National Settlement Depository (NSD), the settlement depository servicing the debt and equity securities of Russian issuers, and the Republican Central Depository of Securities (RCDS) in the Republic of Belarus have signed an agreement to exchange information about issuers and their securities.
RCDS will provide NDS with information about legal and regulatory acts; RCDS activities; quarterly reports; and securities issues and issuers in a move aimed at development of information interchange between Russia’s and Belarus’s securities markets, at formation of conditions for development of integrated, liquid, transparent and efficient stock market of two countries, at creation of the investor friendly information environment, according to a statement.