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Global Financial Service Disruptions

Moscow Exchange

securities exchange · RU · Europe · PJSC Moscow Exchange

Regulatory or legalStatus: resolvedTier 1Severity 5 of 5Evidence confidence: highAnalyst-verified

Moscow Exchange suspended trading on 24 February 2022 after the invasion of Ukraine, and from 28 February the Bank of Russia kept equity and derivatives markets closed for weeks. Government bond trading reopened on 21 March 2022; equities resumed later (exact date not verified in this lane).

First disruption
Feb 24
First public signal
unknown
Acknowledged
Feb 24
Restored
Mar 21
Duration
not established
DFX first recorded
Nov 5 14:58 UTC

What was restricted

tradingScope: sector wide

Trading suspended on 24 Feb 2022; equity market closed from 28 Feb for the longest pause in its history; OFZ government bond trading resumed 21 Mar 2022.

Cause, kept in separate layers

What the institution said
Bank of Russia ordered equity, derivatives and OTC derivatives markets closed from 28 Feb 2022
DFX classification
Regulatory or legal (cyber: unconfirmed)
Analytical hypothesis (not established)
Closure intended to prevent a foreign-investor sell-off under new sanctions.
Conflicting reports
Full equity reopening date not confirmed from retrieved sources.

Evidence