JUNE 2013 - FEAS
JUNE 2013 - FEAS
JUNE 2013 - FEAS
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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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