ATFBank's Board of Directors decides to offer 1,879,908 common shares KZ1C35970017 (KZ000A0ETF32, ATFB) at KZT8,000 each with shareholders able to exercise preemptive purchase rights

/KASE, August 6, 12/ - JSC ATFBank (Almaty), whose securities are officially listed on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has by an official letter informed KASE of the following: quote The Bank's Board of Directors took the following decision of July 31, 2012: On placement of common shares of JSC ATFBank: 1. To approve the following terms of placement of ATFBank's commons shares: - type of securities to be placed - common shares, NIN KZ1C35970017; - number of common shares to be placed - 1,879,908 pieces; - price of common shares - KZT8,000 per common share. 2. In accordance with article 16 of the Act of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Joint-Stock Companies" to suggest to ATFBank's shareholders before the placement to exercise their preferred right to purchase on the following terms: - ratio of the number of common shares placed (minus those bought back by the company) to the number of common shares to be placed - 43,390,537 common shares to 1,879,908 common shares makes up 23.0812023779; For calculation of the number of shares to be placed which can be bought by an existing shareholder using his right to preferred purchase, it is necessary to divide the number of common shares held by the shareholder by the above- mentioned ratio. The result should be rounded up to a whole figure. - the list of shareholders entitled to preferred purchase of common shares to be placed is drawn up by the registrar "Registrator Zerde" as of the date ATFBank's Board of Directors takes a decision on placing ATFBank's common shares by way of exercising the right to preferred purchase of common shares; - within thirty days of the day of the most recent publication in mass-media of a notice about placement of common shares a shareholder may submit an order for purchase of common shares following his right to preferred purchase. In that case a shareholder holding the company's common shares has the right to preferred purchase of common shares or other securities convertible into the company's common shares; - shareholders' orders for purchase of ATFBank's common shares being placed through the preferred purchase right are accepted at ATFBank's HQ in 100 Furmanov str., Almaty - Department for Management of Assets and Liabilities, Funding Division, tel. (727) 258-30-00 (ext. 1258), from 9-00 o'clock to 18-00 o'clock (Almaty time) with a break from 13-00 o'clock to 14-00 o'clock; - ATFBank's shareholders may purchase common shares on offer within thirty calendar days from the date of submission of an order for their purchase at ATFBank's HQ in 100 Furmanov str., Almaty - Department for Management of Assets and Liabilities, Funding Division, tel. (727) 258-30-00 (ext. 1258); - in case of alienation by a shareholder of common shares in a period starting from the date as of which the registrar draws up the list, until expiry of thirty calendar days provided to him for submission of an order for purchase of common shares, in accordance with the preferred purchase right, that right is to be exercised by the new owner of the common shares, should the former owner fail to submit such order. unquote [2012-08-06]