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Kazakhstan Stock Exchange conducted "KASE Day in Astana"

On February 24, 2023, Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) held a meeting in Astana with representatives of the private and quasi-public sector and partners of the Exchange in the format of a business breakfast – "KASE Day in Astana".

The event is aimed at providing information about the possibilities of capital raising and investing temporarily free funds on KASE markets.

During KASE Day in Astana representatives of the Exchange spoke about the results of KASE activities in 2022, results achieved and results of the IPO of NC KazMunayGas JSC, on the Exchange's projects, introduction of innovations and new instruments, trends in the financial market and conditions for raising capital on KASE, as well as on the allocation of functions of the central counterparty (CCP) to the Exchange's subsidiary – KASE Clearing Center JSC.

In addition, the key directions of KASE's Development Strategy until 2024 were announced, within which the main projects of the Exchange for the near future will be concentrated: increasing the liquidity of exchange markets, expanding the base of retail investors, creating SME financing channel in the regulated market, developing the direction of ESG financing, opening trading in new currency pairs and new instruments on the derivatives market, launching trading in digital instruments, further development of the CCP institution as a subsidiary of KASE and the KASE Global sector.

The speakers at the event were: Chairman of the KASE Board Alina Aldambergen, Deputy Chairman of the KASE Board Natalya Khoroshevskaya, Director of the Trading Department Alexei Son.

The event was attended by representatives of government agencies, the leadership of the Astana city administration, top managers of companies in the quasi-public sector, heads of large private companies, issuers, investors and professional market participants.

For reference

Business breakfast events have been held by the Exchange on a regular basis since 2017. Previously, "KASE Day" was held in the years. Astana, Almaty, Shymkent, Aktobe, Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Minsk (Belarus), Moscow (Russia) and London (UK).

Kazakhstan Stock Exchange JSC (KASE) is the leading stock exchange in the Central Asian region. KASE ranks second among CIS exchanges in terms of securities trading volume, and fifth in terms of stock market capitalization of FEAS exchanges.

This is a universal trading platform for corporate and government securities, bonds of international financial institutions, foreign currencies, money market transactions - repo and swap, as well as derivatives. KASE is a member of the International Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS) and other international and domestic professional associations, as well as a member of the UN initiative "Stock Exchanges for Sustainable Development".