OREANDA-NEWS. October 16, 2009. The National Depository Center (Closed Joint Stock Company) (NDC), Russia's only settlement depository servicing the full range of debt and equity securities of Russian issuers, today issued its operating results for January-September 2009.

The value of securities on deposit with NDC as of 30 September increased 30.3% to RUB5.242 trillion compared with RUB4.25 trillion as of 30 September, 2008. Aggregate nominal value of corporate bonds on deposit for the first nine months of 2009 rose 8.51% against the comparable period of 2008; the increase in the aggregate nominal value of Russian Federation and corporate Eurobonds reached 194.98%. Aggregate value of Unit Investment Trust (UIT) units decreased 20.06% in January-September 2009 in comparison with the same period of 2008.

For the first nine months of 2009 the number of securities held on deposit increased from the beginning of the year by 5.7% to 2.105 trillion (compared with 2.225 trillion as of 31 December, 2008). Total number of depository operations for the first nine months of 2007 rose by 34.3% in comparison with the same period of 2006, exceeding 1.79 million operations.

NDC's securities turnover (the market value of securities transferred in inventory operations) decreased 11.12% for the first nine months of 2009 against the comparable period of 2008 to RUR40.67 trillion (RUR45.764 trillion in January-September 2008).

The number of inventory operations conducted by NDC for January-September 2009 amounted to 1,788,777. This was 7.99% lower than for the first nine months of 2008. 79.67% of inventory operations were represented by shares (1,425,157 operations). The number of depository accounts increased 7.68% for January-September 2009 to 1,878 accounts (2.9% more than for the same period of 2008).

The number of securities issues serviced by NDC increased 5% for the first nine months of 2009 reaching 2,832. Number of issuers serviced by NDC amounted to 1,396 companies. this is 5.67% more than for January-September 2008.