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<strong>The</strong> <strong>BRICS</strong> <strong>Securities</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Derivatives</strong> <strong>Markets</strong>2.4 Other international cooperation initiativesBM&FBOVESPA partnered with CME Group in the development of the PUMA TradingSystem <strong>and</strong> a derivatives order routing arrangement. This routing arrangement allowsBM&FBOVESPA customers to trade CME Group’s products through the PUMA system.Similarly, customers of CME Group can access the Brazilian derivatives market through theCME Globex platform. This was further strengthened by the signing of a cross-listingagreement in March 2012 involving S&P 500 Index futures <strong>and</strong> BOVESPA Index futures, thebenchmark futures products of the two exchanges. Besides CME Group, NASDAQ OMXhas provided technologies to BM&FBOVESPA for market data <strong>and</strong> market surveillance.Separately, BM&FBOVESPA formed an alliance with Chi-X Global in 2012 to launchChi-FX Brazil, a new trading platform for overseas investors to trade BM&FBOVESPA-listedstocks in their local currencies.Furthermore, BM&FBOVESPA has signed memor<strong>and</strong>a of underst<strong>and</strong>ing (MOU) with anumber of exchanges, including the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX, now part of TMX Group),the Santiago Stock Exchange in Chile, the Colombian Stock Exchange (BVC), the MexicanExchange (BMV), the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SHSE) <strong>and</strong> the Shenzhen Stock Exchange(SZSE).3. RUSSIAIn Russia, the principal exchange operator is Moscow Exchange MICEX-RTS (“MoscowExchange”). It was formed in December 2011 when the two principal exchange operators atthat time — MICEX Group <strong>and</strong> RTS Group — merged. Besides the Moscow-basedexchange, the group has exchange centres in regions like Ural, Volga <strong>and</strong> Siberia.<strong>The</strong>re are a few regional exchanges which are not part of the Moscow Exchange Group.<strong>The</strong>se include the St. Petersburg Currency Exchange, the Samara Currency InterbankExchange <strong>and</strong> the St. Petersburg Exchange (in which Moscow Exchange has a minorityshareholding). <strong>The</strong> first two exchanges, as implied by their names, focus on currencytrading while the St. Petersburg Exchange mainly trades commodities <strong>and</strong> related derivatives.<strong>The</strong> principal regulator of the exchanges <strong>and</strong> the capital market in Russia is the FederalService for Financial <strong>Markets</strong> (FFMS). <strong>The</strong> Central Bank of Russia (CBR) is responsiblefor regulating Russia’s banking industry <strong>and</strong> forex market <strong>and</strong> is the organiser of thegovernment securities market. <strong>The</strong> Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS) <strong>and</strong> the Ministryof Finance (MOF) are two other important supervisory bodies in Russia’s regulatoryframework, with authority over the maintenance of competition in the financial market <strong>and</strong>the issuance of public debt securities respectively.- 8 - Research & Corporate Development, HKEx31 December 2012

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