In December number of individual accounts opened in accounting system of Central Depository increased by 11.5 th. to 99.5 th.

/KASE, January 15, 15/ – As of the end of December 2014 at Central Securities Depository JSC (Almaty, hereinafter – the CD) there were 99,520 individual accounts, opened for individuals, which is by 11,462 accounts more, than at the end of the previous month, and by 44,666 accounts more than as of the beginning of 2014. Below is information on the trend of the number of individual accounts opened in the CD at the end of the mentioned month, as well as monthly data on the number of accounts involved in the trade in shares on KASE ("Accounts in transactions"), gross-turnover of trade in shares from such accounts, their shares in the total gross-turnover of trade in shares in the mentioned month. --------------------------------------------------------------- Share in total Month Accounts Accounts in Gross-turnover, gross of 2014 in CD transactions* bn tenge* turnover, %* --------- -------- ------------- --------------- -------------- January 55,351 704 3.5 53.2 February 55,640 883 5.0 59.3 March 55,842 697 3.7 53.4 April 56,301 625 2.9 34.0 May 56,589 488 2.5 59.8 June 55,392 623 4.0 55.0 July 55,666 1161 6.2 53.6 August 55,366 841 3.5 45.4 September 56,086 687 4.9 35.2 October 59,059 711 2.8 41.8 November 88,058 726 1.9 48.6 December 99,520 **1,325, **3.3 **45.0 --------------------------------------------------------------- *without special trading sessions and large transactions; **without taking into account the results of the subscription to ordinary shares of KEGOC JSC under the program People's IPO. Taking into account the results of subscription the number of individual accounts in transactions is 42,042; gross turnover – KZT16.4 bn, the share of individuals in the gross turnover – 48.9%. The total gross-turnover of trade in shares on KASE in December increased by 37 times compared to the previous month and made up KZT145.2 bn, volume of trade – KZT72.6 bn). [2015-01-15]