Notice on Changing Specific Info. in Agreements including the Issuer Service Agreement & the Settlement Member Service Agreement & Adjusting the Signing Methods of Certain Business Service Agreements

Notice on Changing Specific Information in Agreements including the Issuer Service Agreement and the Settlement Member Service Agreement and Adjusting the Signing Methods of Certain Business Service Agreements (Clearing House Issued [2024]No. 109)

To all issuers (creation institutions) and settlement members:

Shanghai Clearing House (hereinafter referred to as SHCH) has updated its business license on February 26, 2024. The corresponding contents of the Issuer Service Agreement, the Settlement Member Service Agreement and the Creation Institution Service Agreement have been changed accordingly. Meanwhile, in order to improve the efficiency of market institutions’ participation, SHCH will simultaneously adjust the signing methods of the service agreements of Southbound Bond Connect business and Central Counterparty Bond Lending and Borrowing business. The adjusted agreement signing methods will be in consistent with the existing Issuer Service Agreement and Settlement Member Service Agreement. The notice on the above matters is as follows:

I. SHCH has updated the relative issuance, custody and settlement service agreements in accordance with the latest information on the business license, and published the PDF version with official seal of the "Issuer Service Agreement","Interbank Deposit Certificate Issuer Service Agreement","Large-denomination Certificate of Deposit Issuer Service Agreement","Settlement Member Service Agreement (Applicable to Direct Settlement Members)", "Settlement Member Service Agreement (Applicable to Indirect Settlement Members)", "Settlement Member Service Agreement (Applicable to the Southbound Bond Connect business)", "Creation Institution Service Agreement (Applicable to Credit-linked Notes)","Credit Risk Mitigation Warrant Creation Service Agreement", "Central Counterparty Bond Lending and Borrowing Business Service Agreement"(Annexes 1-9), as well as the agreement signing statements and commitments (hereinafter collectively referred to as the signature pages, Annexes 10-18) on the official website of SHCH (www.shclearing.com.cn). SHCH has requested the   notary office to conduct evidence preservation notarization on the above-published contents.

II. When an issuer or a settlement member applies for opening an account, or an institution applies for the permission of creation, it shall download and print the PDF-version of the agreements of corresponding business and the signature pages from the official website of SHCH, fill in the relevant information in"Party B" section on the signature pages, sign and affix seal, and then submit to SHCH together with other application documents.

III. Issuers, settlement members and creation institutions shall each keep a complete copy of the agreement. In case the self-kept version is inconsistent with the version published on the official website of SHCH, the version published on SHCH website shall prevail.

IV. Given that the changes to the agreements this time only involve the contents related to the business license and there are no substantial changes to the agreement terms, the agreements signed between February 26, 2024 and the issuance date of this notice will remain valid and do not need to be renewed.

Contact number: 021-23198686

Hereby notified.

Annexes:

1.Issuer Service Agreement

2.Interbank Deposit Certificate Issuer Service Agreement

3.Large-denomination Certificate of Deposit Issuer Service Agreement

4.Settlement Member Service Agreement (Applicable to Direct Settlement Members)

5.Settlement Member Service Agreement (Applicable to Indirect Settlement Members)

6.Settlement Member Service Agreement (Applicable to the Southbound Bond Connect business)

7.Creation Institution Service Agreement (Applicable to Credit-linked Notes)

8.Credit Risk Mitigation Warrant Creation Service Agreement

9. Central Counterparty Bond Lending and Borrowing Business Service Agreement

10.Agreement Signing Statement and Commitment for the Issuer Service Agreement

11.Agreement Signing Statement and Commitment for the Interbank Deposit Certificate Issuer Service Agreement

12.Agreement Signing Statement and Commitment for the Large-denomination Certificate of Deposit Issuer Service Agreement

13.Agreement Signing Statement and Commitment (Applicable to Direct Settlement Members)

14.Agreement Signing Statement and Commitment (Applicable to Indirect Settlement Members)

15.Agreement Signing Statement and Commitment (Applicable to the Southbound Bond Connect business)

16.Agreement Signing Statement and Commitment for the Creation Institution Service Agreement (Applicable to Credit-linked Notes)

17.Agreement Signing Statement and Commitment for the Credit Risk Mitigation Warrant Creation Service Agreement

18.Agreement Signing Statement and Commitment for the Central Counterparty Bond Lending and Borrowing Business Service Agreement

Shanghai Clearing House

2024 September 27