About CCX

Caspy Commodity Exchange (CCX) was regisgtered as a legal entity in November 2011.

On December 30, 2011, the Trade Committee of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan issued the state license No. 1000349 to the CCX to carry out the activities of commodity exchanges.

The first auctions in the exchange system took place in the agricultural products section on December 30, 2011. immediately after obtaining a license.

Today CCX is the largest commodity exchange in the Republic of Kazakhstan, which is one of the three in terms of the volume of transactions carried out since 2011.

CCX has created a convenient, reliable and transparent trading mechanism based on a modern software and hardware platform. CCX electronic trading system is a comfortable remote access via the Internet to all exchange markets and related services for trading participants. Financial control guarantees for the execution of transactions and delivery of goods based on the results of trading are provided with modern risk management and settlement mechanisms that meet international standards.

CCX organizes auctions on spot and forward markets, and soon plans to start future market.

Since 2013, CCX is the only exchange on the territory of the CIS countries that has organized auctions under the implemented emission trading scheme in Kazakshtan.

Also in 2014, CCX for the first time in Kazakhstan launched electricity auctions

In the “Portal” section in terms of procurement by subsoil users, the total turnover of trades held on CCX is the highest in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

In 2018, CCX opened a subsidiary company Caspy Tender, on the basis of which an electronic trading platform was introduced. Platform is intended as an electronic procurement system for goods, works and services for subsoil users, natural monopoly entities and commercial organizations.

In 2019, CCX is one of the first exchanges in the Republic of Kazakhstan to receive accreditation from the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan as a platform for the sale of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to the domestic market. Today, on CCX you can find LPG from such plants as Atyrau Refinery, Gas Processing Plant LLP “Amangeldy Gas”, Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant and Shymkent Refinery.

In addition, CCX is the largest exchange for cement transactions. Such factories as Central Asia Cement, Zhambyl Cement Production Company, Rudny Cement Plant, Kokshetau Cement Plant, and Gezhuba Shieli Cement Company are represented on the exchange. At the end of 2020, more than 4,200 transactions were made for a total amount of 58.8 billion tenge.

One of the main platforms for the purchase and sale of coal in the Republic of Kazakhstan is also CCX. In 2020, 1143 coal purchase / sale transactions were made. The total turnover amounted to 63.6 billion. tenge. CCX is the place for the coal from the Karazhyra, Shubarkul, Molodezhny, Kuu-Chekinsky, Maikuben, Kainama, etc. Since April 2021, CCX has been determined by the exchange committee at the The Agency for protection and development of competition of the Republic of Kazakhstan as a platform for the sale of the obligatory volume of municipal coal. In addition, since March 2021, the CCX platform has been admitted as one of the two commodity exchanges for organizers of trading in petroleum products and bitumen.

CCX is constantly improving its corporate openness, transparency to the market and exchange shareholders. In this regard, CCX made a decision to go through the listing procedure and bring CCX shares to trading on the stock exchange. Thus, by the decision of the Listing Commission of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange JSC (minutes of the meeting dated September 19, 2019 No. 25), common (ISIN – KZ1C00005560) and preferred (ISIN – KZ1P00013585) shares of CCX were included in the “Shares” sector of the “Alternative” platform of the official the list of JSC “Kazakhstan Stock Exchange”. This testifies to the maximum transparency of the CCX activities and trust on the part of the financial market of Kazakhstan, which gives significant advantages over other exchanges.

One of the most important events that took place in 2019 is that the CCX trading platform passed the necessary sequrity tests from National Security Agency and proved the reliability and compliance of the software with all the necessary security standards adopted in the Republic of Kazakhstan, which in turn increased the confidence in transactions committed on our platform both by the government and by business.

Since its inception, CCX has been cooperating with commodity exchanges of the CIS and far abroad countries, Kazakhstani and foreign banks, ministries and departments of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and is also an official member of the International Association of Exchanges.

One of the main partners of CCX is Deutsche Börse AG and the Leipzig EEX (European Energy Exchange).

Brokerage companies accredited on the exchange are also accredited on the CIS commodity exchanges.

Today CCX holds auctions on the principles of publicity and equality.

In addition, the CCX takes an active part in the reform of the national economy, the development of interstate economic relations, as well as the formation of market relations. Since 2018, CCX has been an active member of the Association of Environmental Organizations of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Every two years CCX organizes international forum Carbon-KZ in Nur-Sultan for the companies, govenrment and international experts to talk about ETS.

IT support of the bidding process, qualified specialists, standardization of conditions and strict adherence to rules minimizes the loss of time for concluding agreements.

The formation of generally recognized Kazakhstani indicators and future development of the derivatives market will enable manufacturing companies and consumers to effectively hedge price risks and implement long-term planning strategies for production and trading activities.

Prices formed on a liquid and transparent exchange market are recognized as market prices by tax, antimonopoly and exchange legislation.