OREANDA-NEWS. July 25, 2011. National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia's only settlement depository servicing the full range of debt and equity securities of Russian issuers, announces that a meeting of its Supervisory Board was called on 21 July. The participants of the meeting approved a report on the situation with the corporate governance in the company and took into consideration information about NSD's operating indicators for 1H 2011. 

The report on the company's corporate governance presented to the Supervisory Board provides measures aimed at further enhancement of the corporate governance level, including development of documents regulating professional ethics requirements, and a procedure of submission of information to the stakeholders about NSD's corporate governance practice. 

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.