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FEDERATION OF EURO-ASIAN STOCK EXCHANGES ANNUAL REPORT APRIL 2011<br />

CSDI CENTRAL SECURITIES DEPOSITORY OF IRAN<br />

AFFILIATE MEMBER<br />

Alireza Hajinorouzi<br />

CEO<br />

Our objective is to guarantee the security<br />

and efficiency of Iran’s stock market<br />

through developing and improving the<br />

settlement procedure of the securities<br />

trades via concentrating on increasing the<br />

efficiency and reducing the risk and costs.<br />

Objectives:<br />

The objectives for which the company is<br />

established are:<br />

1– Opening and custody of funds/securities<br />

accounts related to stock exchange, over the<br />

counter market, commodity exchange<br />

belonging to brokers, shareholders and other<br />

financial institutions, real or legal persons.<br />

2– Registration, encoding, custody, clearing<br />

and settlement of trade transactions on stock<br />

exchange, commodity exchange and other<br />

financial tools<br />

3– Depositing different kind of securities in<br />

company’s operating system<br />

4– Depositing Pledged securities for real and<br />

legal entities and release of the pledge on the<br />

beneficiaries demands<br />

5– Borrowing, lending and exchange of<br />

securities as a mediator<br />

6– Providing and performing latest essential<br />

information for shareholders and brokers<br />

7– Applying suitable electronic systems on<br />

clearing and settlements<br />

8– Handling corporate actions for joint stock<br />

companies including:<br />

A– Registration and custody of shareholders’<br />

names and records and give necessary<br />

services to the issuers of securities<br />

B– Prepare and present necessary<br />

information to the listed companies and their<br />

shareholders<br />

C– Holding general meetings for member<br />

companies and over the counter (OTC)<br />

market companies<br />

D– Receiving information about general<br />

meetings and informing their investors<br />

E– Receiving information about dividend,<br />

bonus share, right issues and deliver these<br />

information to the shareholders<br />

9– Settlement of funds, Clearing and<br />

Depositing of the foreign securities<br />

10– Presenting professional necessary<br />

services to stock exchanges, over the counter<br />

market, commodity exchange, the issuer of<br />

securities, brokers and other market<br />

participants<br />

11– Providing necessary authorized financial<br />

activities also services, consulting and<br />

commercial activities in relation with stock<br />

exchange, commodity exchange and over the<br />

counter market<br />

12– Cooperating with regional exchanges and<br />

related institutions<br />

13– Changing the method of settlement from<br />

the current semi mechanized system to a full<br />

mechanized, efficient system through using<br />

Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS)<br />

14– Establishing and managing settlement<br />

guarantee funds, also accepting the role of<br />

CCP<br />

15– Providing warehouses and managing<br />

their activities for better performance of<br />

commodity exchange services<br />

16– and regulation – Performing other duties<br />

which have been or shall be assigned to the<br />

company by law<br />

Future Outlook<br />

1. In order to elevate the Capital Market's<br />

position in Iran's economy and organize<br />

Securities Market, according to Act No. 90 of<br />

the fifth development plan, all post-trade<br />

services of Iran commodities exchange<br />

including cash market, advance purchase,<br />

credit also futures and option contracts (which<br />

will operate in the commodities exchange in<br />

near future), will all be centralized in Central<br />

Securities Depository of Iran (CSDI).<br />

2. To increase the efficiency and Straight<br />

Through Processing of various post-trade<br />

services, Central Securities Depository of Iran<br />

is determined to perform the settlement<br />

registry and Corporate Actions on a fully<br />

electronic and dematerialized basis.<br />

3. CSDI has a pervasive plan under<br />

construction on Data Dissemination to provide<br />

members and market activists with required<br />

information and reports; aiming at facilitating<br />

Mobile Trading, Online Trading, and Virtual<br />

Trading, the first phase of which has been<br />

delivered for online trades.<br />

4. In order to increase functionality and<br />

eliminate risks of settlement and operations,<br />

CSDI has decided to establish "Professional<br />

Bank of Capital Market", in which Settlement<br />

of Trades, various Financial Tools and<br />

Corporate Actions Affairs will all be performed.<br />

5. Due to the ever-increasing growth of<br />

financial markets followed by an increase in<br />

the activities of its fundamental institutions,<br />

CSDI intends to acquire a pervasive Software<br />

(entrusted to a contractor), to cover the posttrade<br />

services of markets in which CSDI is<br />

responsible for their Settlement.<br />

6. CSDI which is responsible for clearing &<br />

settlement of Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE)<br />

and OTC trades, in order to cover settlement<br />

risks, has proposed the guarantee fund<br />

scheme which will be indispensable after<br />

approval of legal authorities. Also CSDI is<br />

ready to generalize the guarantee fund to the<br />

commodities stock exchange.<br />

7. In addition to the settlement guarantee<br />

fund, CSDI will examine feasibility of using<br />

other risk management mechanisms and<br />

handling clearing members' default to<br />

optimize risk covering mechanisms as well as<br />

moving towards becoming a CCP.<br />

8. CSDI is a major shareholder of "Central<br />

Asset Management of Capital Market<br />

Company" (private joint stock co.) which has<br />

been established in the current year. Executive<br />

actions of this company in delivering activities<br />

of intermediary institutions for financing<br />

through Islamic financial tools (Sukuk) will<br />

begin the next year.<br />

* Please refer to page 117 for the Iran country report.<br />

CONTACT INFORMATION<br />

Contact Name Mr. Alireza Hajinorouzi E-mail info@csdiran.com, intl.affairs@csdiran.com<br />

Website www.csdiran.com Address 14, Azhari St., Hafez Ave., Tehran 1134844413<br />

Phone +9821 667 49 180 Fax +9821 667 49 257<br />

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