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| LEASES | 7. LEASES Below are the carrying amounts of the Group’s right-of-use assets and lease liabilities and the movements during the year:
The entire balance of right-of-use assets as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 is related to the lease of office premises. Lease additions for the year ended December 31, 2025 relate to the following: (i) as part of the Spotlight.Vegas Acquisition (Note 5), in September 2025, the Company assumed a new long-term sublease agreement for an office property in Las Vegas, Nevada which is scheduled to expire on February 2, 2028; (ii) a new long-term lease agreement entered into by a subsidiary of the Group for an office property in New York, New York which commenced in April 2025 and is scheduled to expire on June 16, 2028, with an option to renew for an additional two or three years; and (iii) a Group subsidiary entered into a lease agreement on September 13, 2022 for an office property in Costa Rica. The current lease term is effective from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028. The Group remeasured the lease following a reassessment of the termination option. Lease additions for the year ended December 31, 2024 relate to new long term lease agreements entered into by subsidiaries of the Group for the following office properties: (i) Charlotte, North Carolina, which commenced in June 2024 and is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2031 with an option to renew for an additional three years; (ii) Malta, which commenced in April 2024 and has a term of five years, with a minimum non-cancelable duration of three years; and (iii) Helsinki, Finland, which commenced in June 2024, with a minimum non-cancelable duration of two years. As of December 31, 2025, the Group’s lease liabilities amounted to $4,787, comprising of $1,205 due within one year and $3,582 due after more than one year (December 31, 2024: $5,032, comprising of $1,213 due within one year and $3,819 due after more than one year). Lease payments not recognized as a liability The Group has elected not to recognize a lease liability for leases that are short term (with expected lease term of 12 months or less). Payments made under such leases are expensed on a straight-line basis. The expense and cash paid relating to payments not included in the measurement of the lease liability is as follows:
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