Decision of KASE's Council about including shares of DANABANK OJSC (Kazakhstan) into official list of the exchange took effect since October 17

/KASE, October 17, 03/ - As was informed previously, by the decision of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange's (KASE) Council dated October 10, 2003 common inscribed shares (KZ1C37561510; KZT1.0 m., KZT1,000.00) of DANABANK OJSC (Pavlodar) have been included into KASE's official "B" listing category. At KASE the shares have been assigned trade code DNBN. The mentioned decision of the Exchange Council came in force since October 17 of 2003 as the issuer paid the entrance and the first annual listing fees for the securities and made the Agreement about listing with KASE. The date of first trades in the shares at KASE will be announced later. In the trade system of KASE the shares will be quoted in tenge with the accuracy of 2 decimal figures. Paid authorized capital of DANABANK OJSC as of July 1 of 2003 was equal to KZT763,000,000. The bank has registered a total of six shares issues, which at present are in effect. Within the framework of all issues there were issued 1,000,000 common inscribed shares with total face value of KZT1,000,000,000. All shares of the bank have been issued in non- documentary form and have the single NIN - KZ1C37561510. Dividends on the bank's common shares were not paid within the period of its existence. The bank's shareholders register is maintained by FONDOVIY CENTER CJSC (Almaty, license #0406200253). More detailed information about the shares and their issuer will be published in KASE's web-site (www.kase.kz) in the nearest future. [2003-10-17]