FEAS Yearbook FEAS Yearbook 2023 | Page 54

About Company

Belarusian Currency and Stock Exchange

Year in review

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Andrei Aukhimenia

Chairman

The total trading volume in all segments of the exchange market amounted to USD 20.9 billion in 2023 (USD 24.4 billion in 2022). The volume of exchange purchase and sale transactions and repo transactions in securities amounted to USD 5.6 billion in 2023 (USD 5.5 billion in 2022).

Last year we paid special attention to projects aimed at further increasing the liquidity of the main segments of the exchange market.

Among the significant projects of 2023, we can highlight the introduction of the central counterparty institution on the exchange currency market and the expansion of the range of tradable financial instruments in this segment; providing the opportunity for participants in the organized market to carry out REPO transactions in bonds with partial repayment during the REPO period, the use of the Chinese yuan in settlements for transactions in securities.

Project of the year: Introducing the central counterparty institution into the currency exchange market

Event of the year: Successful placement of government bonds denominated in Chinese yuan

Accomplishment of the year: double volume of REPO transactions.

Change of the year: Implementing information technology risk management

Word of the year: Stability

Person of the year: BCSE Team

The Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges

Established: 04.03.1993

Address: 48a, Surganova str., 220013 Minsk,

Working hours: 08.30-17.30 (Mon-Thurs),

08.30-16.15 (Fri)

Contact Name: Olga Blusson

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.bcse.by

- Joined FEAS in 2006 -