OREANDA-NEWS. National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, reports that in March 2013, the process of mass transfer of securities, issued by 1,200 public companies compliant with the Federal Law “On Central Securities Depository”, to NSD was completed.

As a result of re-qualification of CSD nominee accounts in registers on 26-29 March, 1,090 issuers’ accounts were re-qualified. Since the moment of opening the account in the register, the issuers’ interactions with registers in respect of CSD nominee accounts is held in compliance with the requirements of the Federal Law “On Central Securities Depository.”

Currently, assets worth RUB17.3 trillion are kept on NSD accounts.