OREANDA-NEWS. December 6, 2010. On December 2, 2010 the trading volume on RTS Standard reached an all-time high of USD771,666,440 or RUB24,273,153,690.

The previous record trading volume was seen of October 21, 2010 when market participants traded USD740,603,811 or RUB22,808,227,447.

RTS Standard sets a totally new standard for equity trading in Russia. It facilitates building up the liquidity of the Russian securities market, curbs counterparties’ risks 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 Tplus4. The market hours are from 10.00 am to 11.50 pm MSK. The range of instruments includes top 23 liquid securities 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.