OREANDA-NEWS. April 18, 2012. National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia's only settlement depository servicing the full range of debt and equity securities of Russian issuers, announces that five companies have signed NSD's shareholder agreement dated 30 June 2011. Among NSD's new shareholders are CJSC "Computershare Registrar", Irkol CJSC, New Registrar CJSC, Professional Registration Center CJSC, and SD-DRAGa CJSC.

Under the terms of the shareholder agreement, NSD's Supervisory Board recommended MICEX-RTS to sell five NSD shares to these five companies specializing in securities register maintenance (one share for each new shareholder of NSD). Thus, NSD is to have 37 shareholders.

The full version of the shareholder agreement and the list of organizations signed the agreement are available at the company's web site (in Russian).