OREANDA-NEWS. Moscow Exchange (MOEX) today announces its IFRS results for the three months ended 30 June 2013. Strong earnings were driven by growth across our highly diversified business, particularly by derivatives and money-market products.

KEY OPERATING AND FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS OF Q2 2013

Total trading volume across all markets up 31% YoY to RUB 120.8 trn.

Assets in custody increased to RUB 17.6 trn as of 30 June 2013 from RUB 17.3 trn as of

31 March 2013.

Total operating income rose 21.0% YoY to RUB 6.30 bln.

EBITDA up 32.2% YoY to RUB 4.54 bln; EBITDA margin increased to 72.1% from 66.0% in Q2 2012.

Net profit increased 57.1% YoY to RUB 3.30 bln.

KEY CORPORATE HIGHLIGHTS

The date of complete migration to T+2 was announced as 2 September, when all stocks are to begin trading with this settlement. 30 August is to be last day of trading in these instruments with T+0 settlement.

Moscow Exchange deepened its partnership with Deutsche Borse: trading in five German single-stock futures will be launched in Moscow, while Eurex, the derivatives exchange of Deutsche Borse Group, is to launch trading in Rouble FX futures.

Polymetal International listed its shares on Moscow Exchange, becoming the first company incorporated outside Russia to trade in Moscow.

An ETF was listed on Moscow Exchange for the first time.

Trading in gold futures calendar spreads was launched. Futures on US Dollar-Japanese Yen and

US Dollar-Swiss Franc currency pairs were introduced.

A new incentive programme for brokers was launched to boost share liquidity and broker activity.

US dollars are now accepted as collateral for trading.

The SPECTRA trading platform, which serves the Derivatives Market and Equity Market, was moved to the new state of the art M1 data centre.

Mr. Alexander Afanasiev, Chief Executive Officer of Moscow Exchange, said, “Strong operating and financial results in the first half of the year demonstrate that the strategic initiatives realized in recent months are in the right direction and focused on continued growth over the long term. For example, we are on track to complete the transition to T+2 settlement in the Securities Market, we launched a number of new products, and we have attracted several Russian companies incorporated abroad to list on our markets. We became more attractive to local and international market participants due to successful reforms of the domestic financial infrastructure as well as our openness to change and innovation.”

Mr. Evgeny Fetisov, Chief Financial Officer of Moscow Exchange, added, “Our financial results were excellent in the quarter with a 57.1% YoY rise in net profit to RUB 3.30 bln, driven by a 21.0% YoY increase in total operating income while costs were controlled, declining 0.4% YoY. The largest growth line in income was again fee and commission income, which grew in every one of our business segments and was up 18.1% YoY and 15.0% QoQ to RUB 3.29 bln.”