The virus attack stopped the stock market of Ukraine

29 June 2017, 17:05 | Ukraine
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Ukrainian Exchange and PFTS can not execute 27 transactions.

The Ukrainian stock market suspended work in anticipation of the restoration of the National Depository of Ukraine and the Settlement Center for servicing contracts in financial markets.

"The beginning of trading on the PFTS Stock Exchange was postponed until the work of the clearing and settlement infrastructure of the securities market of Ukraine resumed,".

"The start of trading on the stock market of the Ukrainian Exchange is postponed until the settlement infrastructure of the securities market is restored," the Ukrainian Exchange (UB) notes, which, like the PFTS, did not suffer from cyberattacks, but can not complete the transactions held on June 27 due to a malfunction in the Work NDU and RC.

At the same time, trading on the UX futures market is conducted in the standard mode, except futures and options contracts for the Ukrainian shares index, trades that start simultaneously with the restoration of trading on the stock market.

The largest in terms of turnover Exchange, also affected by the virus, as of noon Thursday, has not yet resumed work.

As participants of the stock market reported, due to the failure of the NDU and RC caused by the cyberattack, the OTC market is also idle.

The National Depository on its website said that "about the opening time of the operational day will be reported later, the customer's office for sending reports will begin its work in the afternoon".

An informed source said that the resumption of work around 16:00 Thursday as of noon looks like an optimistic scenario. Such a large-scale malfunction in the work of the Ukrainian stock market because of cyberattacks is the first in its history.

Based on materials: segodnya.ua



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