KASE determined the leading operators of exchange's repo market in October and within the first 10 months of 2006

/IRBIS, Valeriy Khegay, November 1, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined the list of companies - leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in Kazakhstan in October of 2006. Companies are ranked according to the stake of deals made by it in total gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold instruments on repo opening and closing transactions). At that, all repo deals were taken into account regardless of the sector (automatic repo or nego deals method) and the subject of repo (government or corporate securities). Position of participant was expressed in currency of the payments - tenge. A total of 55 companies participated in making of deals in KASE's repo sector in October excluding the National Bank. Below is the list of ten most active operators, which controlled 71.8% of this sector of the stock exchange's market, given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (all headquarters are in Almaty, if other is not pointed). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Brief Stake in October September name trade 2006 2006 of participant volume, % ----------- ----------- --------------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 14.9 2 11 Kazkommertsbank JSC 14.3 3 2 BANK CASPIAN JSC 10.7 4 6 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 7.4 5 4 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC 6.0 6 3 ATFBank JSC 5.2 7 15 Alliance Bank JSC 4.3 8 5 Bank CenterCredit JSC 3.2 9 13 Tsesnabank JSC (Astana) 3.0 10 7 Almaty Investment Management JSC 2.8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to September of 2006 is Kazkommertsbank JSC, Alliance Bank JSC and Tsesnabank JSC, which have replaced in the top-10 Eurasian bank JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in September), Temirbank JSC (Almaty, the ninth position in September) and APF Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, the tenth position in September). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members in the repo sector within the first 10 months of 2006. A total of 61 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 Bank TuranAlem JSC 15.1 2 ATFBank JSC 9.3 3 BANK CASPIAN JSC 8.8 4 Kazkommertsbank JSC 8.1 5 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC 6.9 6 Bank CenterCredit JSC 3.9 7 Almaty Investment Management JSC 3.8 8 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 3.73 9 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 3.68 10 PAIMO GRANTUM Asset Management JSC (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC) 3.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-11-01]