MOSCOW - National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia's only settlement depository servicing the full range of debt and equity securities of Russian issuers, announces that Eddie Astanin, the company's Chairman of the Executive Board, has been elected the member of the Council of the National Securities Market Association (self-regulatory non-commercial organization) (NSMA) at the Association’s general meeting held 20 April.
Among other members of the NSMA Council were the following persons:
- Ruben Aganbegyan, MICEX
- Alexander Afanasyev, Bank WestLB Vostok CJSC
- Pavel Burov, GPB (OJSC)
- Konstantin Volkov, National Securities Market Association
- Andrei Golikov, Sberbank
- Oleg Gorlinsky, JSC VTB Bank
- Vladimir Gusakov, Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending
- Yuri Dubin, ICMA Committee for Russia and CIS countries
- Viktor Zhidkov, Vesta Investment Bank
- Matia Ivanova, Deutsche Bank LLC
- Yuliya Karpova, Vnesheconombank
- Konstantin Korischenko, Merrill Lynch Securities LLC
- Yakov Mirkin, Institute of Financial Markets and Applied Economics in the Russian Government’s Financial Academy
- Mikhail Nedelsky, CJSC RO Status
- Roman Pivkov, NOMOS-BANK
- Vladimir Reutov, “Bank Saint-Petersburg” OJSC
- Alexei Rybnikov, RSDE CJSC
- Yuri Sizov, Leader CJSC
- Mikhail Sukhobok, MICEX
- Vasily Fedorov, RONIN LLC
- Alexander Filaretov, SPCEX SC
- Alexei Khavin, Bank "National Clearing Centre" CJSC
- Sergei Shvetsov, Bank of Russia
Eddie Astanin has been Chairman of the Executive Board of NSD since 11 November 2010. A member of NSD Supervisory Board. From 28 November 2009 he held the post of NDC Director General and Chairman of NDC Directorship. He joined NDC in 2004 as Deputy Director/Chief Operating Officer. From 1994 till 2004 he held different positions at MICEX, came his career way from the Head of Operating Department to the Director of Government Securities and Money Market Division. Eddie Astanin graduated from the Mozhaiskiy Military Engineering Institute (St. Petersburg) with a diploma with honors and from the Finance Academy with a diploma with honors. Mr. Astanin is a Ph.D. in Technical Sciences.
About NSD
National Settlement Depository (NSD) is the largest settlement depository in Russia, a part of the MICEX Group, servicing on-exchange and OTC transactions with all types of debt and equity securities of Russian issuers and providing settlement services to participants in financial markets of the Russian Federation.
NSD 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, the majority of transactions with equities and also services UIT units and securities of foreign issuers.
In accordance with agreements concluded between NSD and the Bank of Russia, NSD acts as a settlement center for the organized securities market.
NSD is Russia's national numbering agency and the substitute numbering agency for the CIS, authorized to assign the international ISIN and CFI codes.
For further information about NSD: www.nsd.ru , or NSD Public Affairs Division: +7 495 232 0910,