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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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