Hong Kong Exchanges Collection

The Hong Kong Exchanges Collection was donated to City Hall Public Library in August 1991 by the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Ltd. under a Stock Market Information Donation Programme. The collection was originally named as the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Collection. Upon the mergence of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Ltd., Hong Kong Futures Exchange Ltd. and Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Ltd. into Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. in March 2000, the Collection was renamed.

Under the same Donation Programme, the Collection has also been available to the general public in Sha Tin Public Library since August 1995 and Hong Kong Central Library since its opening in May 2001.

The Collection contains full information on the stock market and listed companies of Hong Kong, and some of the materials donated are in microfilm and CD-ROM formats. There are three main categories of materials:

(A) HKEx and SEHK publications:

• Annual and interim reports of HKEx and SEHK
  
• Daily quotation(s)
  
• Weekly quotation(s)
  
• Monthly market statistics
  
• Monthly Bulletin (Monthly)
  
• Fact Sheet (Quarterly)
  
• Fact Book (Annual)
  
• Newsletter "Exchange" (Quarterly)
  
• Rules governing the listing of securities
  
• Rules of the Exchange
  
• Options trading and clearing rules
  
• Consultation papers
  

(B) Information on listed companies:

• Annual and interim reports (1949 - present)
  
• Prospectuses (1961 - present)
  
• Proposals and shareholder circulars regarding corporate activities, including rights issues, discloseable transactions, takeovers, mergers and restructurings, etc.

(C) Former stock exchanges' archives (from 1941 to 1986):

The four former stock exchanges in Hong Kong were The Hong Kong Stock Exchange, The Far East Exchange, The Kam Ngan Stock Exchange and The Kowloon Stock Exchange. Archives of these exchanges are mainly market statistics and trading records. They provide valuable information about the past history of the Hong Kong stock market.

The Collection is currently available for public reference at the Hong Kong Central Library, City Hall Library and Sha Tin Library. "Information on Listed Companies" published in the early stage and the "Former Stock Exchanges' Archives" are only available at the City Hall and Sha Tin Public Libraries.

For enquiries about the Collection items, please contact library staff of the following libraries during libraries' opening hours: