/IRBIS, May 4, 03/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined the list of second tier banks - leading operators in stock exchange's foreign currencies market in Kazakhstan for April 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.

A total of making deals 26 second tier banks were participating in making deals at KASE in April. Below the list of ten most active operators in descending order of their stake in total volume of deals is provided.

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Position in                                                        Stake in
     April,    Position Brief                                        trades
       2003 in February name of                                   volume, %
                   2003 bank
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          1           1 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty)*        13.2
          2           3 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC (Almaty)      12.6
          3           2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty)*                  12.3
          4           4 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty)                   8.9
          5           5 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty)               7.1
          6          10 BANK OF CHINA IN KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty)       4.3
          7           8 TEMIRBANK OJSC (Almaty)                         4.2
          8           7 Alliance Bank OJSC (Almaty)                     4.1
          9           6 Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty)                 3.8
         10           9 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty)                     3.1
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* market-maker of US dollar at KASE

There are no newcomers of "the active ten banks", relative to March of 2003.

In the total turnover of exchange's money-market the share of US dollar equaled in April of the current year to 99.99%.

Below is the table of activity of stock exchange's currency market for the first 4 months of 2003. 27 second tier banks took part in making of deals at KASE in this period.

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       Position Brief                             Stake in
  in the first  name of                             trades
quarter of 2003 bank                             volume, %
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              1 Bank TuranAlem OJSC                   11.3
              2 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC      10.6
              3 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC         10.4
              4 Alliance Bank OJSC                     7.2
              5 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC                   6.9
              6 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC               5.8
              7 Eurasian bank CJSC                     4.8
              8 Bank CenterCredit OJSC                 3.4
              9 TEMIRBANK OJSC                        3.28
             10 Nurbank OJSC                          3.26
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[2003-05-04]