KASE determined the leading operators of exchange's repo market in November and within the first 11 months of 2006

/IRBIS, Valeriy Khegay, December 5, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined the list of companies - leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in Kazakhstan in November of 2006. Companies are ranked according to the stake of deals made by it in total gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold instruments on repo opening and closing transactions). At that, all repo deals were taken into account regardless of the sector (automatic repo or nego deals method) and the subject of repo (government or corporate securities). Position of participant was expressed in currency of the payments - tenge. A total of 53 companies participated in making of deals in KASE's repo sector in November excluding the National Bank. Below is the list of ten most active operators, which controlled 72.5% of this sector of the stock exchange's market, given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (all headquarters are in Almaty, if other is not pointed). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Brief Stake in October September name trade 2006 2006 of participant volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 19.4 2 2 Kazkommertsbank JSC 14.9 3 5 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem 7.2 JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC 4 4 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 5.94 5 7 Alliance Bank JSC 5.86 6 6 ATFBank JSC 5.1 7 10 Almaty Investment Management JSC 4.1 8 9 Tsesnabank JSC (Astana) 3.4 9 18 APF of Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 3.3 10 3 BANK CASPIAN JSC 3.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomer of the "active ten" relative to October of 2006 is APF of Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC, which had replaced in the top-10 Bank CenterCredit JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in October). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members in the repo sector within the first 11 months of 2006. A total of 61 companies participated in making of deals in this period, besides the National Bank. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief name of Stake in gross tion company volume of trades, % ----- ---------------------------------------------- ------------------- 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 15.7 2 Kazkommertsbank JSC 9.0 3 ATFBank JSC 8.8 4 BANK CASPIAN JSC 8.2 5 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem 6.9 JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC 6 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 4.0 7 Almaty Investment Management JSC 3.9 8 Bank CenterCredit JSC 3.8 9 Alliance bank JSC 3.4 10 PAIMO GRANTUM Asset Management JSC 3.3 (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-12-05]