Russia’s Forts breaks daily futures trading record

12 Feb 2009

Derivatives trading hit a daily record on Futures and Options on RTS (Forts), the derivatives arm of Moscow’s Russian Trading System stock exchange, on Wednesday February 11.

Some 1.9m futures contracts were traded, beating the previous record of 1.7m, set on September 12 2008. The figure is nearly double the average daily...

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“A lot of banks have spent a lot of money calculating the cheapest way to collateralise their positions, and they’ve hired some very bright mathematicians to do it. Why would they gamble all of that by using the cheapest clearing house?”

Senior rates players believe fears of a race to the bottom among clearing houses has been overstated.

Russia’s Forts breaks daily futures trading record

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