Kazakhstan Finance Ministry placed 12.0 m MEUKAM-108 of the fourth issue (KZKDKY090048) at 6.50 % APR on March 10

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/KASE, March 10, 10/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) informed special trade on placement of government long-term treasury obligations of the Kazakhstan Finance Ministry (MEUKAM) was held March 10, 2010 in the KASE trading system. The table below indicates the main parameters of the issue, terms and results of placement (Almaty time). ISSUE PARAMETERS: ------------------------------------- ------------------------ Security type: MEUKAM-108 National identification number: KZKDKY090048 Issue order number: 4 / 108 KASE trade code: MUM108_0004 Nominal value, tenge: 1,000.00 Payment date: March 10, 10 First circulation date: March 10, 10 Last circulation date: March 9, 19 Maturity date: March 10, 19 Circulation term: 9 years (3,240 days) Coupon payment period: once a year Coupon payment date: March 10 annually Time base: 30 / 360 ------------------------------------- ------------------------ PLACEMENT TERMS: ------------------------------------- ------------------------ Declared placement volume, m tenge: 12,000.0 Trade subject: coupon rate Market order acceptance ratio, %: 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 (rate) price ------------------------------------- ------------------------ ASK PARAMETERS: ------------------------------------- ------------------------ Trades - primary dealers: 18 Submitted orders (total / active): 33 / 31 including: - limited: 26 / 25 - market: 7 / 6 Volume of active orders*, m tenge: 43,109.3 Including: - limited: 25,759.3 - market: 17,350.0 Ask to bid, %: 359.2 Coupon rate on submitted orders, % APR (total / active): - minimum 5.79 / 5.79 - maximum 7.00 / 7.00 - weighted average 6.6931 / 6.7208 --------------------------------------------------------------- * active orders - orders, not annulled by trade participants as at the expiry of order submission, including those confirmed by Confirmation system participants. PLACEMENT RESULTS: --------------------------------------------------------------- Volume of accepted orders, bonds: 12,000,000 Volume of accepted orders, % of plan: 100.0 Coupon rate, % APR: 6.50 --------------------------------------------------------------- Pension market entities constituted for 48.5 %, Kazakhstan second-tier banks (STB) - 34.8 %, brokerage and dealer companies - 3.1 %, their clients - 4.2 %. According to Central Securities Depository (Almaty) all deals on placement of MEUKAM-108 of the fourth issue by the end of settlement were executed. 70.4 % of placed bonds total volume were bought back the pension market entities, 4.0 % - STB, 8.1 % - STB clients, 6.7 % - brokerage and dealer companies, 10.8 % - clients of brokerage and dealer companies. MEUKAM sold by the Finance Ministry shall automatically be admitted to circulation on the KASE secondary market under the trade code as in the table. At that bonds must be quoted in net prices in the KASE trading system. The text of the Rules on issue, placement, circulation, service and maturity of government treasury obligations 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 obligations of the Republic of Kazakhstan is available on the KASE website at http://www.kase.kz/files/normative_base/mekam_placement_eng.pdf [2010-03-10]