FORTS Membership List Changed

D.C.Capital is approved as a specialized clearing firm on derivatives section of FORTS. This decision is taken by the RTS FORTS Committee on November 23rd 2007.

At the same time by the decision of RTS FORTS Committee LLC “Koch Risk Management Services” is excluded from the list of specialized clearing firms on derivatives section of FORTS.

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 in Russian range of instruments. These are 58 contracts (39 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. In 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. -- www.rts.ru

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