The Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development was featured in MICEX’s Top 50 Trading Operators rating in February 2008. The fifty winners were picked out from 630 contestants; the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development was given the 37th position in terms of stock market trading and the 46th position in terms of bond market repurchase agreement trading. Tellingly, the bank’s share trading turnover rose to 6.4 billion RUR against 6.2 billion RUR in January 2008, while its bond repurchase agreement trading turnover went up from 1.6 billion RUR in January 2008 to 2.3 billion RUR in February 2008.

In addition, the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development, with its 22.2-billion-ruble turnover of future and option transactions was given the 17th position among 132 firms. The promotion from the 20th position the bank had a month earlier was made possible due to an impressive increase in the volume of customers’ transactions: this only reached 13.7 billion RUR in January 2008.

‘Despite the fact that the beginning of the year was hard for the stock market, the players have remained active enough. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s presence in the leading stock exchanges’ ratings as well as its good positions mean its customers are as interested as ever in using the stock market’s opportunities,’ the bank’s Investment Services Director Vladimir Zotov says.