From April 04 through June 28 at KASE specialized trades on primay floatation of second issue bonds of Astna-finance OJSC (Kazakhstan) will be held

02.04.02 00:00
/KASE, April 02, 02, official press release of the exchange/ - From April 04 through June 28, 2002 at Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) specialized trades on primary floatation of second issue inscribed coupon indexed bonds of Astana-finance OJSC (KZ2CKY03A510; official list of securities of KASE category "А", ASFIb2; 4.5bn tenge; 100 tenge; Apr 01,02 - Apr 01,05; semiannual coupon at 9.0% APR). According to bonds issue terms, their par value is indexed at devaluation (revaluation) rate of Kazakhstan tenge to USD (Kd), which is calculated as a ratio of current weighted average exchange rate of USD (Xt) during morning session of KASE to analogous rate (Xo) on a date of circulation starting (Kd=Xt/Xo, Хо=152,12); number of decimals and method of round-up of Kd Specialized trades will be held in the trade system of KASE in the form of open trades by main method of the exchange. A difference of held floatation from usual trades at secondary exchange market is that only the issuer's agent on floatation will offer the bonds - KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd LLP (Almaty) and the trades will be held without levying of commissions of the exchange. Bids to trade system of the exchange for the bonds acquisition can be submitted from 11:30AM to 5:00PM of Almaty time (ALT) on working days apart from Friday, on Fridays - from 11:30AM to 3:00PM. The bonds purchased during floatation should be paid by the buyers till 4:00PM ALT on each Friday. Bids for bonds acquisition should be submitted by brokers in clean (without accumulated interest) prices in percents to indexed face value with accuracy at four decimals. At that a broker should take into account that accumulated interest is accrued on indexed par value of the bond. Number of financial instruments in a bid should correspond to aggregate indexed par value of securities in tenge. Volume of a bid is calculated as a product of number of financial instruments and a price with taking into account accumulated interest divided by 1000. Bids can be submitted only by members of the exchange of category "P" (right to participate in trades in corporate securities, which are admitted to official list of the Exchange). Investors may submit bids through these legal entities. Complete list of KASE members holding category "P" is published on (http://www.kase.kz/kasemembers/) web site of the Exchange in Internet. KASE emphasizes that pension assets management companies at the expense of pension assets can buy the bonds since they are included into official list of securities of the exchange under category "A". [2002-04-02]