OREANDA-NEWS. Moscow Exchange is introducing new fees for its equity market from 16 December.

In the new fees ETFs are considered a specific category of securities. Fees for trades in ETFs are similar to those charged for trades in mutual funds.

A unified total fee of 0.01% of a trade size will be applied to all dark pool trades regardless of the fee schedule selected by a trading member. A cap of RUB1,500 for the total fee charged for dark pool trades will be abolished due to the end of the grace period.

Please see our extra notices on a grace period to be introduced for trades in foreign securities and discount fees for rollovers on the Moscow Exchange's equity market.