The Board of Directors of Dah Sing Financial Holdings Limited announced that Mr. Blair Chilton Pickerell resigned as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company with effect from 20 December 2017 due to his new assignment with Dah Sing Bank, Limited and Dah Sing Banking Group Limited. Mr. Andrew Kwan-Yuen Leung (Mr. Leung) has been appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company with effect from 20 December 2017. Mr. Leung is the President of the Sixth Legislative Council of Hong Kong and a member of the Industrial (First) Functional Constituency of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. He is also a member of The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the honorary president of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries, the honorary chairman of Textile Council of Hong Kong Limited and a fellow member of the Textiles Institute and the Clothing and Footwear Institute. He was a council member of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and a director of The Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited. He is an Independent Non-Executive Director of China South City Holdings Limited, Harbour Centre Development Limited and CN Innovations Holdings Limited. Mr. Seiji Nakamura, an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company, has been appointed as a member of the Audit Committee of the Company with effect from 20 December 2017.