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The Ukrainian Exchange is one of the largest stock exchanges in Ukraine. The exchange is located in Kiev and accounts for roughly three-quarters of Ukraine's total equity trading volume.〔(UX replacing the cumbersome former monopolist PFTS as Ukraine's main share // BNE )〕 The Exchange was founded in 2008 and its current premises are situated in the Horizon Office Tower. ==History== In May 2008 the largest participants of the Ukrainian securities market signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the RTS Stock Exchange to create a new exchange in the form of open joint-stock company in Kiev. Such form of ownership was chosen to maintain the maximum transparency of a corporate governance from the very first days. The General Meeting of the shareholders, which was held in September 2008, confirmed the results of the stock placing. 51% of these stocks were bought by the Ukrainian broker/dealers.〔(Exchange board )〕 The 2nd of October 2008 is considered to be the birthday of the exchange. On that day the Ukrainian Exchange was registered as a legal entity. During December 2008 the State Commission of Ukraine, which is the state regulator for Securities and the Stock Market, granted the Ukrainian Exchange a license authorizing it to act as the organizer of exchange trading.〔(The Ukrainian Exchange launches online stock trading // "Capital Markets" )〕 The mission of the Ukrainian Exchange is to increase the competitiveness of Ukrainian financial markets and to attract not only foreign, but also the domestic capital to the national economy. To achieve this goal it is essential to build and develop a reliable state-of-the-art securities and derivatives markets, which will meet the best international practices, and will be affordable and accessible for all types of Ukrainian investors – from individual to institutional. The next step will be development of a derivatives market for a wide spectrum of the Ukrainian financial instruments. The mission of the Ukrainian Exchange is to increase the competitiveness of the Ukrainian financial markets and to attract foreign and domestic capital to the national economy. On January 20, 2009, trading on the order-driven market was launched in testing mode. This was a unique technology for the Ukrainian market as there were no fully fledged Internet trading opportunities in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Exchange plans to further develop these initiatives and win more than 50% of the market by the end of 2010. Trading was opened on March 26, 2009, and over 80 of the most liquid stocks of Ukrainian issuers were admitted for trading.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ghanabusinessnews.com/2009/03/27/the-ukrainian-exchange-launches-online-stock-trading )〕 On April, 27 2009 the Ukrainian stock index (UX) was launched as the first on-line index in Ukraine. The first value as of 26, March 2009 was 500 and the initial basket consisted of 10 most liquid blue chips. Now UX index is calculated on base of 15 stocks.〔(The UX Index" )〕 On May 14, 2009, the Ukrainian Exchange launched its repo market〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.kyivpost.com/news/business/bus_general/detail/41403/ )〕 using an RTS Plaza system (). On September 16, 2009, the Central Counterparty (CCP) technology was introduced to provide investors with anonymity in settlement.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ux.ua/a387/ )〕 On May, 27 2010 the Ukrainian Exchange opened the first ever derivatives market in Ukraine. The first traded instrument was a futures contract on the UX Index.〔(The list of UX futures contract" )〕 As of October, 2010, 160 professional brokerage companies were registered by the exchange. 23 of them provide direct market access to the exchange for their clients.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ux.ua/s111 )〕 On April 26, 2011 the Ukrainian Exchange launched trading in options contracts.〔(UX launched trading in options contracts )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ukrainian Exchange」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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