KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's currency market in May and for the first five months of 2006

/IRBIS, Sergey Yakovlev, June 1, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined list of second tier banks - leading operators of the exchange's foreign currency market in Kazakhstan in May of 2006. Bank's position in the list is given according to the stake of deals made by it in total gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold foreign currency) in US dollar, euro and Russian rouble in KASE's trade system. At that, position of each bank was expressed in total tenge equivalent at the current rate of each made transaction. Totally 25 second tier banks participated in making of deals on KASE. Below is the list of ten the most active of them, given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (all headquarters are in Almaty). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Brief Stake in May April name trade 2006 2006 of bank volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 1 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 15.7 2 3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 14.6 3 5 Nurbank JSC 13.1 4 2 Halyk saving bank of Kazakhstan JSC* 8.7 5 4 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 4.8 6 6 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 4.4 7 7 Eurasian bank JSC 3.2 8 9 Alliance Bank JSC 2.9 9 8 Bank CenterCredit JSC 2.8 10 10 Temirbank JSC 1.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker on US dollar on KASE Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to April of 2006 were absent. Below is the table of active operators of exchange currency market for five months of 2006. Totally 26 second tier banks participated in making of deals in this period. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Position for five Brief Stake in months of 2006 name of trade volume, % bank ----------------- ------------------------------------ --------------- 1 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 14.1 2 Halyk saving bank of Kazakhstan JSC* 13.3 3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 10.5 4 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 7.1 5 Nurbank JSC 6.9 6 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 5.0 7 Eurasian bank JSC 3.2 8 Temirbank JSC 2.7 9 Bank CenterCredit JSC 2.2 10 Alliance Bank JSC 1.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-06-01]