/IRBIS, Ruslan Dzyubaylo, February 29, 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 January 2008.

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 13 companies participated in making GS purchase-sale deals on KASE in January. 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 99.2% out of the turnover of the exchange GS sector.

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  Position     Position                                                                         Share in
in January  in December                                                                           trades
      2008         2007  Company's brief name                                                  volume, %
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         1            1  Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC                                       43.5
         2            3  Halyk Finance JSC                                                          16.6
         3            5  Eurasian bank JSC                                                          14.4
         4            -  Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC        7.8
         5            2  DB HSBC Банк Казахстан JSC                                                  5.7
         6            4  Kazkommertsbank JSC                                                         5.5
         7            6  APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC                                         2.4
         8           12  RBNT SECURITIES JSC                                                         1.5
         9            8  Bank CenterCredit JSC                                                       1.1
        10            -  Almaty Investment Managment JSC                                             0.8
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Newcomers of the top ten relative to December 2007 became Daughter organization of Bank TuranAlem JSC TuranAlem Securities JSC, RBNT SECURITIES JSC and Almaty Investment Managment JSC, having replaced from top-10 ATFBank JSC (Almaty, seventh position), Daughter Joint stock Bank ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, ninth position) and Kazkommerts Invest JSC (Almaty, tenth position).

[2008-02-29]