U.S. Ukraine- and Russia-related sanctions update XI: General License 13G of the U.S. Department of the Treasury

Clearstream Banking¹ refers to its previous Announcement D18064 concerning Ukraine-/Russia-related Designations and Identification and the Issuance of Ukraine- and Russia-related General License 13G of the United States Department of the Treasury published on 19 October 2018 (Authorizing Certain Transactions Necessary to Divest or Transfer Debt, Equity, or Other Holdings in Certain Blocked Persons).

Clearstream customers are advised that Clearstream will only accept and process settlement instructions until 16:00 CET on 4 January 2019 for securities issued by entities covered by OFAC General License 13G.

Please instruct as early as possible, so that your settlement instructions can be processed and settled in good time. 

No settlement instructions will be accepted if they are made after 16:00 on 4 January 2019, and/or if they have an intended settlement date later than 4 January 2019. This includes Bridge instructions.

Please also note that, effective 7 January 2019, pending instructions in the impacted securities will be cancelled.

Any positions which remain on customers` accounts will be blocked from 7 January 2019, and all subsequent instructions will be rejected.

Instructions to receive or deliver affected securities until 4 January 2019

When instructing the receipt of any of affected securities, customers must add the following new representation into the narrative field of their instruction (for example field :70E: of the MT54x instruction):

“We represent: this instruction is covered by OFAC General License 13G; is necessary to transfer or divest the securities to a non-U.S. person; no SDN is involved; the ultimate recipient of the securities is neither a U.S. person nor an SDN or SDN equivalent.”

For domestic market settlement, the customer delivering securities to the domestic market must either provide the same representation, or alternatively, represent that the instruction relates to an on-exchange transaction.

Note: If for some reason it is not possible to add the representation to the narrative field of the instruction, we require a separate authorised communication which must provide the Transaction Reference(s) to allow reconciliation of the representation back to each instruction.

Income and Corporate Events

In respect of expected forthcoming corporate or income events that arise between now and 4 January 2019, Clearstream Banking intends to apply the provisions of General Licenses 14C and 16C.

Further information

For further information, customers may contact Clearstream Banking Client Services or their Relationship Officer.

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1. Clearstream Banking refers to Clearstream Banking AG, registered office at 61, Mergenthalerallee, 65760 Eschborn, Germany and registered in Register B of the Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, Germany under number HRB 7500.