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KASE Talks - Open Lectures (March)

On April 29, 2018, the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) launched KASE Talks open lecture series on Kazakhstan's financial market on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. Prominent Kazakh financiers, who have made significant contribution to the making of the financial system and the financial market of the Republic of Kazakhstan, will be speakers at this project.

The first speaker of KASE Talks was Azamat Dzholdasbekov, former president of the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange, the man who was at the origins of the stock market of Kazakhstan and corporate governance.

Over the years, Azamat Myrzadanovich headed the Almaty Financial Instruments Exchange (AFINEX) and the National Securities Commission of Kazakhstan. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors and an independent director, the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Central Securities Depository, the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Integrated Securities Registrar, a member of the Board of Directors and an independent director of Kazkommerzbank, Kazkommerz Securities (a subsidiary of Kazkommerzbank) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange. Azamat Myrzadanovich spoke about the history of development and the creation of the legal framework for Kazakhstan's stock market.

The purpose of KASE Talks is to raise awareness of the broad public audience on the conditions in which the financial market of the country has emerged and main factors that affected its development. The objective of KASE Talks is to promote the financial market of Kazakhstan further and to provide information on the Exchange’s activities and the stock market as a whole.

The series of open lectures is a useful experience from the past, an objective view of the present and the prospects for the future. Such topical topics as the formation and development of the monetary and currency systems of Kazakhstan, reforms in the banking sector, the making of the country's stock market, the making of pension and insurance systems, the development of brokerage activities will be disclosed during KASE Talks lectures.