People are keen to trust people in uniforms. In the age of artificial intelligence and fake images, it might be too dangerous. Nikolai Legkodimov, a tech expert, shares his thoughts about these risks in his op-ed. Near the home stadium of the German football club “Union”, famous among other things…
The Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) has been gradually declining since early January after active growth in late 2023. It is still in the positive zone, though. Inflation is also slowing down, which is why Kazakhstanis less often report price increases looking back to last year and last month. They’ve also…
Following the start of trading with Air Astana’s stocks on the KASE and AIX, the airline has summarized the results of its initial public offering (IPO). According to the company, the total number of orders for the stock surpassed its supply, thanks to the support of Kazakhstani and international investors.…
Freedom Finance Global is going to provide investors an opportunity to acquire stocks and global depository receipts (GDR) of Air Astana on the AIX and London Stock Exchange (LSE) before the start of the standard trading session scheduled on February 15, according to a press release by the AIX. Premarket…
Nearly 220 years ago, in January 1802, a heinous crime was committed in London. A certain George Forster murdered his wife and child, discarding their bodies in a canal. While Forster’s conflicts with his wife were well-known, it was the immediate discovery of her body contrasted with the three-day search…
Even though Jusan Invest’s analysts described the last production report by Kazatomprom as «fundamentally negative,» they have recommended buying the stocks as their price can surge by 40%. The authors of the report have set the target price for Kazatomprom’s stock at $62.40 with the recommendation «to buy,» although they…
The Ministry of National Economy has added Mobile Telecom Service LLC to the list of entities that must be transferred to the private sector before 2025. Mobile Telecom runs two mobile operators, Tele2 and Altel, and belongs to Kazakhtelecom. The corresponding adjustments in the document were published on the legalacts.egov.kz…
Independent examination by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and Forensic Risk Alliance has proven that accusations against Freedom Holding Corp. presented in a report by Hindenburg Research were false, according to a press release by the holding. The legal firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius was established in the U.S. in…
The Association of Financiers of Kazakhstan (AFK) has summed up the results of 2023 for the country’s stock market. In its review of the market, the AFK analyzed the performance of stock indexes, the stock value of leading Kazakhstani companies and the pool of retail investors and assets under management…
The Astana International Exchange (AIX), a trading platform within the Astana International Financial Center (AIFC), has reported its results for 2023. Over the past twelve months, the total volume of trade at the exchange has grown more than threefold from $173 million to $582 million. The stock market, in turn,…
The current shareholders of Kaspi.kz are going to sell around nine million depository receipts during an initial public offering on Nasdaq, according to a report filed to the U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC), Bloomberg reported. By now, depository receipts issued by the fintech group are traded on the London…
Intensity Therapeutics, a U.S. company that produces drugs specifically designed to treat breast cancer, has presented the results of its latest studies that have proven 95% efficacy of the INT230-6 drug against cancer cells. As a result, the company’s stock value has risen by 2.5 times. In June 2023, Intensity…
The Turkish market of IPOs has demonstrated record-high results this year, both in terms of the number of companies that went public and the amount of funds that have been raised. In 2023, Turkish companies raised more than $2.3 billion through IPOs. In November, Borsa Istanbul conducted an opening bell-ringing…
Hedge funds that bet on short positions have lost more than $43 billion due to a market rally on the U.S. stock market in less than a week. Short sellers who shorted against companies with growing borrowing costs over at least the past twelve months have been severely hit by…
DayDayCook (DDC), a Chinese food company that went public in the middle of November, can repurchase part of its shares in order to support its share price, two people familiar with the matter told Kursiv. As of Tuesday, the stock price was 33% lower than during the initial offering. Details…
The last six months have been like a roller coaster ride for the global stock market. First, the key indexes soared close to their record highs rebounding from pessimism related to the COVID-19 pandemic, but then plunged to the levels from which they started. The modern world faces many challenges…
According to analysts of Freedom Broker, which monitors the price of Kaspi.kz global depository receipts traded on the LSE, the security’s price is going to rise by 31%. The forecast is based on a quarterly report by Kaspi.kz published earlier this week. Freedom Broker has described this report as moderately…
Kaspi.kz, the fintech company from Kazakhstan, announced that it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form F-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the proposed public offering of American depositary shares representing the company’s common shares by existing holders of the company’s depositary shares. «Kaspi.kz…
It’s been two months since the attack by Hindenburg Research (HR) on the stock of Freedom Holding Corp. (FRHC). On August 15, HR published its report on FRHC, where speculators accused the holding of breaching sanctions, falsification of revenue, high-risk transactions with clients’ money and manipulating the market. Timur Turlov,…
First Heartland Securities controlled by Galimzhan Yessenov, a son-in-law of Akhmedjan Essimov, former mayor of Almaty, announced that it has decided to conduct the delisting of its shares from the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), the exchange said in a statement. This decision was made by the sole shareholder of the…
KASE index, the key stock market index in Kazakhstan, reported a 1.9% decline in May after a 6.2% surge in April. Over the past three years, this is the first time the index has decreased. According to the platform’s data, six companies on the index have shown negative results. Kazatomprom…
Clients of the United Accumulative Pension Fund (UAPF) will be able to transfer 50% of their pension savings to any investment company they want starting from July 1, 2023, according to the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population. Even though people had the right to use their…
The government of Kazakhstan is going to extend the amount of fixed capital investments (FCI) to $41.5 billion in 2023. Last year, this rate was only about $3.1 billion, according to Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov, who chaired the meeting of an inter-agency board on investments. As National Economy Minister Alibek…
In March, the Astana International Exchange (AIX) reported 638,200 accounts, a 3.8fold increase over the same period last year. Individuals from Kazakhstan account for the vast majority of these accounts. As of the end of March, there were 636,300 such accounts. The number of foreign citizens who have decided to…
