China News Service, Beijing, April 2 (Reporter Xie Yiguan) After the Bank of Communications’ dividend announcement was written incorrectly, China Everbright Bank made another mistake in the data.
On the evening of April 1, China Everbright Bank issued an announcement on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, confirming the asset size of its branches. Judging from the data released in the announcement, China Everbright Bank has made changes to the data previously disclosed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The changed data is consistent with the 2025 annual report data released by the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Screenshot of China Everbright Bank’s announcement.
Everbright Bank also stated in the correction announcement that the above corrections did not have any impact on other information published in the annual performance announcement. Except as disclosed in this announcement, all information and content published in the annual results announcement remain unchanged.
Since China Everbright Bank is listed on A+H shares, China Everbright Bank previously disclosed the "2025 Annual Report of China Everbright Bank Co., Ltd." and the "2025 Annual Performance Announcement" on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange respectively.
A China News reporter compared the two announcements and found that, except for a few branches such as Beijing Branch, Xi'an Branch, Sydney Branch, and Macau Branch, which had consistent data, the asset scale of 40 branches showed large discrepancies.
For example, in the "2025 Annual Report of China Everbright Bank Co., Ltd." of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the asset scale of Tianjin Branch is 101.325 billion yuan; but in the "2025 Annual Results Announcement" of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Tianjin Branch The asset scale of the Tianjin Branch has become 59.836 billion yuan; the Shanghai Branch is even more outrageous. The asset scale announced in the two reports is 443.188 billion yuan and 39.54 billion yuan respectively, a difference of more than 10 times.
The left picture is a screenshot from the Shanghai Stock Exchange's "China Everbright Bank Co., Ltd. 2025 Annual Report", and the right picture is a screenshot from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's "2025 Annual Results Announcement".
According to the annual report of China Everbright Bank, the 2025 financial report will be audited by KPMG Huazhen LLP (Special General Partnership) and KPMG LLP in accordance with the Chinese Auditing Standards for Certified Public Accountants and the International Auditing Standards respectively, and will issue standard unqualified audit reports.
The reporter noticed that as of the evening of April 2, the erroneous annual report from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange had not been removed.
Previously, the China Securities Regulatory Commission issued the "Information Disclosure and Preparation Rules No. 19 of Companies that Offer Securities to the Public – Correction of Financial Information and Related Disclosures" requiring that if there are errors in the financial information of the company's publicly disclosed periodic reports, and the board of directors decides to correct them, the corrected financial information and other information required to be disclosed by these regulations should be disclosed in a separate temporary report in a timely manner.
At the same time, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange stipulates that the issuer should request the Listing Division of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in writing to cancel the published document, explain the reason for revising the document, and submit the revised version through ESS. The canceled document will still be published on the HKEX website, but HKEX will mark the document as "cancelled and reissued". When submitting a revised version through ESS, the issuer may add the words "revised" and "(Revised)" in the free text title bar.
It is worth mentioning that as of the evening of April 2, the Shanghai Stock Exchange had not issued a correction announcement simultaneously.
According to Article 6 of the "Shanghai Stock Exchange Self-Regulatory Guidelines for Listed Companies No. 2—Information Disclosure Management (Revised in March 2025)", information disclosed in overseas markets should be consistent with the content disclosed domestically. When major differences occur, listed companies and relevant information disclosure obligors shall explain to the Exchange and disclose corrections or supplementary announcements. (over)
