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DTCC Executive Re-elected President of Americas' Central Securities Depositories Association

Lima, Bogota and New York, March 24, 2009 - The Americas' Central Securities Depositories Association (ACSDA) has announced that Mary Ann Callahan was re-elected President at its 2009 General Assembly, hosted in Lima, Peru, by CAVALI I.C.L.V. in late February. Callahan is Managing Director, Global Relations and Development, at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).

"Since being established in Lima in 1999, ACSDA has been instrumental in helping its members gain a global view of the world’s capital markets and the key role that infrastructures play in risk management and operational efficiency,” said Francis Stenning, Chairman and CEO of CAVALI and host of the 2009 General Assembly. "We are pleased to have Mary Ann continue on as our President and share in her commitment to promote ACSDA and its initiatives both within the region and globally.”

Other ACSDA officers re-elected were Jorge Hernán Jaramillo Ossa, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Deceval, S.A., Colombia, as ACSDA Vice President; Francis Stenning, Chairman and CEO of CAVALI Peru, as Treasurer, and Héctor Anaya Doll, CEO of S.D. Indeval Institución para el Depósito de Valores S.A. de C.V., Mexico as Working Committee Chair. A majority of ACSDA’s 10-member Executive Committee were also re-elected, with one new member, Iván Díaz, joining from Latin Clear, Panama. The Executive Committee also welcomed Luiz Felipe de Carvalho Paiva, a new representative of BM&FBOVESPA, Brazil, succeeding former ACSDA President Amarílis Prado Sardenberg.

Callahan will serve a two-year term along with other committee members. Other Executive Committee members reelected were: Fernando Yáñez González, General Manager of DCV, Chile, Monica Singer, CEO, Strate, South Africa, Mark Weseluck, Chief Business Development Officer, The Canadian Depository for Securities Limited, and Juan Carlos Falabella, Secretary Director, Caja de Valores, S.A., Argentina. ACSDA’s leadership team also includes Executive Secretary, Bruce Butterill, based in Bogota, Colombia.

ACSDA announced that DTCC will host ACSDA’s 2010 General Assembly in Tampa, Florida, next March.

The association will also open registration in April for the ACSDA Leadership Forum (ALF), an intensive training program, which Chile’s depository, DCV, will host in Santiago from October 6 to 9, 2009.

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