OREANDA-NEWS. September 22, 2009. September 18, 2009 saw a record trading activity on RTS Standard.

By the end of the trading session the trading participants made a record number of trades – 39,008.

The previous record was set on July 31, 2009 when the number of trades on RTS Standard reached 31,223.

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.