OREANDA-NEWS. October 07, 2010. The Derivatives Market Committee of RTS Stock Exchange made a decision on approving CJSC "Favorit-Invest" and JSC IC Brokerage House "Almaz" as General Clearing members on the RTS derivative market.

According to the Committee VIKA-BROKER LIMITED and Petroinvest JSC were removed from the list of FORTS members.

Currently, 136 Clearing members are operating on the FORTS market.

FORTS, the derivatives market of RTS, is the leading trading venue for futures and options in Russia. Trading on FORTS started in September 2001. According to the Futures Industry Association the derivatives market of RTS is among the TOP-10 global derivatives exchanges based on the results of 2009. At present FORTS has the widest range of instruments in Russia. These are 46 contracts (33 futures and 13 options) on RTS Index, shares of Russian companies, short term interest rates, currency, oil,  gold, silver, and sugar.