OREANDA-NEWS. Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty), whose securities are officially listed on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has provided KASE with the following press-release:

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JSC Halyk Bank (the "Bank") has issued 1,000,000 (one million) cards of international payment system MasterCard (the "payment system").

Halyk Bank was among the first commercial banks of Kazakhstan who started their cooperation with this payment system, thus becoming MasterCard principal member in 1994.

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The full press-release is available on KASE website at http://www.kase.kz/files/emitters/HSBK/hsbk_relis_241215_en.pdf