator of Freedom KZ and Freedom Life, capital is adjusted through subtraction of non-liquid assets. Consequently, it may result that net capital for regulatory purposes may be lower than retained earnings balances. As per capital requirements Freedom EU regulated by The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission and Freedom Global regulated by Astana Financial Services Authority, current year profit is not included within net capital for regulatory purposes, as profits can only be included in net capital after a statutory audit is completed. The table below presents net capital/eligible equity, required minimum capital, excess regulatory capital and retained earnings as of March 31, 2023 for each of the regulated entities that is material for our consolidated financial statements.
(amounts in thousands) |  | Regulated activities |  | Net Capital/Eligible Equity |  | Required Minimum capital/solvency |  | Excess regulatory capital |  | Retained earnings
Freedom KZ |  | Brokerage |  | $ | 109,952 |  |  | $ | 817 |  |  | $ | 109,135 |  |  | $ | 118,213 |
Freedom Bank KZ |  | Bank |  | 71,630 |  |  | 22,138 |  |  | 49,492 |  |  | 99,984 |
Freedom Life |  | Life Insurance |  | 30,252 |  |  | 10,171 |  |  | 20,081 |  |  | 37,239 |
Freedom EU |  | Brokerage |  | 28,597 |  |  | 7,759 |  |  | 20,838 |  |  | 185,918 |
Freedom Insurance |  | Property and Casual Insurance |  | 21,888 |  |  | 10,171 |  |  | 11,717 |  |  | 3,159 |
Freedom Global |  | Brokerage |  | 11,133 |  |  | 9,135 |  |  | 1,998 |  |  | 18,924 |
Freedom AR |  | Brokerage |  | 1,001 |  |  | 774 |  |  | 227 |  |  | (283) |
Other regulated operating subsidiaries |  | Other |  | 9,007 |  |  | 606 |  |  | 8,401 |  |  | (21,514) |
|  |  |  | $ | 283,460 |  |  | $ | 61,571 |  |  | $ | 221,889 |  |  | $ | 441,640 |

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