Hong Kong Stock Exchange: Implementing Pricing New Rules for Initial Public Offerings Market Optimization in the Second Half of the Year

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange said that in the past 6 months, it has received a record high number of new listing applications. In the second half of 2025, it will actively promote several new measures to enhance market competitiveness and attractiveness, including preparing to shorten the settlement cycle of the stock market, expanding the paperless listing mechanism, implementing new rules to optimize the pricing of initial public offerings, and launching the first phase of lowering the minimum trading price of securities.