/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, January 3, 08/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of exchange's stock market in December, 2007.

Companies are ranked according to the stake of deals made by it in total gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold shares on the main floor of KASE an on the special trading floor of the regional financial center of Almaty) in the secondary market. Position of each participant of trades is computed in Kazakhstan tenge. While preparing the rating, information only on deals, closed on stock exchange by open trade method, was used

A total of 46 companies participated in concluding stock purchase and sale deals on KASE in December. Below is the list of ten most active operators which controlled 79.8% of this sector, in descending order of their shares in total deals volume.

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Position in  Position in  Brief                                  Stake in
   December     November  name                                      trade
       2007         2007  of participant                        volume, %
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          1            3  Centras Securities JSC                     18.0
          2            2  Subsidiary of Bank TuranAlem JSC
                          TuranAlem Securities JSC                   17.0
          3            1  Verniy Capital JSC                         10.7
          4           10  VISOR Capital JSC                           9.3
          5           18  Astana-Finance JSC (Astana)                 7.5
          6           17  Kazkommerts Securities JSC
                          (subsidiary of Kazkommertsbank JSC          4.8
          7           25  Bank TuranAlem JSC                          4.7
          8           15  Tsesna Capital JSC (Astana)                 2.7
          9           35  Subsidiary of Nurbank JSC
                          MONEY EXPERTS JSC                           2.6
         10           20  Investment Financial House RESMI JSC        2.4
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The newcomers of the "active ten" relative to November of 2007 had become Astana-Finance JSC, Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC), Bank TuranAlem JSC, Tsesna Capital JSC, Daughter organization of Nurbank MONEY EXPERTS JSC and Investment Financial House RESMI JSC, having replaced:

Asia Broker Services JSC (Almaty, fourth position in November);

IFG CONTINENT JSC (Almaty, fifth position);

Halyk Finance JSC (Almaty, sixth position);

Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, seventh position);

ABS SECURITIES LLP (Almaty, eighth position);

RBNT SECURITIES JSC (Almaty, ninth position).

Below is corresponding table of the most active KASE's members of "P" and "H" categories in the sector for year 2007. A total of 69 companies (their headquarters are situated in Almaty, if other is not specified) participated in performing deals within this period. The stake of "ten best" was 83.1% gross-turnover of stock purchase and sale deals on KASE.

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Posi-  Brief name                              Stake in gross volume -
 tion  of the company                                     of trades, %
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    1  Verniy Capital JSC                                         28.3
    2  Financial Company Alliance Capital JSC                     25.2
    3  Subsidiary of Bank
       TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC                      7.7
    4  VISOR Capital JSC                                           6.2
    5  BCC Invest JSC - subsidiary
       of Bank CenterCredit JSC                                    4.2
    6  Almaty Investment Management JSC                            3.0
    7  Kazkommerts Invest JSC                                      2.5
    8  Kazkommerts Securities JSC
       (subsidiary of Kazkomemrtsbank JSC                          2.4
    9  Investment Financial House RESMI JSC                        2.0
   10  Centras Securities JSC                                      1.6
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