OREANDA-NEWS. November 23, 2011. National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia's only settlement depository servicing the full range of debt and equity securities of Russian issuers, reports that Irina Antonova has been appointed as the company's HR Director.

About Irina Antonova

Irina Antonova graduated from the Plekhanov Moscow Institute of the National Economy (currently the Plekhanov Russian Economic University) in 1988 with a specialty in finance and credit. She has over 15 years of professional experience in HR sphere.

Ms. Antonova began her career in HR field in Unicombank JSB; then she held several senior HR managerial positions in Alfa Bank (1999-2003) and Unicon international audit and consulting company (2004-2006). In 2006-2010 Ms. Antonova worked as HR Director and member of the Management Board of the National Insurance Group IOJSC. Prior to joining NSD she worked as HR Director of Atomredmetzoloto OJSC, a part of the State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM.

Ms. Antonova took part in a number of consulting projects focused on HR issues. In 2008 and 2009 she was ranked among Top1000 Russian Managers, a joint project by the Russian Managers Association and Kommersant Publishing House.


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.