OREANDA-NEWS. June 15, 2011. On June 9, 2011 RTS Stock Exchange was awarded "Company of the year" at the annual nationwide competition "Elite of the Securities Market 2010".

This award is the most prestigious of the competition.  Other nominees for this award were VTB Capital, OTKRITIE Financial Corporation, Sberbank, and Troika Dialog.

In addition, RTS won a prize in the category "For developing business", fighting off competition from VTB Capital, OTKRITIE Financial Corporation, and Third Rome.

"This is strong recognition of our activities at the Exchange.. Over the last 15 years, RTS Stock Exchange has developed the market infrastructure together with market participants. We are delighted to receive such praise from a panel of highly regarded industry professionals ’, said Roman Goryunov, CEO at OJSC RTS.

RTS Group is an integrated trading and settlement complex providing the full range of qualitative and reliable exchange services. The Group consists of OJSC "Russian Trading System" Stock Exchange,  RTS Clearing Center, RTS Settlement Chamber, CJSC "Depository Clearing Company, RTS Tender. The Group includes also subsidiaries such as the Ukrainian Exchange, Eurasian Trade System Commodity Exchange JSC in Kazakhstan and RTS Exchange Europe Ltd in London.

RTS provides a wide range of opportunities to both Russian and foreign investors, professional institutions and their clients for trading in shares, bonds, futures and options contracts on shares and bonds of Russian companies, RTS Index, RTS Standard Index, oil, gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper and sugar.

OJSC RTS is an organizer of trading on FORTS, the derivatives market of RTS, being among the TOP-10 global derivatives exchanges, and on RTS Standard equities market with settlement on T+4 and partial advance depositing of assets.

"Elite of the Securities Market" is a contest held by NAUFOR since 2002 awarding the most prominent participants of the national securities market. Candidates are nominated by professional market participants based on the results of their business activities and for the quality of their services rendered in various sections of the securities market over the past year.