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The ISB Information Portal, funded by the European Union means, provides information services to the public as well as an easy and user-friendly access to the relevant information services to issuers, state authorities and the subjects delegated with their authority. |
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You have opened the Public Part of the ISB Portal. This part of the ISB Portal offers to you a number of information items that are freely available to all users with no registration required. Here you may obtain information about the ISB project, about the structure of the ISB project, about the manner of providing services as well as about the relating prices in case such services are in the category of those provided for remuneration.
Free Services in the Public Part of the ISB Portal provide information for surveying in the field or downloading (e.g., a list of booked issues of securities, a list of issuers, as well as other information items published by the CSD Prague from its own registers).
The Private Area of the Portal contains two categories of paid services, i.e., the services for the provision of which the customer is obligated to pay either the commercial price or recover the factual expenses for single services. The users of services available in this field of the ISB Portal send their requests into the ISB system through their internet scanners and secured communication by means of installed certificates. The first category of paid services involves General Information, which information may be obtained by any user registered as an ISB client. The second category of paid services involves Information for Selected Subjects such as notaries, executory staff or bailiffs, the Czech National Bank, Revenue Offices, etc. The availability of the information as above is limited for reasons of restrictions concerning the user profile, i.e., each user, or a group of users, shall only have access to defined information fields or to defined services contained in the mentioned category.
Further information on the ISB may be acquired through the option of Profile ISB. Also, we recommend to visiting the FAQ part where important answers can be found to some questions about how to work with the ISB. |
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CENTRAL DEPOSITORY OPENS FOR BUSINESS |
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The Central Securities Depository Prague (CSD Prague) today successfully completed the transfer of the records of dematerialized and immobilized securities from the Czech Securities Centre (Středisko cenných papírů, SCP). This marked the last step towards the commencement of the activities of the Central Depository, which will open for business on 7th July 2010.
Preparations for the launch of the Central Securities Depository started immediately after a licence was granted on 14 August 2009 by the Czech National Bank to UNIVYC, a.s., a subsidiary of the Prague Stock Exchange (member of CEE Stock Exchange Group). In December 2009, an agreement was signed between the Central Securities Depository and the Ministry of Finance for the transfer of the records of securities maintained in the Czech Securities Centre. This was the beginning of the technical preparations of the trading members and other parties which have become participants in the Central Depository. "Thanks to the professional attitude and 100% commitment of all the parties involved, both on the side of the Central Securities Depository and on the side of the future participants, it was possible to meet the original deadline for the commencement of activities, i.e. mid-2010,” says Helena Čacká, Chief Executive Officer of Centrální depozitář cenných papírů, a.s.
The Central Depository introduces a series of innovations to the Czech capital market. The main change is that the Central Depository is now capable of maintaining multi-stage recording of investment instruments, thus enabling a standardized trade settlement to be introduced, something which has become widespread in other European countries. Account owners will also appreciate the better availability of services associated with the operation of their accounts. These services will now be offered directly by the participants in the Central Securities Depository, through their branch networks.
About the Central Depository of Securities:
Centrální depozitář cenných papírů, a.s. maintains a central register of dematerialized securities issued in the Czech Republic, is the operator of a settlement system for exchange and OTC trades involving investment securities, and offers loans of securities, the administration and management of warranties, and the depositing and management of investment instruments maintained under a separate register. The Central Depository assigns investment instrument identification numbers (ISIN) to investment instruments; since 2007 it has also been settling trades involving electrical power, entered into via Power Exchange Central Europe, a.s. (PXE). The Central Depository operates on a participatory principle.
The Central Depository is a participant in the international depository Clearstream Banking Luxembourg and a member of the European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA). |
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Information of the transfer of the SCP records to CSD Prague |
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On 30 March 2010, the Ministry of Finance and the Central Securities Depository Prague Company (hereinafter "the CSD Prague“) approved the document "Project of the SCP Records Transfer“ (hereinafter "the Project“), following the contract on the SCP records transfer, concluded on 8 December 2009 and , among others, confirming the deadline of the transfer of the SCP records to the CSD Prague at the beginning of July this year. More information about the transfer of the SCP records to the CSD Prague are available on the CSD Prague website http://www.cdcp.cz/?language=english.
In connection with that it was also agreed to transfer the ISB Portal in favour of CSD Prague, what enables CSD Prague to maintain the same level of services to ISB Portal current services. |
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