Kazakhstan Stock Exchange JSC (hereinafter – the Exchange, KASE) on February 19, 2019 held the annual ceremony to award the best members of the Exchange, listed companies, as well as representatives of mass media for the best coverage of Kazakhstan's stock market and KASE's operations in 2018.
Kazkommerts Securities (subsidiary of Kazkommertsbank) became the winner in the nomination "Underwriter of the year on the corporate bond market" among members of the Exchange.
Freedom Finance is the winner in the nomination "Leader of the equity market" demonstrating the most trading activity in this sector of the exchange market.
In the nomination "Leader of the corporate bond market" awards were presented to two participants: Subsidiary of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan "Halyk Finance" and Freedom Finance.
In the nomination "Leader of the government securities market" the most active participant of this market segment was Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan, with the most activity coefficient in 2018 (Ka=2.88).
Freedom Finance who was a market-maker for eight stocks won the nomination "Market-maker of the year on the equity market". The amount of Freedom Finance's market-maker deals made up KZT11.7 bn, the number of deals – 8,449.
Subsidiary of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan "Halyk Finance" who is a market-maker for 21 corporate bond issuances was honored in the nomination "Market-maker of the year on the corporate bond market".
The nomination "For significant contribution to attracting investors" was awarded to Freedom Finance for the most number of new active trading accounts.
To encourage members of the Exchange who significantly contributed to the exchange market's development, the "Leader of the trading amount" was established.
SkyBridge Invest was presented an award as "Leader of trading amount on the secondary CS market" and Citibank Kazakhstan won the nomination "Leader of trading amount on the foreign currency market" based on 2018 results.
Among KASE-listed companies in 2018 diplomas "For aspiration to transparency" were awarded to:
– financial sector companies: Development Bank of Kazakhstan and Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan;
– non-financial sector companies: National company "KazMunayGaz" and KazTransOil.
In nominations: "Underwriter of the year on the equity market", "Market-maker of the year on the government securities market", "For development of the derivatives market" there were no winners.
KASE also awarded diplomas to mass media representatives who actively covered Kazakhstan's stock market and KASE operations in 2018. These mass media representatives showed a high professional level of presenting materials in intelligible and interesting form.
Tatyana Panchenko (website forbes.kz) was awarded a diploma in the nomination "Best news story on Internet resources".
Anastasia Gnatko (production center "LS TV") was awarded a diploma in the nomination "Best TV report".
More information in the
press release.