OREANDA-NEWS. On December 01 2008 Alliance Bank (Almaty), the listed company of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), provided to KASE the press release of December 1, 2008 on the following, reported the press-centre of KASE:

Alliance Bank (LSE: ALLB) announced on launching of the special website in English for existing and potential investors of the Bank, and its shareholders and external analysts. The website is located at www.albinvestorrelations.com.

The new website will be the most comprehensive and up to date source of information available on Alliance Bank. Its content will cover Alliance Bank's activities, strategic objectives, financial performance and ratings. It will also display the Alliance Bank Investor Calendar and allow investors to easily raise questions to the Investor Relations team.

Functionally website www.albinvestorrelations.com is the "business card" with simplified hierarchical structure. Its information content meets requirements of the target audience, oriented towards the search of actual information on the Bank's current activities and retrospective data. The website structure, titles of its sections headings, and the format of provided information complies with modern requirements for banking institutions websites organization.

"We designed the website to provide investors and analysts with all the relevant information they may need on Alliance Bank. The result is a simple and convenient website with a clear structure and easy to use design", said the Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Managing Director of Alliance Bank, Anvar Khaltayev.

Initial feedback to the website has been very positive with users commenting on the clear layout, easy to navigate structure, and fast loading times. In addition, the main page opens directly in English.

Recent benchmarking exercises by an external party concluded "the site is an efficient tool for disclosing to the investor community the basic values of Alliance Bank, its history, financial performance and its potential".