| $1.3 billion will be allocated out of the National Oil Fund to finance the Toxic Assets Fund, the country’s Minister of Economic Affairs Yerbolat Dossayev told a briefing April 14. The vehicle will be buying out toxic assets from the country’s banks. Regulating rules will be formulated by July 1, 2014.
The toxic assets fund under the National Bank of Kazakhstan was launched in April 2012. Mid-February 2014 at the extended government sitting Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev commissioned banks’ heads to reduce the share of NPLs “in any possible ways” to 15% of their portfolio by 2015 and further to 10% by 2016...............................................Full Article: Source
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