SPECTRA 6.7 scheduled release, evening session cancelation

Dear derivatives market customers,

Upcoming SPECTRA trading and clearing system release is scheduled for February 22^nd 2021.

Please note that due to February 20^th (Saturday) being a working day, public testing of the release will be taking place on February 21^st (Sunday).

On a pre-release trading day, February 20^th (Saturday) evening trading session on production system will be cancelled.

Cancelation will be performed on this schedule:

• Evening clearing session starts at 18:45 MSK on February 20^th
• After the evening clearing session new trading day will be assigned
  • All reference data for new session will be available in gateway connections
  • New trading day record will appear in ‘session’ table, it will not contain information regarding the evening session (‘eve_begin’ and ‘eve_end’ fields), ‘eve_on’ flag will be set to zero
  • Clients will receive ‘session_data_ready’ event in ‘sys_events’ table
  • GTD orders will be reactivated as usual, between 18:45 and 19:00 of February 20^th
• Reports will be sent as usual
• Evening session will not be assigned and there will be no trading in evening of February 20^th
• System will be unavailable for connection after 20:30
• Data archiving (removing data for previous session) will be performed after 20:30

Thus evening session cancelation will be performed closer to usual clearing than a procedure with new trading day assignment after upgrade.

Evening session cancelation testing will be performed on T0 test environment on January 26^th 2021.
New SPECTRA 6.7 trading and clearing version is already available on T1 test environment. Changes are listed on our website.