OREANDA-NEWS. On 13 May 2009 was announced, that May 6, 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 5,678 trades with a total value of 74.231 million US dollars.

The previous record number of trades was seen on RTS Standard on May 5, 2009 when it reached 4,726 trades.

The previous trading volume record was set on April 29, 2009 when the market participants transacted 72.048 million US dollars.

RTS Standard sets a totally new standard for equity trading in Russia. It will facilitate building up the liquidity of the Russian securities market, curb counterparties’ risks and boost 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.