News Detail: [KTB] Transfer of KTB's substandard assets to TAMCSymbol: KTB Headline: Transfer of KTB's substandard assets to TAMC Time: 14 Feb 2005 14:03:00 (Translation) The President The Stock Exchange of Thailand Dear Sir, Subject : Transfer of KTB's substandard assets to TAMC It is stipulated in the Thai Asset Management Corporation Royal Ordinance B.E. 2544 (2001), Section 30 that a financial institution or assets management company with the Financial Institutions Development Fund or any combined government agencies or state enterprises as its shareholders holding more than fifty percent of paid - up registered capital shall transfer all its substandard assets as at 31 December 2000 to the Thai Asset Management Corporation (TAMC) within the period of time specified by the TAMC. In this regard, the Board of Directors of Krung Thai Bank Public Co.,Ltd, at its meeting No. 15/2544 (576) on 17 October 2001, passed its resolution to ratify the approval of the transfer of all substandard debtors to TAMC as mentioned above. Initially there will be about 60,000 cases/debtors and Baht 80,000 million of outstanding debts in total. Of these figures, the Bank already transferred them 26 times . As for the 27 th transfer scheduled for 15 February 2005, it consists of the following details : Serial Date Number of Book Value Transfer Transfer Number cases in Price in Price to Million Baht Million Baht Outstanding 27 15 February 2005 7 77.53 34.68 44.73% Note : Information on transfer as at 15 February 2005 is estimated figures since it is still in the transfer process and for the following transfer, exact date and amount have not been fixed as yet. Upon the Bank's transfer of substandard debtors to TAMC, it has to complete verifying the asset prices to be initially repaid within 180 days. If TAMC sees that such prices are correct, it will issue a letter confirming the asset prices to be primarily paid to the Bank within 7 days. Concerning method of payment, TAMC will issue a nontransferable promissory note on which the following details will be specified : - Amount of money according to the price of asset transferred to TAMC - Promissory note (P/N) issuing date according to the date of asset transfer and due date of repayment upon the expiration of 10 years from the P/N issuing date with an aval by the Financial Institutions Development Fund. However, TAMC may exercise its right to redeem the P/N before its maturity. As for interest payment, TAMC will pay the interest on P/N to the Bank according to the average interest on deposit by calculating the interest as at the last working day of the year. In addition, the above transactions are categorized as related - party transactions but they are exempted according to Clause 8 (1) of the announcement of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) governing disclosure of related - party transactions, and the size of the transaction when being fully transferred according to the estimate will account for the rate of approximately 8.22 % of the Bank's total assets whereby the Bank does not have to comply with the SET's announcement governing the acquisition or disposal of assets of a registered company. Please be informed accordingly. Yours sincerely, Mr.Somanat Chutima Senior Executive Vice President