OREANDA-NEWS. September 26, 2012. An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Moscow Exchange made a decision to increase the authorized share capital of the company by placing additional registered uncertificated ordinary shares of OJSC "Moscow Exchange MICEX-RTS" in the amount of 200 million of nominal value RUB1 each. Total nominal value of the issue is RUB200 million.

The increase was approved by 99.43% of the shareholders presented at the meeting. Ballots of 0.57% of shareholders participated at the meeting were accepted to be invalid.

The additional shares will be issued within the framework of technical arrangements needed to prepare the Moscow Exchange to an IPO. The shares will be offered through a private placement in favour of "MICEX-Finance" LLC.

The offering price for the one additional share to be proposed to investors including those ones who have pre-emptive rights to buy will be determined by the Board of Directors of the Moscow Exchange after the state registration of the additional issue and before the effective date of the pre-emptive rights.