ON AUGUST 07 SPECIALIZED TRADES ON PRIMARY FLOATATION OF EAST KAZAKHSTAN OBLAST BONDS OF SECOND AND THIRD ISSUES WILL BE HELD AT KASE

05.08.02 00:00
/KASE, August 05, 02/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) informs that on August 07, 2002 the specialized trades on primary floatation of East Kazakhstan oblast bonds of the second and the third issues will be held in the trade system of KASE. This is a second trial of the oblast to offer its bonds of the mentioned issues. The first floatation was conducted on July 24 of the current year in the trade system of KASE. Bid exceeded offer more than twice, but the issuer refused to float due to unacceptable price terms, stated by participants and their clients. Issuer of securities is the local executive body (akimat) of East Kazakhstan oblast. Financial consultant of the issuer - TuranAlem Securities LLP (Almaty). Legal advisor of the issues and the issuer - White&Case LLP (Almaty). Financial agent of the issuer - Kazakhstan stock exchange CJSC (Almaty). Register maintenance on bonds is carried out by Central securities depositary CJSC (Almaty). Market-maker status of bonds at KASE was given to TuranAlem Securities LLP. As for the date of bonds floatation the issuer and its securities have no credit ratings of international rating agencies. Bonds are admitted to circulation at the Exchange by the decision of KASE Board dated July 22, 2002 on the grounds of the Stock exchange council decision dated July 19, 2002. Following are issue parameters, announced by the issuer and its financial consultants, and also main floatation parameters. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type of securities Inscribed coupon bond, indexed to fluctuations of tenge rate to dollar Issue ordinal number 2 3 NSIN KZF2KY030021 KZF2KY070035 KASE trade code VKU036.002 VKU084.003 IRBIS registration number 2/36VKU 3/84VKU Issue currency Kazakhstan tenge Servicing currency Kazakhstan tenge Type of indexation Par value to tenge rate to US dollar of the National Bank of Kazakhstan Par value KZT15,405 - $100 at the National Bank of Kazakhstan on the date of primary floatation Circulation start date August 10, 02 August 10, 02 Maturity date (planned/actual) Aug 08,05/ Aug 07,09/ Aug 08,05 Aug 07,09 Days in circulation 1,095 (3 years) 2,555 (7 years) Type of coupon semiannual semiannual Coupon rate Is a subject to a haggle Coupon payments dates (planned/actual) 1 Feb07,03/Feb07,03 Feb07,03/Feb23,03 2 Aug09,03/Aug11,03 Aug09,03/Aug25,03 3 Feb07,04/Feb09,04 Feb07,04/Feb06,04 4 Aug08,04/Aug09,04 Aug08,04/Aug11,04 5 Feb06,05/Feb07,05 Feb06,05/Feb09,05 6 Aug08,05/Aug08,05 Aug08,05/Aug09,05 7 Feb06,06/Feb07,06 8 Aug08,06/Aug08,06 9 Feb06,07/Feb06,07 10 Aug08,07/Aug08,07 11 Feb06,08/Feb06,08 12 Aug07,08/Aug07,08 13 Feb05,09/Feb05,09 14 Aug07,09/Aug07,09 Register fixation term (coupon, repayment) 3 workdays 3 workdays Authorized issue volume, KZT m 700,000,000.00 2,000,000,000.00 Calculation basis actual/365 actual/365 Date of specialized trades conducting August 07, 02 Time for applications presenting 9:00 - 12:00 AM ALT Payment date (till 4:00 PM ALT) August 09, 02 Offering volume, KZT 390,000,000.00 310,000,000.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Indexed par value is calculated as a product of nominal price, mentioned in the table (in KZT) and devaluation/revaluation temp coefficient (Kd), which in its turn calculated as a ratio of dollar official rate, determined by the National Bank of Kazakhstan in tenge (Xt) on the current date to a similar rate (Xo) on the date of circulation start (Kd=Xt/Xo, Хо=153,70). Interest accrual on bonds begins from the day next to the date of money transfer by financial agent and is made during the whole circulation period, including maturity day. The issuer has a right to execute the before-the-appointed-time settlement with payment of interest for the time of actual presence in circulation in the next period of the interest accrual. The bonds are offered by an auction at par value. The subject of the trade is coupon rate, which enters into KASE trade system as a price in percentage to par value in the annual expression. Number of bonds is stated in their par value and has to be divisible to KZT15,405. Satisfaction of applications on bonds acquisition is carried out by results of specialized trades after making a procedure of cutting with one-hundredth step of rate figure. Those applications are cut, whose yield exceeds the rate, chosen by the issuer as a cut-off rate. All applications submitted at the rat equal or less than cut-off rate will be satisfied at one yield, which is equal to cut-off rate. The issuer might satisfy all or a part of applications, whose rates are equal to cut-off rate. In this case the applications are satisfied in the order of presenting. Only limited (competitive) applications are allowed to participate during the specialized trades. Applications can be submitted only by KASE members of "K": category (the right to participate in trades in government securities, admitted to circulation at KASE). Investors can present applications through broker dealer companies, which are KASE members of this category. A complete list of "K" category KASE members is shown in the Exchange site in Internet (http://www.kase.kz/kasemembers/). Municipal debt can be acquired by pension assets management companies (PAMC) at the expense of pension funds accounts only with presence of corresponding permission of the National Bank of Kazakhstan, which gives a right for every issue. Till present, KASE has no appropriate document regarding East Kazakhstan bonds of the second and the third issues. It will be informed later about the decision of the NBK. [2002-08-05]