OREANDA-NEWS. On 20 July 2009 was announced, that July 16, 2009 saw a record trading activity on RTS Standard.

By the end of the main trading session the participants of trading executed a record number of trades – 24,897 with a record value of USD452,168,548.

The previous record number of trades was registered on July 14, 2009, when the market participants entered into 23,624 trades transacting USD389,014,033.

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.