KASE's Management Board approves amendments to Rules of market makers' activities

26.08.25 17:50
/KASE, August 26, 2025/ – By a decision of the Management Board of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) dated August 26, 2025, changes and additions No. 24 (amendments) to KASE's internal document were approved "Rules of market makers' activities" (the Rules). As of August 27, amendments will come into effect with regard to: 1) reduction of the maximum total duration of the timeout for securities (except for securities included in the representative list of KASE Index), namely: - for securities included in the representative list of KASE Index – 90 minutes; - for securities included in the "KASE Global" sector – 192 minutes; - for other corporate securities – 60 minutes; - for government securities – 150 minutes; 2) mandatory announcement by the market maker of quotations during the opening auction, starting from the eighth minute of its holding, and during the closing auction; 3) establishing a gradual increase in the minimum volume of mandatory quotations for affiliated market makers. In addition, the Rules have been amended to bring them into line with the amendments made to the Resolution No. 170 of the Board of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Regulation and Supervision of the Financial Market and Financial Organizations "On Approval of the Rules for the Implementation of Activities of Organization of Trading in Securities and Other Financial Instruments" dated October 29, 2008 (Resolution), which provide for measures to prevent market makers from performing their functions only in relation to specific financial instruments for which violations were committed in the previous period. These measures will be put into effect from the date of entry into force of the amendments to the Resolution. The updated text of the Rules will be published on KASE's official website at https://kase.kz/en/kase_rules/ (tab "Trading" – "Market makers"). [2025-08-26]