Foundation date June 27, 1996

• The central securities depository status was assigned to NSD by the Russian Federal Financial Markets Services’ Order №12-2761/PZ-I dated 6 November 2012.
• Certificate of State Registration of Credit Organization issued on June 27, 1996 by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
• Certificate of record in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities on the legal entity registered before July 1, 2002, issued on August 30, 2002 by the Moscow Interdistrict Inspectorate No. 39 of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Taxes and Levies.
• Certificate of Registration of a Payment System Operator, Registration No. 0014 issued by the Bank of Russia on 24 November, 2016.
• License No. 3294 for bank operations issued by the Bank of Russia on 4 August 2016.
• License No. 045-12042-000100 of the professional securities market participant for depository operations issued by the FFMS of Russia on February 19, 2009. The license is unlimited.
• License No. 045-00004-000010 for the clearing activity issued by the FFMS of Russia on December 20, 2012. The license is unlimited.
• License LSZ No. 0009523, Registration No. 13169 Н, to provide data encryption services, issued by the Centre for Licensing, Certification and Protection of State Secrets of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia. The license is perpetual.
• The license No. 045-01 for the repository activity was issued by the Bank of Russia on 28 December, 2016.

Securities Regulation of the Russian securities market is based on the below laws and regulations:

• The Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
• Russian Federal Law No. 39-FZ “On the Securities Market,” dated 22 April 1996.
• Russian Federal Law No. 208-FZ “On Joint Stock Companies,” dated 6 December 1995.
• Russian Federal Law No. 46-FZ “On the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Investors in the Securities Market,” dated 18 February 1999.
• Russian Federal Law No. 395-1 “On Banks and Banking Activity,” dated 2 December 1990.
• Russian Federal Law No. 115-FZ “On Countering the Legalisation of Illegal Earnings (Money Laundering) and the Financing of Terrorism,” dated 7 August 2001.
• Russian Federal Law No. 135-FZ “On competition,” dated 26 July 2006.
• Russian Federal Law No. 414-FZ “On the Central Securities Depository,” dated 7 December 2011.
• Bank of Russia Regulation No. 503-P “On the Procedure for Opening and Managing Depo Accounts and Other Accounts by Depositaries,”  dated 13 November 2015.
• Bank of Russia Regulation No. 542-P “On Requirements to the Performance of Depositary Activity During the Formation of Records on the Grounds of the Documents That Relate to Conducting Depositary Accounting, As Well As the Documents Connected with the Accounting and Transition of Rights to Securities, and During the Storage of the Specified Documents,” 13 May 2016.
• FSFM Regulation No. 11-8/pz-n “On the Endorsement of the Regulations on the Particularities of the Circulation and the Accountancy of the Rights to the Securities Intended for Qualified Investors, and Foreign Securities,” dated 5 April 2011.
• FSFM Regulation No. 09-33 “On Maintaining the Register of Owners of Registered Securities,” dated 13 August 2009.
• Bank of Russia Regulation No. 4104-U “On Types of Agreements Concluded Not in the Organised Trading, the Information on Which Shall Be Provided to a Repository, on Persons Providing the Information on Such Agreements to a Repository, on the Procedure, the Composition, the Form and the Terms for Provision of Information to a Repository by Them, on Additional Requirements for the Procedure of Keeping of Register of Agreements by a Repository, on Procedure and Terms for Provision of Information by a Repository and on the Procedure, the Composition, the Form and the Terms for Provision of a Register of Agreements to the Bank of Russia by a Repository,” dated 16 August 2016.