OREANDA-NEWS. September 25, 2012.  National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia's only settlement depository servicing the full range of debt and equity securities of Russian issuers, announces that starting 25 September, the shares of OGK-1JSC (TIN 7203158282) and WGC-3 JSC (TIN 0326023099) are excluded from the list of shares circulated via inter-depository schemes of NSD's interactions with DCC, ZAO Citibank, ING Commercial Banking (ING BANK (EURASIA) ZAO) and JSC VTB Bank.

The exclusion is connected with forthcoming reorganization of OGK-1JSC and WGC-3 JSC through merger of these companies with INTER RAO UES JSC.

An updated list of issuers with shares which may be transferred via inter-depository schemes of NSD's interactions with DCC, ZAO Citibank, ING Commercial Banking and JSC VTB Bank is available at NSD’s web site (in Russian).

About NSD

National Settlement Depository (NSD) is the largest settlement depository in Russia, a part of the Moscow Exchange Group, 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.