Case Studies DARA | Page 2

ABOUT Considering that the investors are one of the main stakeholders in CSDI, Dara System is an electronic portal for investors and aims to integrate e-services provided for investors. The services offered to investors include web site and mobile version. Goals: DESCRIPTION 1. As all CSDI’s activities are based on the processing and production of information, using technology increases productivity, reduces costs, facilitates public services and increases security, reliability and speed of services. Thus, improving information technology has a pivotal role. 2. Secure access to information of investors’ accounts and asset entitlements. Aggregation of all services for account holders through one portal. In this regard, in recent years, various activities have been undertaken to provide stable, efficient and secure electronic platforms for the development of the country's capital market. Dara (Investor‘s electronic Portal) is one of those systems implemented last year. The purpose of this system is to centralize all the services provided to investors by central securities depository of Iran. This system saves shareholders from confusion in terms of their stock portfolios, the status of capital increases and profit payments. Shareholders' daily knowledge of their portfolio changes prevents all kinds of misuse, such as money laundering and confiscation of property. In this system, each shareholder can have one or more representatives and one person may represent several shareholders.