OREANDA-NEWS. October 25, 2010. On October 21, 2010 at the end of the main trading session, trading volume on the RTS Standard stock market reached USD740 603 811  (RUB 22 808 227 447), setting a record since the launch of trading on this market.

The previous trading record was fixed on May 14, 2010, when stock turnover on RTS Standard amounted to USD699 941 989 (RUB 20 900 057 805).

‘Growing turnover volumes on RTS Standard indicate the priority of convenience and flexibility of investment portfolio management as well as minimizing transactions costs and the Exchange’s performance guarantees for market participants’, comments Vadim Fedeev, Deputy Head of Stock Market Department.

RTS Standard sets a totally new standard for equity trading in Russia. It facilitates building up the liquidity of the Russian securities market, curbs counterparties’ risks and boosts 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 10.00 am to 11.50 pm MSK. The range of instruments includes top 23 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.