OREANDA-NEWS. December 7, 2011. National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia's only settlement depository servicing the full range of debt and equity securities of Russian issuers, reports that on 6 December it accepted for servicing the first corporate bonds issued by a foreign issuer. Uranium One Inc.'s (U1), the Toronto-based uranium producer, Canada, places its Series 1 bond issue denominated in Russian rubles. The issuance terms provide the mandatory centralized custody of the bond certificate in Russia with NSD. International codes ISIN RU000A0JRTS1 and CFI DBVXXB were assigned to the bond issue beforehand.

NSD applied its best efforts to receive the bond issue for servicing and contributed a lot to its forthcoming placement. In particular, the company agreed the issuance documents and certificates with the parties of the process, concluded an issuer depository account agreement and received the regulator's clarifications contributing to formation of the foreign issuers' bond market in Russia.

The first U1 bond issue is to be placed in Closed joint-stock company "MICEX Stock Exchange".
Uranium One Inc.'s bond issue as a bond issue of the foreign issuer was admitted to the public offering in the Russian Federation by the Federal Financial Markets Service on 10 November, 2011. The aggregate sum of two issues of U1 bonds is RUB29 billion.

The parameters of U1 series 1 bond issue are as follows:
Bond issue amount: RUB16.5 billion
Nominal value: RUB1,000 per one bond
Circulation term: 3,640 days (10 years)

The parameters of U1 series 2 bond issue are as follows:
Bond issue amount: RUB12.5 billion
Nominal value: RUB1,000 per one bond
Circulation term: 3,640 days (10 years)