MOSCOW – National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia's only settlement depository servicing the full range of debt and equity securities of Russian issuers, reports that on 19 April at the annual general meeting of the members of the National Securities Market Association (self-regulatory non-commercial organization) (NSMA), NSD's Chairman of the Executive Board Eddie Astanin was elected to the Council of NSMA.
Among other members of NSMA's Council were:
Ruben Aganbegyan, MICEX-RTS
Alexander Abramov, Higher School of Economics
Alexander Afanasyev, MICEX-RTS
Pavel Burov, GPB (OJSC)
Andrei Golikov, independent director
Oleg Gorlinsky, JSC VTB Bank
Vladimir Gusakov, AHML, independent director
Yuri Dubin, ICMA Committee for Russia and CIS Countries, independent director
Viktor Zhidkov, VESTA Investment Bank
Maria Ivanova, Deutsche Bank LLC
Yulia Karpova, Vnesheconombank
Sergei Kozlov, VTB 24 (JSC)
Yakov Mirkin, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of RAS, independent director
Mikhail Nedelsky, STATUS CJSC
Roman Pivkov, NOMOS-BANK OJSC
Vladimir Reutov, “Bank Saint-Petersburg” OJSC
Alexei Rybnikov, CJSC “SPIMEX”, independent director
Yuri Sizov, LIDER CJSC
Mikhail Sukhobok, independent director
Alexander Chumachenko, Sberbank of Russia
Vasily Fyodorov, RONIN LLC
Alexei Khavin, Bank "National Clearing Centre" CJSC
Sergei Shvetsov, Bank of Russia, independent director
About Eddie Astanin
Eddie Astanin has been NSD's Chairman of the Management Board since 11 November 2010. He is a member of NSD's Supervisory Council. From 28 November 2009 Mr. Astanin wasNDC's Director General and the Chairman of the company's General Directorate. Prior to that, he was NDC’s Deputy Director. In 1994-2004, Mr. Astanin held various positions in MICEX, starting from the position of key economist and rising to become the Head of the Government Securities and Money Markets Department. He graduated with honors from the Military Engineering Institute named after A.F. Mozhayskiy and the Financial Academy of the Russian Federation Government. Mr. Astanin holds a PhD degree in Engineering.About NSD
National Settlement Depository (NSD) is the largest settlement depository in Russia, a part of the MICEX-RTS 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.
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