OREANDA-NEWS. December 26, 2011. On December 22, 2011 a meeting of the Derivatives market Committee took place. The main issue on the agenda was the MICEX-RTS trading disruption that occurred on December 19, 2011 and the consequences that followed it.

The Members of the Committee took a decision to set up a working group to investigate the root causes of the disruption, make legal analysis of the incident, put forward suggestions on changing the operational interaction procedure between the Exchange and the brokers aimed at minimizing the risk of repetition of similar incidents.

Besides, the Members of the Committee suggested that the Exchange should prepare recommendations to brokers with regard to the use of information in the margin-call related processes and brokers’ responsibility for the information they provide to their clients.

Alexander Subochev (Metallinvestbank OJSCo SKB) was appointed head of the working group. Other members of the group include: Alexander Scheglov (Zerich Capital Management), Amir Aliev (IFC Sozvezdie), Roman Goryunov (MICEX-RTS), Sergey Zamolotskikh (MICEX-RTS) with other members of the Committee to be invited later on.

It was also advised that the algo trading working group should suggest changes into the exchange’s procedure of certifying robot trading systems with due account for the control over accuracy of the information used by the system for taking decisions in the process of making trades.

It was brought to the Committee’s attention that the problems the clients faced during the trading disruption differed depending on a broker, which is explained by internal procedures and regulations of the companies. This gives a reason to sort out each problem cased by the disruption individually. The Committee set a task to create an e-mail address committee@micex.com to collect descriptions of the problems that occurred. All letters will be given consideration by the brokers and Exchange, and taken into account when working out recommendations on improving the routine procedures and exchange-client interaction system.