OREANDA-NEWS. September 21, 2012. National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia's only settlement depository servicing the full range of debt and equity securities of Russian issuers, reports results of its Supervisor Board’s meeting held 18 September.

The Board elected the members of the Technological Policy and Development Committee; now the Committee comprises 10 persons, including:
Anatoly Karachinsky, President of IBS-Group; Chairman of the Committee;
Sergei Baranov, Deputy Chief of IT Department, Senior Vice President, JSC VTB Bank;
Andrei Burilov, Chief of Automated Business Solutions Department, Renaissance Capital Investment Group;
Vahan Vardanian, Managing IT Director, Moscow Exchange;
Nikolai Degtyarev, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, member of the Executive Board, NSD;
Alexei Katrich, Managing Director of IT Development Department, Sberbank;
Evgeny Kostenko, Deputy Director of IT Center, Bank of Russia;
Vladimir Kurlyandchik, Director for Development, ARQA Technologies;
Viktor Remsha, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Investment Holding Company, Director, FINAM CJSC;
Dmitry Shatsky, Chief Technology Officer, Otkritie Financial Corporation.

The Supervisory Board made decision to approve tariffs for providing technical access to SWIFT services; the tariffs to be put into effect starting 1 October 2012. The participants of the meeting also approved the amended catalogue of NSD’s tariffs for settlement and cash services; the new version of the catalogue is to be put into effect starting 1 November 2012.

The advantages of the new tariffs for providing technical access to SWIFT services include:
New beneficial tariffs for clients with moderate traffic (up to 100 messages per day) for connection and operating in the system;
New services: SWIFTAlliance Messenger providing access to services through the client’s Internet browser, and a reserve access service;
Exclusion of the outdated services from the new catalogue;
Simplification of tariffs allowing to calculate any tariff on the basis of any number of working places and any type of traffic.