Greece: Short-selling ban continued - update II
Further to our Marketflashes M15015, dated 7 October 2015, M15018, dated 11 November 2015 and M15023, dated 8 December 2015, the Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC) has decided to extend the ban on the short selling of shares of ATTICA BANK S.A. admitted to trading on the Athens Exchange.
This extended ban has been in force since 22 December 2015 from 00:00:01 (CET) and will be in place until 11 January 2015 at 24:00:00 (CET).
This temporary prohibition shall not apply to market makers performing transactions on:
- the above-mentioned shares,
- the stock derivatives of the above-mentioned shares,
- warrants of the above-mentioned shares,
- ETFs and index derivatives which are partly composed of the above-mentioned shares.
Please note that these exemptions only apply to market making activities/short selling for hedging purposes.
For further details, please refer to the announcement on the HCMC website.
We continue to monitor the situation in the Greek market and will provide further information as it becomes available.
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