OREANDA-NEWS. January 19, 2011. As of February 1, 2011 the migration of the FORTS trading platform (FORTS derivatives market and RTS Standard) to the Plaza II protocol will be completed.  

The scheduled migration of FORTS and RTS Standard trading system to Plaza II started on February 5, 2010. The transfer of OJSC RTS to Plaza II technology delivers a consolidated trading platform based on the internal protocol for all the RTS markets and its clearing, settlement, statistics and reporting systems. The main changes in the infrastructure are related to the transition of the data distribution and order management and administration systems from ODBC technology to Plaza II. As a result the new platform has improved overall efficiency of the FORTS and RTS Standard trading platform and speeded up processing of transactions by the core of the system.

All the stages of the migration were agreed and conducted jointly with the market participants, clients and the Exchange’s partners.

As of February 1, 2011 Plaza II technology  ("Plaza II FORTS Gateway") will be the only way to perform trading operations and provide full range of services related to the access to the RTS FORTS trading system (including entering/modifying orders). This means that some services of automated trading systems, internet brokerage systems, analytical applications and programs providing additional functions and/or implementation of strategies of algo trading used through the old RTS Gateway may be fully or partly disabled or operate incorrectly.

We kindly request all market participants to complete all the procedures necessary for moving their information and technical systems onto the Plaza II protocol.