First issue bonds of Development Bank of Kazakhstan CJSC passed KASE listing under category "A"

/KASE, Feb 19, 02/ - From February 19, 2002, by the decision of the Exchange council of the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) first issue inscribed coupon bonds of Development Bank of Kazakhstan (Almaty; KZ2CKY05A473; KZT4.5bn; KZT1,000; Feb 15.02 - Feb 15.07; semiannual coupon at 8.5% APR) were admitted to the official list of KASE securities under category "A". By the decision of the Board of KASE, the bonds were assigned a trade code BRKZb1. The quotation accuracy in the trade system of the Exchange is set at three decimal places. The market-maker status of BRKZb1 at KASE was given to Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty) and AMB OJSC (Almaty) based on their submitted applications. The minimum volume of mandatory bids for the market-makers is set at 400 bonds. Additional information will be presented about the opening date of the trades at KASE, as well as admittance of the bonds into the list used to calculate KASE_BP, KASE_CP and KASE_BY indexes.