The Moscow Exchange is considering expanding the list of currencies available on the site, RBC reports with reference to three unnamed sources in the financial market. According to the publication, the launch of trading by the Armenian drama, the Uzbek Sum and the Arab Dirham, the currency of the united Arab emirate.
is discussed.
The possibility of adding new currencies began to be considered against the background of the fall of the ruble, Western sanctions and a decrease in the volume of bidding dollar. According to the estimates of the publication, the average daily bidding in a pair of the dollar-ruble in April last year was 242.9 billion rubles, and in April this year fell to 81.5 billion rubles.
Now the Moscow exchange has been available for 10 foreign currencies: US dollar, euro, Turkish lyre, Hong Kong dollar, Belarusian ruble, Kazakh tenge, Swiss franc, British pound, Japanese yen and Chinese yuan.