ON JULY 24 AT KASE THERE WILL BE HELD SPECIALIZAED TRADES ON ADDITIONAL FLOATATION OF MUNICIPAL BONDS OF ATYRAU OBLAST OF THE 4TH ISSUE

21.07.03 00:00
/KASE, July 21, 03/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) informs that on July 24 of 2003 in KASE's trade system there will be held specialized trades on primary additional floatation of municipal bonds of Atyrau oblast of the fourth issue. The securities' issuer is domestic executive body (akimat) of Atyrau oblast. The issuer's financial consultant is TuranAlem Securities JSC (Almaty). Juridical consultant of the issuer is White & Case LLP (Almaty). Register on bonds is maintained by Central depository of securities CJSC (Almaty). Status of bonds' market-maker at KASE has been given to TuranAlem Securities JSC. At present the issuer has long-term credit rating "Ba2" on borrowings in domestic and national currencies from Moody's Investors Service. The bonds were admitted for circulation at KASE by the decision of KASE's Council dated May 8 of 2003. During primary floatation of bonds, which was held at KASE on May 14, the issuer floated 23,530,000 bonds at the yield of 8.50% APR to the amount of KZT2,353,000,000.00 that was 69.2% of the planned issue volume. At the specialized trades on bonds' primary additional floatation, which were held at KASE on May 28, the issuer floated 1,040,000 bonds at the yield of 8.50% APR to the amount of KZT1,040,000,000.00 that was 30.6% of the planned issue volume. Total volume of bonds, which were offered at the specialized trades on May 14 and 28, equaled to KZT3,393,000,000.00 at the face value or 99.8% 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 4 NIN KZЕ4KY050046 KASE trade code ART060.004 Issue currency KZ tenge Servicing currency KZ tenge Type of indexation face value on changing of the rate of KZT to USD of the National Bank of Kazakhstan Par value KZT100 Circulation starting date May 16, 03 (accumulated interest charging) Maturity date (planned / actual) May 13, 08 Circulation term 1,825 days (5 years) Type of coupon semi-annual Coupon rate (interest rate) 8.50% APR Dates of coupon payments (planned / actual) 1 Nov 13, 03 / Nov 13, 03 2 May 14, 04 / May 14, 04 3 Nov 12, 04 / Nov 12, 04 4 May 14, 05 / May 16, 05 5 Nov 12, 05 / Nov 14, 05 6 May 14, 06 / May 15, 06 7 Nov 12, 06 / Nov 13, 06 8 May 14, 07 / May 14, 07 9 Nov 12, 07 / Nov 12, 07 10 May 13, 08 / May 13, 08 Register fixation term at coupon payment 2 working days Register fixation term at maturity 3 working days Announced issue volume, KZT 3,400,000,000.00 Settlement basis actual/365 Rate on circulation starting date (USD/KZT) 151.40 --------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Date of specialized trades conducting July 14, 03 Time of bids submitting to the trades 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. of Almaty time Payment date (till 4:00 p.m. ALT) 25.07.03 (Т+1) Volume of additional floatation, KZT 7,000,000.00 Accumulated interest settlements date 1.6534% of the face value -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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=151.40). 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 (May 16, 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/). [2003-07-21]