1. These Requirements for availability of risk management system in the central depositary (further – Requirements) are developed in compliance by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of July 4, 2003 "About state regulation, control and supervision of the financial market and the financial organizations" and establish requirements for availability of risk management system in the central depositary.

2. The board of directors of the central depositary provides compliance of risk management system to Requirements and creates conditions for execution by bodies, divisions and employees of the central depositary of the obligations assigned to them in the field of risk management.

3. In Requirements the following concepts are used:

1) information system - the software and hardware of the central depositary by means of which generation, storage, accounting, timely provision and disclosure of the financial and operational information necessary for the board of directors, executive body and employees of the central depositary is provided in case of accomplishment of the obligations, and also to registrars, issuers, depositors of the central depositary and their clients in the course of their activities;

2) price risk - the risk of emergence of expenses (losses) owing to change in value of financial instruments arising in case of change of conditions of the financial markets influencing market value of the financial instruments acquired at the expense of own assets of the central depositary;

3) reputation risk - risk of emergence of expenses (losses) owing to negative public opinion or decrease in trust to the central depositary;

4) bek-testing - methods of check of efficiency of procedures of risks measurement with use of historical data on the central depositary and comparison of the calculated results with the current (actual) results from making of the specified transactions;

5) currency risk - the risk of emergence of expenses (losses) connected with change of the foreign exchange rates when implementing of activities by the central depositary. The risk of emergence of expenses (losses) arises because of revaluation of line items on currencies in value term;

6) clearing transactions - transactions on collection, reconciliation, sorting and confirmation of calculations, and also carrying out their offset and determination of net line items of participants of clearing;

7) communication system - the software and hardware of the central depositary intended for process management of information transfer between bodies and divisions of the central depositary, registrar, issuers, depositors and the central depositary, and also other systems of the central depositary;

8) corporate management - the system of strategic and tactical management of the central depositary representing complex of relations between general shareholder meeting, the board of directors, board, aimed at providing effective functioning of the central depositary, protection of the rights and interests of its shareholders and giving to shareholders opportunity of effective control and monitoring of activities of the central depositary;

9) credit risk - risk of emergence of expenses (losses) owing to failure to pay by the issuer the principal debt and remuneration which is due to the security holder in the time established by conditions of security issue including also risk of the losses arising in connection with failure to carry out by the partner of obligations in the swaps, options, forwards and other financial instruments subject to credit risk and during settlement of payment under these securities and other financial instruments;

10) legal risk - risk of emergence of expenses (losses) consequence of violation by the central depositary of requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, including discrepancy of internal documents of the central depositary to requirements of regulatory legal acts of authorized body, discrepancy of practice of activities of the central depositary to its internal documents, and in the relations with nonresidents of the Republic of Kazakhstan - violations of requirements of the legislation of other states;

11) policy of investment of own assets - the document determining the list of investment objects, the purposes, strategy, conditions and restrictions of investing activities on own assets of the central depositary, condition of hedging and diversification of own assets;

12) operational risk - risk of emergence of expenses (losses) as a result of discrepancy to nature and scales of activities of the central depositary and (or) to requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, internal procedures and procedures of carrying out transactions and other transactions, violations by their employees of the central depositary and (or) other persons (owing to inadvertent or intentional actions or failure to act), disproportion (insufficiency) of functionality (characteristics) applied by the central depositary, information, communication and other systems and (or) their refusals (functioning violations) and also as a result of impact of external events;

Disclaimer! This text was translated by AI translator and is not a valid juridical document. No warranty. No claim. More info