/IRBIS, Feb 5, 01/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) defined list of companies - leading operators of the KASE government bonds 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 bonds). The rating included purchase-sale deals (37.1% of the secondary market) and direct and reverse repo operation (62.9%). The position of each entity was expressed in currency of the payments, i.e. tenge.

In total, 21 companies participated in trades with GB at KASE (banks, broker-dealer companies, pension assets management companies and SAPF). Below is the list of 10 the most active operators given in descending order.

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 Position in  Position  Brief title of a company                   Share in
January 2001   in 2000                                         gross volume
                                                               of trades, %
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           1         1  Halyk Bank Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty)            16.3
           2         3  AMB CJSC (Almaty)                              14.0
           3         5  Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty)                   10.6
           4         7  KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty)                   9.2
           5         2  State Accumulative Pension Fund CJSC,              
                        SAPF (Almaty)                                   7.3
           6         6  Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty)                     5.3
           7        11  Caspian Bank OJSC (Almaty)                     3.63
           8        17  TuranAlem Securities OJSC (Almaty)             3.57
           9         8  Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty)                 3.4
          10        14  TEMIRBANK OJSC (Almaty)                         3.3
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