/KASE, July 10, 08/ - As informed, on June 27, 2008 the Expert Council of the
special trading floor of the Regional Financial Center of Almaty (STF RFCA)
approved reclassification of securities, officially listed on STF RFCA, for
purposes of bringing of the list in compliance with the new listing
requirements set by order No. 04-2-09/119 of the Chairman of the Agency
of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Regulation of Activities of the Regional
Financial Center of Almaty (ARA RFCA) "On Setting of Requirements to Issuers,
Securities of which are to be Listed or Listing on the Special Trading Floor
of the Regional Financial Center of Almaty, and to such Securities"
of May 8, 2008 (the Order).
STF RFCA new listing requirements have been elaborated since October 2007
by a team at ARA RFCA with specialists of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE)
actively involved. The requirements have been made effective since June 2,
2008. In accordance with the Order, the securities, prior officially listed
on STF RFCA, were subject to transfer to sectors, categories and subcategories
specified by the new requirements within a month after they come into force.
Since KASE operates STF RFCA, securities, officially listed on this trading
floor were being reclassified by KASE Listing Department in June 2008.
As a result, as on July 2, 2008 securities officially listed on STF RFCA
were classified as
follows:
- shares of 14 denominations of 8 issuers have been classified into the first
category of the official list (Blue_Chips) of the sector "Shares";
- shares of 8 denominations of 7 issuers have been included in the second
category (Mid_Cap) of the sector "Shares";
- shares of 3 denominations of 3 issuers have formed the third category
(Start_Up) of the sector "Shares";
- the first category of "Rated Debt Securities" in the sector "Debt Securities"
has comprised debt instruments of 4 denominations of 2 issuers;
- bonds of 42 denominations of 9 issuers have been included in the first
subcategory of the second category "Unrated Debt Securities" in the sector
"Debt Securities";
- bonds of 13 denominations of 13 issuers have been listed in the second sub-
category of the second category "Unrated Debt Securities" in the sector "Debt
Securities";
- shares of only one denomination (index fund shares) have been included in
the sector "Securities of Investment Funds".
On July 2, 2008 STF RFCA official list was brought in compliance with the
Order. All reclassification related processes were finished.
The press release is available at the KASE website in the section "Seminars
and events" at:
http://www.kase.kz/mix/menu.asp
Tables of correlation of securities of STFRFCA official list with
the requirements of the Order are released at the website at:
http://www.kase.kz/mix/listing_rfca.pdf
Reclassified lists are available in Russian at:
http://www.kase.kz/emitters/
and
http://beta.kase.kz/ru/emitters, in English - at:
http://www.kase.kz/eng/emitters/ and
http://beta.kase.kz/en/emitters
The text of the Order is available at the KASE website at:
http://www.kase.kz/mix/post_5223_rfca.pdf
[2008-07-10]