MOSCOW - National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, reports that it concluded an agreement on information interaction with the Russian Federal Financial Markets Service (FFMS). On 29 December 2012, Dmitry Pankin, Head of FFMS, and Eddie Astanin, Chairman of the Executive Board of NSD, signed the document.
Signing of the agreement between FFMS and NSD is an important step towards creation and development of an integrated information space allowing improved awareness of the service and infrastructure institutions, and to provide easy access to the required information.
According to the agreement, FFMS will provide information regarding Russian issuers and securities issues to NSD; in particular, this information will include data related to decisions on registration of equity securities issues, information about releasing an issuer from the duty to disclose information, information about cancellation and suspension of a license of a professional securities market participant.
NSD will submit to FFMS information about the placement and redemption of bonds, including exchange traded bonds, data related to assignment and withdrawal of ISIN codes, and information about daily results in respect of forthcoming material facts and material facts already undertaken by NSD, including corporate actions.
About NSD
National Settlement Depository (NSD) is the central securities depository of the Russian Federation, a part of the Moscow Exchange Group. NSD is Russia's national numbering agency and the substitute numbering agency for the CIS, authorized to assign the international ISIN and CFI codes.
The status of central securities depository was assigned to NSD by the Russian Federal Financial Markets Service’s order on 6 November 2012.
NSD holds professional securities market participant license #177-12042-000100 for depository operations issued by the Russian Federal Financial Markets Service on 19 February 2009, and license #3294 for bank operations issued by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on 26 July 2012.
Registered office: Building 8, 1/13, Sredny Kislovsky Pereulok, Moscow 125009, Russia.
Supplementary office "Krasnye Vorota": 12, Spartakovskaya St., Moscow 105066, Russia
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