KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's currency market in October and within the period of the ten months of 2006

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, November 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 October 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 ruble in KASE's trade system. At that, position of each bank was expressed in total tenge equivalent at the current rate of each concluded transaction. A total of 25 second tier banks participated in making of deals on KASE in September. Below is the list of ten 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 October September name trade 2006 2006 of bank volume, % ----------- ----------- --------------------------------- --------- 1 3 Halyk saving bank Kazakhstan JSC* 22.2 2 1 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 13.1 3 7 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 11.6 4 4 Alliance Bank JSC 11.3 5 2 Kazkommertsbank JSC 7.9 6 6 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 3.7 7 9 Kazinvestbank JSC 3.5 8 5 Nurbank JSC 3.4 9 14 ATFBank JSC 1.3 10 11 Eurasian bank JSC 1.2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker on US dollar on KASE The newcomers in the "active ten" relative to September of 2006 - ATFBank JSC and Eurasian bank JSC, which replaced Bank CenterCredit JSC (eighth position in September) and DB HSBC Bank Kazahstan JSC (tenth position in September). Below is table of active operators of exchange currency market for the first ten months of 2006. The total of 26 second tier banks participated in making of deals in this period. ------------------------------------------------------------- Position within Brief Stake in the first ten name of trade months of 2006 bank volume, % --------------- --------------------------------- --------- 1 Halyk saving bank Kazakhstan JSC* 13.6 2 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 11.9 3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 10.7 4 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 7.3 5 Nurbank JSC 6.5 6 Alliance Bank JSC 5.1 7 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 3.8 8 Eurasian bank JSC 3.0 9 Bank CenterCredit JSC 2.5 10 KazinvestbankJSC 2.1 ------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker on US dollar on KASE [2006-11-01]