Following our report earlier today that Moscow Exchange reported record fee and commission income for 2017, the Russian trading exchange operator continued its strong start into 2018, with a healthy volumes report for February. Total trading volume across Moscow Exchange’s markets rose by 4.2% in February 2018 to RUB 66.6 trln. The key growth drivers were…
Read moreThe U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against units of St. Petersburg, Russia based banking giant VTB - JSC VTB Bank (VTB) and VTB Capital PLC - for executing fictitious and noncompetitive block trades in Russian Ruble/U.S. Dollar (RUB/USD) futures contracts, which were cleared through the Chicago…
Read moreDukascopy, the Switzerland-based expert in online trading, today delivered an important piece of news to its clients who are interested in trading the Russian Ruble. From today, April 17, 2015, trading with the USD/RUB pair (US Dollar vs Russian Ruble) is once again available to clients of the Swiss company. Owners of live accounts with…
Read moreEXNESS has reinstated trading with pairs which include the Swiss franc and Russian ruble, however the company has adopted conservative leverage limits
Read moreCiting unstable price feeds and high roll-over rates as not corresponding to the standards of Dukascopy and also the high risk to both clients and Dukascopy as reasons for the halting of trade.
Read moreThe new symbol that was announced by Moscow last week part of the effort to internationalize its currency Russian authorities have selected a new symbol for their currency and it happened in a rather unique way. The usual RUB will be substituted by the Cyrillic letter P (which sounds like R) with a small bar…
Read moreNew currency pairs for which rates are provided, including EUR/USD and CNY/RUB Starting today the Moscow Exchange has announced that it is changing the methodology of calculation of Moscow FX fixings, and in addition to the already priced USD/RUB, it introduces fixing prices for EUR/RUB, EUR/USD and CNY/RUB. The move comes at a time when…
Read moreRussia forex volumes have been strong this year – will this latest move lead to more volatility? One of the fastest growing FX markets of 2013 has certainly been Russia, leading to one month after another of record forex trading volumes for Russia FX market leader Alpari. (LeapRate estimates that Alpari has an approximate 40% market…
Read moreOverall volumes on the Moscow Exchange were up 5% in September. Well it seems as if Russian traders decided to take an extra long summer break this year. September FX trading volumes on the Moscow Exchange were down 2% from August to total RUB 14.6 trillion (about $453 billion). However, as the Moscow Exchange continues…
Read moreFX volumes rose 44% in Q2 at Russia's largest public trading market. Moscow Exchange reported its Q2 financial results and trading volumes, both of which increased nicely. The exchange reported revenues of RUB 6.3 billion ($189 million) in Q2, up 14% from Q1 and 21% from last year's Q2. On the volume side of the…
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