/IRBIS, May 31, 01/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) defined list of second tier banks - leading operators of the KASE foreign exchange market for April 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.

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Position  Position                                           Share in
in April  in March                                       gross volume
    2001      2000  Brief title of a bank                of trades, %
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       1         1  Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty)*                15.7
       2         4  KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty)                 9.0
       3         3  CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty)             7.3
       4         7  AMB CJSC (Almaty)                             5.9
       5         5  Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty)                   5.2
       6         6  TEMIRBANK OJSC (Almaty)                       4.1
       7        11  Nurbank OJSC (Atyrau)                         3.6
       8         8  Irtyshbusinessbank OJSC (Pavlodar)            3.2
       9         2  Halyk Bank Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty)           3.0
      10         9  Bank CentreCredit OJSC (Almaty)               2.8
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* - market-maker of dollar at KASE