KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's currency market in September and within the period of the nine months of 2006

/IRBIS, Sergey Yakovlev, October 2, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined list of second tier banks - leading operators of the exchange's foreign currency market in Kazakhstan in September 2006. Bank's position in the list is given according to the stake of deals made by it in total gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold foreign currency) in US dollar, euro and Russian ruble in KASE's trade system. At that, position of each bank was expressed in total tenge equivalent at the current rate of each concluded transaction. A total of 24 second tier banks participated in making of deals on KASE in September. Below is the list of ten most active of them, given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (all headquarters are in Almaty). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Brief Stake in September August name trade 2006 2006 of bank volume, % ----------- ----------- --------------------------------- --------- 1 3 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 14.1 2 1 Kazkommertsbank JSC 10.7 3 2 Halyk saving bank Kazakhstan JSC* 8.6 4 7 Alliance Bank JSC 7.3 5 4 Nurbank JSC 6.4 6 6 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 5.0 7 5 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 4.6 8 10 Bank CenterCredit JSC 3.2 9 11 Kazinvestbank JSC 2.22 10 14 SB HSBC Bank Kazakhstan JSC 2.19 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker on US dollar on KASE The newcomers in the "active ten" relative to August of 2006 - Kazinvestbank JSC and SB HSBC Bank Kazakhstan JSC, which replaced Bank Caspian JSC (eighth position in August) and Eurasian bank JSC (ninth position in August). Below is table of active operators of exchange currency market for the first nine months of 2006. The total of 26 second tier banks participated in making of deals in this period. ------------------------------------------------------------- Position within the first nine Brief Stake in months of name of trade 2006 bank volume, % --------------- --------------------------------- --------- 1 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 13.6 2 Halyk saving bank Kazakhstan JSC* 11.9 3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 10.7 4 Nurbank JSC 7.3 5 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 6.5 6 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 5.1 7 AllianceBankt JSC 3.8 8 Eurasian bank JSC 3.0 9 Bank CenterCredit JSC 2.5 10 Temirbank JSC 2.1 ------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker on US dollar on KASE [2006-10-02]