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HKEx Announces Introduction of AIA Stock Options, Admission of AIA to the List of Designated Securities for Short Selling and Listing of AIA Derivative Warrants

Market Operations
25 Oct 2010

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) will introduce AIA stock options on 29 October (Friday), subject to the successful listing of the shares on the same day.

Selected Contract Details of AIA Stock Options

Underlying Stock
(Stock Code)
Contract Size
(Shares)
Expiry Months Available for Trading
on 29 October 2010



AIA Group Limited (1299)


1,000
(5 board lots of the underlying stock)
November  2010
December 2010
January 2011
March 2011
June 2011
September 2011

A table with all stock option classes available for trading at HKEx is attached.

Admission of AIA to the List of Designated Securities for Short Selling

AIA will be admitted to the list of designated securities eligible for short selling on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HKEx, with effect from 29 October (Friday).

The latest list of all designated securities for short selling is available on the HKEx website under the Market Operations section.

Listing of AIA Derivative Warrants

HKEx informed issuers on 22 October that they might be able to launch derivative warrants over AIA shares soon.   A total of 10 issues were launched by three issuers today (Monday) and will be listed on 29 October when AIA shares commence trading. Nine of the 10 warrants launched today are Call warrants.  Please refer to the issuers’ announcements for further details of the 10 warrants.

The List of Stock Option Classes Available for Trading

a)      Stock Option Classes with Contract Size More Than One Underlying Board Lot Shares 

Stock Code Underlying Stock/ETF Contract Size (shares) Number of Board Lots
1288 Agricultural Bank of China Limited  10,000 10
1299 AIA Group Limited * 1,000 5
2823 iShares FTSE/Xinhua A50 China Index ETF 5,000 50
2827 W.I.S.E. - CSI 300 China Tracker 1,000 5
* Trading commences from 29 October 2010 

b)      Stock Option Classes with Contract Size Equal to One Underlying Board Lot Shares

Stock Code Underlying Stock/ETF Contract Size
(shares)
1 Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited 1,000
2 CLP Holdings Limited 500
3 The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited 1,000
4 The Wharf (Holdings) Limited 1,000
5 HSBC Holdings Plc. 400
6 Hongkong Electric Holdings Limited 500
11 Hang Seng Bank Limited 100
12 Henderson Land Development Company Limited 1,000
13 Hutchison Whampoa Limited 1,000
16 Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited 1,000
17 New World Development Company Limited 1,000
19 Swire Pacific Limited 'A' 500
23 The Bank of East Asia, Limited 200
66 MTR Corporation Limited 500
267 CITIC Pacific Limited 1,000
293 Cathay Pacific Airways Limited 1,000
330 Esprit Holdings Limited 100
358 Jiangxi Copper Company Limited 1,000
386 China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation 2,000
388 Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited 100
390 China Railway Group Limited 1,000
494 Li & Fung Limited 2,000
688 China Overseas Land & Investment Limited 2,000
700 Tencent Holdings Limited 100
728 China Telecom Corporation Limited 2,000
762 China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited 2,000
857 PetroChina Company Limited 2,000
883 CNOOC Limited 1,000
902 Huaneng Power International, Inc. 2,000
939 China Construction Bank Corporation 1,000
941 China Mobile Limited 500
998 China CITIC Bank Corporation Limited 1,000
1088 China Shenhua Energy Company Limited 500
1186 China Railway Construction Corporation Limited 500
1211 BYD Company Limited 500
1398 Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited 1,000
1800 China Communications Construction Company Limited 1,000
1898 China Coal Energy Company Limited 1,000
1919 China COSCO Holdings Company Limited 500
2038 Foxconn International Holdings Limited 1,000
2318 Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. 500
2328 PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited 2,000
2388 BOC Hong Kong (Holdings) Limited 500
2600 Aluminum Corporation of China Limited 2,000
2628 China Life Insurance Company Limited 1,000
2777 Guangzhou R&F Properties Co., Ltd. 400
2800 Tracker Fund of Hong Kong 500
2899 Zijin Mining Group Company Limited 2,000
3328 Bank of Communications Co., Ltd. 1,000
3968 China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd. 500
3988 Bank of China Limited 1,000

Ends

Updated 25 Oct 2010