KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's GS purchase-sale sector for February and the first two months of this year

/IRBIS, March 5, 03/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) defined list of companies - leading operators of the KASE's government securities (GS) purchase-sale market for February of 2003. The place of company in the list is given according to portion of concluded deals in aggregate gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold bonds). At that, unlike 2002 only purchase-sale deals (12.3% of the secondary market) were taken into account because reverse and direct repo transactions (87.7% of stock exchange's secondary GS market) are considered in separate rating. The position of each entity was expressed in currency of the payments - tenge. A total of 21 companies participated in trades with GB at KASE in February excluding the National Bank of Kazakhstan (banks, broker-dealer companies, pension assets management companies, SAPF, non-banking financial organizations). Below is the list of 10 the most active operators given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume and also their positions in January of 2003. The stake of these operators is 89.7% of the turnover of similar stock exchange's market's sector ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Stake in in Feb in Jan trades 2003 2003 Brief title of a company volume, % -------- -------- --------------------------------------------- --------- 1 7 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty) 24.3 2 1 AMB OJSC (Almaty) 11.2 3 3 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty) 10.71 4 6 State accumulative pension fund CJSC (Almaty) 10.68 5 5 HSBC Bank Kazakhstan LLP (Almaty) 9.2 6 13 Kazakhstan financial company OJSC (Almaty) 7.4 7 16 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty) 5.4 8 11 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty) 3.8 9 10 Nurbank OJSC (Atyrau) 3.6 10 9 TEMIRBANK OJSC 3.5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" in comparison with January of 2003 are Kazakhstan financial company OJSC, KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC and Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan, they have replaced Company of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan on pension assets management CJSC (Almaty, the second position in January), TuranAlem Securities LLP (Almaty, the fourth position in January) and RG Securities LLP (Almaty, the eighth position in January). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members of "К" categoryin the sector for the first two months of 2003. A total of 26 companies took part in making of deals in this period, besides the National Bank. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brief name Stake in volume of trades, % Position of company -------- ------------------------------------ ---------------------------- 1 AMB OJSC 23.0 2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC 13.3 3 Eurasian bank CJSC 13.2 4 Company of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan on pension assets management CJSC 10.4 5 State accumulative pension fund CJSC 7.3 6 HSBC Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 6.7 7 TuranAlem Securities LLP 4.6 8 Kazakhstan financial company OJSC 4.2 9 TEMIRBANK OJSC 2.82 10 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC 2.81 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2003-03-05]