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On voting results at the Annual General Meeting of shareholders of ForteBank, JSC
Press release
29.04.2025
ForteBank, JSC (hereinafter – the Bank), with the location of its executive body (Management Board) at the following address: 8/1, Dostyk Street, Yessil district, Astana city, Z05P1P0/010017, the Republic of Kazakhstan, hereby announces the voting results at the Annual General Meeting of the Bank Shareholders (hereinafter the "Meeting") held on April 29, 2025 from 10.00 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. by Astana time, at the following address: "Astana" Conference Room, 8th floor, 8/1, Dostyk Street, Astana city, Z05P1P0/010017, the Republic of Kazakhstan. In accordance with the approved agenda, the following agenda items were considered at the Meeting, and the following resolutions were adopted as a result of the voting.
ForteBank, JSC (hereinafter – the Bank), with the location of its executive body (Management Board) at the following address: 8/1, Dostyk Street, Yessil district, Astana city, Z05P1P0/010017, the Republic of Kazakhstan, hereby announces the voting results at the Annual General Meeting of the Bank Shareholders (hereinafter the "Meeting") held on April 29, 2025 from 10.00 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. by Astana time, at the following address: "Astana" Conference Room, 8th floor, 8/1, Dostyk Street, Astana city, Z05P1P0/010017, the Republic of Kazakhstan.
In accordance with the approved agenda, the following agenda items were considered at the Meeting, and the following resolutions were adopted as a result of the voting.
- * Item 1 of the Agenda " On the Approval of the Bank’s annual financial statements for 2024" Approve the attached Bank’s audited consolidate and separate financial statements for the year ended on December 31st, 2024.
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Item 2 of the Agenda "On the Approval of the procedure for distribution of the Bank’s net income for 2024 and the amount of the dividend per common share of the Bank"
- Approve the procedure for distribution of 2024 net income of ForteBank JSC as follows: – To allocate the amount of up to KZT 101 996 000 000 (one hundred one billion nine hundred ninety six million tenge) for payment of dividends on common shares; – the part of net income remaining after the payment of dividends shall not be distributed and shall be allocated to retained earnings.
- Approve the dividend amount per one common share of ForteBank JSC in the amount of KZT 1.104 (one point one zero four tenge), including the amount of taxes payable in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan. At the same time, the total amount of dividends to be paid to each shareholder must be determined with an accuracy to a whole tiyn (rounding shall be made according to the rules of mathematical rounding). For this purpose, the rule of mathematical rounding is understood to be the rounding method wherein the value of a whole tiyn (whole tiyns) does not change if the first digit that comes after the one being rounded is from 0 to 4, and changes, having been increased by one if the first digit that comes after the one being rounded is from 5 to 9.
- Record a list of shareholders entitled to receive dividends on common shares as of April 30th, 2025, 00:00 a.m. by Astana time.
- To determine the start for the payment of dividends on common shares of ForteBank JSC as May 2, 2025.
- Approve the payment procedure as a one-off payment.
- Approve the form of payment of dividends on common shares of ForteBank JSC, located at the address: Z05P1P0 (010017), 8/1 Dostyk str., Astana city, Republic of Kazakhstan, bank details: BIN 990740000683, Bank BIC IRTYKZKA, Beneficiary code: 14, IIC: KZ23125KZT1001300204 with the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan RPI, BIC NBRKKZKX – to be in non-cash form to the banking details of shareholders in the system of the Bank shareholders register.
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Item 2 of the Agenda "On the Approval of the procedure for distribution of the Bank’s net income for 2024 and the amount of the dividend per common share of the Bank"
- * Item 3 of the Agenda "On the Report of the Board of Directors of the Bank for the past financial year" Approve the Report of the Board of directors of the Bank for the past financial year.
- * Item 4 of the Agenda "On shareholders enquiries regarding the actions of the Bank and its officers, and the results of their review " Take note of the information from the Bank’s Management Board that in 2024 the Bank received 12 enquiries from twelve of its shareholders (regarding the issues of holding and disposal of shares and GDR, accrual of dividends, on taxes, as well as submission of additional materials to the general meeting of shareholders) to which the Bank had sent responses with clarifications, and that there were no enquiries from the shareholders to the actions of the Bank and its officers.
- * Item 5 of the Agenda "On the amount and structure of remuneration of members of the Board of Directors and the Management Board of the Bank in 2024" Take note of the information on the amount and composition of remuneration of members of the Board of directors and the Management Board of the Bank in 2024.
- * Item 6 of the Agenda "On determining the number of members, term of appointment of the Bank’s Board of directors, election of the members thereof, and determining the amount of remuneration thereto" – the membership of the Board of directors of the Bank has been determined in the number of six persons with a term of office that expires at the time of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of the Bank in 2028; – Anuar Utemuratov, Timur Issatayev were reelected and Guram Andronikashvili was elected, as members of the Board of Directors of the Bank – representing interests of Mr. B. Utemuratov, a shareholder of the Bank; – Fedor Popandopulo and Yerlan Tuyakbayev were reelected as Independent Directors the Board of Directors of the Bank; – the amount of monthly fixed remuneration of the members of the Board of Directors of the Bank has been determined, and it was also established that other payments, as well as reimbursement of expenses to the members of the Board of Directors of the Bank, shall be carried out in the amount and in the manner set by the Policy of Remuneration of Members of the Board of Directors of ForteBank JSC, and reimbursement of expenses thereof.
- * Item 7 of the Agenda "On approval of amendments No. 4 to the Corporate Governance Code of ForteBank JSC" To approve the amendments No. 4 to the Corporate Governance Code of ForteBank JSC in accordance with the Appendix 1 hereto, bringing it into effect on the day following the date of this resolution.
- * Total common voting shares of the Bank represented at the Meeting during the whole time thereof – 84 828 820 377.