OREANDA-NEWS. May 17, 2010. On May 14, 2010 a new daily trading volume record was set on RTS Standard.

By the end of the main trading session the trading volume hit a record high of RUB20.9 billion or USD699.941 million.

The previous trading volume record was set on RTS Standard on December 17, 2009 when the trading volume reached RUB20.543 billion or USD680.312 million.

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 22 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.