Amendments to Rules for market makers' activities effective as of June 1

28.05.24 14:58
/KASE, May 28, 2024/ – By a decision of the Management Board of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE, or the Exchange) dated May 27, 2024, changes and additions No. 22 (amendments) to KASE's internal document "Rules for market makers' activities" (the Rules) were approved, with effect as of June 1, 2024. The amendments provide for the availability of Scheme 2 for market makers in the market for one-day repo transactions, whose underlying assets are general collateral certificates (GCC), with the following conditions: - the minimum volume of maintaining a quote for sale or purchase is 1.0 billion tenge; - the maximum spread size is 1.0 % between the yield values of mandatory quotes (for bilateral quotes) or 1 percentage point from the last value of the weighted average yield of the current day on one-day repo transactions with a GS basket with the CCP, in case of its absence – from the weighted average yield of the previous day on one-day repo transactions with a GS basket with the CCP; - time for announcing and maintaining mandatory quotations – from 11:30 to 15:00 Almaty time; - the maximum total time-out duration is 30 minutes; - the aggregate daily minimum volume is the 15-fold mandatory quotation minimum volume. Market makers on one-day repo transactions with GCC will be provided with benefits on the payment of commission and clearing fees in the amount of 75%. When the market maker reaches the volume of one-day repo transactions with GCC in the amount of 300.0 billion tenge, a discount on the payment of these fees in the amount of 100 % is provided. At the same time, in case of violation of the market maker's duties: - for the first failure to fulfill obligations within one calendar month, a KASE member loses the right to a benefit in paying commission fees on transactions concluded during a given trading session; - for a subsequent case of failure to fulfill the duties of a market maker within one calendar month, KASE has the right to strip a KASE member of the status of a market maker. The updated text of the Rules will be published on KASE's Internet resource at https://kase.kz/en/kase_rules/ (tab "Trading" – "Market Makers"). [2024-05-28]