Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG acquired on special trades of KASE 29,375,971 shares of ATFBank for KZT255.4 bn. on November 13

/KASE, November 13, 07/ - Today, in the trading system of Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE), the specialized trades on buy up of KZ1C35970017 (ATFB) common shares, KZ1P35970618 (ATFBp) and KZ1P35970816 (ATFBp8) preferred shares of ATFBank JSC (Almaty) took place from the current shareholders. The purchaser of the specified securities was Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG (further - the buyer) that planned to acquire all securities, offered by shareholders. The number of announced shares of ATFBank at the moment of trades was 47,000,000, the number of offered ones - 32,003,264. The total volume of acquired shares of the three issues totaled 29,375,971 units to the sum of KZT255,431,588,472.30 (91.8% of the total quantity of offered shares of ATFBank JSC), which makes USD2,117,655,351.29 at the weighted average exchange rate of KASE as of the date of trades conduction. The specified series of deals is the biggest within the specialized trades, conducted on KASE. [2007-11-13]