KASE defined leading operators of the foreign exchange market in Kazakhstan for April 2001

/IRBIS, Apr 28, 01/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) defined list of second tier banks - leading operators of the KASE foreign exchange market for April 2001. The rating is made according to portion of concluded deals in aggregate gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold currencies) in US dollar, Deutsche mark, Euro and Russian rouble in the KASE trade system. The position of each bank was expressed by total dollar equivalent at the current rate of each concluded deal. In total, 24 second-tier banks participated in trades on KASE. Below is the list of 10 the most active operators given in descending order. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Position Position Share in in April in gross 2001 March Brief title of a bank volume of 2000 trades, % -------- -------- ----------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty)* 18.5 2 3 Halyk Bank Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty) 10.4 3 2 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty) 9.1 4 4 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty) 9.0 5 8 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty) 7.8 6 5 TEMIRBANK OJSC (Almaty) 5.3 7 6 AMB CJSC (Almaty) 3.8 8 9 Irtyshbusinessbank OJSC (Pavlodar) 3.2 9 11 Bank CentreCredit OJSC (Almaty) 2.8 10 7 Kazprombank OJSC (Almaty) 2.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ * - market-maker of dollar at KASE