OREANDA-NEWS. December 11, 2009. The Exchange Council of the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) approved a new internal document of KASE "Regulations on Commercial Terms of Real-Time Market Data Dissemination" (the Regulations), effective January 1, 2010, reported the press-centre of KASE.

The Regulations define the order, general terms and pricing policies on real-time distribution of exchange Market Data (the Market Data) to vendors.

The Regulations have been developed to set uniform fixed tariffs for vendors of real-time Market Data provided thereto by the exchange:

- through the KASE website;

- through KASE trading system terminals;

- through direct address sending to interested parties in the agreed formats, protocols and communications channels.

In accordance with the Regulations any Market Data vendor, receiving such data real-time, must pay to the exchange monthly fees based on the two constituents:

- cost of receipt of the Market Data from KASE and cost of a right of distribution;

- fees for Market Data end-users, to which a vendor is sending such real-time data (a so-called terminal payment).

If the Market Data received from the Exchange are distributed with a 15-minute or larger delay for currency market and a 30-minute or larger delay for other KASE markets, a vendor shall pay to the exchange only for receipt of real-time Market Data. No fee shall be collected for end-users. The same applies to derived data, resulting from accumulation and processing of KASE real-time Market Data. Terminal payment shall not apply to KASE trade results, derived by a vendor independently by means of processing of the Market Data; such data may be distributed to any parties in any manner.

Real-time Market Data may not be distributed for free.

KASE-imposed fees applied to real-time Market Data shall vary with respect to vendor type, which may be global, regional and local, and data composition (the Regulations specify packages as "maximum", "basic" and "minimum").

Remarkably, KASE members must comply with the regulations-imposed tariffs. KASE members may freely distribute real-time Market Data solely in case such data are:

- received through KASE trading system terminals;

- provided solely to their clients through trading terminals, installed by such KASE members for purposes of transaction conclusion on KASE.

In other cases of KASE member Market Data distribution the exchange shall deem such members as vendors and apply thereto the regulations-imposed tariffs.

Real-time Market Data shall be distributed on the basis of agreements between KASE and such vendor.

The Regulations are available at the KASE website at
http://www.kase.kz/files/normative_base/rtpricepolicy_eng.pdf