KASE determined the leading operators of the exchange's GS purchase-sale sector in November and within the first 11 months of 2007

/IRBIS, Ruslan Dzyubaylo, December 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 November 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 November. 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 November was 98.1% out of the turnover of the exchange GS sector. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Share in in November in October trades 2007 2007 Company's brief name volume, % ----------- ---------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------- 1 9 Daughter organization of Bank Turanalem JSC 25.6 TuranAlem Securities 2 7 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 20.0 3 8 Daughter Bank Joint stock company Sberbank of Russia 12.83 4 - Bank TuranAlem JSC 12.80 5 - Kazkommerts Invest JSC 7.2 6 3 RBNT SECURITIES JSC 6.9 7 - BCC Invest JSC - daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC 4.9 8 13 Bank CenterCredit JSC 3.6 9 - Eximbank Kazakhstan JSC 2.8 10 4 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC (daughter organization of Eurasian bank JSC) 1.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the top ten relative to October 2007 became Bank TuranAlem JSC, Kazkommerts Invest JSC, BCC Invest JSC - daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC, Bank CenterCredit JSC and Eximbank Kazakhstan JSC, having replaced from top-10: - Citibank Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, first position in October), - DB HSBC Bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, second position); - Asia Broker Services JSC (Almaty, fifth position); - BANK CASPIAN JSC (Almaty, sixth position); - Daughter Joint stock Bank ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, tenth position). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "K" category within 11 months of 2007. 42 companies participated in deals making within this period. ----------------------------------------------------------- Stake in trades Position Company's brief name volume, % -------- ---------------------------------- --------------- 1 DB HSBC Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 19.1 2 Halyk savings bank of 17.9 Kazakhstan JSC 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC 12.5 4 Kazkommertsbank JSC 8.0 5 ATFBank JSC 7.4 6 Alliance Bank JSC 6.4 7 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 3.2 8 PAIMO Zhetysu JSC 2.2 9 APF Halyk savings bank of 1.5 Kazakhstan JSC 10 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC 1.3 ----------------------------------------------------------- [2007-12-05]