OREANDA-NEWS. December 17, 2010. National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia's only settlement depository servicing the full range of debt and equity securities of Russian issuers, and the Republican Unitary Enterprise Republican Central Depository of Securities (Republic of Belarus) (RCDS) on December 1, 2010 signed an agreement on information interactions.

In accordance with the signed agreement RCDS is to provide to NSD the following information on monthly basis:
on new legal and regulatory acts, including amended legal acts regulating securities market of the Republic of Belarus
on RCDS activities
quarterly reports on activities of the issuers of the Republic of Belarus disclosed by the Securities Department in the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Belarus
on securities issues and issuers of the Republic of Belarus

Information received from RCDS within the framework of the signed agreement is to be placed on NSD's web site (section Issuers and Securities of the Republic of Belarus in Russian). Starting 15 December, 2010, Russian securities market participants get an access to information about Belarus's issuers and their securities.

The signed agreement is aimed at development of information interchange between Russia's and Belarus's securities markets, at formation of conditions for development of integrated, liquid, transparent and efficient stock market of two countries, at creation of the investor friendly information environment. The conclusion of the agreement goes in line with cooperation within the framework of the Association of Eurasian Central Securities Depositories (AECSD) and represents the next step towards formation of the integrated information space in our countries' stock markets.