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Hong Kong Exchanges And Clearing Limited: Additional Stock Exchange Participants Connected To ORS

Date 09/04/2001

Fourteen additional Stock Exchange Participants will connect their trading systems to Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited's (HKEx) Order Routing System (ORS) for AMS/3, the Third Generation Automatic Order Matching and Execution System in batches, from today (9 April) to 20 April, raising the number of Participants connected to ORS to 63.

ORS is an open system that enables investors to place stock market orders through the Internet, mobile phones and other electronic channels, which may be developed by HKEx or vendors. After an order is placed through an electronic channel connected to ORS, the system automatically sends the order to a Stock Exchange Participant for approval and submission to the market for matching and execution.

A list of the fourteen additional Stock Exchange Participants connecting to ORS is attached.