OREANDA-NEWS. The Supervisory Committee of National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia's central securities depository, approved the amended Regulations on NSD's Customer Committee (CSD Customer Committee). Accordingtotheapprovedregulations, thenumberofthemembersoftheCommitteeistobedecreasedto 25 persons. The amended documents will be sent to Russia's Federal Financial Markets Service for further approval.

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, license #3294 for bank operations issued by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on 26 July 2012 and license #077-00004-000010 for the clearing activities issued by the Russian Federal Financial Markets Service on 20 December 2012.