KASE admits EDB to trade in securities and derivatives

10 February 2017
Almaty, 10 February 2017. The Kazakhstan Stock Exchange's (KASE) Management Board passed a resolution to admit Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) to trade in securities and derivatives at KASE from 10 February 2017.

As a participant in the securities and derivatives categories, EDB plans to trade actively at the repo and government securities markets and, should there be respective demand, increase liquidity for USD/KZT futures in the derivatives market.

In the past year, in order to integrate the financial markets of Kazakhstan and Russia, EDB became a market maker for the RUB/KZT pair at the Moscow Exchange and KASE. 


Additional Information:

Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) is an international financial institution founded by Russia and Kazakhstan in January 2006 with the mission to facilitate the development of market economies, sustainable economic growth, and the expansion of mutual trade and other economic ties in its member states. EDB’s charter capital totals US $7 billion. The member states of the Bank are the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan.

Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) is a leading stock exchange in Central Asia and the only stock exchange in Kazakhstan operating in the financial market. It is a universal trading floor for financial instruments such as repo transactions, currencies, government and corporate securities, international financial institutions' bonds, and derivatives.

KASE is a member of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS) and other international and national professional associations. In 2015, KASE joined the United Nation's Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative. KASE ranks second in the CIS in terms of trade in securities and is among FEAS top five members in terms of the shares market capitalisation.

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