KASE determined leading operators of the exchange market of foreign currency for July and 7 months of 2002

/IRBIS, August 02, 02/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined the list of second tier banks - leading operators in stock market of foreign currency in Kazakhstan for July 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 23 second tier banks were participating at KASE in June. Below the list of ten most active operators in order of priority is provided. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Brief Share in in July, in June, name of trades 2002. 2002. bank volume, % -------- -------- -------------------------------------------- --------- 1 5 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty)* 14.1 2 1 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty) 13.6 3 3 CITYBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty) 11.6 4 2 ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan DB CJSC (Almaty) 9.0 5 6 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty) 8.4 6 4 Alliance Bank OJSC (Almaty) 7.6 7 14 Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty) 4.3 8 11 DB Bank of China in Kazakhstan CJSC (Almaty) 4.2 9 8 TEMIRBANK OJSC (Almaty) 3.9 10 7 BANK CASPIAN OJSC (Almaty) 3.5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker of USD at KASE Newcomers relative to June of 2002 - Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty) and DB Bank of China in Kazakhstan CJSC. In the total turnover of exchange's money-market the share of US dollar equaled in June of the current year to 99.9%. Below the table of operators' activity of currency stock market for 7 months of 2002. 27 second tier banks participated in making deals at KASE in this period. -------------------------------------------------------- Position Share in for seven Brief trades months name of volume, of 2002 bank % --------- ----------------------------------- -------- 1 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC 12.1 2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC 10.9 3 ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan DB CJSC 10.3 4 CITYBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC 9.8 5 Alliance Bank OJSC 6.9 6 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC 5.4 7 Temirbank OJSC 4.5 8 Eurasian bank CJSC 4.0 9 BANK OF CHINA IN KAZAKHSTAN DB OJSC 3.9 10 BANK CASPIAN OJSC 3.0 -------------------------------------------------------- [2002-08-02]