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WOOD Daily: TCS LI; ALR PW; BIMAS TI; GTC PW; ASELS TI; TBCG LN; LVC PW; KAZ LN; OPL PW; KRKG SV; WINE RO; GR6 BU

HEADLINES:
• TCS Group Holding: time to take a hard look (downgraded to HOLD)
• Alior Bank: 2Q20 - huge net loss, to affect results for entire 2020E NEGATIVE
• BIM: 2Q20 - major beat on lfl and margins, guidance upgrade POSITIVE
• GTC: 2Q20 - write-offs in the spotlight, but FFO remains strong and retail turnovers encouraging POSITIVE
• Aselsan: 2Q20 results - an 8% EBITDA beat, no guidance change POSITIVE
• TBC Bank: 2Q20 highlights - net income beat overshadowed by NIM pressure
• LiveChat Software: AGM approves PLN 2.48 DPS from FY18/19 net profit NEUTRAL
• KAZ Minerals: 1H20 conference call highlights
• Orange Polska: reviewing options regarding FiberCo spin-off NEUTRAL
• Krka: merges R&D unit into parent business NEUTRAL
• Purcari Wineries: 2Q20E results preview (due on 20 August)
• Gradus: 2Q20E preview - weak quarter expected (due by 28 August)
Underlyings
Alior Bank SA

Alior Bank is a universal lending and deposit-taking bank which renders services to individuals, legal persons and other entities which are Polish and foreign persons. Co.'s core activities include maintaining bank accounts, granting loans and advances, issuing banking securities and purchasing and selling foreign currency. Co. also conducts brokerage activities, consulting and financial agency services and renders other financial services.

Aselsan Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. Class B

BIM Birlesik Magazalar A.S.

Bim Birlesik Magazalar is engaged in operating retail stores through its retail shops throughout Turkey, which sell an assortment of approx. 600 items, including a number of private labels. Co.'s object is to offer consumers basic food items and consumer goods at discount prices with quality. Co.'s private labels provides its consumers with quality tasting sausage, salami and similar meat products while at the same time being suitable to the consumers family budget. Products include meat products, breakfast and dairy products, beverages, legumes and bakery, snacks and sweets, fruits and vegetables, frozen foods, and non-food items - cleaning supplies.

Globe Trade Centre S.A.

Globe Trade Centre is the parent company of the capital group, Globe Trade Centre (the Group). The Group is engaged in the development and rental of office and retail space and the development and sale of residential units. The Group is a real estate company in Central and Eastern Europe and South-eastern Europe, operating in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Slovakia. Additionally, it co-owns land in Ukraine and Russia and operates in the Czech Republic. The Group's portfolio comprises: completed office buildings and office parks as well as retail and entertainment centres; residential projects; and undeveloped plots of land and suspended projects.

KAZ Minerals PLC

Kaz Minerals is a holding company. Co. and its subsidiaries operates in the natural resources industry through five divisions: Bozshakol, Aktogay and East Region, which are engaged in the mining and processing of copper and other metals in Kazakhstan; Bozymchak, which is engaged in the mining and processing of copper and gold in Kyrgyzstan; as well as Mining Projects, which is engaged in the development of metal deposits and processing facilities in Kazakhstan. Co. operates the Bozshakol and Aktogay open pit copper mines in Pavlodar and the East Region of Kazakhstan, three underground mines in the East Region of Kazakhstan and the Bozymchak copper-gold mine in Kyrgyzstan.

KRKA d.d.

Krka is a public generic pharmaceutical company based in Slovenia. Co. is engaged in the development, production, sale and marketing of human health products (prescription and selfmedication pharmaceuticals and cosmetics), animal health products and health resort and tourist services. Co. focuses on a range of generic prescription pharmaceuticals, which are marketed under Co.'s own brands. Co. offers customers in over 70 countries a broad range of prescription pharmaceuticals, self-medication products and animal health and cosmetic products. Co.'s activities are supplemented by health resort and tourist services of Terme Krka.

Livechat Software SA

Livechat Software SA is a Poland-based company engaged in the software industry. The Company is a producer and global provider of software as a service (SaaS) LiveChat, communication software for business. LiveChat enables fast and intuitive communication between company's employees and customers visiting corporate Website. The application also tracks customers' activity on a Website. The Company produces and distributes software for business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) communication. Its product portfolio includes three types of LiveChat plans: Solo, dedicated to single user and offering such features as unlimited chats, ticketing system, enhanced security and basic reporting; Team, for numerous teams that additionally includes chat routing and groups creation; and Enterprise, for companies that, additionally to previous ones, provides advanced reporting, work scheduler and unlimited visits on a Website.

Orange Polska S.A.

Orange Polska SA is a supplier of telecommunications services in Poland. Co. provides services, including fixed-line telecommunication services, Integrated Services Digital Network, voice mail, dial-up and fixed access to the Internet and Voice over Internet Protocol. Co. is one of Poland's three DCS 1800 and GSM 900 mobile telecommunications providers. Co. provides also third generation UMTS services. In addition, Co. provides leased lines, radio-communications and other telecommunications value added services, sells telecommunications equipment, produces electronic phone cards and provides data transmission, telephone directories, multimedia services and various Internet services.

TBC Bank Joint Stock Co

TCS Group Holding Plc Sponsored GDR Class A RegS

TCS Group Holding is a retail banking services group based in the Russian Federation. Co. is principally engaged in providing retail banking services in the Russian Federation through its subsidiaries, primarily Tinkoff Credit Systems. Co., through this subsidiary, fully licensed by the Central Bank of Russia and a member of the Deposit Insurance System, specializes in credit cards. Co. provides online retail financial services through a branchless operating platform. Co. also offers remote access to its financial products and services through its online banking as well as through mobile banking and high-volume call centers.

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