MOCSOW – National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, reports that in March 2013, the process of mass transfer of securities, issued by 1,200 public companies compliant with the Federal Law “On Central Securities Depository”, to NSD was completed.
As a result of re-qualification of CSD nominee accounts in registers on 26-29 March, 1,090 issuers’ accounts were re-qualified. Since the moment of opening the account in the register, the issuers’ interactions with registers in respect of CSD nominee accounts is held in compliance with the requirements of the Federal Law “On Central Securities Depository.”
Currently, assets worth RUB17.3 trillion are kept on NSD accounts.
About NSD
National Settlement Depository (NSD) is the central securities depository of the Russian Federation, a part of the Moscow Exchange Group. NSD is Russia's national numbering agency and the substitute numbering agency for the CIS, authorized to assign the international ISIN and CFI codes.
The status of central securities depository was assigned to NSD by the Russian Federal Financial Markets Service’s order on 6 November 2012.
NSD holds professional securities market participant license #177-12042-000100 for depository operations issued by the Russian Federal Financial Markets Service on 19 February 2009, and license #3294 for bank operations issued by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on 26 July 2012.
Registered office: Building 8, 1/13, Sredny Kislovsky Pereulok, Moscow 125009, Russia.
Supplementary office "Krasnye Vorota": 12, Spartakovskaya St., Moscow 105066, Russia
For further information about NSD: http://www.nsd.ru/, or NSD Public Affairs Division: +7 495 232 0910, e-mail
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