Dah Sing Banking Group Limited — Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2009

Aug 28, 2009

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(Incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability under the Companies Ordinance) The holding company of Dah Sing Bank, Limited and MEVAS Bank Limited (Stock Code: 2356)

NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an extraordinary general meeting of Dah Sing Banking Group Limited (the “ Company ”) will be held at 20th Floor, Island Place Tower, 510 King’s Road, North Point, Hong Kong on 16 September 2009 at 3:00 p.m. for the purposes of considering and, if thought fit, passing, with or without modifications, the following resolution as an ordinary resolution:

ORDINARY RESOLUTION

1. “ THAT :

2. (a) the Agreement (as defined and described in the circular to the shareholders of the Company dated 13 August 2009, a copy of which has been produced to the meeting marked “A” and signed by the Chairman of the meeting for the purpose of identification) and the execution thereof and implementation of all transactions thereunder be and are hereby approved, ratified and confirmed;

3. (b) conditional upon the Listing Committee of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited granting the listing of, and the permission to deal in, the Subscription Shares (as defined in the circular to the shareholders of the Company dated 31 August 2009), the issue and allotment of the Subscription Shares under the specific mandate be and are hereby approved; and

4. (c) the Directors of the Company be and are hereby authorised to sign, execute, perfect and deliver all such documents and do all such deeds, acts, matters and things as they may in their absolute discretion consider necessary or desirable for the purpose of or in connection with the implementation of the Agreement and all transactions and other matters contemplated thereunder or ancillary thereto, to waive compliance from and/or agree to any amendment or supplement to any of the provisions of the Agreement which in their opinion is not of a material nature and to effect or implement any other matters referred to in this resolution.”

Yours faithfully, By Order of the Board Dah Sing Banking Group Limited Hoi-Lun Soo (Helen Soo) Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 31 August 2009

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Registered Office: 36th Floor, Dah Sing Financial Centre, 108 Gloucester Road, Hong Kong

Notes:

1. The register of members of the Company will be closed from 14 September 2009 to 16 September 2009, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares of the Company will be registered. In order to qualify for voting at the extraordinary general meeting of the Company, all transfers of shares of the Company accompanied by the relevant share certificates must be lodged for registration with the Company’s share registrar, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, 17th Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Hong Kong, by not later than 4:30 p.m. on 11 September 2009.

2. A member entitled to attend and vote at the meeting is entitled to appoint one or more proxies to attend and vote on his behalf. A proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company.

3. In order to be valid, the instrument appointing a proxy and the power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is signed must be lodged at the Company’s share registrar, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, 17th Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Hong Kong not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for the holding of the meeting (or the adjourned meeting as the case may be).

4. In the case of a corporation, the form of proxy must be executed either under its common seal or under the hand of some officers or attorney duly authorized in that behalf.

5. Where there are joint registered holders of any share, any one of such persons may vote at the meeting, either personally or by proxy, in respect of such shares as if he were solely entitled thereto, but if more than one of such joint holders is present at the meeting personally or by proxy, that one of the said persons so present whose name stands first on the register of members of the Company shall, in respect of such share, be entitled alone to vote in respect thereof.

6. Completion and return of the form of proxy will not preclude a member from attending and voting in person at the meeting, if he so wishes. If such member attends the meeting, his form of proxy will be deemed to have been revoked.

7. Voting of the ordinary resolution set out in this notice will be by poll.

8. As at the date of this notice, the board of directors of the Company comprises Messrs. David ShouYeh Wong (Chairman), Hon-Hing Wong (Derek Wong) (Managing Director and Chief Executive), Lung-Man Chiu (John Chiu), Gary Pak-Ling Wang, Harold Tsu-Hing Wong and Frederic Suet-Chiu Lau as Executive Directors; Mr. Keisuke Tahara as Non-Executive Director; Messrs. John William Simpson, David Richard Hinde, Robert Tsai-To Sze, Andrew Kwan-Yuen Leung and Seng-Lee Chan as Independent Non-Executive Directors.

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