The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, announces the increase of the maximum number of outstanding orders per price queue from 4,000 to 8,000 in AMS/3, the Third Generation of the Automatic Order Matching and Execution System, effective Monday, 29 May.  The increase is aimed at facilitating Exchange Participants' order input process.

The increase will become effective pending the successful completion of the post-release tests during the weekend of 27 May.

The maximum number of outstanding orders per price queue was increased from 2,000 to 4,000 on 21 November 2005.