{"id":250338,"date":"2022-05-16T08:24:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T08:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2022\/05\/16\/250338\/"},"modified":"2022-05-16T08:24:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T08:24:47","slug":"moscow-exchange-will-consider-launching-trading-in-armenian-drams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2022\/05\/16\/250338\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow\u00a0Exchange will consider launching trading in Armenian drams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, May 16. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>The Moscow Exchange is planning to expand the list of\u00a0traded foreign currencies by adding the\u00a0Armenian drams, RBC reported quoting three sources from the financial market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a source, the Exchange is considering also the launch of trading in dirham (currency of the United Arab Emirates) and Uzbek sum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, the platform offers ruble exchange for 10 foreign currencies: U.S. dollar, euro, Turkish lira, Hong Kong dollar, Belarusian ruble, Kazakh tenge, Swiss franc, British pound, Japanese yen and Chinese yuan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expanding the list of available currencies &#8211; a logical step, because the trading turnover on the stock exchange declined, according to the source. The average daily trading volume in the dollar-ruble pair in April 2022 was 81.5 billion rubles, down from 242.9 billion rubles in April 2021, according to RBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharp decrease is associated with a ban on transactions in Russian securities for non-residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, the&nbsp;&nbsp;decrease in the trading volume was also influenced by commission for purchase of currency on the exchange: at first its size was 30%, then it was reduced to 12% and in the beginning of April it was canceled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For comparison, the average daily trading volume in the pair ruble-euro in April was 49 billion rubles, and the yuan, which is&nbsp;&nbsp;third&nbsp;&nbsp;by this index &#8211; 13.7 billion rubles. A year ago, the volume of trading on these currencies was&nbsp;&nbsp;33.7 billion rubles and 1 billion rubles, respectively.&nbsp;&#8211;0\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moscow Exchange is planning to expand the list of\u00a0traded foreign currencies by adding the\u00a0Armenian drams, RBC reported quoting three sources from the financial market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12147,12159,9216],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bonds-am-en-en","7":"category-exchange-market","8":"category-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}