According to the document, in the upcoming year the activities of the Partnership will concentrate on the following:
Securities Market Development
- Active participation in easing up of RAO Gazprom trading restrictions starting from the infrastructure development phase for this market segment.
- Close interaction with Russian exchanges in order to build a single trading environment in Russian Federation geared towards market professionals in the regions.
- Cooperation with foreign exchanges and other financial institutions to help bring together Russian and foreign market participants and investors working with ruble- and dollar-denominated RTS-listed instruments.
- Implementation of credit settlement mechanisms.
Technological Innovation
- Further development of RTS main market segment by introducing up-to-date technologies including that of continuous trading.
- Transaction costs reduction resulting from multilateral clearing.
- Development of infrastructure that would be able to facilitate trades with post depositing of assets using partial coverage and order matching considering the participants' mutual limits.
- Further development of repo market. Implementation of the system able to monitor the repo market participants' open positions
thus minimizing risks.
Product Line Development
- Development of the investment fund market segment and organization of secondary trading of ETF. Technological cooperation based, for instance, on RTS electronic data exchange system.
- Fixed income market development:
- Creation of the Center that will help issuers facilitate bond IPOs.
- Adding new instruments to RTS fixed income product line, such as government bonds.
- Cooperation with stock issuers during IPOs. Creation of the IPO-facilitating system in RTS.
