Adjustment of Digital China Structured Products and Futures

Market Operations

25 Jul 2017

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited has announced the arrangements for the adjustment to Digital China Holdings Ltd (Digital China) structured products and futures to account for Digital China’s rights issue.

Overview

Company (Stock Code)	Digital China (861)
Corporate Action	1 Rights Share for every 4 Shares held
Subscription Price	$4.00
Ex-rights date	10 August 2017

For details, please refer to the announcement made by Digital China on 23 July 2017.

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.

Structured products with shares of Digital China as underlying asset

The listing documents of all existing structured products with the shares of Digital China as underlying asset contain provisions that deal with a rights issue. Structured product issuers will make announcements in the evening of 9 August 2017 regarding the relevant adjustments (including the adjusted entitlement and adjusted exercise price, where appropriate). Investors should read the contents of such announcements on the relevant adjustments.

Digital China Futures

Trading Arrangements

The trading arrangements for the existing Digital China stock futures under trading symbol DIG will be as follows:

1.	Adjustment and Transfer of Outstanding Positions Open positions of Digital China stock futures series under trading symbol DIG which exist after the market close on the business day immediately before the ex-rights date will be adjusted and transferred to stock futures series under trading symbol DIA.
2.	Introduction of New Stock Futures Series for Trading On the ex-rights date, new Digital China stock futures series based on the standard contract multiplier will be introduced for trading under the standard trading symbol DIG.

Details of the adjustment procedures for Digital China stock futures series under trading symbol DIG are as follows:

Adjustment Term	Formula	Remarks
Adjustment Ratio (AR)	4 existing Shares + (1 New Share x $4.00 / $S^) 4 existing Shares + 1 New Share	Rounded to the nearest 4 decimal places. Adjustment will only be made if the AR is smaller than 1.
Adjusted Contracted Price (ACP)	Contracted price of outstanding stock futures series x AR	Rounded to the nearest 2 decimal places
Adjusted Contract Multiplier (ACM)	Contracted price of outstanding stock futures series x (5,000 shares / ACP)	Rounded to the nearest 4 decimal places

Where $4.00 is the Subscription Price for the New Share and $S^ is the underlying stock closing price on 9 August 2017 (the business day immediately before the ex-rights date).

Contract	Trading Symbol	Contract Multiplier (Shares)	Availability For Trading	Addition of New Stock Futures Series on and after the ex-rights date
Adjusted	DIA	ACM	From ex-rights date to 28 March 2018	No
Standard	DIG	5,000	From ex-rights date onwards	Yes

For detailed trading and clearing arrangements, please refer to the circular.

Ends

Updated 25 Jul 2017