KASE determined leading operators of the exchange market of foreign currency for October and 10 months of 2002

/IRBIS, November 1, 02/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined the list of second tier banks - leading operators in stock market of foreign currency in Kazakhstan for October 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 26 second tier banks were participating at KASE in September. Below the list of ten most active operators in order of priority is provided. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Brief Share in in October, in September name of trades 2002 2002 bank volume, % ----------- ------------ --------------------------------------- --------- 1 3 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty)* 15.4 2 2 ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan DB CJSC (Almaty) 13.4 3 1 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty)* 11.5 4 5 Alliance Bank OJSC (Almaty) 10.0 5 6 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty) 4.6 6 4 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty) 3.8 7 8 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty) 3.6 8 7 DB Bank of China in Kazakhstan CJSC (Almaty) 3.454 9 9 TEMIRBANK OJSC (Almaty) 3.451 10 14 Nurbank OJSC (tyrau) 3.2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker of USD at KASE Newcomer, relative to September of 2002 - Nurbank OJSC. In the total turnover of exchange's money-market the share of US dollar equaled in October of the current year to 99.94%. Below is the table of operators' activity of currency stock market for 10 months of 2002. 28 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 13.1 2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC 12.2 3 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 11.5 4 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC 8.5 5 Alliance Bank OJSC 5.5 6 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC 5.0 7 BANK OF CHINA IN KAZAKHSTAN DB OJSC 4.1 8 Eurasian bank CJSC 4.0 9 Temirbank OJSC 3.9 10 AMB OJSC 2.7 -------------------------------------------------------- [2002-11-01]