OREANDA-NEWS. April 22, 2011. 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.