/IRBIS, Ruslan Dzyubaylo, November 5, 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 October 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 16 companies participated in making GS purchase-sale deals on KASE in October. 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 September of the current year. The stake of these operators in October was 80.7% out of the turnover of the exchange GS sector.

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  Position    Position                                                Share in
in October in Septemb.                                                  trades
      2007        2007 Company's brief name                          volume, %
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         1          10 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC                            18.1
         2           3 DB HSBC Bank Kazakhstan JSC                        13.5
         3           - RBNT SECURITIES JSC                                 9.1
         4          11 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC (daughter
                       organization of Eurasian bank JSC)                  8.2
         5           - Asia Broker Service JSC                             7.4
         6           - Bank Caspian JSC                                    5.8
         7           4 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC
                                                                           4.9
         8           - Daughter Bank Joint Stock Company Sberbank of
                       Russia                                              4.7
         9           7 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC
                       TuranAlem Securities JSC                            4.6
        10           - Daughter joint stock bank ABN AMRO Bank of
                       Kazakhstan JSC                                      4.5
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Newcomers of the top ten relative to September 2007 became RBNT SECURITIES JSC, PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC (daughetr organization of Eurasia bank JSC), Asia Broker Services JSC, BANK CASPIAN JSC, Daughter Bank joint stock comapny Sberbank of Russia and Daughter Joint stock bank ABN AMRO Bank of Kazakhstan, having replaced from top-10:

• Bank TuranAlem JSC (Almaty, first position in September),
• Alliance Bank JSC (Almaty, second position);
• Bank CenterCredit JSC (Almaty, fifth position);
• APF Kazakhmys JSC (Zhezkazgan, sixth position);
• Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC Temirbank JSC (Almaty, eighth position);
• BCC Invest - daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC (Almaty, ninth position).

Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "K" category within 10 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                19.3
       2 Halyk savings bank of                         17.9
         Kazakhstan JSC
       3 Bank TuranAlem JSC                            12.5
       4 Kazkommertsbank JSC                            8.1
       5 ATFBank JSC                                    7.5
       6 Alliance Bank JSC                              6.5
       7 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC                        3.3
       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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[2007-11-05]