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, announced today that it has launched a new version of its www.isin.ru.web site. The site has been functioning since 2001. It is an official source of information on international ISIN codes assigned to Russian financial instruments. Since 2008 the web site has been authorized by Russia's Federal Financial Markets Service (FFMS) as a source of information on foreign financial instruments complying with FFMS's qualification requirements.
Development of a new version of the web site has been undertaken to improve Russia's stock market participants' awareness of NDC's activities in the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA). The site's modernization was aimed at increasing its accessibility and the amount of the information disclosed. This included not only a change in the web site design and an upgrade of the content management system but also enhancement of the interface which now allows users to get the necessary information an easier way.
The new version of the site provides expanded search capabilities for information regarding assigned ISIN codes. It contains a huge volume of information on NDC's activities as Russia's national numbering agency and the substituting numbering agency for the CIS. The new web site also informs the users about NDC's activities related to the qualification of foreign financial instruments.
NDC's next step is to deploy a newly structured database on ISIN codes assigned to Russian financial instruments on the site. The new database will contain an more information about Russian financial instruments including the CFI codes assigned to the instruments. It will also include more parameters for successful searches of a financial instrument in the database. All information in the database is available in a user-friendly format.
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, JP Morgan Bank International LLC, ZAO UniCredit Bank, Deutsche Bank, and Sberbank. NDC has stakes in Depository Clearing Company CJSC (37.29%), in Settlement Depository Company CJSC (28.54%) and in Bank "National Clearing Centre" CJSC (0.27%).
For further information about NDC: www.ndc.ru, or NDC Public Affairs Division: +7 495 232 0910,