Promoting market data

In 2018 Raiffeisenbank and analytical company Statpro Canada Inc. concluded agreements on receiving information services of KASE. As a result, 13 vendors disseminate market data.

The number of subscribers to viewing trading in real time via the Exchange’s website makes up 161.

In August 2017 the Exchange’s Board of Directors for purposes of optimizing operating and administrative costs took a decision to liquidate the Information agency of financial markets “Irbis” LLP (hereinafter in this section — the Agency) and hand over information dissemination functions from the Agency to the Exchange. The switching of the Agency’s subscribers and the IRIS Finance software to KASE’s operation was completed in 2018. As a result, 21 companies subscribed to KASE’s information services. On December 24, 2018 the Exchange officially announced the liquidation of the Agency.

In the year under review KASE launched an information product called “Corporate events”, including information on events like meetings of shareholders, dividend payout, redemption, repurchase, offering, splitting, default, changes in the structure of shareholders etc.

KASE continuously improves its technical infrastructure for purposes of increasing the quality of the service of market data provision, as well as works on creating new information products and services. In the course of implementation of the Strategy six disseminators of market data were attracted: Citigroup Global Markets Ltd, S&P Global Inc. (former SNL), Statpro Canada Inc., Freedom Finance JSC, Atameken Business Channel LLP, Raiffeisenbank JSC. Three of them were attracted by KASE’s partner — Vienna stock exchange (WBAG).

In 2016 for purposes of promoting information products in mainland China, cooperation was established with China Investment Information Services Limited (CIIS).

KASE continuously improves its technical infrastructure for purposes of increasing the quality of the service of market data provision, as well as works on creating new information products and services. Thus, five new information products were launched from 2016 to 2018:

  • Non-display / Derivative information
  • Reference information
  • Provision of information to members of the Exchange
  • KASE news
  • Corporate events

In 2017 KASE launched an information service in Telegram — bot @KASEInfoBot. The channel contains information on the currency and stock markets, information on indicator values, as well as on dividends. As of January 1, 2019 the number of its users made up 2,900.