KASE determined the leading operators of the exchange's GS purchase-sale sector in December and for year 2007

/IRBIS, Ruslan Dzyubaylo, January 3, 08/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined the list of companies - leading operators of exchange's purchase-sale market for government securities (GS) in Kazakhstan in December 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 18 companies participated in making GS purchase-sale deals on KASE in December. 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 November of the current year. The stake of these operators in December was 97.6% out of the turnover of the exchange GS sector. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Share in in December in November trades 2007 2007 Company's brief name volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 2 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 39.3 2 - SB HSBC Bank Kazakhstan JSC 16.4 3 - Halyk Finance JSC 14.3 4 - Kazkommertsbank JSC 13.9 5 - Eurasian bank JSC 3.7 6 - APF Halyk bank of Kazakhstan JSC 2.869 7 - ATFBank JSC 2.868 8 8 Bank CenterCredit JSC 1.9 9 - Subsidiary joint stock Bank ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 1.4 10 5 Kazkommerts Invest JSC 1.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the top ten relative to November 2007 became DB HSBC Bank Kazakhstan JSC, Halyk Finance JSC, Kazkommertsbank JSC, Eurasian bank JSC, APF Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC, ATFBank JSC and Daughter Joint stock Bank ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan, having replaced from top-10: - Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC (Almaty, first position in November), - Daughter Bank Joint stock Company Sberbank of Russia (Almaty, third position); - Bank TuranAlem JSC (Almaty, fourth position); - RBNT SECURITIES JSC (Almaty, sixth position); - BCC Invest JSC - daughter organization of Bank CenterCredit JSC (Almaty, seventh position); - Eximbank Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, ninth position); - PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC (daughter organization of Eurasian bank JSC) (Almaty, tenth position). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "K" category for year 2007. 43 companies participated in deals making within this period. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Stake in trades Position Company's brief name volume, % -------- ---------------------------------------- --------------- 1 SB HSBC Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 19.0 2 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 18.8 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC 12.0 4 Kazkommertsbank JSC 8.3 5 ATFBank JSC 7.2 6 Alliance Bank JSC 6.1 7 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 3.1 8 PAIMO Zhetysu JSC 2.1 9 APF Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 1.6 10 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC 1.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------- [2008-01-03]