KASE determined the leading operators of exchange corporate bond market in Kazakhstan in March 2007 and within the first three months of 2007

/IRBIS, Natalya Khoroshevskaya, March 9, 07/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined the leading operators of stock exchange's corporate bond market in March 2007. Companies are ranked according to the stake of deals made by it in total gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold bonds). Position of each participant of trades is expressed in Kazakhstan tenge. During praparation of the rating was used only information on deals, made on exchange by the methods of open trades. A total of 35 companies participated in performing purchase and sale deals on KASE with corporate bonds in March. Below is the list of ten most active operators in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (all headquarters are in Almaty). Stake of these operators in February was 90.3% of turnover of corresponding sector of stock exchange. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in March February Brief name trade 2007 2007 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- --------------------------------------- --------- 1 2 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC 37.2 2 5 Almaty Investment Management JSC 15.5 3 3 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 12.3 4 11 Temirbank JSC 6.8 5 1 Alliance Bank JSC 5.7 6 9 BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 4.1 7 - National Bank of Republic of Kazakhstan 2.75 8 16 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC 2.73 9 15 Astana-Finance JSC (Astana) 1.8 10 6 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 1.4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to February 2007 became Temirbank JSC, National Bank of Republic of Kazakhstan JSC, Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC and Astana-Finance JSC, having replaced the list given bellow: - Kazkommertsbank JSC (Almaty, fourth position in February); - Kazkopmmerts Securities JSC (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC, Almaty, seventh position in February); - PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC (Almaty, eighth position in February); - Tsesna-Capital JSC (Astana, tenth position in February). Below is the similar table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector within the first three months of 2006. A total of 44 companies participated in performing deals within this period. The stake of "the best ten" was 81.7% gross-turnover of purchase and sale deals with bonds on KASE. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief name of Stake in gross tion company volume of trades, % ----- ----------------------------------------- ------------------- 1 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem TuranAlem Securities JSC 34.2 2 Almaty Investment Management JSC 11.0 3 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 10.5 4 Alliance Bank JSC 8.9 5 Temirbank JSC 4.4 6 BCC Invest JSC (the daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 3.2 7 Kazkommertsbank JSC 3.0 8 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 2.4 9 PAIMO Zhetysu JSC 2.0 10 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 1.9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- [2007-04-09]