KAZAKHSTAN FINANCE MINISTRY PLACES 17.2 M MEUKAM-72 OF FIFTH ISSUE (KZKDKY060058) AT 6.00 % APR JANUARY 20

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/KASE, January 20, 10/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) informed a special trade was held in the KASE trading system to place government long- term treasury bills of the Kazakhstan Finance Ministry (MEUKAM) on January 20, 2010. Below are the main issue parameters, terms and results of placement (Almaty time). ISSUE PARAMETERS: ------------------------------------ ------------------------ Security type: MEUKAM-72 National identification number: KZKDKY060058 Issue order number: 5 / 72 KASE trade code: MUM072_0005 Nominal value, tenge: 1,000.00 Payment date: 20.01.10 First circulation date: 20.01.10 Last circulation date: 19.01.16 Maturity date: 20.01.16 Circulation term: 6 years (2,160 days) Coupon payment period: once, annually Coupon payment schedule: 20 January Time base: 30 / 360 ------------------------------------ ------------------------ PLACEMENT TERMS: ------------------------------------ ------------------------ Declared placement volume, m tenge: 13,000.0 Trade subject: coupon rate Market order acceptance share, %: 70 Order submission method: closed Order receipt time: 09:00-11:00 Order confirmation time: 09:00-11:30 (Т+0) Striking time: before 15:00 (Т+0) Payment time: before 15:00 (Т+0) Order acceptance method: at striking price (rate) ------------------------------------ ------------------------ ASK PARAMETERS: ------------------------------------ ------------------------ Traders - primary dealers: 14 Submitted orders (all / active): 27 / 27 including: - limit: 18 - market: 9 Active orders*, m tenge: 34,008.7 including: - limit: 23,198.7 - market: 10,810.7 Ask to bid, %: 261.6 Coupon rate on submitted orders, % APR: - minimum 5.50 - maximum 7.30 - weighted average 6.3099 ------------------------------------------------------------- * active orders - those, not annulled by traders as at the moment of submission order expiry, including confirmed by Confirmation System members. PLACEMENT RESULTS: ------------------------------------------------------------- Accepted orders, bills: 17,210,000 Accepted orders, % of plan: 132.4 Coupon rate, % APR: 6,00 ------------------------------------------------------------- Pension fund market operators constituted for 24.6 % orders, Kazakhstan second-tier banks (STBs) - 57.3 %, STBs' clients - 10.6 %, clients of brokerage and dealer companies - 7.5 %. According to Central Securities Depository (Almaty) all deals on placement of MEUKAM-72 of the fifth issue by the settlement end were executed. 38.9 % of placed bills were purchased by pension fund market operators, 29.1 % - STB, 29.1 % - STBs' clients, 2.9 % - clients of brokerage and dealer companies. MEUKAM sold by the Ministry of Finance shall automatically be admitted to circulation on the KASE secondary market under the trade code as in the table. At that the bills shall be quoted in the KASE trading system in net prices. The text of the Rules on issue, placement, circulation, service and maturity of government treasury bills of the Republic of Kazakhstan is available on the KASE website at http://www.kase.kz/files/mix/newgko.pdf The text of the Rules on placement of government treasury bills of the Republic of Kazakhstan is available on the KASE website at http://www.kase.kz/files/normative_base/mekam_placement_eng.pdf [2010-01-20]