ORGANISERS

NYSE Euronext
Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Regulation of Almaty Regional Financial Center Activities
Advantix Ltd
Kazakhstan stock exchange
Almaty Investment Management
Centras Securities
AFIA

NYSE Euronext, a holding company created by the combination of NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext N.V., commenced trading on April 4, 2007. NYSE Euronext (NYSE Euronext: NYX) operates the world’s largest and most liquid exchange group and offers the most diverse array of financial products and services. NYSE Euronext, which brings together six cash equities exchanges in five countries and six derivatives exchanges in six countries, is a world leader for listings, trading in cash equities, equity and interest rate derivatives, bonds and the distribution of market data. Representing a combined $30.3 trillion/€21.3 trillion total market capitalization of listed companies and average daily trading value of approximately $139 billion/€103 billion (as of September 30, 2007), NYSE Euronext seeks to provide the highest standards of market quality and integrity, innovative products and services to investors, issuers, and all users of its markets. NYSE Euronext is part of the S&P 500 and S&P 100 indexes.

Euronext N.V., a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext, has successfully integrated local markets across Europe to provide users with a unified market that is broad, liquid and cost effective. Euronext is the largest central order book cash market in Europe and the second largest derivatives exchange in the world, by value of business traded. Following the initial three-way merger of the local exchanges of Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris, Euronext acquired the London-based derivatives market LIFFE and merged with the Portuguese exchange in 2002. Euronext’s unique business model incorporates the individual strengths and assets of each local market and has been implemented on all of Euronext’s markets, covering technological integration, the harmonisation of market rules and the regulatory framework. The implementation of Euronext’s horizontal model designed to generate synergies has proved that the most successful way to merge European exchanges is to apply global vision at a local level. Euronext’s IT integration was completed in 2004, when a four-year migration plan resulted in harmonised IT platforms for cash trading (NSC®) and derivatives (LIFFE CONNECT®). As a result, every market participant now has a single point of access to trading.

The agency on regulation of activity of the Regional Financial Center of Almaty is created by the Decree of President of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 01 02.2006 № 55. The basic objective of agency is creation of stock market on the level of industrially developed countries, which will help to attract long-term investments between the countries of Eastern Europe and Asia that allows for high liquidity of Kazakhstan stock market and providing the exit for Kazakhstan capital onto the foreign stock markets. RFCA is a separate part of the financial market of Kazakhstan with simplified access to it for non-residents. Its legal status – Zone with special legal regime which is valid on the entire territory of Almaty city. Only requirements for working within RFCA are registration with the executive body of RFCA (Agency) and office in the city of Almaty. Any foreign or domestic financial organization with a good reputation can set up a brokerage company in RFCA. Financial operations in RFCA can be done in US Dollars, Kazakhstan Tenge, Russian Roubles and other currencies of the region. Financial transactions of organizations set up in RFCA are not restricted by currency regulation laws of Kazakhstan Agency of RK on regulation of the activity of RFCA manages the Financial Centre and carries out the registration of its members. The Agency is a state body and reports directly to the President of the RK. Agency of RK on regulation of financial markets and financial organizations overlooks the activity of the stock exchange and companies set up in RFCA. Arguments between members of RFCA are solved either through the specialized financial court of RFCA or court of arbitration. International Consulting Council will be responsible for the strategy and will coordinate activity of the RFCA Agency. Its members will include leading domestic and international experts of the financial sector.

Founded in 2002 Advantix Ltd has become one of the UK’s fast growing and successfully developing Business Communications agencies working with emerging Eurasian Economies including Russia and CIS states.

In cooperation and in partnership with the World’s leading international organisations and firms, Advantix offers extensive business communications and business development services including:

Organisation of relationship marketing events
Corporate training
Media communications
Strategic marketing
Brand communications
Electronic publishing
Translation
Financial advisory and project development

Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) was founded in 1993. Currently KASE is the leading universal Central Asian exchange providing services to the following markets: nego and automatic repo on security of government and corporate securities; foreign currency; government securities; bonds of international financial organizations and foreign government securities; notes; shares; corporate bonds. KASE fundamental techniques are the electronic trading system; operability of the electronic trading system in the remote access mode; use of programming-cryptographic information security devices at operation of the electronic trading system in the remote access mode; Internet-trading.

JSC «Almaty Invest Management» is a dynamically developing financial company striving to held its leading positions on the equity market of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The main purposes of the Company - to extend its services range, to implement the equity market best practices and to make its own contribution in Kazakhstan integration to the world community.

The Company's key direction is to provide our Clients with high quality and universal service within the equity market.

«Centras Securities», JSC is a dynamic Kazakh investment company which specializes in providing non-banking alternative financial services.

The main purpose of the Centras Group is to implement the world experience and practice into local business.

The Centras Group includes the principal company “Centras Securities”, JSC rendering full package of financial services in Kazakhstan, “Centras-Capital”, CJSC, a Moscow based investment company and an insurance company “Centras Insurance”.

The strong professional team of Centras renders a wide range of financial and investment services, in particular:

Debt and Equity Financing. Advisory on local bonds, stocks, promissory notes issue and placement. Track record includes projects with such companies as Kazakhtelecom, Kazakhaltyn, Heidelberg Vostok Cement, Tsesnabank, Kazneftehim, etc
Asset Management: 5 Investment Funds, specializing in different markets – local, global, Russian, venture capital and private equity. Establishment of the Centras Private Equity Funds with EBRD’s core participation in January 2007 emphasizes new strategic direction for Centras
Brokerage: wide range of financial instruments for investing in: securities, derivative financial instruments, payment instruments and money market instruments. Centras intends to actively work on RFCA through specially incorporated company Centras Financial
Non-life insurance: strong team with aggressive policy to emerge from corporate insurance to wide retail insurance implementing integrated insurance solutions.

Strong team of specialists, led by innovative leader has an extensive experience on financial markets, wide range of services, efficiency of rendering these services and individual approach to each client – main fundamentals of success for Centras.

One of the main conditions of the Kazakhstan integration in the international investment society is ensuring that all professional market participants (investment fund managers, analysts, investment bankers, financial advisors etc.) maintain the highest standards in their professional activities.

AFIA is planning to promote on the Kazakhstan market qualification standards and ethical norms, consistent with best international investment practices. Members of AFIA must not only conform to these high professional standards but also they must be able to accept responsibility for consequences of investment decisions taken on the basis of their recommendations. Creation of the Association of Financial and Investment Analysts in our country and development of the national CIIA certification will become an important infrastructural element in Kazakh financial market development and its preparation for economical globalisation process which is currently happening in the world.