OREANDA-NEWS. July 16, 2012. In order to give impetus to the swaps trading, the Currency Market Committee of Moscow Exchange recommended that the Exchange launches trading in the 9-month and 1-year USD/RUB FX swaps.

It is planned that the swaps with new settlement periods will be introduced in August 2012. Procedure for registration of trades and margin requirements for USD_TOM9M and USDTOM_1Y swaps will be similar to those used for swaps with shorter settlement periods and will be applied for consolidated positions of the FX market participants.