OREANDA-NEWS. January 29, 2010. Central Securities Depository (Almaty) provided Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) with the press release, reported the press-centre of KASE:

Central Securities Depository (the Central Depository) was admitted to ANNA (Association of National Numbering Agencies) partner membership.

The Central Depository became a national numbering agency authorized to assign international standard compliant ISIN and CFI numbers to financial and non-financial instruments issued in Kazakhstan.

The national numbering agency will operate after receipt of ISIN and CFI databases, earlier assigned to financial and non-financial instruments issued in Kazakhstan, from agency WMDaten (Germany), which had been operating as a substitute for a Kazakhstan numbering agency.

Currently Central Securities Depository is taking preliminary steps to start operating as national numbering agency.