OREANDA-NEWS. On 07 May 2008 was announced, that OJSC "Bank "Saint Petersburg" was approved as a General Clearing Member on FORTS by RTS Derivatives Market Commission.

RTS Derivatives Market Commission also approved JSCB "Bank of Moscow" as a Specialized Clearing Member with access to Equity, Commodity and Money Markets of RTS Derivatives Section.

In accordance with the decision of RTS Derivatives Market Commission "Alemar" Bank (OJSC) was approved as a Specialized Clearing Member with access to Cash and Money Markets of RTS Derivatives Section.

Currently there are 134 clearing members on FORTS.

FORTS, the derivatives market of RTS, is a leading trading venue for futures and options in Russia. Trading on FORTS started in September 2001. At present FORTS has the widest range of instruments in Russia. These are 66 contracts (46 futures and 20 options) on shares of Russian companies, bonds, short term interest rates, currency, RTS Index, oil, silver, gas, oil, sugar and gold.

Trading volume on FORTS in 2007 grew threefold and reached 297.41 bln dollars or 144.9 million contracts . Compared with 2006 the number of trades increased more than twofold and reached 11.7mln. Total open interest at the end of the year equalled 14.7 bln  rubles in cash or 3.2 million contracts. FORTS also saw a record day’s trading in 2007 when the value of all contracts traded reached 5.2 bln dollars on December 13th, 2007.