Settlement services - Cyprus
Pre-matching service
The table below summarises CBL’s pre-matching service for external settlement instructions, as well as the pre-matching method and start time in the market. For details of CBL’s pre-matching services, see Pre-matching services for external settlement instructions.
| Service offered | Method employed | Start (local time) | |||
| All securities | |||||
Immediate Release Flag available | Manual via telephone or fax (“best efforts” basis) | On receipt of instructions | |||
| Connectivity medium | Instruction format |
Xact Web Portal | Tick to enable the “Immediate Release” option. |
Xact via Swift and Xact File Transfer | Field :22F::STCO/CEDE/IREL |
Local pre-matching, which is market practice, starts, subject to counterparty availability, on receipt of instructions and continues until settlement date (SD).
Domestic allegement matching service
As a complement to the pre-matching services offered for this market and where no pre-matching instruction has been sent to the market, CBL accepts allegements via its Account Operator from domestic market counterparties. It will then use these allegement messages to search for the best matching client instruction.
If no matching client instruction is found, the allegement is reported to the client provided that its Clearstream Banking account number is present.
For details of CBL’s domestic allegement service, see Pre-matching services for external settlement instructions.
Procedures for domestic counterparties
Receipt in CBL | |
Deliver to: | Clearstream Banking, Luxembourg (BIC: CEDELULL) |
Delivery from CBL | |
Deliver to: | Clearstream Banking, Luxembourg (BIC: CEDELULL) |
Citibank Europe PLC Greece Branch will act as the account operator of the following Clearstream Banking omnibus account at the local CSD:
SAT code: 2004765061-6
SAT account: CY06980067-7
Operator code: 0000000666
Note: SAT is the Dematerialised Securities System and also the clearing system for Cyprus.
Linkage of trading codes (OASIS codes) with accounts in CSD
When the client/end-investor has an execution agreement with a local broker who is a direct member of CSE (that is, no remote or international broker-dealer is involved), the client is requested to advise the local broker that the linkage between OASIS code (trading code in CSE) and the CSD account into which the trade settles. This scenario is not applicable to trades that settle on CBL's account at the CSD.
Specific settlement rules / settlement restrictions - Bonds
In accordance with domestic market practice, Cypriot government and corporate bonds are traded and settled in units. Domestic settlement instructions in Cypriot debt securities must therefore include the quantity of units. Failure to do so may result in settlement delays.
Specific settlement rules / settlement restrictions - Equities
Settlement of Stock Exchange (SE) trades
The registration, which is part of the settlement process, occurs simultaneously with settlement in SAT on T+2.
Processing in the CSD on behalf of CBL clients takes place as follows:
- On T+2 Client Settlement: transfer of securities from/to the intermediary's principal account to/from CBL's account at the CSD;
- After T+2 OTC Rectification Trade (used if Client Settlement failed): transfer of securities from/to the intermediary's proprietary account to/from CBL's account at the CSD.
Note: The cycle of T+2 is mandatory in CSE for Client Settlement instructions, for which the CSE accepts no other cycle. Clients can, however, instruct Client Settlement on any date, including on SD.
Settlement of OTC trades (off-exchange)
OTC transactions are allowed free of or against payment. For the settlement deadlines on OTC trades in CBL, please refer to Settlement times.
Late instructions could be cancelled and re-instructed by the client with a new SD. However, matched trades can only be cancelled if both parties send cancellation instructions.
In order to benefit from straight-through processing, the client must complete fields as follows to specify the type of OTC transaction that will apply:
| OTC transaction | Xact via Swift and Xact File Transfer |
| Type of Settlement Transaction field / Additional Indicators field | |
OTC Normal trade (OTC TRAD) | :94B::TRAD//OTCO/OTC :22F::SETR//TRAD |
OTC Re-registration (OTC RERE) | :94B::TRAD//OTCO/OTC :22F::SETR//TRAD or :22F::SETR//PORT :22F::REGT//YREG |
| OTC rectification tradea | :94B::TRAD//OTCO/OTC :22F::SETR//TRAD or :22F::SETR//BSBK :22F::STCO/HCSD/RCTF |
a. Used after T+2 if Client Settlement failed.
Fees and charges
The following market fees and charges (which are given here as an indication only and may be subject to market changes) are applied by CSE in the settlement process to OTC trades:
- Equities - normal OTC trade for equities listed in the main market: 3.5 bps per side and for equities listed in the other markets 8.5 bps (plus EUR 1.00 for against payment transactions, per side). Minimum EUR 20.00.
- Fixed income - normal OTC trades: 1.5 bps per side (plus EUR 1.00 for against payment transactions, per side) with minimum EUR 20.00.
- Re-registration: EUR 5.00 per side.
- OTC rectification trade: EUR 20 per side.
Transfers of securities from Cyprus to Greece are subject to a fee of EUR 0.20 per transfer. Please refer to “Settlement process" in the Market Profile - Cyprus.
All charges incurred by CBL in the trading and settlement processes will be passed on to the relevant client on an “upon receipt” basis.
Back-to-back processing
This service is not applicable to CBL on the market.
New issues settlement
Not applicable in the Cypriot market.
Settlement Discipline Regime and related domestic market settlement functionalities
Recycling of pending transactions
Unmatched OTC trades are cancelled by CDCR after 20 business days from their input in the CSD system or as of the last modification date.
Matched trades failing to settle on their Intended Settlement Day (ISD), are cancelled by CDCR 60 business days from their input in the CSD system or as of the last modification date. To also note matched instructions can be cancelled bilaterally, whereby a cancellation request is needed from each party.
On exchange trades, once booked in the market, cannot be cancelled.
Bilateral cancellation
This means that matched instructions can only be cancelled if both domestic counterparties request a cancellation of their instructions.
Until the cancellation confirmation is received from the market, the instruction will remain eligible for settlement, that is, the instruction may be provisioned and proposed for settlement and may be subject to cash penalties.
Hold and release
Not applicable on the market.
Partial settlement
Not applicable on the market.
Cash tolerances
For domestic instructions against payment in EUR, the allowed settlement countervalue difference changes to EUR 18.00.
Matching information
The trade date is a mandatory matching criteria and domestic instructions will follow local market rules.
Cash penalties
Penalties will be calculated and applied on matched settlement instructions that fail to settle, in full or in part, on and after their intended settlement date (ISD), if both the settlement instruction and the relevant financial instrument are subject to cash penalties.
Penalties apply to Versus Payment (VP) and Free of Payment (FOP), Over-the-Counter (OTC) transactions: OTC normal trades (OTC TRAD), OTC SECL/SECB, OTC COLI/COLO, OTC YREG (NCBO-PORT), OTC ADR issuance and redemption trades and OTC OWNE. OTC rectification trades are exempted.
Instruments subject to cash penalties
Any financial instrument listed in the Financial Instruments Reference Data System (FIRDS) database maintained by ESMA will be subject to cash penalties. However, cash penalties will not apply to shares listed in the Short Selling Regulation (SSR) exemption list.