15 Nov 2013 16:41

Interfax expands access to information on Russian companies

Interfax Information Services Group has launched the updated resource www.e-disclosure.ru, providing access to current and archived information on the activities 30,000 Russian companies, along with their quarterly and annual reporting.

Individual pages created for 15,000 Russian issuers provide exhaustive information on each company: incorporation data, annual and quarterly financial statements, issue documents, charters, essential facts and lists of affiliates.

All statistics on the information activities of companies have become completely open. According to these data, for example, the leader by number of issued statements is the National Settlement Depository (NSD) with almost 900 since the beginning of the year, followed by oil company Rosneft with more than 500 statements.

The most frequent, according to November statistics, are company announcements on the publication of quarterly financial statements.

Russian issuers and open joint-stock companies released a total of 226,700 statements on material events through authorized agencies, one of which is Interfax, in the first nine months of 2013.

"The new www.e-disclosure.ru covers all information that is supposed to be disclosed by companies and provides convenient, fast access to it. We saw our objective as enabling investors and analysts to obtain all corporate information that is supposed to be disclosed by Russian issuers on one resource," the director of Interfax