EPI (Holdings) Limited provided earnings guidance for the six months ended June 30, 2017. The board of directors of the Company announced that the Group expects to record an increase in loss as compared to the loss of approximately HKD 28.5 million for the six months. Such expected increase in loss was mainly due to the recognition of share-based payment expense, which was non-cash in nature, of approximately HKD 73 million recorded for the grant of share options referred to in the Company's announcement dated 4 May 2017, despite the expected profitable results to be reported by the Group's money lending and investment in securities businesses.