OREANDA-NEWS. National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, and Neoflex, Russian leading supplier of software and professional IT services for the financial markets, have launched new information services provided by NSD’s Corporate Information Center (CIC). Now CIC accumulates information about issuers, securities and corporate actions serviced by NSD.  The new services have been developed on the basis of GoldenSource Corporation’s software.

GoldenSource allows to verify information received from various sources and to add data important for the users. The CCI technologic platform let users create various information products, prepare individual information distribution timetables and send data via electronic communications channels in line with individual needs of users.

Eddie Astanin, Chairman of Executive Board, NSD: “Currently, there is no unified information source used by participants in the Russian market for disclosing and receiving information. Our Corporate Information Center provides essential services highly valued by investors and market participants. NSD has invested heavily in the CIC's development. One of these investments is the implementation of the GoldenSource technological platform. We hope that our clients will like the new services.”

At the first stage of the project, NSD has developed and introduced a number of specialized information products:

GMs&Dividends – information about annual and extraordinary general meetings of shareholders and about dividend payment;
GMs&Dividends (Holding) – information about general meetings of shareholders and about dividend payment in respect of the client’s securities portfolio serviced by NSD;
SIR Offers – information about on Russian issuers’ bond offers;
SIR Defaults – information about on Russian issuers’ bond defaults.
The participants may find out more about the new products and adjust their systems for receiving and processing information distributed by CCI.

Oleg Baranov, Managing Partner, Neoflex: “Implementation of NSD’s CIC technological platform by Neoflex specialists on the basis of GoldenSource software, the best product in its class, became the first project of this type in Russia. Since 2012, Neoflex has been the only accredited partner of GoldenSource Corporation. We have the GoldenSource Center of Competence in our Capital Markets Business Division where works the team of analysts, technical specialists and managers. Owing to their long experience, Neoflex’s employees succeeded to implement a unique IT solution that allows NSD to have additional competitive advantages in the information services market: high output speed, flexible adjustment of information products according to the clients’ needs, and data quality improvement.”