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

/IRBIS, Natalya Khoroshevskaya, June 6, 07/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined the leading operators of stock exchange's corporate bond market in May 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 34 companies participated in performing purchase and sale deals on KASE with corporate bonds in May. 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 April was 88.0% of turnover of corresponding sector of stock exchange. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Position in Position in Stake in May April Brief name trade 2007 2007 of company volume, % ----------- ----------- ----------------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC 47.8 TuranAlem Securities JSC 2 2 Almaty Investment Management JSC 15.1 3 10 Astana-Finance JSC (Astana) 5.0 4 3 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 4.3 5 16 PAIMO Zhetysu JSC 4.2 6 6 Managing company Investment resources JSC 3.8 7 9 Financial company Alliance Capital JSC 2.5 8 30 Almaty financial center JSC 1.8 9 11 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 1.70 10 5 First broker's house JSC 1.69 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to April 2007 became PAIMO Zhetysu JSC, Almaty financial center JSC and Kazkommerts Invest JSC having replaced the list given bellow: - ATFBank JSC (Almaty, fourth position in April); - Temirbank JSC (Almaty, seventh position in April); - BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC, Almaty, eighth position in April); Below is the similar table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector within the first 5 months of 2007. A total of 49 companies participated in performing deals within this period. The stake of "the best ten" was 79.5% 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 37.2 2 Almaty Investment Management JSC 11.3 3 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 8.1 4 Alliance Bank JSC 6.2 5 Temirbank JSC 3.6 6 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 3.5 7 BCC Invest JSC (the daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 2.8 8 Kazkommertsbank JSC 2.3 9 Astana-Finance JSC 2.24 10 PAIMO Zhetysu JSC 2.22 --------------------------------------------------------------------- [2007-06-06]