KASE has determined leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in February and the first two months of 2003

/IRBIS, March 5, 03/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined the list of companies - leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in Kazakhstan in February of 2003. The place in the list is given according to portion of concluded deals in aggregate gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold instruments on repo opening and closing operations). At that, all repo deals were taken into account regardless of the sector (automatic repo or direct deals method) and subject of repo (government or corporate securities). The position of each entity was expressed in currency of the payments - tenge. A total of 32 companies participated in making of deals in at KASE's repo sector 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, which controlled 67.5% of this sector of the stock exchange's market, given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume. In parentheses position of corresponding operator in January of 2003, which has been calculated by similar methods, is given -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Brief title Share in in Feb in Jan of a bank trades 2003 2003 or a company volume, % -------- -------- ------------------------------------------- --------- 1 1 AMB OJSC (Almaty) 14.4 2 2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty) 13.0 3 4 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty) 8.7 4 18 Nurbank OJSC (Atyrau) 7.8 5 5 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty) 5.174 6 8 Bank Caspian OJSC (Almaty) 5.170 7 3 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty) 4.9 8 6 TEMIRBANK OJSC (Almaty) 3.0 9 12 Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty) 2.7 10 25 DB "ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan" CJSC (Almaty) 2.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" in comparison with January of 2003 are Nurbank OJSC, Bank CenterCredit OJSC and DB "ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan" CJSC, they have replaced State accumulative pension fund CJSC (Almaty, the seventh position in January), Development Bank of Kazakhstan CJSC (Astana, ninth position in January) and PAMC ZHETISU (Almaty, ninth position in January). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members in the repo sector for the first two months of 2003. A total of 34 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 AMB OJSC 17.2 2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC 12.2 3 Eurasian bank CJSC 8.2 4 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC 6.8 5 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC 6.2 6 TEMIRBANK OJSC 4.3 7 Nurbank OJSC 4.2 8 Kaspiiskii OJSC 3.9 9 State accumulative pension fund CJSC 3.1 10 DB "ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan" CJSC 2.3 ---------------------------------------------------------------- [2003-03-05]