KIEV, July 6 – Ukraine should create one independent, privately owned depositary through the merger of the Interregional Stock Union and the All-Ukrainian Securities Depositary with the participation of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), a USAID official said.

"Most countries have one clearing depositary, which is mainly in the ownership of the private sector and which handles its operations there," Paul Richardson, the Trade Policy & Finance Regional Advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), said in comments released to Dzerkalo Tyzhnia weekly.