OREANDA-NEWS. October 19, 2012. National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia's only settlement depository servicing the full range of debt and equity securities of Russian issuers, submitted today to Russia’s Federal Financial Markets Service (FFMS) the last set of documents required for obtaining the central securities depository status. The documents approved by the company’s Supervisory Board on 16 October include:
Terms of Depository Operations;
Internal Control Rules;
Internal Control Rules Aimed at Combating Money-Laundering and the Financing Of Terrorism;
New version of the company’s Professional Ethics Code;
EDI Rules;
Regulations on Conducting Transactions and Document Interchange in the Process of Depository Operations;
Rules of Managing Risks Associated with Central Depository’s Operations;
Information Protection Rules;
Information Disclosure Rules;
Regulations on Processing Customers’ Complaints and Requests;
Catalogue of the Tariffs for Central Securities Depository Services connected to transactions with securities with regard to which the depository has opened the nominee holder account or in respect of which the central depository acts as an entity providing mandatory centralized custodial services;
New version of the Regulations on Customer Committee.

It is worth reminding that the application for obtaining the central depository status had been filed by NSD to FFMS on 25 July 2012.