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ANNUAL REPORT JUNE 2010 FEDERATION OF EURO-ASIAN STOCK EXCHANGES MONGOLIAN STOCK EXCHANGE Government of Mongolia announced “2010 as a year of business environment renovation”. Rentson Sodkhuu Chairman and CEO Dear readers I would like to express my warm greetings and best wishes to all of you on the 19th anniversary of the securities market and Mongolian Stock Exchange in the Year. The securities market and the securities industry, which were new phenomenon and first introduced together with democratic transition in the country, thus has demonstrated successful performance during the recent years and continues its way ahead to meet the global standards. 2008-2009 year was the year, where world financial crisis was deepened and hit Mongolian economy hard. Consequences of the crisis are already being felt in the society. It expects to continue in 2010. Even though we were greeting the 2009 with difficulty of crises, we welcomed 2010 with positive increases in major indicators of our capital market and some affirmative news about overcoming crisis. TOP-20 index that was reaching 11000 point dramatically fell down till 4200 point on March 27 2008. At present it tends to increase and market capitalization of MSE as of 03.15.2010 stood at 823.3 billion tugriks or 580 million US$. In 2009, total of 89.9 mln stocks of 131 Joint Stock Companies (JSC) were traded through 255 trading sessions on MSE with total transactions worth of 23.2 bln MNT. In 2009, 11.2 percent of total trading value was an IPO trading whereas 88.8 percent was a secondary market trading. As of December 2009 the total market capitalization of listed companies reached 620.7 bln MNT indicating an increase of 20.3% or 104.8 bln MNT compared to the same period of previous year. A year of 2010 has become a starting point for implementing objectives to develop Mongolian capital market as a classical way. By the end of 2009, during the “Capital market-key to development” seminar, Prime Minister of Mongolia criticized that foreign joint stock companies are raising capitals by using Mongolian deposits as collaterals and why we- Mongolians cannot raise capital like them and he obliged relevant organizations to pay attention on this issues and to take an immediate action. I think this action is a start of further development of Mongolian capital market. Mongolian capital market was first established, since then contribution and efforts of the national processionals, who dedicated themselves to the development of the capital market were not ignored and do not become useless. As a result of our endless efforts, we have seen that Government of Mongolia, which neglected the development of capital market over 10 years, had begun to know the importance of the capital HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT Historical timeline Mongolian Stock Exchange was first established by the Government Decree of 18th January 1991. MSE is a state-owned JSC that holds all rights to engage in any legal business activities and is a sole provider of the securities trade related services in Mongolia. 1991.01.18 MSE was established by the Government Decree No.22. 1992.02.07 Primary market trading started. 1994.09.26 Securities law enacted. 1994.11.14 Mongolian Securities & Exchange Commission was established 1995.08.28 Secondary market trading started. 1996.10.25 Government bond trading first started. 1998.10.01 MSE joined Federation of Euro- Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS). 2001.06.08 Corporate bond trading started. 2002.12.03 MoU on cooperation was signed with Taiwan Stock Exchange 2003.03.26 Mongolian Stock Exchange became a Joint Stock Company 2004.10.29 First time, a special license of Underwriting Service was issued to Securities Company. The main duties and functions of MSE are: to list securities of joint stock companies, to facilitate securities trading by ensuring technical and software/hardware safety and reliability, to ensure fair and transparent trading as well as efficient dissemination of securities trading information to the public and to protect general rights and interests of investors. PAGE 120 market and pay attention on it. This is our achievement and I would like to congratulate and express my sincere gratitude to all professionals and participants of Mongolian capital market. In order to develop Mongolian capital market and bring it at the international standard, issue of infrastructure development has become substantial. We have to do it. Developing infrastructure of Mongolian capital market means a combination of the high quality technologies, which connects all participants in capital market such as issuers, buyers and professional organizations, and trained staffs, who operate those technologies. Government of Mongolia announced “2010 as a year of business environment renovation” and this year will become the first year where national largest shareholding companies will be established, stock of those companies will be traded at domestic and international capital markets and financial new sources will be created and utilized in Mongolia. Let’s strive together for achieving this purpose. We-Mongolian national professionals of capital market will do their best to boost Mongolian economy. May Mongolia become a prosperous and developed nation! 2005.01.02 Financial Regulatory Commission of Mongolia was established. 2005.03.30 MSE information center was established. 2005.09.12 MoU on cooperation was signed with Gre Tai Securities Market. 2005.10.31 MSE Training Center was established. 2006.01.18 Celebrated 15th anniversary of MSE. 2006.06.15 MoU on cooperation was signed with with Korea Exchange. 2006.07.19 MoU on cooperation was signed with Istanbul Stock Exchange. 2008.03.26 Market capitalization has reached its peak of 893.4 bln MNT. 2008.04.10 MSE joined the Asia Ocenian Stock Exchanges Federation (AOSEF). 2008.04.10 The MoU was signed with Singapore Exchange. 2008.05.15 MoU was signed with Tokyo Stock Exchange. 2009.03.17 MoU was signed with Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange.