Moscow Exchange ranks among the world's top 20 exchanges by total capitalisation of shares traded, and also among the 10 largest exchange platforms for bonds and derivatives trading. What is more, securities of over 700 issuers are admitted to trading on the equity and bond markets of Moscow Exchange. The Equity & Bond Market is a key platform for Russian businesses to raise capital and for domestic and international investors to access equity and debt investment opportunities. The marketplace is the main trading venue for Russian stocks as well as government, municipal, and corporate bonds. 16 companies have placed stock via Moscow Exchange, raising a total of nearly RUB200 bln. On the fixed income side, more than 484 bond issues were placed, raising more than RUB3.4 trln for issuers. Additionally, Moscow Exchange is one of the 10 largest exchange platforms for derivatives trading globally.[34] The Derivatives Market facilitates trading of options contracts on, as well as futures contracts on indices, shares of both Russian and foreign companies, currency pairs, precious metals, energy and agricultural products. Futures on the RTS Index ranked sixth among the world's most actively traded derivatives on stock market indices according to data from the Futures Industry Association as of June 2014. Futures contracts on the U.S. dollar-Russian ruble are ranked first in global liquidity, according to the Futures Industry Association. As of 2014, 58 types of futures and 18 types of options are traded on the Exchange.

Moscow Exchange's new and flexible IT architecture utilises a modular principle that enables it to employ all of the best practices currently available, and to add new functional modules in the future relatively easily, without the need to revamp the entire system. The Exchange is becoming more transparent and accessible to both domestic participants and foreign customers and counterparties. Moscow Exchange is also expanding partnerships with global providers that connect the Exchange to global financial systems. Market participants and service suppliers can access the Russian markets via the Moscow Exchange's point of presence in London via the largest European DPC, which is operated by Equinix. In the infrastructure domain, Moscow Exchange consolidated all of its trading systems to a single data centre, greatly simplifying access for clients, reducing support costs, and ensuring stability of our production systems (achieving 99.99% system uptime). The Exchange transitioned its network to 10 GB bandwidth, further reducing access latency for collocating clients. The Exchange utilizes two simple, streamlined platforms that noncollocating clients can use to gain physical connectivity. These platforms are Universal Schema and ConnectME.

The forward market is traded from 10:00 to 23:49:59. The Moscow Exchange stock market works less. It opens at 10:00 and closes at 18:39:59. The opening auction works from 09:50 to 10:00 and the opening price of stock is determined in this auction.

The National Clearing Centre (NCC), which is part of the Moscow Exchange Group, acts as a clearing house and central counterparty to the Russian financial market, ensuring the stable functioning of its infrastructure by using a comprehensive risk management framework. The CCP guarantees the fulfilment of all obligations arising from transactions in which it acts as a central counterparty. This is achieved by using a multi-level risk management structure, which includes initial margin requirements, CCP's dedicated capital ('skin in the game'),

members' contributions to market-specific default funds, as well as NCC's own assets. Russia's CCP is one of world's best capitalised with RUB34 bln of capital, a reflection of its strong commitment to the soundness of its clearing and settlement infrastructure. Fitch's evaluation of the NCC's reliability as part of the Russian financial market's infrastructure resulted in an upgrade to its long term Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to BBB – which is Russia's sovereign rating– with a 'Stable' outlook.