/IRBIS, September 30, 02/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined the list of second tier banks - leading operators in stock market of foreign currency in Kazakhstan for September 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. At this, position of each bank was expressed in total dollar equivalent at the current rate of exchange of each made deal.

Totally in making deals 24 second tier banks were participating at KASE in September. Below the list of ten most active operators in order of priority is provided.

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  Position Position Brief                                         Share in
in August, in July, name of                                         trades
     2002.    2002. bank                                         volume, %
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         1        2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty)*                     17.5
         2        3 ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan DB CJSC (Almaty)         13.4
         3        1 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty)*           10.9
         4        4 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty)                  8.2
         5        5 Alliance Bank OJSC (Almaty)                        7.8
         6        9 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty)                      5.7
         7        6 DB Bank of China in Kazakhstan CJSC (Almaty)       4.7
         8        7 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty)                        4.5
         9       13 TEMIRBANK OJSC (Almaty)                            2.7
        10        8 AMB OJSC (Almaty)                                  2.3
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* market-maker of USD at KASE

Newcomer, relative to August of 2002 - TEMIRBANK OJSC.

In the total turnover of exchange's money-market the share of US dollar equaled in September of the current year to 99.89%.

Below is the table of operators' activity of currency stock market for 9 months of 2002. 25 second tier banks participated in making deals at KASE in this period.

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 Position                                     Share in
for seven Brief                                 trades
   months name of                              volume,
  of 2002 bank                                       %
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        1 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC           12.6
        2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC                     12.4
        3 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC        11.2
        4 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC                 9.5
        5 Alliance Bank OJSC                       7.1
        6 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC                     5.0
        7 BANK OF CHINA IN KAZAKHSTAN DB OJSC      4.2
        8 Eurasian bank CJSC                       4.1
        9 Temirbank OJSC                           4.0
       10 AMB OJSC                                 2.9
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[2002-09-30]