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solutions and launched its new module, Quote, offering clients a unique click 'n' trade platform for more than 10

issuers. It also launched its innovative white-labelling function, allowing Leonteq's partners and clients to

integrate LynQs into their wealth management activity in their own corporate identity. To date, Leonteq has

onboarded more than 40 clients and partners under this new format. . Balance sheet light: Leonteq continued to advance its Smart Hedging Issuance Platform (SHIP) by enabling AMCs on

the platform. Leonteq is also offering products manufactured outside its platform by providing clients access to a

total of 21 third-party issuers through its marketplace. In the first half of 2021, Leonteq's balance sheet light

turnover increased by 67% to CHF 1.5 billion, corresponding to approximately 9% of total turnover, compared to CHF

0.9 billion, or approximately 6%, in the prior-year period. . White-labelling partners: Leonteq successfully completed the onboarding of Basler Kantonalbank and Banque

Internationale à Luxembourg onto its multi-issuer platform and recorded more than CHF 350 million in turnover from

these two issuers in the second quarter of 2021 after the go-live. . Product offering: Leonteq significantly expanded its fund derivative business and recorded a ten-fold increase in

revenues to CHF 20.6 million compared to the prior-year period. Revenues from products with crypto assets as

underlyings grew to CHF 9.2 million in the first half of 2021, a fifteen-fold increase compared to the prior-year

period. In addition, Leonteq launched its new AMC Gateway with improved functionalities aimed at enhancing user and

investment experience for AMCs. Leonteq's revenues in its asset management-like business (including AMCs and

tracker certificates that are generally open-end certificates with an annual fee on total outstanding volumes)

increased by 56% to CHF 31.2 million, corresponding to 18% of the Group's fee income, in the first half of 2021. . ESG: As part of its sustainability initiative, Leonteq began offering investors the opportunity to invest in

structured products that incorporate responsible investment approaches and is now screening its own product

universe according to ESG criteria. When selecting structured products or underlyings, Leonteq thus assesses the

underlying's ESG score and includes it in each structured product termsheet so that the product's sustainability

credentials are visible at a glance. Leonteq is also applying an ESG label to all termsheets whose underlyings

achieve a certain minimum score. In addition, Leonteq has launched the world's first donation certificate which

offers investors the opportunity to invest in a charitable certificate that provides an automatic donation. With

this innovative offering, Leonteq is demonstrating its commitment to sustainability and is playing a pioneering

role in shaping the future of sustainably conscientious tracker certificates.

OUTLOOK By investing in its talent and technology platform, Leonteq has created a sound basis for the continued profitable growth of its business and solid foundations for the company to build on. The pandemic-related trends affecting end-investor behaviour, digitalisation and online connectivity have accelerated the growth opportunities for Leonteq in terms of product distribution and white-labelling offerings. Against this background, Leonteq will increase its annual investments in existing and new growth initiatives while continuing to safeguard its profitability.

At the same time, Leonteq remains mindful of potential challenges in a market environment characterised by record prices in equity markets, a potential increase in inflationary pressures and pandemic-related measures that are still in place. In this context, Leonteq expects its performance to normalise in the second half of 2021, which is usually characterised by a slower summer period followed by a pickup in client demand from September onwards. It is targeting Group net profit of more than CHF 100 million for the full-year 2021.

Leonteq is reaffirming the dividend policy it communicated on 11 February 2021: For the financial year 2021, Leonteq expects to propose a shareholder distribution of more than CHF 0.75 per share. From the financial year 2022 onwards, Leonteq intends to move to a progressive dividend policy with a payout ratio of more than 50% of net profits.

Lukas Ruflin stated: "We have demonstrated that the diligent and focused execution of our strategy over the past three years is starting to yield attractive investment returns. We will continue expanding our product offering and issuer universe, and we will further accelerate our digital solutions. With the ambition to become a leading ESG provider for structured investment products, we are committed to offering our clients and partners innovative solutions in the area of responsible investing. We are acting from a position of strength and are investing in our business to seize the opportunities emerging in the changed operating environment, and we are well positioned to deliver future growth."

LEONTEQ HALF-YEAR 2021 RESULTS PRESS AND ANALYST CONFERENCE CALL A press and analyst conference call with Lukas Ruflin, CEO of Leonteq, and Marco Amato, Deputy CEO and CFO of Leonteq, will be held today, 22 July 2021, at 10.00 a.m. CEST.

If you wish to participate, please use the following numbers: . Dial-in number Switzerland: [phone] . Dial-in number UK: [phone] . Dial-in number USA: [phone]

Please dial in 10-15 minutes before the start of the presentation and ask for 'Leonteq half-year 2021 results'.

This press release, the half-year 2021 results presentation and the half-year 2021 report are available at: http:// www.leonteq.com/halfyearresults

A digital playback of the telephone conference will be available approximately one hour after the conference call and can be accessed for one month at: http://www.leonteq.com/halfyearresults

IMPORTANT DATES 10 February 2022: Full-year 2021 results 31 March 2022: Annual General Meeting 2022 21 July 2022: Half-year 2022 results ALTERNATIVE PERFORMANCE MEASURES USED IN THIS PRESS RELEASE The definitions of Alternative Performance Measures used in this press release are provided in the half-year report 2021 on page 7.

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LEONTEQ Leonteq is a Swiss fintech company with a leading marketplace for structured investment solutions. Based on proprietary modern technology, the company offers derivative investment products and services and predominantly covers the capital protection, yield enhancement and participation product classes. Leonteq acts as both a direct issuer of its own products and as a partner to other financial institutions. Leonteq further enables life insurance companies and banks to produce capital-efficient, unit-linked pension products with guarantees. The company has offices and subsidiaries in 12 countries, through which it serves over 50 markets. Leonteq AG is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: LEON). www.leonteq.com

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This press release may contain specific forward-looking statements, e.g. statements including terms like "believe", "assume", "expect", "target" "forecast", "project", "may", "could", "might", "will" or similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may result in a substantial divergence between the actual results, financial situation, development or performance of the Company or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries and those explicitly or implicitly presumed in these statements. These factors include, but are not limited to: (1) general market, macroeconomic, governmental and regulatory trends, (2) movements in securities markets, exchange rates and interest rates and (3) other risks and uncertainties inherent in our business. In addition, currently, it is very difficult to provide a meaningful prediction on how the governmental actions in response to the ongoing outbreak of a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and other COVID-19 related factors will affect Leonteq's operations and how long such measures will remain in place. The COVID-19 outbreak has caused, and may continue to cause, uncertainty, economic instability and a significant decrease of total economic output in the affected areas and globally. The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the general economic environment in the markets in which Leonteq operates remain uncertain and could be significant. Against the background of these uncertainties, you should not rely on forward-looking statements. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates or subsidiaries or their respective bodies, executives, employees and advisers assume any responsibility to prepare or disseminate any supplement, amendment, update or revision to any of the information, opinions or forward-looking statements contained in this

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