OREANDA-NEWS. Moscow Exchange Forum: London session was held on July 3rd, 2013. More than 200 delegates from among leading international financial market participants and investors attended the event at Andaz Hotel on Liverpool Street to discuss the potential of Russian financial market.

Among the speakers were Moscow Exchange top managers: CEO Alexander Afanasiev, deputy CEO Andrey Shemetov, head of IT Sergey Polyakov, and CEO of the National Settlement Depositary Eddie Astanin. Tim Talkington, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, and Vitaly Sergeychuk of Russia's Federal Agency for State Property Administration took part in the panel discussion.

They pointed out the key achievements of 2012 such as establishment of a central securities depository, opening up the bond market to Euroclear and Clearstream and upgrading the settlement of Russian securities to T+2. Also a number of projects in pipeline were announced, including the transfer of all securities to the T+2 model and the upcoming closure of the T0 system, making equities eligible for Euroclear and Clearstream settlement services by July 2014, corporate governance reforms and listing modernisation.