KASE determined leading operators of the exchange market of foreign currency for January of 2003

/IRBIS, February 3, 03/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined the list of second tier banks - leading operators in stock market of foreign currency in Kazakhstan for January of 2003. 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 in Position Brief Share in January, in December name of trades 2003 2002 bank volume, % ----------- ----------- ----------------------------------------- --------- 1 3 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC (Almaty) 15.2 2 2 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty)* 11.1 3 4 Alliance Bank OJSC (Almaty) 10.9 4 5 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty) 9.0 5 1 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty)* 8.7 6 6 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty) 6.3 7 7 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty) 6.0 8 9 TEMIRBANK OJSC (Almaty) 3.1 9 11 Bank of China in Kazakhstan CJSC (Almaty) 2.2 10 8 Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty) 1.9 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker of USD at KASE Newcomer of "the active ten banks", relative to December of 2002 is BANK OF CHINA IN KAZAKHSTAN CJSC. In the total turnover of exchange's money-market the share of US dollar equaled in January of the current year to 99.85%. [2003-02-03]