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According to the latest report issued by the Futures Industry Association (FIA), one of the world’s major professional associations of derivative exchanges, RTS was rated 9th among 30 global derivative exchanges ranked by the number of contracts traded in January-February 2009. Over the period under review, the volume of derivatives trading on RTS reached 41,531,983 contracts, which is a 15.21% increase on last year’s figures.
In addition, four contracts trading on RTS hit top 20 FIA listings for their corresponding sectors. The most liquid instrument of the Russian market – RTS Index futures – was ranked 12th among the top 20 most actively traded index derivatives worldwide (14,463,525 contracts). The Brent oil futures was put in 17th place in the top 20 listing of most actively traded energy derivatives worldwide (975,106 contracts). Two FX derivatives, USD/RUR and EUR/USD futures contracts, climbed to 5th and 16th positions in the top 20 FX rating (with 3,513,532 and 1,338,130 contracts respectively).
RTS has been participating in the FIA rankings since last year when it was rated 16th based on the Q1 results. Throughout 2008 the rating was consistently upgraded and RTS ended up in 11th place among the 52 major global derivatives exchanges, based on the annual results, proving RTS to be the leading derivatives exchange in Eastern Europe.
FIA's ratings (pdf, 1,350Kb)
Futures Industry Association was established in 1955 in New York. Today with over 250 members FIA is one of the largest world’s major professional associations of derivative exchanges. FIA’s researches precisely reflect the global derivatives environment and are widely acknowledged by the leading players of the industry.
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 50 contracts (33 futures and 17 options) on shares of Russian companies, bonds, short term interest rates, currency, RTS Index, oil, silver, gas, sugar and gold.
