Freedom Holding Corp. announces plans to expand range of services provided in Kazakhstan

09.12.21 14:38
/KASE, December 9, 2021/ – Freedom Holding Corp. (USA), whose shares are officially listed on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has provided KASE with the following press release dated December 9, 2021: quote Freedom Holding Corp. signed a preliminary agreement on the acquisition of Insurance Company "Freedom Finance Insurance" JSC and Life Insurance Company "Freedom Finance Life" JSC from the Chief Executive Officer of the holding Timur Turlov. The planned amount of transactions is 6 billion tenge and 5.4 billion tenge, respectively; the companies will be bought for cash. These assets are acquired at the cost of their capital. The transaction will be completed upon receipt of the required regulatory approval. After the end of the purchase procedure, the current chairmen of the Management Board will remain the heads of the companies: Insurance Company "Freedom Finance Insurance" JSC – Daulet Akizhanov, Life Insurance Company "Freedom Finance Life" JSC – Azamat Yerdessov, while the companies themselves will continue to operate normally. In addition, the Holding plans to purchase a universal online payment aggregator PayBox. money after receiving approval from the Committee for Regulation of Natural Monopolies and the online ticket service Ticketon (all permissions received). These companies will be acquired from third parties, the structure and amount of transactions are in the process of agreement between the parties. unquote The complete press release is available on KASE website – https://kase.kz/files/emitters/FRHC_KZ/frhc_reliz_091221.pdf [2021-12-09]