KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's GS purchase-sale sector in August and the first 8 months of 2005

/IRBIS, Ranida Gabdeyeva, September 1, 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 August of 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 25 companies participated in making GS purchase-sale deals on KASE in August, excluding the National Bank. Below is the list of 10 most active operators given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (companies' headquarters are in Almaty) and their positions in July of 2005. The stake of these operators in August was 94.7% of the exchange's GS sector turnover. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in August July trades 2005 2005 Company's brief name volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 1 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 25.0 2 2 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 23.3 3 3 ATFBank JSC 16.8 4 6 Bank TuranAlem JSC 12.4 5 9 BANK CASPIAN JSC 7.6 6 10 Alliance Bank JSC 4.3 7 4 APF SAPF JSC 2.1 8 5 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 1.2 9 13 Eurasian bank JSC 1.1 10 21 RG Securities JSC 1.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the top ten in comparison with July of 2005 are: Eurasian bank JSC and RG Securities JSC, they have replaced PAIMO Zhetysu JSC (Almaty, the 7th position in July) and Kazkommertsbank JSC (Almaty, the 8th position in July). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "K" category in the first 8 months of 2005. 43 companies participated in deals making in this period, besides the National Bank. --------------------------------------------------------------- Stake in trades Position Company's brief name volume, % -------- ------------------------------------ --------------- 1 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 16.0 2 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 15.4 3 ATFBank JSC 9.9 4 Bank TuranAlem JSC 8.7 5 Alliance Bank JSC 5.1 6 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 4.9 7 Kazkommertsbank JSC 4.1 8 APF SAPF JSC 3.8 9 PAIMO Zhetysu JSC 3.301 10 BANK CASPIAN JSC 3.300 --------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-09-01]