KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's GS purchase-sale sector in July and the first seven months of the current year

/IRBIS, Ranida Gabdeyeva, August 3, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has composed the list of companies - leading operators of exchange's market of government securities (GS) purchase-sale in Kazakhstan in July 2005. Companies are ranked according to the stake of deals made by them in total gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold bonds). Position of each participant is expressed in the currency of payments - tenge. A total of 28 companies participated in making GS purchase-sale deals on KASE in July, excluding the National Bank. Below is the list of ten most active operators given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (companies' headquarters are in Almaty) and also their positions in June 2005. The stake of these operators in July was 87.2% of the exchange's GS sector turnover. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in July June Company's brief trades 2005 2005 name volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 1 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 18.3 2 2 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 16.6 3 12 ATFBank JSC 13.1 4 7 APF SAPF JSC 8.9 5 8 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 6.5 6 10 Bank TuranAlem 5.5 7 13 PAIMO Zhetysu JSC 4.90 8 3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 4.88 9 4 BANK CASPIAN JSC 4.33 10 11 Alliance Bank JSC 4.31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of active top ten relative to June 2005 are: ATFBank JSC, PAIMO Zhetysu JSC and Alliance Bank JSC, they have replaced from top-10 Kazkommerts Invest JSC (Almaty, the fifth position in June), NURBANK JSC (Almaty, the sixth position in June) and KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC (Almaty, the ninth position in June). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "K" category in the first seven months of 2005. 43 companies participated in deals making in this period, besides the National Bank. --------------------------------------------------------------- Company's brief Stake in trades Position name volume, % -------- ------------------------------------ --------------- 1 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 14.4 2 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 14.0 3 ATFBank JSC 8.6 4 Bank TuranAlem JSC 8.1 5 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 5.5 6 Alliance Bank JSC 5.3 7 Kazkommertsbank JSC 4.7 8 APF SAPF JSC 4.2 9 PAIMO Zhetysu JSC 3.9 10 Eurasian bank JSC 3.6 --------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-08-03]