October 2022
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She talked about the official list of instruments of the KASE and basic requirements to listing in each markets and requirements of Regulator in terms of issuing stocks. Coming to ESG topic she highlighted listing process of ESG bonds in KASE.
The final session of the 2nd day was held by Mr Yernur Bekbauov, Specialist of Issuers and Exchange members monitoring department. He gave the the overview of members of KASE market, KASE membership admission procedures, then spoke about the monitoring of listing companies and KASE members and shared the information abot the indicators implemented by KASE.
The 3rd day of the training was fully devoted to ESG topic and started with the presentation by guest speaker Mr Vassiliy Kalabin, Manager, ESG Advisory Team PwC Kazakhstan. He spoke about ESG Development in Kazakhstan. Shared the latest updates about Project of Kazakhstan’s strategy for the decarbonisation of the economy and Green taxonomy of Kazakhstan and Sustainable bonds in Kazakhstan. As conclusion the presented the ESG Disclosure Rating and key figures implemented by PwC Kazakhstan.
Next session was held by Ms Zarina Abitayeva, Director of Issuers and Investors Relations Department of KASE. She presented the Benefits of listing and trading ESG bonds at KASE, KASE listing criteria for ESG bonds, Tax benefits for ESG bonds at KASE, Development of ESG practices and Successful case studies of ESG bonds at KASE as well as Conditions for issuing SME bonds.
The final session of the training was devoted to ESG Reporting and Listing at KASE and was held by Mr Yernur Bekbauov, Specialist of Issuers and Exchange members monitoring department. He talked about information disclosure procedures, factors influencing the degree of transparency, legislative norms and list of information, types of documents required for disclosure. He also introduced electronic document management system implemented by KASE, chronology of the Exchange's requirements for disclosure of ESG information by listed companies as well as general principles of the annual report preparation and annual reports competition methodology.
The conclusion of the day was the certificate award ceremony. Ms Alina Aldambergen congratulated and handed the certificates to training participants with hope that the received information and shared experience would be helpful for upcoming developments.