OREANDA-NEWS. On 01 September 2008 was announced, that by the decision of the Derivatives Market Committee of August 22nd, 2008 OOO Engelhard Industrial Metals was approved as a Special Clearing Member on the FORTS commodities section.

On August 27th, 2008 the Derivatives Market Committee approved ACB "Lanta-Bank" (CJCS) as a Special Clearing Member on the FORTS money section.

Currently there are 137 Clearing Members working 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 64 contracts (46 futures and 18 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 roubles 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.