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Futures And Options On RTS Stock Exchange Technical Infrastructure Transferred From St. Petersburg To Moscow

Date 21/12/2005

RTS Group has completed the process of moving FORTS market technical infrastructure from St. Petersburg Stock Exchange to RTS Group.

Main trading and clearing servers of the Derivatives market have been installed in the RTS Technical center. St. Petersburg Stock Exchange kept the back-up derivatives service center. All servers will be services jointly by St. Petersburg Stock Exchange and NP RTS.

Technical infrastructure was transferred from St. Petersburg to Moscow based on the Priority Development Guidelines of "Russian Trading System" partnership for 2005 – 2006. St. Petersburg Stock Exchange has been the main technical center for FORTS since its inception in September 2001.