Holiday Reminder

Summary: 
UniCredit GSS presents a list of the upcoming holidays / non-working days in its core markets across Central and Eastern Europe for the upcoming Easter period
Fri, 18/03/2016

Please be informed of the following upcoming holidays:

 

Country

Ref

March 2016

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

Fri

Sat

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Austria

1

H

WE

WE

H

W

W

W

Bosnia and Herzegovina - FBiH

2a

W

WE

WE

H

W

W

W

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Rep  of Srpska

2b

W

WE

WE

W

W

W

W

Bulgaria

3

W

WE

WE

W

W

W

W

Croatia

4

H

WE

WE

H

W

W

W

Czech Republic

5

H

WE

WE

H

W

W

W

Hungary

6

H

WE

WE

H

W

W

W

Poland

7

H

WE

WE

H

W

W

W

Romania

8

W

WE

WE

W

W

W

W

Russia

9

W

WE

WE

W

W

W

W

Serbia

10

W

WE

WE

W

W

W

W

Slovak Republic

11

H

WE

WE

H

W

W

W

Slovenia

12

H

WE

WE

H

W

W

W

Ukraine

13

W

WE

WE

W

W

W

W

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

 

1. Austria:

25.03.2016 – VSE, cash forex and transfers, all security settlements and tading will be closed except for OTC settlements on Unicredit books. Sub custodian bank services will be open as well.  

28.03.2016 – non-trading, non-settlement and non-banking days in Austria.

2a. Bosnia and Herzegovina - FBiH:

28.03.2013 – Non working day for CSD and Stock Exchange (SASE) in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Settlement will not occur. Since this is normal working day in Republic of Srpska, GSS staff will be available to support our client´s activities. Central Bank of BiH will be open.

2b. Bosnia and Herzegovina - Rep of Srpsak:

March Easter holidays will be regular working days

3. Bulgaria:

March Easter holidays will be regular working days in Bulgaria.

4. Croatia:

25.03.2016 – Banks and CSD’s in Croatia will be open. Stock Exchange will be closed. Please note, early closing in UniCredit ZABA (14:00 CET).

28.03.2016 – non-trading, non-settlement and non-banking days in Croatia.

5. Czech Republic:

25.03.2016 and 28.03.2016 – non-trading, non-settlement and non-banking days in the Czech Republic.

6. Hungary:

25.03.2016 – working day in Hungary, the CSD and all banks will be open, however the Stock Exchange will be closed on this day.

28.03.2016 – non-trading, non-settlement and non-banking days in Hungary.

7. Poland:

25.03.2016 – Not a public holiday, however Warsaw Stock Exchange will be closed. The CSD will only settle OTC transactions (no on-exchange settlement); there will be only two DVP settlement batches - at 10:30 and at 13:00 CET (the batch at 15:30 CET will be dedicated for FOP settlements only). Bank Pekao will operate as usual.

28.03.2016 – non-settlement, non-trading and non-banking days in Ukraine. SEs, CSD and all banks will be closed on these days.

8. Romania:

March Easter holidays will be regular working days in Romania.

9. Russia:

March Easter holidays will be regular working days in Russia.

10. Serbia:

March Easter holidays will be regular working days in Serbia.

11. Slovak Republic:

25.03.2016 and 28.03.2016 – non-settlement, non-trading and non-banking days in Slovakia. SE, CSD and all banks will be closed on these days.

12. Slovenia:

25.03.2016 – non-settlement, non-trading days in Slovenia. LJSE, OTC, KDD will be closed as well. Banks however will be open

28.03.2016 – non-settlement, non-trading and non-banking days in Slovenia. LJSE, OTC, KDD and all banks will be closed.

13. Ukraine:

2.05.2016March Easter holidays will be regular working days in Ukrain.

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