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HKEx: Information Vendor's Data Services

Date 26/04/2007

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) has received reports of problems from one of its information vendors, Reuters, this morning.

At the same time, HKEx has also received reports from individual liquidity providers (LPs) for structured products that their liquidity provision might have been affected due to the service problem from Reuters. The affected LPs are arranging announcements to the market on the implications.

The Market Data Feed and all trading systems of HKEx continue to operate normally. In addition, HKEx has not received reports of problems from other information vendors.