From December 3, bonds KZP04Y03D013 (aASFIb25) and KZP06М54D014 (aASFIb27) of Astana-finance were included into STF RFCA official list by the first sub-category of "Rated Debt Securities"

/KASE, December 3, 08/ - As informed previously, by the decision of Expert Council of the Special Trading Floor of the Regional Financial Center of Almaty (STF RFCA) of November 27, 2008, the following bonds of Astana-finance (Astana) were included into the first sub-category of "Rated Debt Securities" category: - indexed at KZT to USD devaluation rate KZP04Y03D013 (KZT100, KZT1,220.0 m.; 3 years, the semi-annual coupon, 30/360); - indexed at KZT to USD devaluation rate KZP06М54D014 (KZT100, KZT4,200.0 m.; 4.5 years, the semi-annual coupon 14.59 % APR, 30/360). This Expert Council decision is effective from December 3, 2008. Opening of trades in mentioned bonds on STF RFCA will be announced additionally. According to bonds KZP04Y03D013 issue prospectus the coupon interest is calculated as 6 month LIBOR + (CMCDS х 315 %), where CMCDS - 5-years spread on Development Bank of Kazakhstan credit default swap (CDS). If the mentioned swap exceeds 7.5 % (Development Bank of Kazakhstan case of default) CMDS is fixed at the level of 7.5 % for all next periods. The mentioned bonds issues are the fourth and the seventh Astana-finance bond program, registered by the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Regulation and Supervision of Financial Market and Financial Organizations on April 11, 2008 to the total amount KZT100.0 bn. By the decision of KASE Board of November 28, 2008, the mentioned bonds were assigned abbreviations (trading codes) aASFIb25 and aASFIb27 accordingly. More detailed information on these bonds issue is published on KASE website on December 3 at http://www.kase.kz/ru/emitters/show/asfi [2008-12-03]