Release Date: October 7, 2015
 Contact: Liz Pierce, (212) 313-1173, [email protected] 

SIFMA Recommends Full Market Close on October 12 in Observance of the  US Columbus Day Holiday in the US, UK and Japan and the Sports Day Holiday in Japan 

New York, N.Y., October 7, 2015 — SIFMA made holiday recommendations in the United States, United Kingdom and Japan in observance of the U.S. Columbus Day Holiday and Sports Day Holiday in Japan 

 These recommendations apply to trading of U.S. dollar-denominated government securities, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, over-the-counter investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds, municipal bonds and secondary money market trading in bankers’ acceptances, commercial paper and Yankee and Euro certificates of deposit 

SIFMA’s recommended early and full market closes are recommendations only; each member firm should decide for itself whether its fixed-income departments remain open for trading.  All SIFMA recommendations are subject to change due to market conditions.

– 30 – 

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.