ON JUNE 27 AT KASE THERE WILL BE HELD SPECIALIZAED TRADES ON ADDITIONAL FLOATATION OF MUNICIPAL BONDS OF ASTANA CITY OF THE 6TH ISSUE

26.06.03 00:00
/KASE, June 26, 03/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) informs that on June 27 of 2003 in KASE's trade system there will be held specialized trades on primary additional floatation of coupon indexed bonds of domestic executive body of Astana city of the sixth issue. The securities' issuer is domestic executive body (akimat) of Astana city. The issuer's financial consultants - Fondoviy service CJSC (Almaty). Juridical consultant of the issuer and the issue is KAZAKHSTAN LEGAL GROUP LLP. The issuer's financial agent is Kazakhstan stock exchange CJSC (Almaty). Register on bonds is maintained by Central depository of securities CJSC (Almaty). Status of bonds' market-maker at KASE has been given to Fondoviy service CJSC. On bonds floatation date the issuer has long-term issuer credit rating and senior debt rating on the level of "Ba1" in foreign and national currencies from Moody's Investors Service. Rating was upgraded from "Ва3" on February 28 of 2003. The bonds were admitted for circulation at the stock exchange by the decision of KASE's Council dated June 20 of 2003, which took effect since June 24. During primary floatation of bonds, which was held at KASE on June 25, the issuer floated at the yield 8.50% APR 9,550,000 bonds to the amount of KZT955,000,000.00 that was 73.5% of the planned issue volume. Below are the issue's parameters, which have been announced by the issuer and his financial consultants, and also main parameters of additional floatation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type of security inscribed coupon bond indexed on changing of the rate of KZT to USD Ordinal number of the issue 6 NIN KZZ4KY040062 KASE trade code AST048.006 Issue currency KZ tenge Servicing currency KZ tenge Type of indexation face value at the rate of KZT to USD of the National Bank of Kazakhstan Par value KZT100 Circulation starting date June 26, 03 (1st day of accumulated interest charging) Maturity date (planned / actual) June 24, 07 / June 25, 07 Circulation term 1460 days (4 years) Type of coupon semi-annual Coupon rate (interest rate) 8.50% APR Dates of coupon payments (planned / actual) 1 Dec 24, 03 / Dec 24, 03 2 June 24, 04 / June 26, 04 3 Dec 23, 04 / Dec 25, 04 4 June 24, 05 / June 25, 05 5 Dec 23, 05 / Dec 24, 05 6 June 24, 06 / June 26, 06 7 Dec 23, 06 / Dec 25, 06 8 June 24, 07 / June 25, 07 Register fixation term at coupon payment 2 working days Register fixation term at maturity 3 working days Announced issue volume, KZT 1,300,000,000.00 Settlement basis actual/365 Rate on circulation starting date (USD/KZT) 148.45 --------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Date of specialized trades conducting June 27, 03 Time of bids submitting to the trades 11:30 - 12:00 of Almaty time Payment date (till 4:00 p.m. ALT) June 27, 03 (Т+0) Volume of additional floatation, KZT 345,000,000.00 Accumulated interest settlements date 0.046575% of indexed face value Rate on additional floatation date (USD/KZT) 148.31 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Indexed par value is calculated as product of the par value shown in the table (in KZT), and devaluation/revaluation rate coefficient (Kd), which is calculated as ratio of official US dollar rate set by the National Bank of Kazakhstan towards KZ tenge (Xt) on current date, to similar rate (Xo) on bonds' circulation starting date (Kd=Xt/Xo, Хо=148.45). Interest rate charging on bonds starts since the date, which follows the day of money transfer by the financial agent for the bonds purchased by buyers at primary floatation to the issuer's account (June 26, 03), and is made during the whole circulation term, including maturity day. The issuer has the right for prescheduled redemption of bonds with interest payment for the time of their actual being in circulation in the next period of interest rate charging. Bonds are offered at prices, which are shown in bids, in presence of fixed coupon interest rate. Subject of haggling is bonds' clean price, which is introduced in KASE trade system without accumulated interest in percentage towards indexed face value with accuracy of four decimal figures. Number of bonds in bid should be equal to total indexed face value of securities in tenge, divisible by indexed face value of one bond. Satisfying of bids for bonds purchasing is made by the issuer by the results of trades after conducting of cutting-off procedure by a step of one hundredth of the price. Bids, prices in which are less than cutting-off price, are cut off. All bids, which are submitted at the price that are equal or more than cutting-off price, are satisfied at the stated in the bid price. The issuer may satisfy all or a part of bids, prices in which are equal to cutting-off price. In this case bids are satisfied in submitted order. Only limited (competitive) bids are admitted to the specialized trades. Bids may be submitted only by KASE members of "К" category (the right to participate in trades in government securities, which are admitted for circulation at the stock exchange). Investors may present bids through broker-dealer companies, which are KASE members of this category. The full list of KASE members of "К" category has been published in the stock exchange's site in the Internet (http://www.kase.kz/kasemembers/). Yet KASE has not received information from the National Bank of Kazakhstan and from the issuer's financial consultant about permission to buy these bonds at the expense of pension assets of accumulative pension funds. [2003-06-26]