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Tianjin residents have shown great passion for Hong Kong share trading even before the account registration stared.
Tianjin branch of Bank of China (BOC)<601988><3988> started to register trading account for mainland residents from today. However, by 5 pm of yesterday there had been over 1,000 clients ordered the registration service in 4 financing centers of the BOC Tianjin branch.
The bank will transfer the registration information to Hong Kong for confirmation. The first few clients can start trading Hong Kong shares on August 29 (Wednesday). After that, mainland investors can log on the website of BOC to trade. Distinguished clients will be able to enjoy one to one service from customer manager of the bank.
According to a staff with one of the four financing centers of BOC Tianjin branch, management personnel of the four financing centers have been to Hong Kong stock exchange and BOC International to attend the training course, and they will bring back new operation procedures and research results to be adopted within their own financing centers in Tianjin.
"All the professionals have accepted systematic training and are ready for the impending 'Hong Kong share link' service", said Zeng Tao, general manager of Tianjin stock exchange under Shanghai Far East Security.
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