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, has appointed Alexei Zhinkin the company's Director for External Operations. Mr. Zhinkin will focus on developing and managing the NSD’s interactions with registration institutions paying special attention to relations with registrars.

About Alexei Zhinkin

In 1983 Alexei Zhinkin graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute with a specialty in applied mathematics. In 2007 he earned an MBA degree in the Institute of Business Studies in the Academy of National Economy under Government of the Russian Federation. In 1995-1998 Mr. Zhinkin was a general director of MKB-Registr Specialized Depository. In 1998 he joined Mezhcombank as a chief of depository directorate. In 1998-2000 Mr. Zhinkin was a general director of P-R LLC, a specialized registrar. In 2000-2010 he worked for NIKoil Registrar as a deputy general director.

Being a Chairman of the Committee of Registrars of the Professional Association of Registrars, Transfer Agents and Depositories (PARTAD) (in 1995-2003) and later PARTAD's Chairman of Legal and Organizational Issues Committee (from 2003 to present time) Mr. Zhinkin managed development of standards for registrars and depositories activities. He also was a member of the Board of Directors of PARTAD in 1996-2001. He was involved in development of a number of FCSM's and FFMS's legal acts regulating the activities of registrars and depositories.

Mr. Zhinkin is an author of a number of publications related to stock market problems issued by Securities Market Magazine, Finance and Banks, Corporate Bulletin, Depositarium and other print media, and of 20 publications related to fluid dynamics and simulation modeling.

About NSD

National Settlement Depository (NSD) is the largest settlement depository in Russia, servicing on-exchange and OTC transactions with all types of debt and equity securities of Russian issuers and providing settlement services to participants in financial markets of the Russian Federation.

NSD provides storage of global certificates and depository accounting for 99% of corporate bond issues, sub-federal and municipal bond issues. It services 100% of transactions conducted in the federal bond and the Bank of Russia bond markets, more than 99% of transactions conducted in the corporate and regional bond markets, the majority of transactions with equities and also services UIT units and securities of foreign issuers.

In accordance with agreements concluded between NSD and the Bank of Russia, NSD acts as a settlement center for the organized securities market.

NSD is Russia's national numbering agency and the substitute numbering agency for the CIS, authorized to assign the international ISIN and CFI codes.