OREANDA-NEWS. The Supervisory Board of National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, approved the new version of NSD’s Internal Control Rules aimed at combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Once the document is approved by Russia’s Federal Financial Markets Service, it takes effect.

About NSD

National Settlement Depository (NSD) is the central securities depository of the Russian Federation, a part of the Moscow Exchange Group. NSD is Russia's national numbering agency and the substitute numbering agency for the CIS, authorized to assign the international ISIN and CFI codes.

The status of central securities depository was assigned to NSD by the Russian Federal Financial Markets Service’s order on 6 November 2012.

NSD holds professional securities market participant license #177-12042-000100 for depository operations issued by the Russian Federal Financial Markets Service on 19 February 2009, and license #3294 for bank operations issued by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on 26 July 2012.