Central Securities Depository informs you about use of securities ISIN beginning from January 1, 2019

/KASE, December 4, 2018/ – Central Securities Depository (Almaty) has provided Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) with the following information statement: quote About assignment of international identification numbers to securities starting from January 1, 2019. In accordance with the Act of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On the Securities Market", as of January 1, 2019 the identifier of securities and other financial instruments will be represented by the international identification number (code ISIN), assigned by the Central Securities Depository JSC (hereinafter – Central Depository) in accordance with the international standard ISO 6166 "Securities and related financial instruments – International securities identification numbering system (ISIN)". No later than December 15, 2018 the Central Depository will assign ISIN codes to all government and corporate securities in circulation which lack the ISIN code. Information on the assigned ISIN codes will be posted on the website of the Central Depository (www.kacd.kz) in section "Statistics". As of January 1, 2019 national identification numbers of securities, earlier assigned by the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, will not be used. With queries related to this message, please contact us at tel. +7 (727) 355-47-60 (ext. 480, 481) and e-mail okfi@kacd.kz unquote [2018-12-04]