OREANDA-NEWS. On 04 May 2009 was announced, that on April 29, 2009 first settlement was completed on RTS Standard. The delivery amounted to 3.15 million US dollars.

Thirteen market participants held open positions until settlement, and all of them fulfilled their delivery obligations. A number of market participants transferred their delivery obligations to a later date by entering into lending & borrowing transactions.

Ticker

Issuer name

Number of securities

Delivery volume,
USD

CHMF

JSC "Severstal"

1 000

3,948.94

GAZP

Gazprom

461 332

1,933,829.04

GMKN

OJSC "MMC "NORILSK NICKEL"

1 640

125,665.40

LKOH

ОАО "LUKOIL"

4 383

187,584.41

MTSS

OJSC "MMK"

10 001

46,518.70

NLMK

MTS OJSC

20 000

29,505.29

NVTK

NLMK

5 000

15,050.68

PLZL

JSC "NOVATEK"

3 390

139,677.50

PMTL

OJSC "Polyus Gold"

1 000

5,990.47

ROSN

JSC "Polymetal"

15 685

74,930.01

SBER

OJSC "OC "Rosneft"

351 070

270,679.22

SBERP

Sberbank

50 000

18,552.57

SNGS

Sberbank

1 000

673.56

SNGSP

Surgutneftegas

70 000

19,933.96

TATN

Surgutneftegas

16 100

45,632.17

URKA

Tatneft

1

2.29

URSI

Transneft

1 950 000

19,643.37

VTBR

OJSC Uralkali

232 056 000

212,322.45

Total:

 

 

3,150,140.03

RTS Standard sets a totally new standard for equity trading in Russia. It will facilitate building up the liquidity of the Russian securities market, curb counterparties’ risks and boost development of the infrastructure. It aims to attract substantial international investor interest into the local equity market due to the applied global standards of trading.

RTS Standard offers CCP trading in anonymous order book without full advance depositing of assets and with settlement on T+4. The market hours are from 10.30 am to 11.50 pm MSK. The range of instruments includes top 20 liquid stocks of Russian issuers. RTS Standard also offers portfolio margining with trades made on FORTS, RTS’s derivatives section, which makes trading in all the instruments possible using a single, consolidated cash position.