SPECIALIZED TRADES ON INITIAL OFFERING OF DEVELOPMENT BANK OF KAZAKHSTAN CJSC FIRST ISSUE BONDS TO BE HELD AT KASE ON MARCH 05

04.03.02 00:00
/KASE, Mar 04, 02, official press release of exchange/ - On March 05,2002 at Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) there will be held specialized trades on initial offering of first issue inscribed coupon indexed non- subordinated bonds of Development Bank of Kazakhstan CJSC (Astana) (KZ2CUY03A396; official list of the KASE securities of category "A", BRKZb1; KZT1,000; KZT4.5bn; Feb 15,02 - Feb 15,07, semiannual coupon at 8.5% APR) issued unsecured. According to bonds issue terms, their par value is indexed at the change of the exchange rate of Kazakhstan tenge to USD. Indexation mechanism is a multiplication of par value of security by devaluation/revaluation temp ratio (Kd), which is calculated as a ratio of current weighted average exchange rate of USD (Xt) during day session of KASE on a deal making date to analogous rate (151.96 tenge per dollar) on a date of circulation starting (February 15,2002). That is Kd=Xt/151.96. Specialized trades will be held in the trade system of KASE from 11:30AM to 5:00PM of Almaty time. The bonds purchased at the auction should be paid by the buyers until 4:00PM Almaty time on March 06, 2002. The issuer plans to offer at the auction KZT1.5bn of debt in par value. Competitive bids (limited in KASE terminology) as well as non-competitive (market in KASE terminology) are admitted to the auction. Volume of non- competitive bids satisfaction is stated in the amount of 70% of actually satisfied demand. Bonds are offered at a price. "Clean" price of the bonds (without accumulated interest) should be expressed in the bids, in percents to indexed face value with accuracy at fur decimals. Since parameter XT will be determined only after 11:00 ALT February 05 accumulated interest as well as parameter Kd in this message are given (in all settlements connected with these bonds the time basis of 30/360 is used, the first accrual date is Feb 15, 02. Total non-indexed face value of the securities in the currency of the issue should be indicated as the quantity of financial instruments in the bid. The volume of submitted bids at the auction will be determined as the product of the quantity of financial instruments and the price with indexed accumulated interest divided by 100. The bids for purchase (including market ones, i.e. non-competitive) - at cut- off price. The issuer will satisfy all the bids, where the price is greater than the cut-off price, as well as all or part of the bids, where the price is equal to cut-off price. In last case the bids submitted to the trade system of the KASE earlier will have superiority. Cut-off incremental is one ten thousandth of the price. The payments for the bonds acquired at specialized trades should be made as an equivalent of total volume of satisfied bids in tenge. Bids can be made only by members of KASE of category "P" (right to participate in trades in corporate securities, which are admitted to official list of the Exchange). Investors may submit bids through these legal entities. Complete list of KASE members holding category "P" is published on (http://www.kase.kz/kasemembers/) web site of the Exchange. The offered bonds according to effecting standard acts can be bought at the expense of pension assets of non-state accumulative pension funds.