/IRBIS, May 24, 00/ - As it was informed earlier, from May 23 and 26 primary auction for offering common inscribed shares of OJSC "Astana- finance" (official list of securities, category "B", KZ1C7671418, trade code in regular mode - ASFI) will be conducted on trade floor of KASE.

During the first auction the issuer was able to sell 176 shares for a total of KZT176 th. Seven deals were made. All deals were made at face value of a share - KZT1000.00.

Total result of two placing days - 252 shares for KZT252 th Please note that the issuer intends to offer 2,000 shares for a total of KZT2 mln.

Distinctive feature of the auction is that the organizers of the project - issuer, KASE, CJSC "Fondovyi Servis" (Almaty) and OJSC "Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan (Almaty) - give the private persons in Astana an opportunity to buy the shares of OJSC "Astana-finance" through Internet. Monitors connected to the Internet were set up in Astana at three branches of OJSC "Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan." They give an opportunity to follow the trades and observe the quotations in real time mode. Also, anyone can make the bids to purchase the shares. The bids will be transmitted to the Exchange using remote access system for a quick execution. All settlements by the results of conducted deals will be made using "T+0" scheme, that is on the day the bids and the deals were made on.

As the representative of CJSC "Fondovyi Servis" informed IRBIS, there had already been registered several cases when individuals bought shares through branches of Halyk Bank. He also expressed confidence in