OREANDA-NEWS. September 20, 2012. Eleven years ago, on September 19, 2001, trading on FORTS, the futures and options market of the Moscow Exchange, commenced.

Over this period the range of derivative contracts traded on the market expanded many fold. State-of-the-art exchange technologies allowing trading on the market during 14 hours a day were implemented that gave the market participants an opportunity to coordinate their operations with a situation in global financial centers as well as ensure competitiveness of the Russian exchange infrastructure on the international stage.

The RTS Index futures contract launched in 2005 has become not only the most liquid instrument of the domestic stock market, but has entered the list of world"s leading index futures in terms of trading volume.

In September 2012 the integration between the FORTS Derivatives market and MICEX Derivatives market competed. For less than one year Moscow Exchange has established a single domestic market for derivatives financial instruments combining best products and technologies of these two venues. At the moment the Moscow Exchange Derivatives market is ranked 9th out of global leading derivatives trading venues.

The Moscow Exchange would like to thank all those who established and developed the market, and work actively on it now and congratulates the FORTS members on the market"s birthday.