KASE defined leading operators of the foreign exchange market in Kazakhstan for January 2001

/IRBIS, Feb 5, 01/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) defined list of second tier banks - leading operators of the KASE foreign exchange market for January 2001. The rating is made according to portion of concluded deals in aggregate gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold currencies) in US dollar, Deutsche mark, Euro and Russian rouble in the KASE trade system. The position of each bank was expressed by total dollar equivalent at the current rate of each concluded deal. In total, 25 second tier banks participated in trades on KASE. Below is the list of 10 the most active operators given in descending order. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position Brief title of a bank Share in gross January 2001 in 2000 volume of trades, % ------------ -------- ----------------------------------- -------------- 1 1 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty) 13.4 2 8 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty) 10.0 3 4 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty) 8.0 4 3 Halyk Bank Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty) 6.9 5 5 AMB CJSC (Almaty) 6.1 6 12 Kazprombank OJSC (Almaty) 5.1 7 9 TEMIRBANK OJSC (Almaty) 4.6 8 6 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty) 3.6 9 10 Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty) 2.9 10 7 NURBANK OJSC (Atyrau) 2.2 ------------ -------- ----------------------------------- --------------