KASE determined the leading operators of exchange corporate bond market in Kazakhstan in September 2007 and within the first 9 months of 2007

/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, October 2, 07/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined the leading operators of stock exchange's corporate bond market in September 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 preparation of the rating, only information on deals, made on exchange by the methods of open trades was used. A total of 33 companies participated in performing purchase and sale deals on KASE with corporate bonds in September. 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 the analyzed month was 95.0% of turnover of corresponding sector of stock exchange. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Stake in in September in August Brief name trade 2007 2007 of company volume, % ------------ --------- ------------------------------------------- --------- 1 2 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC 58.7 2 - Brokerage firm Astana-Finance JSC 7.34 3 5 BCC Invest (daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 7.29 4 30 Bank CenterCredit JSC 6.5 5 4 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 6.4 6 1 Astana-Finance JSC (Astana) 2.7 7 9 Asia Broker Service JSC 2.5 8 27 Bank TuranAlem JSC 1.5 9 8 Almaty Investment Management JSC 1.08 10 16 Centras Securities 1.06 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to August 2007 became Brokerage firm Astana-Finance JSC, Bank CenterCredit JSC, Bank TuranAlem JSC, and Centras Securities JSC having replaced the list given bellow: - Financial company Alliance Capital JSC (Almaty, third position in August); - Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, sixth position in August); - Investment Financial House RESMI JSC, (Almaty, seventh, position in August); - Managing company Investment resources JSC (Almaty, tenth position in August). Below is the similar table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector within the first nine months of 2007 (their headquarters are located in Almaty if another is not mentioned). A total of 57 companies participated in performing deals within this period. The stake of "the best ten" was 77.6% of 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 JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC 36.4 2 Broker company Astana-Finance JSC 12.3 3 Almaty Investment Management JSC 6.0 4 BCC Invest JSC (daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC) 4.7 5 Perviy Brokerskiy Dom JSC 4.4 6 Astana-Finance JSC (Astana) 3.7 7 Alliance Bank JSC 3.2 8 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 2.5 9 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC 2.3 10 Halyk Finance JSC 2.1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [2007-10-02]