Turnover on Belarus’s securities market rose by 27.9% year on year to 13.87 billion roubles in the first nine months of the year, the Finance Ministry reported.
Bonds accounted for almost the entire volume, representing 96.8%, or 13.43 billion roubles. Turnover in other securities amounted to just 438.9 million roubles.
From January to September, bonds worth 34.74 billion roubles were in circulation, an increase of 10.9% compared with the same period last year.
Bonds with maturities of five years or more accounted for 76.5% of the total volume. Securities with maturities of less than five years made up the remaining 23.5%.
According to the Finance Ministry, the volume of depositary bond issuance increased 3.3-fold year on year in the first nine months, reaching 2.27 billion roubles. The number of issuers doubled to 76.