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System Technologies of Hedging and RAB are approved as specialized clearing firms in commodity section of the RTS derivatives market. This decision was taken by the RTS Derivatives market committee on December 18th, 2007.
At the moment 132 clearing members are working on FORTS market.
Derivatives market of RTS – FORTS is a leading trading ground 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 63 contracts (44 futures and 19 options) on shares of Russian companies, bonds, short interest rates, currency, RTS Index, oil, silver, gas, oil, sugar and gold.
The trading volume on FORTS for 9 months 2007 exceeded 166 bln dollars. On FORTS From January to September 2007 there were executed more than 7,2 mln transactions with 93,5 contracts. Average daily open interest on standard contracts in 2007 grew by 102,6% and in September reached 8 bln dollars.
