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IT – INET Nordic – REMINDER: NASDAQ OMX Riga will change its currency on traded financial instruments from Lats into Euro (94/13)

In relation to the changeover to Euro as of January 1^st, 2014 in Latvia, as of January 2^nd, 2014 NASDAQ OMX Riga will change currency to Euro (EUR) on all its traded financial instruments in Lats (LVL).

The following data in INET Nordic trading system will be affected by this change:

• Market segments are OMX RSE Equities (Seq-ID:67), OMX RSE Funds Automatch (Seq-ID:162) and First North Riga (Seq-ID:83)
• The current total list of order books to change currency from LVL to EUR:

Change procedure and consequences

• The last trading day in 2013 is Dec 27^th, 2013. Good-Till-Cancel (GTC) orders will be deleted after closing on Friday Dec 27^th, 2013. You have to consider reentering these orders again on Thursday Jan 2^nd, 2014.
• Trade Reporting Deferred Publication (TRDP): on Friday Dec 27^th, 2013 won’t be allowed to submit trades to be published on next day. If such TRDP trades are found they will be deleted on Friday Dec 27^th, 2013 after closing.
• As-Of Reporting: on  Jan 2^nd , 2014 won’t  be allowed to submit trades with a trade date prior to Jan 2^nd, 2014

Time plan for all:

• 2013-08-27  - in INET Nordic OTF (external test system)
• 2014-01-02  - in INET Nordic Production system

Settlement cycle and conditions applied till December 31, 2013

• The last trading day in 2013 is Dec 27^th, 2013. December 30^th, 2013 is a trading holiday, but will be a part of settlement cycle for concluded or reported trades.
• For trades concluded or reported on the Exchange with shares, corporate bonds and fund units in lats settlement date during year 2013 cannot be later than December 30, 2013. The following default settlement period for trades concluded (automatically matched) or reported standard manual trades from December 19, 2013 will be applied:
  • for trades concluded/reported on December 19, 2013 - settlement period T+3 (settlement date December 30, 2013).
  • for trades concluded/reported on December 20, 2013 - settlement period T+2 (settlement date December 30, 2013).
  • for trades concluded/reported on December 27, 2013 - settlement period T+1 (settlement date December 30, 2013).

• For trades concluded or reported on the Exchange with Latvian government securities the settlement date for trades concluded or reported during year 2013 cannot be later than December 18, 2013. The following default settlement period for trades concluded (automatically matched) or reported standard manual trades from December 13, 2013 will be applied:
  • for trades concluded/reported on December 13, 2013 - settlement period T+3 (settlement date December 18, 2013).
  • for trades concluded/reported on December 16, 2013 - settlement period T+2 (settlement date December 18, 2013).
  • for trades concluded/reported on December 17, 2013 - settlement period T+1 (settlement date December 18, 2013).
  • for trades concluded/reported on December 18, 2013 - settlement period T+0 (settlement date December 18, 2013).
• On December 18, 2013 trading (order entry and trade reporting) with Latvian government securities will take place till 14:00 EET.

Ordinary Trading on NASDAQ OMX Riga will resume on January 2, 2014.

Additional information for issuers, investors, business partners and members about the upcoming changes at NASDAQ OMX Riga and the Latvian Central Depository regarding changeover to euro is available on the Questions & Answers section: http://www.nasdaqomxbaltic.com/en/news/about-changeover-to-euro/ Questions and feed-back

For further information and feedback concerning this information please contact trading desk at NASDAQ OMX Baltic:

-  viktoras.paulauskas@nasdaqomx.com               Phone: +370 5 219 57 07

-  agnija.rogule@nasdaqomx.com                         Phone: +371 67 212 431

Best regards,

NASDAQ OMX Nordic & Baltic