The Agency for Regulation and Development of the Financial Market of the Republic of Kazakhstan issued a board decision consenting to Tlek Kabykenevich Alzhanov acquiring major participant status in JSC Standard Life Life Insurance Company. Major and major (indirect) participant status entails an obligation to take measures to improve the insurer’s financial condition, including increasing its own capital in a sufficient amount to support financial stability if the insurer’s condition worsens. Standard Life ranks sixth by assets among Kazakhstan’s 10 life insurance companies, representing 4.0% of the sector’s aggregate assets.