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Central Depository
Kyrgyz Republic
Safeguarding your financial assets in the Kyrgyz Republic
Central Depository is a National Institution of Systemic Importance, by Presidential Decree
Backed by the Ministry of Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic and a large number of securities market participants, the Central Depository is a strategic pillar supporting the infrastructure of the country’s securities market.
Founded in 1997, the Central Depository holds a professional securities market participant license for depository activities (No. 127), granted on April 20, 1998, by the National Commission on the Securities Market under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Initially, the Central Depository catered to foreign investors, facilitating the transfer and management of Kyrgyz issuer-resident securities. By 1998, it expanded its clientele to include numerous brokerage firms active on the Kyrgyz Stock Exchange. Today, our clients encompass leading brokerage firms, commercial banks, investment funds, and significant foreign investors within the Kyrgyz Republic’s financial market.
Our services
The Central Depository provides a wide range of depository services to both individual and corporate clients, ensuring the secure handling and management of securities.
Custody Services
Account Management: Opening and managing deposit accounts for clients.
Securities Custody: Safekeeping and accounting for a broad spectrum of securities, including but not limited to stocks, bonds, mutual fund shares, promissory notes, and international financial instruments like eurobonds and American Depositary Receipts (ADRs).
Transaction Support: Providing expert consultation and assistance with securities transactions.
Ownership Re-registration: Facilitating the re-registration of securities ownership, including under specific conditions.
Collateral Management: Handling and recording collateral transactions involving depositors’ securities.
Issuer Information: Offering detailed information about issuers of securities.
Rights Execution Assistance: Helping depositors exercise their rights as securities owners.
Consultation Services: Offering advisory support for account transactions.
Payment Agent Functions: Involvement in general shareholders’ meetings and managing income distributions to securities owners.
Issuer Services
Issuer Account Management: Opening and maintaining securities accounts for issuers, including those in the formation stage or for accounting repurchased immobilized securities.
Securities Placement Services: Facilitating the distribution of securities to owners’ accounts and managing stock exchange placements.
Buyback Transactions: Documenting issuer buyback operations of their own securities.
Income Distribution: Managing the accrual and payment of incomes by issuers on issued securities.
Shareholders’ Meetings Participation: Representing client interests at shareholders’ meetings nationwide, strictly adhering to provided proxies and instructions, and delivering comprehensive reports on meeting outcomes.
Corporate Information Services
Corporate Actions Support: Assisting with issuer corporate actions, such as stock splits, consolidations, conversions, redemptions, and cancellations, and helping in the rights execution related to securities during such corporate actions.
Issuer Information Provision: Making available detailed information about issuers to clients/depositors.
Registrar Consultations: Providing guidance on securities transactions within shareholder registries.
Why choose our services?
Our commitment to stringent licensing standards and robust technical requirements ensures unparalleled service quality.
Our principles
Delivering top-quality, timely service using advanced technology, ensuring unparalleled reliability and stability in all operations, and leading in technological innovation.
Our mission
We focus on providing reliable and high-quality services with a commitment to security and technological advancement.
Providing custodial and clearing services for securities of Kyrgyz and foreign issuers
Become a client
To become a client of the Central Depository, you are required to complete and sign the following essential documents:
- A depository service agreement;
- An application for opening a deposit account;
- Client questionnaires;
- A signature specimen card of the Depositor or its executives, duly notarized.
What our clients say
“Our company has engaged in a longstanding collaboration with the Central Depository, enabling us to endorse the quality of its services with confidence. Our directives have always been executed with expertise, diligence, and punctuality. Through many years, the consistency in the quality of service has been unwavering. We hope that the Central Depository will continue to uphold these high standards of service excellence into the future.”
Aziz Ismailov
“Working with the Central Depository is a remarkably smooth experience, largely due to the exceptional professionalism of its staff, along with their attentiveness and efficiency. We will advocate for your company as a distinguished organization, staffed by seasoned and dependable experts who approach their work and their duties with utmost responsibility.”
Usman Akmatov
Contact
Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Phone: +996 (312) 35-30-26
Fax: (312) 31-14-89
Email: cds@cds.kg
Working hours: Mon-Fri 09:00-18:00
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