GSH of Alliance Bank JSC (Kazakhstan) is not sold at KASE on December 3 due to absence of demand, trades will be continued till December 31

03.12.04 11:08
/KASE, December 3, 04/ - Today at Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) the first trade of government share holding (GSH) of Alliance Bank JSC (Almaty) was held. Initiator of trades was Committee of government property and privatization of Ministry of finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Committee), which through the mediation of Information-stocking center RGE (Almaty) presented at exchange trades under code NZ_ASBN indivisible by lot holding from 12,955 common shares of Alliance Bank JSC (1.85% from total paid number of floated shares of Alliance Bank JSC). These shares of the bank at present are traded in the official listing of KASE securities of "A" category under code ASBN and have NIN KZ1C40310019. In course of session the only bid was given at trades - for sale of GSH with price KZT13,000.00 per share Demand was absent, in the result trades were acknowledged as non-resulting. According to the official letter of authorized by Committee broker, Information-stocking center RGE is authorized to fulfill sale of above GSH at KASE till December 31, 2004. In this connection he informed at KASE, that trades NZ_ASBN will be continued from December 6, 2004 according to terms of sale determined on December 3. These terms, along with lot parameters, which are given above, includes the following. Trades of GSH at KASE will be held in the frame of trade session on corporate securities from 11:30 to 17:00 of Almaty time by method of open trades according to section II of KASE internal document "Description of methods to conduct trades " (http://www.kase.kz/geninfo/normbase/methods.pdf). In every case coincidence of purchase and sale prices as per bids figures in course of open trade KASE system will automatically open for 15 minutes trades with corresponding instrument by Frankfurt method (article 3, part I, section IV, "Description of methods to conduct trades"). In course of this trade potential buyers, competing with each other, may give bids with more high prices. Closing of trade period by Frankfurt method happens not less than after 5 minutes from the moment of applying the last bid, changes and cancellations of any bid by any of participant of the trade. Thus, if trades by lot on Frankfurt method started later 16:45 of Almaty time, they may be closed after 17:00, but in any case - untill 18:00. GSH should be quoted at KASE in Kazakhstan tenge for one share with accuracy to second decimal. For participating in trades before their starting potential buyers should transfer to KASE correspondent account guaranteeing fee in the amount of KZT12,955.0 th. to the following requisites: correspondent account number 900161427 in payment system management of National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, BIC 190201125, TRN 600200049149, Kbe 15, code of payment purpose - 171. Bids for participation in trades may be given only by KASE members of "H" category. Investors may give bids through their legal entities. Full list of KASE members of "H" category is published in web site of exchange http://www.kase.kz/kasemembers/. Committee does not establish any limits for investors, it means that, shares at trades may be bought by any individual or legal entity, who is resident, as well as non-resident of the Republic of Kazakhstan. As GSH shares are included in the official KASE listing of "A" category, they may be bought at the cost of pension assets of accumulative pension funds of Kazakhstan. Calculations on results of trades to be held according to article 7 of KASE internal document "Government share holdings. Order of admission to sale at trades and calculations on results of trades" (http://www.kase.kz/geninfo/normbase/gpa.pdf). According to this document amount of transaction excluding amount of KASE commission premium and previously transferred guarantee fee should be charged by buyer of GSH to correspondent account of Central depositary of securities CJSC (Almaty) during seven working days from the day of its conclusion. In Internet trades of GSH will be broadcasted in on-line environment http://bird.kase.kz/applets/NZ_ASBN.html. [2004-12-03]