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Russian companies are expected to raise more than $10 billion through equity listings over the next year, said the co-head of global banking at VTB Capital, a leading organizer of share sales in the country.

The Moscow Exchange <MOEX.MM> will introduce "speed bumps" on part of its currency market to reduce the advantage high-frequency traders have over other players, the bourse said on Tuesday.

Stress tests of the eight largest brokerage companies in Russia have proved their resilience to possible shocks, although many smaller players are struggling to survive, a central bank official told Reuters.

Russia's largest oil company Rosneft <ROSN.MM> has fully switched the currency of its contracts to euros from U.S. dollars in a move to shield its transactions from U.S. sanctions, its Chief Executive Igor Sechin said on Thursday.

The rouble weakened slightly on Thursday as the market was pricing in a likely rate cut by the Russian central bank after central banks in other emerging market slashed rates this week.

The Russian rouble opened firmer on Thursday, awaiting news from today's European Central Bank meeting and with one eye on Friday's expected key rate cut by the Russian central bank.

The Moscow Exchange <MOEX.MM> plans to channel all of its free cash flow into dividends and will also raise a dividend payout floor to 60% from 55% of net profit under a new dividend policy announced on Tuesday.

* SAYS LSR GROUP ORDINARY SHARES WILL BE INCLUDED INTO MOEX RUSSIA INDEX AND RTS INDEX

The Russian rouble was little changed on Friday before a speech by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, supported by local tax payments and rising oil prices.

Russia aims to establish an offshore rouble market to boost its currency's global role and help offset the impact of Western sanctions, deputy finance minister Alexei Moiseev told Reuters.

Russia's largest online taxi service Yandex.Taxi is likely to sell new shares in its planned initial public offering (IPO), an executive at its majority shareholder Yandex told Reuters.

Russia's Saint-Petersburg Exchange has added 100 shares in U.S. companies worth a total $364.4 billion to its trading platform, the bourse said on Tuesday.

Russia's largest petrochemicals company, Sibur, may carry out a long-planned initial public offering (IPO) no earlier than 2020 and eyes Moscow as the main venue for the listing, Sibur's Chief Executive Dmitry Konov said.

Russia's largest petrochemicals company, Sibur, may carry out a long-planned initial public offering (IPO) no earlier than 2020 and eyes Moscow as the main venue for the listing, Sibur's Chief Executive Dmitry Konov said.

The Russian operation of the Burger King fast food chain could hold an initial public offering (IPO) on the Moscow Exchange this year, four banking sources told Reuters on Tuesday.

The Moscow Exchange's board has proposed Yury Denisov as the new Chief Executive Officer to oversee the exchange's latest growth plans, replacing Alexander Afanasiev who will step down next month, the stock exchange group said on Tuesday

The Moscow Exchange and two leading Indian bourses signed agreements on Wednesday designed to ease access to the Russian market for Indian capital, amid moves by Russia to attract a wider investor pool.

Russian-Venezuelan lender Evrofinance Mosnarbank, which was placed under U.S. sanctions this month, faces restrictions on its foreign exchange operations but will still be able to trade other assets on the Moscow Exchange, the bourse said on Friday.

Russia's Gazprombank plans to transfer its stake in Russian-Venezuelan lender Evrofinance Mosnarbank, which was placed under U.S. sanctions, to Russia's property management agency, Gazprombank said on Friday.