SIFMA Market Close Recommendations for the Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and Other Year-End Holidays in the US, UK and Japan

Release Date: December 14, 2015
Contact: Liz Pierce, (212) 313-1173, [email protected]

SIFMA Market Close Recommendations for Trading of US Dollar-Denominated Fixed-Income Securities in Observance of the Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and Other Year-End Holidays in the US, UK and Japan

New York, N.Y., December 14, 2015 —SIFMA confirmed its holiday recommendations in the U.S., UK and Japan in observance of the Christmas Day, UK Boxing Day, Japan Bank and New Year’s Day Holidays.

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SIFMA is the voice of the U.S. securities industry, representing the broker-dealers, banks and asset managers whose 889,000 employees provide access to the capital markets, raising over $2.4 trillion for businesses and municipalities in the U.S., serving clients with over $16 trillion in assets and managing more than $62 trillion in assets for individual and institutional clients including mutual funds and retirement plans. SIFMA, with offices in New York and Washington, D.C., is the U.S. regional member of the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA). For more information, visit http://www.sifma.org.