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

/IRBIS, Sept 28, 01/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) defined list of second tier banks - leading operators of the KASE foreign exchange market for Sept 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, 24 second-tier banks participated in trades on KASE. Below is the list of 10 the most active operators given in descending order. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Share in in Sept in Aug gross volume 2001 2001 Brief title of a bank of trades, % -------- -------- --------------------------------------------- ------------ 1 15 Subsidiary bank ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 12.9 2 6 Halyk bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty) 10.6 3 1 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty) 10.2 4 3 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty) 9.4 5 2 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty) 6.8 6 5 Irtyshbusinessbank OJSC (Pavlodar) 5.4 7 4 NURBANK KAZAKHSTAN OJSC (Almaty) 5.2 8 9 Temirbank OJSC(Almaty) 4.7 9 7 Euroasian bank CJSC (Almaty) 3.8 10 8 Alfa-bank SB OJSC (Almaty) 3.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - market-maker of dollar at KASE Subsidiary bank ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC (Almaty) is a new one in active ten, from 15 th point it occupied the first point. Total currency market turnover for this year - 99.97%. 28 secondary tier banks participated in foreign currency deals during nine months of this year. The following is list of the most ten active banks. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Share in gross Position Position volume Jan-Sept Jan-Sept Brief title of of trades, 2001 2000 bank % -------- -------- --------------------------------- ---------- 1 1 Bank Turan Alem OJSC (Almaty)* 17.4 2 8 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty) 8.7 3 4 CITYBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty) 8.3 4 3 Halyc Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC 7.0 5 6 Euroasian bank (Almaty) 5.3 6 5 MB CJSC (Almaty) 4.8 7 9 Temirbank OJSC (Almaty) 4.4 8 12 Irtyshbusinessbank OJSC(Pavlodar) 3.61 9 7 NURBANK (Almaty) 3.58 10 14 Alfa-bank SB OJSC(Аlmaty) 2.8 ----------------------------------------------------------------- - market-maker of dollar at KASE