OREANDA-NEWS. December 16, 2008. The VI Russian Bond Congress held in St Petersburg on December 4-5, 2008 included the awarding ceremony for the top specialists working in this field. The Congress is a brainchild of the Cbonds information agency and has been bringing together the professional participants of the debt market.

According to the results of the annual survey of the Cbonds information agency which covers professionals affiliated with the banking, investments and management sectors as well as bond issuers and representatives of the media, the debt market analysts team of the Research Department of the Bank of Moscow appeared among the top three nominees for "The Best Analysis in the Bond Market" reward.

The survey conducted by Cbonds is rated as being among the most reputable in the debt market. According to Sergey Lyalin, Director General of the Cbonds agency, this year’s survey covered a record number of participants over the entire history of this rating. The number of respondents this year was 160, all of them were professional participants of the debt market.

"Acknowledgement from your colleagues is always more than simply flattering, said Kirill Tremasov, Director of the Analysis Department of the Bank of Moscow. – I believe that this is a justly earned reward for the creative approach of our analysts to their work as well as for a series of unique products that we have offered market participants over the past year, here I am primarily talking about BMBI indices which can by right be regarded as a breakthrough innovation in the Russian market."

The Research Department of the Bank of Moscow publishes daily reviews, credit and sector research materials, strategies for the coming month. In 2008 the Debt Markets Research Department launched a unique product: "Bank of Moscow Ruble Bonds Indices (BMBI)", which includes calculation of indices by subdivisions, sectors, rating categories and duration.