OREANDA-NEWS. On 26 May 2009 was announced, that May 20, 2009 saw a record trading volume and a record number of trades on RTS Standard.

By the end of the main trading session the market participants had executed 7,742 tradeswith a total value of USD189.9 million.

The previous trading volume record was set on May 19, 2009 when the market participants transacted USD147.5 million.

By the end of the main trading session the trading volume on the RTS Stock Market totalled USD226.1 million. The new record is close to RTS Stock Market highs - for example trading volume last exceeded USD200 million in April 2006.

RTS Standard sets a totally new standard for equity trading in Russia. It facilitates building up the liquidity of the Russian securities market, reduces counterparty risk 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 10.30 am to 11.50 pm MSK. The range of instruments includes top 20 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.