NCC for the first time has developed and established Clearing development strategy, which determines the main directions for the clearing activities development of the Moscow Exchange Group (hereinafter - Group) until 2024. Given strategy corresponds to the Group's overall strategy, considers the clearing services` development global trends and implements results of the SWOT-analysis of existing clearing services provided by the Group.

The main directions of development presented in the strategy are the following: improvement of current services, in particular, developing margining models, increasing the accuracy of calculating risk rates; clearing architecture optimization and, as a result, reduction of operational risks; development of OTC clearing. Expansion of NCC services on OTC markets and, in the long term, on the market of digital assets includes active use of the advanced world technologies: artificial intelligence, methods of processing big data, cloud-based solutions, technology of distributed registries, quantum technologies.

Implementation of Clearing development strategy will allow NCC to position itself as an infrastructure that provides trusted environment for execution and guaranteed settlement of trades and will strengthen position of the Group in the regional capital market, integrated into the global financial market and recognized by international investors and institutions.