Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC informed about results of prescheduled general shareholders meeting

/IRBIS, September 25, 03/ - Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty) has spread press-release about results of the prescheduled general shareholders meeting, which was held on September 24 of 2003. 41 shareholders and their legal representatives participated in the meeting, who owned in the aggregate 72,276,992 voting shares, that was 97.58% of all voting shares of the company. The press-release says that at the meeting there was made decision to change name "Open joint-stock company "Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan " into a new one - "Joint-stock company "Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan ". Besides, following decisions were made: - confirm the new edition of Charter of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC; - confirm corporate management code of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC; - in accordance with acceptance of the Law of RK "About joint-stock companies" authorities of members of the auditing commission of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC have been stopped. Besides, there were confirmed deals concerned with purchasing of 79,500 common inscribed shares of Company for foreign insurance "Kazakhinstrakh" CJSC of the third issue at primary securities market, and also concerned with estrangement of the bank's subordinate coupon bonds of the third issue in favor of Halyk-Leasing CJSC and Company of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan on pension assets management CJSC. There have been included changes and additions into the Rules of purchasing of floated shares by Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC and methods for determining the cost of purchased shares by means of confirming the Rules in the new edition. Besides, the bank has presented information about main results of the bank's activity as of September 1 of 2003 in compliance with Kazakhstan accounting standards. By the mentioned date the bank's assets were equal to KZT227.183 bn. ($1.540 bn.), authorized capital - KZT12.073 bn., shareholders equity - KZT27.169 bn., net profit according to results of the past eight months of the current year reached KZT3.512 bn. Credit portfolio-gross of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC by September 1 was equal to KZT149.2 bn. The also informs that in the total deposit base equaling to KZT147.067 bn. population's term deposits were equal to KZT59.515 bn. According to the bank's data as of September 1 of 2003 its card system comprised 375 cash dispensers, 1858 POS-terminals and 1146 imprinters. The bank's branch network comprises 573 structural subdivisions, including 20 oblast and regional ones, 135 regional branches and 418 cash-settlement offices. [2003-09-25]