MICEX and RTS experts compiled a rating of professional stock market players in March 2008, and the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development was given some rather impressive positions: the bank was rated Russia’s 36th best player on the stock market (compared with the 37th position in February 2008) among MICEX’s 640 participants. The bank’s trading operations turnover came to 5.6 billion RUR.

RTS (FORTS) rated the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development as the 18th most successful player on the futures and option transactions market among 132 market participants; its transactions turnover reached 18.9 billion RUR in March 2008. In addition, the Bank was given the 20th position in a special FORTS rating based on option transactions.

‘Both the bank and its customers remain very active on the securities market, which means investors are interested in stock markets regardless of the state of global economy,’ says the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s Investment Services Director Vladimir Zotov.