KASE defined leading operators of the foreign exchange market in Kazakhstan for February 2002
01.03.02 00:00
/IRBIS, Mar 1, 02/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) defined list of
second tier banks - leading operators of the KASE foreign exchange market
in February 2002.
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, 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 banks of second tier 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 Dec in Nov gross volume
2001 2001 Brief title of a bank of trades, %
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1 2 ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC (Almaty) 15.7
2 3 Halyk bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty) 10.5
3 5 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty) 10.2
4 1 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty)* 7.9
5 4 Irtyshbusinessbank OJSC (Pavlodar) 6.7
6 8 Temirbank OJSC (Almaty) 5.9
7 7 Eurasian CJSC (Almaty) 5.5
8 6 BANK OF CHINA IN KAZAKHSTAN OJSC 3.7
(Almaty)
9 13 NURBANK OJSC (Atyrau) 3.6
10 10 AMB OJSC (Almaty) 2.5
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* - market-maker of U.S. dollar at KASE
New bank in the list relative to January 2002 is NURBANK OJSC that
replaced from the table Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty, 9th position of
January).
The proportion of the U.S. dollar in total turnover of the Exchange's currency
market equaled 99.5% in February of this year.