On October 15, Kazakhstan Ministry of Finance placed on KASE 20,178,333 bonds MEUKAM-72 of sixth issue (KZKDKY060066) under 5.40 % APR

15.10.10 18:00
/KASE, October 15, 10/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) informs that KASE held special trade in the KASE trading system on placement of government long-term treasury bonds of the Kazakhstan Finance Ministry (MEUKAM) on October 15, 2010 on the terms as below (Almaty time). ISSUE PARAMETERS: ------------------------------------ ------------------------ Security type: MEUKAM -72 National identification number: KZKDKY060066 Issue order number: 6 / 72 KASE trade code: MUM072_0006 Nominal value, tenge: 1,000.00 Payment date: October 15, 2010 First circulation date: October 15, 2010 Last circulation date: October 14, 2016 Maturity date: October 15, 2016 Circulation term: 6 years (2,160 days) Coupon payment period: once a year Coupon payment date: October 15 of each year Time base: 30 / 360 ------------------------------------ ------------------------ ISSUE TERMS: ------------------------------------ ------------------------ Declared placement volume, m tenge: 14,000.0 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: ------------------------------------ ------------------------ Traders - primary dealers: 22 Submitted orders (all / active): 43 / 41 including: - limit: 35 / 34 - market: 8 / 7 Active orders*, m tenge: 37,007.5 including: - limit: 21,007.5 - market: 16,000.0 Ask to bid, %: 264.3 Coupon rate on submitted orders, % APR (total / active): - minimum 4.00 / 4.00 - maximum 6.20 / 6.20 - weighted average 5.5599 / 5.5620 ------------------------------------------------------------- * 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: 20,178,333 Accepted orders, % of plan: 144.1 Coupon rate, % APR: 5.40 ------------------------------------------------------------- Pension funds market operators accounted for 8.1 % of orders, Kazakhstan second-tier banks (STBs) - 61.5 %, STBs' clients - 12.6 %, brokerage and dealer companies - 2.9 %, their clients - 14.9%. According to Central Securities Depository (Almaty) all deals on placement of MEUKAM-72 of the sixth issue by the settlement end were executed. 59.3 % of the placed bonds were purchased by STBs, 20.8 % - by STBs' clients, 4.1 % - by brokerage and dealer companies, 15.8% - by their clients. 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 [2010-10-15]