MOSCOW – "The National Depository Center" (Closed Joint Stock Company) (NDC), Russia's only settlement depository servicing the full range of debt and equity securities of Russian issuers, announces that at the meeting of its Directorate held 31 December, 2009, the following new members of the company's Committee for Innovations and Products were elected:
| 1 | Yekaterina Anisimova | Product Development Manager, Securities Department, ZAO Citibank |
| 2 | Yuri Dubin | Director Depository, Sberbank |
| 3 | Ilya Vinokurov | Chief of Regulatory and Technical Control Directorate, NDC |
| 4 | Konstantin Volkov | President, National Securities Market Association (self-regulatory non-commercial organization) |
| 5 | Polina Goloschapova | Chief of Operations Directorate, Credit Swiss Bank (Moscow) CJSC |
| 6 | Artyom Zakharov | Manager, Investment Unit, JSC VTB Bank |
| 7 | Dmitry Ludvik | Product Development Manager, “ING BANK (EURASIA) ZAO” |
| 8 | Igor Marich | Vice President, MICEX |
| 9 | Alexander Nazarov | Director, Depository Services Department, ZAO UniCredit Bank |
| 10 | Irina Tissen | Advisor to the Director for Development, NDC |
| 11 | Elena Chaikovskaya | Chief of Department for Regulation of the Operations and Financial Market Development, Financial Markets Operations Directorate, Bank of Russia |
| 12 | Tatyana Chepeleva | Project and Development Director, OTKRITIE Brokerage house JSC |
Yuri Dubin, Director of Sberbank Depository, has been elected the Chairman of NDC's Committee for Innovations and Products.
The Regulations on the Committee has been approved by NDC Board of Directors on 30 November, 2009.
About NDC:
"The National Depository Center" (Closed Joint Stock Company) is the largest settlement depository in Russia, servicing the full range of debt and equity securities of Russian issuers. NDC provides storage of global certificates and depository accounting for 99% of corporate bond issues, sub-federal and municipal bond issues. It services 100% of transactions conducted in the federal bond and the Bank of Russia bond markets, more than 99% of transactions conducted in the corporate and regional bond markets, and more than 99% of stock exchange transactions with equities and OTC trades. The international rating agency Thomas Murray has assigned NDC an АА- rating as a central depository. NDC is Russia's national numbering agency, and the substituting numbering agency for the CIS, authorized to assign the international ISIN and CFI codes.
Among NDC’s shareholders are MICEX (50,1727% of shares), Bank of Russia (42,2997% of shares) as well as GPB (OJSC) (Gazprombank), Evrofinance Mosnarbank, “ROSBANK” (OJSC JSCB), JSC VTB Bank, Bank of Moscow, JSC «ROSSIYSKIY KREDIT BANK», Vnesheconombank, “ING BANK (EURASIA) ZAO”, CB “J.P. Morgan Bank International” (LLC), ZAO UniCredit Bank, Deutsche Bank Ltd, and Sberbank. NDC has stakes in Depository Clearing Company CJSC (37.29%) and in Settlement Depository Company CJSC (28.54%).
For further information about NDC: www.ndc.ru, or NDC Public Affairs Department: +7 495 232 0910, .