OREANDA-NEWS. November 05, 2009. RTS’s euro/dollar and euro/rouble futures contracts won the award for "best innovation in product design 2009 – Eastern Europe", given by the leading magazine in derivatives markets, Futures & Options World (FOW), part of Euromoney plc.

Trading in futures on euro/dollar and euro/rouble was launched on the RTS’s Derivatives market on February 5, 2009. The new contracts complimented the existing futures contract on dollar/rouble and became two of the most liquid derivative instruments of the Russian and global derivatives markets. By the data of one of the leading global analytical agencies of derivative exchanges Futures and Options Intelligence, in September 2009 all three contracts traded on RTS entered TOP 25 of the most traded FX contracts on the world’s derivatives exchanges.

All instruments of the Money section on FORTS give all categories of investors a wide variety of opportunities for hedging all kinds of risks. Russian and foreign market participants for a long time have been using these instruments to optimize their defensive strategy.

Since its launch in 1982, professional magazine FOW has been at the heart of the futures and options business. Its subscribers and readers are global investment funds and banks, professional stock market participants as well as private investors all around the globe. FOW's annual Awards for Innovation include seven regional awards for the best innovations by exchanges in the field of product design: North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa, East Asia, South and Southeast Asia and Australia.

FORTS, the derivatives market of RTS, is the leading trading venue for futures and options in Russia. Trading on FORTS started in September 2001. At present FORTS has the widest range of instruments in Russia. These are 47 contracts (34 futures and 13 options) on shares of Russian companies, bonds, short term interest rates, currency, RTS Index, oil, silver, diesel oil, sugar and gold.