KASE determined leading operators of the exchange market for foreign currency for May of 2002

/IRBIS, June 03,02/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined the list of second tier banks - leading operators in stock market of foreign currency in Kazakhstan as for May of 2002. Place of bank in the list is set in accordance with share of deals made by him in combined gross-turnover of trades (sum of purchased and sold currency) on USD, Euro and Russian rouble in trading system of KASE. Position of bank in the list is set in accordance with share of deals made by him in combined gross-turnover of trades (sum of purchased and sold currency) on USD, Euro and Russian rouble in KASE trading system. At the same time position of each bank was expressed in cumulative dollar equivalent to current rate of each deal made. Totally in making deals 24 second tier banks were participating at KASE in May. Below the list of ten most active operators in order of priority is provided. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Brief Share in in May, in April, name of trades 2002. 2002. bank volume, % -------- --------- -------------------------------------------- --------- 1 4 CITYBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty) 11.1 2 3 ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan DB CJSC (Almaty) 10.1 3 7 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty) 9.9 4 2 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty) 7.5 5 1 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty)* 7.3 6 5 Alliance Bank OJSC (Almaty) 4.9 7 6 Temirbank OJSC (Almaty) 4.7 8 8 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty) 4.3 9 9 BANK OF CHINA IN KAZAKHSTAN DB OJSC (Almaty) 4.0 10 14 TEXAKABANK OJSC (Almaty) 3.6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker of USD at KASE Newcomer at "active ten" relative to April of 2002 - TEXAKABANK OJSC that replaced ALFA-BANK DB OJSC (Almaty, 10th place in April). В общем обороте биржевого валютного рынка доля доллара США в мае текущего года составила 99,9%. Below the table of operators' activity of currency stock market for the first five months of 2002. 26 second tier banks participated in making deals at KASE in this period. -------------------------------------------------------- Position for five Brief Share in months name of trades of 2002 bank volume, % -------- ----------------------------------- --------- 1 ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan DB CJSC 11.0 2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC 10.8 3 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC 10.3 4 CITYBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC 9.6 5 Irtyshbusinessbank 5.2 6 Temirbank OJSC 4.8 7 Eurasian bank CJSC 4.7 8 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC 4.14 9 BANK OF CHINA IN KAZAKHSTAN DB OJSC 4.12 10 AMB OJSC 2.8 -------------------------------------------------------- [2002-06-03]