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FEDERATION OF EURO-ASIAN STOCK EXCHANGES ANNUAL REPORT JUNE 2010UKRAINIAN STOCK EXCHANGEValentin OskolskyChairman of the BoardThe USE activity throughout the year wasfocused on improvement of tradingtechnology, widening the number of marketinstruments and supplementing the marketinformation.Trading value of the Ukrainian StockExchange (USE) in 2007 amounted to US$16.8 million. If we analyze trading structureby market instrument, we can see thattrading value for derivatives increased to15.5% from 0.05% in 2006, but tradingvalue for corporate bonds decreased to17.3% in 2007 from 53% in 2006. The mosttraded instrument was state-owned shares.The USE activity throughout the year wasfocused on improvement of tradingtechnology, widening the number of marketinstruments and supplementing the marketinformation.The USE also provides educational activity.The USE is a co-founder of the KievSlavonic University continued its work withstudents, through the Securities Chair.Starting from 2002 there has been aStudent Stock Exchange at the USE. Everystudent has an opportunity to become anexchange specialist and then a broker.Through gaining theoretical and practicalknowledge and accumulating experience,students realize the importance of capitalmarkets and can better make their choice offuture professions.It is our belief that the USE has chosen astrategy that will gradually result intransparent, liquid, investment and anattractive capital market.HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENTThe USE is a pioneer in the capital market ofUkraine, created according to “Law onSecurities and the Stock Exchange”, andregistered by decision of the Cabinet ofMinisters on 29 October 1991. The USE is aclosed joint-stock company with anauthorized capital divided into 288 ordinarynominal shares belonging to legal entities. In1997, according to the Law “On StateRegulation of Securities Market in Ukraine”,the Securities and Stock Market StateCommission re-registered the USE. SinceJune 1998 the USE has been a selfregulatedorganization. There are 100registered brokerage companies as USEmembers. The USE has 3 branches in thelargest Ukrainian regions.The USE is a member of the CoordinatingCouncil for the functioning of securitiesmarket charged by the President of Ukraine.It’s also a member of the Consulting &Experts Council in the SSMSC, the UkrainianChamber of Commerce and Industry, theAcademy of Economic Science and theAcademy of Engineering Science of Ukraine,the Board of Ukrainian Council on EconomicEducation and the Ukrainian Community“Intelligence of the Nation”. Chairman of theBoard of USE Mr. Valentin Oskolsky is alsoPresident of Union of Economists of Ukraineand President of Article NumberingAssociation “GS1 Ukraine”.The USE has created many educationalprograms in association with the KievSlavonic University.The official publication, “Hermes”, can befound in the daily newspaper “Ukraine-Business”.FUTURE OUTLOOKPlans for the USE in 2008 include:• expansion through the System of ElectronicTrading (SELT USE) secondary securitiesturnover and trading the internal state loanbonds;• creation of the conditions and basis forformation and development of a derivativesmarket;• taking actions to attract new members tooperate in SELT USE;• participation in the privatization processesplanned to be implemented by the StatePrivatization Program and the Law of Ukraine“On State Budget of Ukraine for 2008”;• improvement of technologies for tradingState-owned shares of privatized companies;• promotion for the attraction of directnational and foreign investments to developstrategically important industry companiesduring the process of its privatization;• development of the electronicdocumentation turnover and electronic digitalsignature according to new Ukrainianlegislation;• development of Exchange informationareas, expansion of publishing, scientific,methodical and educational activities in orderto prepare specialists for national capitalmarket; and• strengthening the international cooperationwith foreign stock exchanges andinternational financial organizations.PAGE 158