/KASE, February 10, 16/ – Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) announces that
a round-table on IPO was held on February 9, 2016 in KASE conference hall.
KASE, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Barclays Bank PLC (Barclays) have
jointly hosted it.
The Roundtable comes within the framework of the memorandum of understanding
signed between KASE and LSEG on 3 November 2015. This took place during the
Kazakhstan government delegation visit to the UK, headed by the President of the
Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
More than 20 participants from the National Bank of Kazakhstan, European Bank
for Reconstruction and Development, and other brokers, lawyers and consultants
attended the Roundtable.
The main objective of the Roundtable was to discuss further and smoother
integration of Kazakhstan into the global capital markets and to attract more
foreign investment to Kazakhstani stocks listed on both KASE and LSE. In
particular, the discussion focused on comparison of Kazakh and international
listing preparation process and shareholder rights, peculiarities of marketing,
bookbuilding, pricing and settlement processes, as well as establishing optimal
means of enhancing liquidity for Kazakh stocks across both KASE and the London
Stock Exchange.
More details are available on KASE website at
http://www.kase.kz/files/press/en/16_02_09_IPO_Roundtable_eng.pdf
[2016-02-10]