OREANDA-NEWS.   National Settlement Depository (hereinafter NSD) announces that due to the enforcement of amendments to the U.S. tax legislation (the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act  – FATCA) and the requirement for qualifying NSD accounts with Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. (hereinafter Euroclear) as QI accounts, NSD opened a special account No. 46055 to be used for settlement at Euroclear.

Starting from 14 July 2014, settlements will be made using the mentioned above account; the procedures for providing instructions and the schedule of settlements remain unchanged.

Starting from 14 July 2014, the account No. 12065 will be used as a certified NSD’s account with Euroclear.

Please note that all MF035 instructions (code of operation: 37) to accept securities for safekeeping and/or recordkeeping, submitted  in relation to the account No. 12065 and not settled before 18:00 on 11 July 2014, will be cancelled.