OREANDA-NEWS. On 05 May 2009 was announced, that on April 28, 2009 RTS Standard, the new cash equity market of RTS, saw a record volume of trading. By the end of the main trading session the market participants had executed 3,681 trades with a value of 59.336 million US dollars.

RTS Standard went live on April 23. On that day the trading volume on the new market reached 46.418 million US dollars.

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.