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FEDERATION OF EURO-ASIAN STOCK EXCHANGES ANNUAL REPORT <strong>JUNE</strong> <strong>2013</strong><br />

BELARUSIAN CURRENCY AND STOCK EXCHANGE<br />

Pavel Tsekhanovich<br />

Chairman of the Board<br />

The mission of the BCSE is to become the<br />

main power on the way of reforming the<br />

Belarusian organized financial market and<br />

to make it the basic source of investments<br />

for Belarusian enterprises.<br />

Established in 1993, the Belarusian Currency<br />

and Stock Exchange (BCSE) is a unique<br />

trading platform in the country that serves the<br />

financial market of Belarus. Today, the BCSE is<br />

a stable working organization with constantly<br />

growing trade turnovers.<br />

Main objective - formation of the highly efficient<br />

organized financial market in Belarus to meet<br />

the requirements of banks, professional<br />

participants of the securities market, investors<br />

and the state.<br />

Up-to-date technologies, client orientation,<br />

outreach services are the defining factors to<br />

achieve this purpose.<br />

HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT<br />

The Interbank Currency Exchange was<br />

established 4 March 1993 by 18 leading<br />

business banks as a closed-type joint-stock<br />

company. Its main task was organizing trading<br />

in foreign currencies. On 24 March 1993, first<br />

trades in the Russian ruble were held in the<br />

electronic trading system. In 1995, the National<br />

Bank of Belarus granted the Interbank Currency<br />

Exchange the right to organize the purchase<br />

and sale of futures on foreign currency and<br />

other financial assets.<br />

On 24 September 1996 the Interbank Currency<br />

Exchange was made a subdivision of the<br />

National Bank, in which capacity it organized<br />

trading in foreign currencies for 2 years. In 1997,<br />

the Interbank Currency Exchange was granted<br />

the right to organize the secondary market of<br />

government securities (except for registered<br />

privatization vouchers) and the securities of the<br />

National Bank.<br />

The BCSE was established on the basis of<br />

the state-run Interbank Currency Exchange<br />

in December 29, 1998 as a non-profit, public<br />

company with administrative and financial<br />

autonomy. Having obtained the license to<br />

pursue exchange activities and the depository<br />

license, the exchange began to organize trading<br />

in the main segments of the financial market of<br />

Belarus (the currency market, the government<br />

securities market, the market of the National<br />

Bank’s bonds, the corporate securities market,<br />

the market of bonds of local loans and the<br />

market of bills of exchange)<br />

First electronic government securities trades<br />

were carried out at the Interbank Currency<br />

Exchange on 16 January 1998.<br />

Since 1999, BSCE has been carrying out<br />

depositary functions in the non-government<br />

market and clearing upon all concluded<br />

transactions.<br />

In 2007, the futures market sector was<br />

launched. Futures on US$ and EUR rate were<br />

the first instruments in this market.<br />

Functions of the BCSE<br />

• Organization of exchange trading in foreign<br />

currencies, futures and securities<br />

• Clearing Center in Belarusian settlement<br />

clearing system<br />

• Depository functions for corporate securities<br />

• Registration of OTC transactions with<br />

corporate securities<br />

• Information Center functions<br />

BCSE aims to:<br />

• Minimize risks and transaction charges from<br />

capital formation in the organized market;<br />

• Provide transparency of transactions;<br />

• Protect investors’ legal rights and their<br />

interests;<br />

• Implement programs on financial resources<br />

formation necessary for their development;<br />

• Develop state monetary and credit policy<br />

market mechanisms;<br />

• Create necessary conditions for effective<br />

controlling functioning of the State;<br />

FUTURE OUTLOOK<br />

• Improving legal documents on exchange<br />

activity<br />

• Functional and technological development of<br />

the exchange market<br />

• Functional development of the clearing and<br />

settlement system<br />

• Development of listing mechanisms<br />

• Introducing new stock indexes<br />

• Expanding the range of exchange financial<br />

instruments<br />

• Creating conditions for liquidity increase in<br />

the exchange securities market<br />

• Development of information and analytical<br />

infrastructure of the exchange securities<br />

market, expanding the range of analytical<br />

services<br />

• Increasing the level of information safety<br />

CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT<br />

AND ECONOMIC OUTLOOK<br />

KEY SOLUTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT ON<br />

THE SECURITIES MARKET DEVELOPMENT<br />

Tax liberalization for operations in bonds;<br />

Simplification of bond issue procedure;<br />

Introduction of on-exchange bonds as a<br />

separate type of bonds;<br />

Cancellation of the moratorium on free<br />

circulation of stocks;<br />

Transition to exchange market circulation for all<br />

stocks of open joint-stock companies;<br />

Municipal bond market formation<br />

BCSE ACTIVITY TODAY<br />

Since the first days of its formation (December<br />

1998), the Belarusian Currency and Stock<br />

Exchange has been participating in the<br />

technological development of the stock market,<br />

improving its regulatory framework and involving<br />

a wide range of financial assets in the exchange<br />

turnover.<br />

Today the BCSE is the only trading floor in the<br />

republic serving as a basis for a nationwide<br />

trade system in all major segments of the<br />

financial market: currency, stock and futures.<br />

Except for the organization of trading, the BCSE<br />

functions as the settlement and clearing system<br />

operator, provides information and depository<br />

services, electronic document services,<br />

registration of OTC transactions in securities.<br />

Currently, the trading floor is widely used not only<br />

by banks and broker and dealer companies,<br />

but also by the government in performing its<br />

essential economic functions, including:<br />

• privatization transactions carried out by the<br />

State Property Committee;<br />

• establishment of the official exchange rate of<br />

Belarusian rouble to the Russian rouble and<br />

US dollar by the National Bank upon trading<br />

totals in foreign currency;<br />

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