RTS decreases its share in the Ukrainian Exchange to 40%

In accordance with the terms of the Agreement on establishing the Ukrainian Exchange, OJSC, signed by the shareholders in May 2008, RTS is to distribute 6% of the shares among the most active market participants while 3% of shares is to be distributed among top managers of the exchange as part of option agreements.  

The Exchange Committee of the Ukrainian Exchange has approved a composite indicator of traders’ activity, which is comprised of the following trading results for the first 9 months of the exchange work:

• volume of concluded trades;
• number of trades;
• number of days on which at least one trade was concluded.

The list of market participants among whom 6% of shares was distributed is as follows:

Roman Goryunov, CEO, OJSC RTS, commented: "In the Ukrainian Exchange project development we have taken a similar market approach to the management that we use in Russia, basing decisions on the opinion and demands of market participants. The Ukrainian Exchange has become the leader of the stock market so quickly mainly due to this factor. As a strategic investor, we do not feel the necessity of acquiring controlling interest – in the current environment of competition for liquidity it is more effective when the exchange is managed by the active market participants.

"Decreasing the share held by RTS in the equity capital of the Ukrainian Exchange in favour of traders is another step in consolidating the exchange’s leading market position due to the interest in the market development of the market participants themselves, especially on-line brokers. It is very important that RTS always implements all agreements on time. Having a partner like this, Ukrainian traders can be confident their plans will be achieved", said Igor Mazepa, Chairman of the Exchange Committee, General Director of Concorde Capital.

"LLC "TASK - broker" welcomes the fact that the number of shareholders of one of the biggest Ukrainian exchanges is increasing as a result of the most active market participants", says Vyacheslav Ozerov, Director of Trading operations Department, LLC "TASK – broker". – We are certain that this increase will contribute to a more intensive development of the Ukrainian stock market".

Reference information

JSC "Ukrainian Exchange" went live on March 26, 2009 and has been strengthening its technology leadership  in launching order-driven trading, Internet trading, online index calculation and repo quotations.

For the first six months of trading 1300 individual investors were connected to the Ukrainian Exchange gaining access to more than 142 top liquid stocks and bonds.

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