Number of issuers serviced by NDC grew to 704

14 July 2006
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Number of issuers serviced by NDC grew from beginning of the year by 2.3% to 704. Value of assets held at clients’ accounts opened at NDC grew from the beginning of the year by 42.54% from 1.77 trillion rubles to 2.522 trillion rubles (USD 93.14 billion). The growth was supported by increase in the value of shares of stock companies and the Central Bank bonds. In June 2006 percentage of shares increased from 24% to 26% from the total amount of securities on safekeeping.  Growth of value of shares on safekeeping at NDC in the 6 months ended 30 June 2006 reached 156.56%. In the six months of 2006 number of securities held on clients’ account at NDC doubled from 50.3 billion to 98.5 billion. The increase was not only due to accepting for service securities of new issuers but also due to increase in the number of securities deposited at NDC that already been accepted for service at NDC.

The National Depository Center continues to strengthen its relationship with the registrars: as of 1 July 2006 NDC had 386 (+10,3% in 6 months) accounts at the registers of shareholders and 96 (26.3%) at the registers of holders of unit investment funds totaling to 482 (13.2%) accounts. Number of customers’ accounts opened at NDC from the beginning of the year increased to 1469 (+2,6%), number of securities issues accepted for service at NDC – to 1537 (+8,4% from 10.01.06). Number of book-entry transfers in the first half of 2006 exceeded 1 000 000 – on average 170.6 thousands a month, 122% increase year-on-year.

In the first half of 2006 NDC as a paying agent processed 108 coupon payments and bond redemptions valued at 13.2 billion rubles compared to only 136 coupon payments and bond redemptions valued at 12.5 billion rubles for the whole 2005. As of 4 July 2006 number of bond issues (maturity date after 30.06.2006), serviced by NDC as a paying agent reached 110 (for 86 issuers).

In the first half of 2006 number of book-entry transfers against payment reached 1411 (for the same period of 2005 – 848 book-entry transfers). Volume of transactions settled on DVP basis in comparison with the first half 2005 doubled to RUB85 billion (USD3 billion), trades with shares account for 77.4% of that amount.

Supplementary information:

The value of assets held at clients’ accounts opened at NDC is an operating indicator, which does not include the market value of unplaced securities on accounts. The value of shares and mutual fund assets is calculated according to their market value, value of bonds by their par value.


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