BTA Securities, a subsidiary of Joint-Stock Company BTA Bank, provides additional data on bonds KZP01Y07D853 (SKKZb22) of Sovereign Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna scheduled for offering on April 5
04.04.11 14:07
/KASE, April 4, 11/ - Subsidiary of BTA Bank joint-stock company - BTA
Securities joint-stock company (Almaty), a member of Kazakhstan Stock
Exchange (KASE) stock market, has provided KASE with the following press-
release:
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Herewith BTA Securities and Halyk Finance, the financial advisors and
underwriters for the first bonds issue under the second bond program of JSC
Sovereign Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna (hereinafter - the Fund), and
Development Bank of Kazakhstan, the Fund's financial advisor, announce that
the mentioned bonds issue is supposed to be offered at special trading on April
5, 2011, with the coupon rate defined as the cut-off parameter. The indicative
level of the cut-off rate upon the special trading results is expected to be as
high as 6 % APR.
This bond issue was included into the Rated Debt Securities category (premium
category) of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange's official list from September 24, 2010.
The international rating agency Standard & Poor's assigned the said bonds issue
a rating of debt liabilities in national currency at "ВВВ+".
Samruk-Kazyna is a sovereign fund of the Republic of Kazakhstan with
combined assets of more than USD60 bn. The Fund centrally runs own holdings
of shares and stakes in the national development institutes, national companies
in the country's different industries.
The Fund's main activities include assistance in the modernization and
diversification of the national economy, helping in stabilizing the country's
economy during the crisis, as well as increasing the companies' effectiveness.
The Fund is expected to go to great lengths helping the Kazakh Government
by providing quickly and expediently solutions regarding the raising of
investments for the economy's real sectors, gearing up of activities in the
regions, strengthening of cross-industry and cross-regional ties, as well by
making the most of advantages and opportunities available. Particularly for
financing of investment projects of its subsidiaries, the Fund has issued
bonds under the second bond programme with parameters as follows:
- type of bonds: unsecured coupon bonds of the first issue under the second
bond programme;
- volume of issue: volume of each of the two bonds issues under the second
bond programme amounts to KZT75 bn. The bond programme's total volume
equals to KZT150 bn;
- interest rate: the interest rate on the first bonds issue under the second
bond programme is fixed for the entire circulation term and will be
determined as a cut-off rate based on results of special trading which will
be held on the trading floor of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange. The indicative
level of the cut-off rate after the special trading is expected to be up to
6 % APR;
- circulation term: the circulation term of the first issue's bonds under the
second bond programme makes up 7 years after the start of circulation;
- early repayment conditions: based on a decision of the Board of Directors,
the Fund may early repay the bonds in full. In doing so, the Fund informs
bondholders of the intended early termination of the bonds by sending an
appropriate notice 10 (ten) days before the early repayment. An early
repayment is made at the face value simultaneously with payment of the
coupon interest calculated as at the date of the early repayment of bonds.
The investors' base for these bonds issues is meant to be represented by
accumulative pension funds, second tier banks and financial institutions,
insurance companies, and brokerage-dealing entities. In accordance with
prudential standards set for accumulative pensions funds, the Funds' debt
securities were assigned the zero level risk, similarly to government
securities of the Republic of Kazakhstan issued by the Ministry of Finance
of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the National Bank of the Republic of
Kazakhstan, as well as securities issued under a guarantee of the Government
of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
It is supposed that the mentioned bonds issue will be offered both on the
organized and unorganized markets.
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[2011-04-04]