APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan launches a 'Mobile agent' service'

/KASE, November 13, 09/ - Accumulative pension fund of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan, a subsidiary of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan (Almaty), a member of the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) in categories of "A", "K" and "P", provided KASE with a press release: Quotation begins Accumulative pension fund of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan launched a new service - 'mobile agent'. The new service will allow for servicing depositors remotely. The main advantage of the service is that a manager may connect to the corporate network and within 1-2 minutes service a fund depositor in any place of the country serviced by mobile operators. The project is based on GPRS\EDGE technologies, availing Internet access through a modem. "The know-how is an integration of traditional mobile communications, cryptographic protection means and information security requirements. Our IT specialists solved the last problem related to remote access",- Baurzhan Mukhamedzhanov, IT Director of the fund said. Today all units of the fund are connected to the "mobile agent". Fund employees used the service throughout Kazakhstan at settlements, mines, and remote areas. Fund depositors were provided with around 700 excerpts on state of their pension accounts, and data on 700 pension provision agreements. To enhance its services the fund is planning to improve the Mobile agent network connecting more notebooks (70 in 2010). Accumulative pension fund of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan as on October 1, 2009 is a leading pension fund in terms of savings amount (KZT521. 5 bn) and holds 29.7% of the mandatory pension fee market in Kazakhstan. Own assets - KZT25.4 bn. Capital adequacy ratio - 0. 146, against the AFS- set norm - 0.040. Fund services 1,879,715 depositors. The fund has around 160 service points in Kazakhstan. Shareholders are Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan, KazTransOil, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy. For further information, please, contact: Press Service of APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan tel: + 7(727) 239-70-83 Ends [2009-11-13]