HKEx: Arrangements For Adjustment Of Minsheng Bank Structured Products And Options

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) has announced the arrangements for the adjustment to China Minsheng Banking Corp, Ltd (Minsheng Bank) structured products and options to account for the following bonus issue.

Highlights of the adjustment arrangements are set forth below. Investors should consult their brokers for further details, or if they have any questions regarding the adjustment.

Stock Name (Stock Code)	China Minsheng Banking Corp., Ltd.(1988)
Corporate Action	Two Bonus Shares for every 10 existing Shares held
Ex-bonus day	12 June 2014

For details of the bonus issue, please refer to the announcement by Minsheng Bank on 22 April 2014.

Structured Products with shares of Minsheng Bank as underlying asset

The listing documents of all existing structured products with the shares of Minsheng Bank as underlying asset contain provisions that deal with a bonus issue. Structured product issuers shall make announcements in the evening of 11 June 2014 regarding the relevant adjustments (including the adjusted entitlement, adjusted exercise price and adjusted call price as appropriate) and investors should study carefully the contents of such announcements.

Minsheng Bank Options

Trading Arrangements

The trading arrangements for the existing Minsheng Bank stock option under trading symbol MSB will be as follows:

1.		Transfer of Outstanding Positions Outstanding positions of Minsheng Bank stock option series under trading symbol MSB which exist after the market close on the business day immediately before the ex-bonus day will be transferred to adjusted stock option series under trading symbol MSA.
2.		Introduction of New Stock Option Series for Trading On the ex-bonus day, new series of Minsheng Bank stock option based on the standard contract size will be introduced for trading under the standard trading symbol MSB.

Details of the adjustment procedures are as follows:

Adjustment Term	Formula	Remarks
Adjustment Ratio (AR)	10 shares / (10 shares + 2 bonus shares) = 0.8333	Rounded to the nearest 4 decimal places
Adjusted Exercise Price (AEP)	Exercise price of outstanding stock option series x AR	Rounded to the nearest 2 decimal places
Adjusted Contract Size (ACS)	Exercise price of outstanding stock option series x (2,500 shares / AEP)	Rounded to the nearest 4 decimal places

Contract	Trading Symbol	Contract Size (Shares)	Availability For Trading	Addition of New Stock Option Series on and after the Ex-bonus day
Adjusted	MSA	ACS	From ex-bonus day (12 June 2014) to 29 June 2015	No
Standard	MSB	2,500	From ex-bonus day (12 June 2014) onwards	Yes

Investors should note that the adjusted and standard option series have different contract sizes. There will not be any changes to the number of open positions and other contract terms after the transfer of positions.