Finance Ministry of Kazakhstan floated at KASE, on November 6, 66,374.9 th. MEKKAM-6 of the 180th issue for amount of KZT6,363.5 m. at 5.00 - 9.48% APR

06.11.07 20:39
/KASE, November 6, 07/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) informs that on November 6, 2007 in trade system of KASE specialized trades on floatation of government short-term treasury bonds of the Finance Ministry of the Republic of Kazakhstan (MEKKAM) were held. Following is the main parameters of the floatation (discount bonds, Almaty time). ISSUE PARAMETERS: --------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Type of security: MEKKAM-6 National identification number: KZK1KM061808 Number of the issue: 180/6 KASE trade code: MKM006_0180 Face value, KZT: 100.00 Flotation start date: November 6, 2007 Circulation start day: November 6, 2007 Circulation end day: May 5 2008 Date of maturity: May 6, 2008 Term of circulation: 182 days Time base: actual/actual --------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- TERMS OF FLOATATION: --------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Floatation volume, KZT m: 14,000.0 Trades object: price of bonds Bids submission method: closed Time for bids submission: 09:00 - 11:00 Time for bids confirmation: 09:00 - 11:30 (Т+0) Time for cut-off: until 3:00 p.m. (Т+0) Method of bids satisfaction: for limited (competitive) bids at declared price for market at weighted (noncompetitive) bids average price Share of market bids 70 satisfaction, %: Payment date: November 6, 07 Payment time: until 3:00 p.m. (Т+0) --------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- DEMAND PARAMETERS: --------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Number of participants - prime dealers: 8 Number of bids submitted (total / active*): 24/19 including limited: 22/17 Including market: 2/2 Volume of active bids, KZT m.: 17,571.9 Bid to ask, %: 132.4 Price in limited bids, % (all/ active): minimal: 93.4914 / 93.4914 maximum: 97.5740 / 97.5740 weighted average: 95.0027 / 94.7911 Yield to maturity on limited bids, % APR. (all / active): minimal: 5.0000 / 5.0000 maximum: 13.9999 / 13.9999 weighted-average: 9.0893 / 9.2345 --------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- * active bids- bids not annulled by trades participants by the moment when deadline for bids acceptance has passed, including those, confirmed by the participants of the System of confirmation FLOATATION RESULTS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume of satisfied bids, securities: 66,374,900 Volume of satisfied bids, KZT: 6,363,519,293.60 Volume of satisfied bids, % to plan: 47.4 Price in satisfied bids, KZT: minimal (cut off): 95.4981 maximal: 97.5740 weighted-average: 95.8724 Yield-to-maturity, % APR: minimal: 5.0000 maximal: 9.4801 weighted-average: 8.6579 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In total volume of active bids, 38.8% of all at stake are pension market entities, 43.2% - second tier banks (STB), their clients - 14.2%, brokerage- dealership companies - 3.8% According to the data of Central securities depositary JSC (Almaty) all deals on floatation of MEKKAM-6 of 108th issue are executed by the moment when calculations were completed by the results of trades. Along with this 60.3% of floated bonds were purchased by STB, 39.7% - by their clients. MEKKAMs are issued in compliance with Rules of issue, floatation, servicing and maturity of state treasury obligations of the Republic of Kazakhstan (http://www.kase.kz/mix/newgko.pdf), approved by the Resolution of the Government of Kazakhstan dated September 8, 2004 #941, and were placed in accordance with Rules of floatation of government treasury obligations of the Republic of Kazakhstan (http://www.kase.kz/geninfo/normbase/mekam_placement.pdf) approved by the decision of the Exchange Council of KASE dated December 29, 2004. MEKKAM sold by Ministry of Finance are automatically admitted to circulation at secondary market of KASE under trade code mentioned in the table. [2007-11-06]