NSD has unique experience of working with issuers and professional securities market participants assisting issuers in raising investments on the Russian stock market.

NSD provides depository services for global certificates of bond issues. In so doing, NSD performs the following functions:

• consults issuers and bond issue managers on the matters of depository processing, including various corporate actions;
• assists issuers in determining an optimal structure for new bond issues and efficient ways for servicing them;
• supports exchange flotation and OTC placement of bond issues;
• provides settlement of initial bond offerings on a free of payment or delivery versus payment basis;
• provides centralized safekeeping of global certificates of bonds;

• processes settlements, interest payments, and redemptions of bond issues;
• collects data and makes securityholder and/or nominee lists;
• provides paying agent services, including the calculation, distribution, and coupon payments and principal redemptions for bonds;
• assigns ISIN codes to bond issues.

NSD technology allows to promptly and without additional cost service not only Moscow but regional issuers: in 2003 issuers became able to work with NSD using electronic document interchange system. Connection to NSD EDI system allows issuers to send instructions and receive reports on their accounts in electronic format that considerably decreases processing times.

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