/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, February 27, 08/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined leading operators of exchange's stock market in January 2008.

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 42 companies participated in concluding stock purchase and sale deals on KASE in January. Below is the list of ten most active operators which controlled 90.6% of this sector, in descending order of their shares in total deals volume.

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Position in Position in Brief                                         Stake in
    January    December name                                             trade                
       2008        2007 of participant                               volume, %
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          1           9 Daughter organization of Nurbank JSC
                        MONEY EXPERTS                                     38.4
          2           2 Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC 
                        TuranAlem Securities JSC                          29.5
          3           1 Centras Securities JSC                             4.8
          4          12 RBNT SECURITIES JSC                                3.9
          5           4 VISOR Capital JSC                                  3.7
          6           6 Kazkommerts Securities JSC (daughter                                     
                        organization of Kazkommertsbank JSC)               2.7
          7          11 BCC Invest JSC - daughter organization of         
                        Bank CenterCredit JSC                              2.1
          8          22 ASYL-INVEST JSC                                   1.89
          9          19 PAIMO Zhetysu JSC                                 1.86
         10          10 Investment Financial House RESMI JSC               1.7
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The newcomers of the "active ten" relative to December of 2007 had become RBNT SECURITIES JSC, BCC Invest JSC - daughter organization of Bank CentrerCredit JSC, ASYL-INVEST JSC and PAIMO Zhetysu JSC, having replaced:

• Verniy Capital JSC (Almaty, third position in December);
• Astana-Finance JSC (Astana, fifth position);
• BTA Bank JSC (Almaty, seventh position);
• Tsesna Capital JSC (Astana, eighth position).

[2008-02-27]