The Stock Exchange Of Hong Kong - Nine Exchange Participants To Join Rollout Of Additional Broker Supplied Systems

Nine Exchange Participants will join the 15 December (Friday) introduction of additional Broker Supplied Systems (BSS) of AMS/3, the Third Generation Automatic Order Matching and Execution System.

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong introduced the first BSS last month and a second batch last week.

BSS are trading facilities developed by Exchange Participants or vendors that enable Exchange Participants to provide electronic trading services to investors through the Internet, mobile phones, and other electronic channels. Investors should note that the service levels of brokers’ BSS may vary.

List of Exchange Participants to introduce BSS on 15 December 2000 (in alphabetical order)

• BCOM Securities Co Ltd
• Goldman Sachs (Asia) Securities Ltd
• HSBC Securities Brokers (Asia) Ltd
• Instinet Hong Kong Ltd
• OSK Asia Securities Ltd
• Realink Securities Ltd
• Salomon Smith Barney Hong Kong Ltd
• Sun Hung Kai Investment Services Ltd
• TISCO Securities Hong Kong Ltd