REFERENCE: SB Alfa-Bank OJSC (Kazakhstan) - general information, licenses, activities

/IRBIS, information of the KASE Listing commission, March 4, 02/ - The following information is published due to the admittance of the first issue indexed inscribed coupon bonds of SB Alfa-Bank OJSC (SB Alfa-Bank OJSC, Almaty) into official list of the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) under category "A". GENERAL INFORMATION Date of initial state registration - Dec 9, 1994. Date of last re-registration - Apr 19, 1999. Legal status - open joint stock company. Primary activities - banking services. The legal and actual address: 57a, Masanchi St., Almaty, 480012, Kazakhstan. Tel.: (8-3272) 920012, 920021, fax: 507803. Email: alfabank@nursat.kz. LICENSES - State license #236 to conduct banking transactions in tenge and foreign currency and other transactions specified in the banking law of June 4, 2001. - The license #0401100292 of the National Securities Commission of Kazakhstan to engage in brokerage and dealing activities on the stock market with the right to handle client accounts as a nominal holder of Aug 17, 2000 with no expiration term. ACTIVITIES SB Alfa-Bank OJSC was established on Dec 9, 1994 as a subsidiary bank of Alfa-bank OJSC (Moscow, Russia), which is one of the three major commercial banks of Russia and has a wide network of branches in its territory. SB Alfa-Bank OJSC is the bank with foreign stake. The bank offers a wide range of banking services, including financing in tenge and foreign currency, settlement and documentary operations, servicing the plastic cards, acceptance of deposits, and other services. The competitive advantage of the bank is the ability of making settlements and transfers in Russian roubles to any place in Russia using the network of Alfa- bank OJSC and Sberbank RF JSC. Now, SB Alfa-Bank OJSC serves more than 3,500 Kazakhstani and joint companies. The bank clients are the companies of all legal statuses, from different industries and in various activities. The bank is focused on major corporate clients: trade companies, industrial producers, financial institutions etc. The bank has correspondent relations with a number of foreign banks - Bankers Trust Company (USA), Deutsche Bank AG (Germany), Commerzbank AG (Germany), as well as - banks of Kazakhstan (KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC, Temirbank OJSC, Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC, Bank CenterCredit OJSC, Nauryz Bank Kazakhstan OJSC). SB Alfa-Bank OJSC is a member of Kazakhstan interbank clearing, S.W.I.F.T. international payment system, and Western Union money transfer system. As of January 1, 2002 the bank had a head office in Almaty and 3 branches in Astana, Karagandy, Oskemen. Staff of the bank, including branches is 209 people.