VIOP Last Trading Day and End-of-Maturity Alert

VIOP Last Trading Day and End-of-Maturity Alert
3/31/2014

Single Stock Options, EUR/USD Currency Futures, Base Load Electricity Futures, Aegean Cotton Futures and Anatolian Red Wheat Futures maturing on March 31, 2014 will be redeemed on March 31, 2014. As announced by Borsa İstanbul VIOP Operation Principles Circular no. 433, dated July 19, 2013, at the end of the said trading date,

-Open positions in future contracts will be subject to cash settlement.

We would like to remind you that, in cases of physical delivery, Takasbank may require additional collateral under the title “physical delivery collateral” from investors with open positions, therefore, Borsa İstanbul members are kindly requested to apply extra caution in order not to be subject to margin call.

New contracts to be introduced will start to be traded on VIOP on Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Information on such contracts will be available in the reports entitled current contracts dated March 31, 2014 and contract modification file on www.borsaistanbul.com/erd. Information regarding the contracts that will stop trading is below.

Table: Futures Contracts which will stop being traded

Name of Contract

Contract Code

Maturity Month

Last Trading Day

Day on which the position will be closed

EUR/USD Currency Rate

F_EURUSD0314S0

March 2014

March 31, 2014

March 31, 2014

Aegean Cotton

F_COTEGE0314S0

March 2014

March 31, 2014

March 31, 2014

Anatolian Red Wheat

F_WHTANR0314S0

March 2014

March 31, 2014

March 31, 2014

Base Load Electricity

F_ELCBAS0314S0

March 2014

March 31, 2014

March 31, 2014