UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 23, 2012. The Russian National Association of Securities Market Participants (NAUFOR) announced the results of the regional stage of its Stock Market Elite 2011 contest. The nominees were selected by the jury on the basis of two main criteria: the company’s bond market turnover and the amount of bond investments. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s Financial Institutions & Investment Services Director Vladimir Zotov was given the diploma of the contest’s laureate by head of Russia’s Federal Financial Markets Service’s Sverdlovsk Region division Svetlana Furduy, the bank’s press service reports.

NAUFOR has been awarding the UBRD on an annual basis as a laureate in either the Bond Market Company or the Best Investment Bank category since 2006.

The annual completion Stock Market Elite was set up in 2000 by NAUFOR, the largest self-regulatory organization on the stock market. The winners are chosen in sixteen categories relating to various activities of professional stock market players.