/IRBIS, Ruslan Dzyubaylo, October 2, 07/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined the list of companies - leading operators of exchange's purchase-sale market for government securities (GS) in Kazakhstan in September 2007.

Companies were ranked according to the stake of deals made by them in total gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold bonds) in the secondary market. Position of each participant is expressed in Kazakhstan tenge, only deals, closed by open trades method on KASE, were taken into account.

A total of 15 companies participated in making GS purchase-sale deals on KASE in September. Below is the list of ten most active operators given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (companies' headquarters are in Almaty) and their positions in July of the current year. The stake of these operators in September was 66.5% out of the turnover of the exchange GS sector.

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   Position  Position                                 Share in
in Septemb. in August                                   trades
       2007      2007 Company's brief name           volume, %
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          1        11 Bank TuranAlem JSC                  27.9
          2         4 Alliance Bank JSC                   11.5
          3         2 DB HSBC Bank Kazakhstan JSC         10.9
          4         1 Halyk savings bank                  10.6
                      of Kazakhstan JSC
          5         9 Bank CenterCredit JSC                3.0
          6         - APF Kazakhmys JSC (Zhezkazgan)       0.7
          7        12 Daughter organization of Bank        0.6
                      Turan Alem JSC
                      TuranAlem Securities JSC
          8         - Temirbank JSC                       0.55
          9        13 BCC Invest-                         0.47
                      daughter organization
                      of Bank CenterCredit JSC
         10         6 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC             0.18
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Newcomers of the top ten relative to August 2007 became Bank TuranAlem JSC, APF Kazakhmys JSC, Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC, Temirbank JSC and BCC Invest JSC - daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC, having replaced from top-10:

• Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC (Almaty, third position in August),
• APF Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, fifth position);
• Kazakhstan Bank of Development JSC (Astana, seventh position);
• PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC (daughter organization of Eurasian bank JSC) (Almaty, eighth position);
• Eurasian bank JSC (Almaty, tenth position).

Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "K" category within 9 months of 2007. 39 companies participated in deals making within this period.

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                                            Stake in trades
Position Company's brief name                     volume, %
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       1 DB HSBC Bank of Kazakhstan JSC                19.4
       2 Halyk savings bank of                         18.2
         Kazakhstan JSC
       3 Bank TuranAlem JSC                            12.8
       4 Kazkommertsbank JSC                            8.3
       5 ATFBank JSC                                    7.7
       6 Alliance Bank JSC                              6.6
       7 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC                        3.0
       8 PAIMO Zhetysu JSC                              2.2
       9 APF Halyk savings bank of                      1.5
         Kazakhstan JSC
      10 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC             1.3
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[2007-10-02]