Testing on the FX market on 08.10.2016 and MICEX Trade Currency terminal update

Starting from 10 October 2016 Moscow Exchange plans to launch USD/RUB, EUR/RUB and CNY/RUB FX swap contracts on the MOEX FX Market.

Please see http://moex.com/s1987 for more details.

At the same time the updates for MICEX Trade Currency and MICEX Currency Analytic terminals will be released.

This Saturday (8 October 2016) the public testing of these changes will be held on the production environment.

Test schedule (MSK time zone):

11:45 - The system is available for connection. System and user configuration is the same as for production on 10.10.16.

12:00 - Trading start, including the new contracts (corresponds to 10:00 in production). Trade date - 10 October 2016.

13:00 - End of the first clearing session (corresponds to 11:00 in production).

13:15 - Exchange rate fixing (corresponds to 11:30 in production).

14:30 - End of TOD trading on the main board (corresponds to 15:00 in production).

15:00 - End of gold and silver trading on the main board (corresponds to 17:30 in production).

15:30 - Early exit from the TOM trading (corresponds to 18:00 in production).

16:00 - Early exit from the TOM trading (corresponds to 19:00 in production).

16:20 - Liabilities termination.

16:30 - Additional session.

17:00 - End of the trading session.

In order to participate please send your User IDs and contact details to help@moex.com before 18:00 MSK 6 October 2016.

If you do not plan to participate, please disconnect all your systems from the Moscow Exchange production infrastructure for this period in order to avoid receiving test data.

For further information, please contact the Public Relations Department at (495) 363-3232.