Haitong's market risk exposures have increased in a highly volatile market. We are therefore lowering the SACP on the company to 'bbb-' from 'bbb'. Our assessment of potential extraordinary support to Haitong from the Shanghai municipal government remains unchanged. Also, we expect HTI to remain a core subsidiary of Haitong and an indirect beneficiary of this support. We are affirming our 'BBB' long-term and 'A-2' short-term issuer credit ratings on Haitong and HTI and our 'cnA-' long-term and 'cnA-2' short-term Greater China regional scale ratings on the China-based securities firm and its Hong Kong-based subsidiary. The negative outlook continues to primarily reflect our view of heightening industry risk for the securities sector in China. On July 27, 2016, S&P Global