Moscow Exchange Trading Volumes in February 2022

In February 2022, total trading volumes across Moscow Exchange’s markets grew by 41.5% to RUB 102.0 trln (RUB 72.1 in February 2021).

Unless stated otherwise, all figures below refer to performance for February 2022 and all comparisons are with the same period last year.

Equity & Bond Market

Total trading volume on the Equity and Bond Market in February 2022 increased by 52.5% to RUB 5,648.8 bln (February 2021: RUB 3,703.8 bln), hereinafter excluding overnight bonds.

Trading volume in shares, DRs and investment fund units rose twofold to RUB 4,637.4 bln (February 2021: RUB 2,235.9 bln). ADTV was RUB 231.9 bln (February 2021: RUB 111.8 bln).

Trading volume in corporate, regional and sovereign bonds was RUB 1,011.4 bln (February 2021: RUB 1,467.9 bln). ADTV was RUB 50.6 bln (February 2021: RUB 73.4 bln).

49 new bond issues with a combined value of RUB 570.2 bln (of which overnight bonds accounted for RUB 353.9 bln) were placed in February 2022.

Derivatives market
Derivatives Market volumes increased by 35.9% to RUB 16.3 trln (February 2021: RUB 12.0 trln) or 215.5 mln contracts (February 2021: 162.2 mln), of which 211.2 mln contracts were futures and 4.3 mln contracts were options. ADTV was RUB 815.1 bln (February 2021: RUB 599.9 bln).

Open interest at the end of the month was RUB 849.2 bln (February 2021: RUB 820.7 bln).

Standardized OTC Derivatives Market volume grew 5.8 times and reached RUB 499.9 bln.

FX Market

FX Market trading volume grew by 44.0% to RUB 34.5 trln (February 2021: RUB 24.0 trln), with spot trades amounting to RUB 12.3 trln and swap trades and forwards totaling RUB 22.2 trln.

The FX Market’s ADTV was RUB 1,725.6 bln (USD 22.2 bln), compared to RUB 1,198.2 bln (USD 16.1) in February 2021.

Money Market

Money Market turnover grew 26.0% to RUB 40.2 trln (February 2021: RUB 31.9 trln). ADTV was RUB 2,011.6 bln (February 2021: RUB 1,597.1 bln).

The CCP-cleared repo segment added 28.5% to reach RUB 23.3 trln, including the GCC repo segment which increased by 9.8% to RUB 6.5 trln.
Precious Metals Market

Turnover in precious metals (spot and swaps) was RUB 12.3 bln (February 2021: RUB 13.6 bln), of which RUB 12.0 bln (2.5 t) was gold and RUB 0.3 bln (4.7 t) was silver.