Christmas & New Year Holiday Reminder

Summary: 
UniCredit GSS presents a reminder of the upcoming holidays / non-working days in its core markets across Central and Eastern Europe for the 2016 Christmas and New Year period
Thu, 22/12/2016

 

 

Ref

December 2016

January 2017

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Fri

Sat

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

Austria

1

W

WE

WE

H

W

W

W

W

WE

WE

W

W

W

W

H

WE

WE

Bosnia and Herzegovina

2

W

 WE

WE

H

W

W

W

W

WE

WE

H

H

W

W

W

WE

WE

Bulgaria

3

W

WE

WE

H

W

W

W

W

WE

WE

H

W

W

W

W

WE

WE

Croatia

4

W

WE

WE

H

W

W

W

W

WE

WE

W

W

W

W

H

WE

WE

Czech Republic

5

W

WE

WE

H

W

W

W

W

WE

WE

W

W

W

W

W

WE

WE

Hungary

6

W

 WE

WE

H

W

W

W

W

WE

WE

W

W

W

W

W

WE

WE

Poland

7

W

 WE

WE

  H

W

W

W

W

WE

WE

W

W

W

W

H

WE

WE

Romania

8

W

 WE

WE

H

W

W

W

W

WE

WE

  H

W

W

W

W

WE

WE

Russia

9

W

 WE  WE

W

W

W

W

W

WE

WE

H

H

H

H

H

WE

WE

Serbia

10

W

WE

WE

W

W

W

W

W

 WE  WE

H

H

W

W

W

WE

WE

Slovak Republic

11

W

WE

WE

H

W

W

W

W

 WE

WE

W

W

W

W

H

WE

WE

Slovenia

12

W

WE

WE

H

W

W

W

W

WE

 WE

W

W

W

W

W

WE

WE

Ukraine

13

W

WE

WE

W

W

W

W

W

WE

WE

H

H

H

W

W

WE

WE


where W – working day, H – holiday, WE – weekend day

1. Austria:

26.12.2016 non-trading, non-settlement and non-banking day in Austria.

6.01.2017 – Limited support available at the Subcustodian for custody business. VSE and all banks will be closed on this day, however CSD will be open; UniCredit Bank Austria will support OTC settlements.


2. Bosnia and Herzegovina :

26.12.2016 and 2.01.2017 & 3.01.2017non-trading, non-settlement and non-banking days in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

6.01.2017- Republic of Srpska holiday only: no trading or settlement of securities listed on the Banja Luka exchange;  Trading and settlement of securities listed on the Sarajevo exchange will occur.


3. Bulgaria:

26.12.2016 and 2.01.2017 non-trading, non-settlement and non-banking days in Bulgaria.


4. Croatia:

26.12.2016 and 6.01.2017 non-trading, non-settlement and non-banking days in Croatia.


5. Czech Republic:

26.12.2016 non-trading, non-settlement and non-banking day in Czech Rebublic.



6. Hungary:

26.12.2016 non-trading, non-settlement and non-banking day in Hungary.


7. Poland:


26.12.2016 and 6.01.2017
– non-trading, non-settlement and non-banking days in Poland. WSE, CSD and all banks will be closed on these days.


8. Romania:

26.12.2016 and 6.01.2017 – non-trading, non-settlement and non-banking days in Romania. BVB, CSD (Depozitarul Central) and all banks will be closed on these days.

9. Russia:

2.01.2017 to 6.01.2017 - are holiday in Russia with the following exceptions:

  • 3 - 6 January 2017 will be regular working days for CSD and MOEX with limitations set by CBR (no official information on CBR working hours during these days at the moment).  AO UCB will be closed during New Year & Christmas holidays and will resume its activities on 9 January 2017.

10. Serbia:

2.01.2017 and 3.01.2017 – non-trading, non-settlement and non-banking days in Serbia. SE, CSD and all banks will be closed on these days.

11. Slovak Republic:

26.12.2016  – non-settlement, non-trading and non-banking day in Slovakia. SE, CSD and all banks will be closed on these days.

6.01.2017 – is local public holiday, CSD and Central Bank of Slovakia will be open, however only OTC clearing and settlement will be available on these days, as well as electronic placement of requests for services to the registry of securities. All banks will be closed on these days.

12. Slovenia:

26.12.2016 
– non-settlement, non-trading and non-banking day in Slovenia. LJSE, KDD and all banks will be closed on these days.

13. Ukraine:

2.01.2017 and 3.01.2017 – non-settlement, non-trading and non-banking days in Ukraine. SEs, CSD and all banks will be closed on these days.

IMPACT ON INVESTORS: Each of the above holidays / non-working days / additional working days will impact on an investor's ability to perform trading, settlement and cash payment activities in the respective markets.


LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ABRIDGMENTS:

BLSE – Banja Luka Stock Exchange (Republic of Srpska)
BNB (Bulgarian National Bank)
– CSD for Government Securities
BSE-Sofia – Bulgarian Stock Exchange-Sofia
BVB – Bucharest Stock Exchange
CBR – Central Bank of Russia
CDAD (Central Depository AD) – CSD for all dematerialized securities except Government Securities
CDCP – CSD of Czech Republic
CET – Central European Time
CSD – Central Securities Depository
Depozitarul Central – CSD of Romania
DVP – Delivery Versus Payment
FBiH – Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
FOP – Free of payment
KDD – Central Securities Depository of Slovenia
LJSE – Ljubljana Stock Exchange
MOEX – Moscow Exchange
National Settlement Depository – CSD of Russia
OTC – over the counter
PSE – Prague Stock Exchange
RINGS – the real-time gross settlement system for BGN payments
RS – Republic of Srpska
RTGS – Real-time gross settlement
SASE – Sarajevo Stock Exchange (Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
SE – Stock Exchange
STP – Straight-through processing
UniCredit Banka Slovenija d.d. – UniCredit Bank in Slovenia, member of UniCredit Group
VSE – Vienna Stock Exchange
WSE – Warsaw Stock Exchange
ZABA  – Zagrebačka Bank d.d., UniCredit Group
ZSEZagreb Stock Exchange