Main events in 1999
January
Trading in the Euro started in the MICEX Currency Market Section.
On the instructions of the Bank of Russia trading in OFZ was resumed in the unified trading system of the MICEX and regional exchanges.
February
The MICEX won the Themis Prize, established by Moscow Lawyers' Club.
The MICEX joined the public Committee for the support for the manufacturing and financial sectors of the economies of Russian cities.
The MICEX introduced the "negotiated deals" mode of trading in stocks and regional bonds.
March
Financial Press Club declared the MICEX the most transparent company on the Russian stock market.
The MICEX and Interfax news agency created information and analytical system EFIR to serve market professional participants.
May
The MICEX jointly with Columbia University and a number of acknowledged US politicians and entrepreneurs, established the US-Russian Investment Forum in New York. Its task is facilitating interaction between the two countries' financial communities.
The MICEX stockholders' meeting decided to increase the MICEX authorized capital to 115,415 million rubles.
June
The RF Securities Commission granted the MICEX the License to organize trading in the securities market and perform clearing activities and registered the Terms of Conducting Clearing Activities.
The IPO of LUKoil bonds was held on the MICEX, which started the corporate bonds market in Russia.
Trading in the US dollar in SELT was held in the Unified Trading Session for the first time, which market the formation of the Russia national currency market.
The MICEX and seven regional currency exchanges signed an agreement of cooperation in the market of information services. July
The IPO of corporate bonds of Gazprom and Tument Oil Company was held on the MICEX.
August
Participants in trading on the MICEX received access to the materials of Russian news agencies via their exchange terminals.
The Federal Agency of Government Communication and Information granted the MICEX the License to protect exchange information.
October
Trading in the Euro in SELT started in the Unified Trading Session.
Inter-dealer REPO transactions in government securities were started in the MICEX trading system.
The MICEX and the Vienna Stock Exchange agreed to promote the development of the Russian stock market in the context of globalization of the European financial market.
Participants in the currency market established the National Foreign Exchange Association with the aim of implementing new technologies.
November
The National Stock market Association and the MICEX developed a short-term program "Urgent Measures to Restore the Russian Corporate Securities Market and Attract Investments to the Manufacturing Sector".
At the all-Russian Internet-festival "Internit'99», the MICEX web site was awarded the Prize of the Organizing Committee of the annual contest "Business Web Site".
The MICEX, the Asian-Pacific Interbank Currency Exchange, the NDC and the Inter-Regional Association for Economic Cooperation between Trans Baikal and Far Eastern Regions signed an agreement of cooperation in developing the securities market and promoting investments in the economy of Trans Baikal and Far Eastern territories.
December
S.W.I.F.T., the MICEX, the NDC, the MICEX Settlement House and TASIS signed the Memorandum of implementing international financial communications standards in the Russian stock market.
The MICEX launched an information system providing quotations of stocks of Moscow enterprises.
The IPO of RAO UES bonds was held on the MICEX.
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