OREANDA-NEWS. On 05 June 2009 was announced, that June 2, 2009 saw a record trading volume and a record number of trades on RTS Standard.

By the end of the main trading session the market participants had executed 12,499 trades with a total value of USD380.7 million.

The previous trading volume record was set on June 1, 2009 when the market participants executed 7797 trades with a total value of USD266.2 million.

RTS Standard sets a totally new standard for equity trading in Russia. It facilitates building up the liquidity of the Russian securities market, reduces counterparty risk and boosts development of the infrastructure. It aims to attract substantial international investor interest into the local equity market due to the applied global standards of trading.

RTS Standard offers CCP trading in anonymous order book without full advance depositing of assets and with settlement on T+4. The market hours are from 10.30 am to 11.50 pm MSK. The range of instruments includes top 20 liquid stocks of Russian issuers. RTS Standard also offers portfolio margining with trades made on FORTS, RTS’s derivatives section, which makes trading in all the instruments possible using a single, consolidated cash position.