KASE determined exchange repo market leaders of August and initial 8 months of 2008

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/KASE. September 5. 08/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) determined leaders of exchange repo market for August 2008. The table below specifies 10 most active repo market operators (headquarters of all companies are located in Almaty). The position of each trade participant has been expressed in settlement currency - tenge. In July the stake of the "active ten" accounted for 45.8 % of this exchange market sector turnover. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in: ------------ Activity Calculation base Ka: August July indicator ---------------------- 2008 2008 Company short name (Ka) V N D A ------ ---- ---------------------------- --------- ---- ---- ---- ---- 1 15 Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan 2.56 1.00 0.74 1.00 0.05 2 1 ATF Bank 2.23 0.67 0.73 1.00 0.07 3 9 Tengry Finance 2.17 0.06 1.00 1.00 0.62 4 3 Alliance Bank 2.13 0.40 0.92 1.00 0.02 5 4 Almaty Investment Management 2.07 0.08 0.98 1.00 0.43 6 2 RESMI Finance & Investment House 2.01 0.18 0.75 1.00 0.55 7 5 BTA Securities 1.84 0.08 0.46 1.00 1.00 8 13 Bank CenterCredit 1.83 0.45 0.56 1.00 0.02 9 8 Kazpost 1.78 0.17 0.79 1.00 0.02 10 12 NURBANK 1.71 0.34 0.59 0.95 0.02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The "top-10" newcomers relative to July 2008 became Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan, Bank CenterCredit and NURBANK, having driven out from the "top- 10": - BTA Bank (sixth in July). - Eurasian Bank (seventh in July). - Asia Broker Services (tenth in July). Totally, 72 companies, excluding the National Bank, concluded repo deals in August 2008. The table below indicates the most active operators of repo market for initial 8 months of 2008. 76 companies, excluding the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, concluded deals during this period. The stake of the "top-10" accounted for 40.6 % of the repo market turnover. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Activity Calculation base Ka: Posi- indicator ---------------------- tion Company short name (Ka) V N D A ----- ------------------------------------ --------- ---- ---- ---- ---- 1 Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 2.43 1.00 0.62 1.00 0.03 2 Almaty Investment Management 2.24 0.11 1.00 1.00 0.65 3 BTA Securities 2.20 0.25 0.65 1.00 1.00 4 RESMI Finance & Investment House 2.14 0.32 0.76 1.00 0.51 5 Tengry Finance 1.90 0.07 0.73 1.00 0.59 6 ATFBank 1.81 0.59 0.43 0.94 0.06 7 BCC Invest 1.73 0.15 0.31 0.98 0.97 8 Asia Broker Services 1.68 0.17 0.46 0.99 0.52 9 Alliance Bank 1.64 0.35 0.55 0.92 0.01 10 Bank CenterCredit 1.63 0.46 0.40 0.96 0.01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In tables are used abbreviations of the following companies: BTA Securities - Subsidiary of BTA Bank BTA Securities; BCC Invest - Subsidiary of Bank CenterCredit; Temirbank - Subsidiary of Bank TuranAlem. Aggregate gross-turnover of trades (sum of purchased and sold instruments on repo opening and closing transactions) has been used in calculations. At that, all repo deals regardless of the sector (automatic repo or nego deals method) and repo subjects (government and corporate securities) have been taken into account. KASE draws attention that the exchange repo market operators have been ranked, as in the tables, according to the KASE internal document "Methodology of Calculation of Activity Indicators of Members of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange Inc." (Methodology), effective January 1, 2008 The Methodology is available at the KASE website at: http://www.kase.kz/files/normative_base/members_activity.pdf [2008-09-05]