/IRBIS, April 2, 03/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined the list of companies - leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in Kazakhstan in March of 2003.

The place in the list is given according to portion of concluded deals in aggregate gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold instruments on repo opening and closing operations). At that, all repo deals were taken into account regardless of the sector (automatic repo or direct deals method) and subject of repo (government or corporate securities). The position of each entity was expressed in currency of the payments - tenge.

A total of 33 companies participated in making of deals in at KASE's repo sector in March excluding the National Bank of Kazakhstan (banks, broker- dealer companies, pension assets management companies, SAPF, non- banking financial organizations). Below is the list of 10 the most active operators, which controlled 67.2% of this sector of the stock exchange's market, given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume. In parentheses position of corresponding operator in February of 2003, which has been calculated by similar methods, is given

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Position Position Brief title                                  Stake in
  in Mar   in Feb of a bank                                      trades
    2003     2003 or a company                                volume, %
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       1        2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty)                     15.0
       2        4 Nurbank OJSC (Atyrau)                            10.2
       3        1 AMB OJSC (Almaty)                                 8.2
       4        6 Bank Caspian OJSC (Almaty)                        8.1
       5        9 Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty)                   7.0
       6        7 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty)            6.4
       7        3 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty)                       5.0
       8        5 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty)                    2.54
       9       10 DB "ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan" CJSC (Almaty)      2.53
      10        8 TEMIRBANK OJSC (Almaty)                           2.2
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There were no newcomers of the "active ten" in comparison with February of 2003.

Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members in the repo sector for the first quarter of 2003. A total of 34 companies participated in making of deals in this period, besides the National Bank.

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Posi- Brief name of                           Stake in gross
 tion company                            volume of trades, %
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    1 AMB OJSC                                          14.5
    2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC                               13.0
    3 Eurasian bank CJSC                                 7.2
    4 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC                      6.7
    5 Nurbank OJSC                                       6.0
    6 Bank Caspian OJSC                                  5.2
    7 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC                               5.1
    8 Bank CenterCredit OJSC                            3.70
    9 TEMIRBANK OJSC                                    3.67
   10 DB "ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan" CJSC                 2.4
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[2003-04-02]