OREANDA-NEWS. June 17, 2011. Starting from June 20, 2011 RTS Clearing Center will start to accept US dollars as collateral to ensure trades on FORTS, RTS Standard markets and within the RTS Money service.

"Using foreign currency as a mean of collateral will expand liquidity management opportunities for trading participants as well as substantially simplify and improve trading for clients non-residents on the Russian market", said Evgeny Serdyukov, Derivatives Market Director at RTS Stock Exchange.

US dollars will be credited to RTS Clearing Center’s accounts from 8:30am to 8:00pm MSK.