Interactive Brokers Gives Clients Access to Moscow Exchange

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) announced that Interactive Brokers Group has begun providing access to the Russian market for all its clients in the US and worldwide. Interactive Brokers serves over 650,000 clients and operates on more than 125 exchanges in 31 countries. Clients can fund their accounts in 24 currencies and trade assets from a single account in multiple currencies, including the Russian ruble. Access to the Moscow Exchange is provided via Raiffeisenbank, which holds a Russian broker license. The ability to trade directly on MOEX outside of Russia but through a local broker is possible through MOEX’s Sponsored Market Access (SMA) model, low latency, and fully redundant global point of presence (PoP) architecture.