YEREVAN, April 26. /ARKA/. The total volume of transactions with securities at NASDAQ OMX Armenia stock exchange in March surged by 56.2% from February to 624.3 million drams.

The volume of transactions with corporate bonds amounted to more than 15.3 million drams, or 2.5% of total transactions. The volume of transactions with government bonds was about 609 million drams, or 97.5% of all transactions. No transactions with shares were effected.

According to an ARKA analysis, based on aggregated data of the stock exchange, in March transactions were effected only with government bonds and corporate bonds of privately owned Araratbank.

Twelve shares of 11 issuers and 5 corporate bonds of four issuers were registered and listed at Nasdaq OMX Armenia as of late March.

In January 2008, Nordic exchange operator OMX Group acquired 100% of shares of the Armenian Stock Exchange (Armex) and the Central Depository of Armenia (CDA). After the combination of NASDAQ and OMX in February 2008, Armex and CDA have become fully owned by the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. On January 27, 2009, “Armenian Stock Exchange” ojsc was officially renamed as “NASDAQ OMX Armenia” ojsc. On June 5, 2009, “NASDAQ OMX Armenia” ojsc became the owner of 100% of the shares of the “Central Depository of Armenia” ojsc. -0-