KASE determined leading operators of the exchange market of foreign currency for May and first 5 months of this year

/IRBIS, June 2, 03/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined the list of second tier banks - leading operators in stock exchange's foreign currencies market in Kazakhstan for May 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 24 second tier banks were participating in making deals at KASE in May. Below the list of ten most active operators in descending order of their stake in total volume of deals is provided. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Position in Stake in May, Position Brief trades 2003 in April name of volume, % 2003 bank ----------- -------- ----------------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty)* 16.7 2 2 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC (Almaty) 11.3 3 8 Alliance Bank OJSC (Almaty) 9.0 4 4 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty) 8.5 5 3 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty)* 8.4 6 5 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty) 4.6 7 10 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty) 4.1 8 7 TEMIRBANK OJSC (Almaty) 3.5 9 6 BANK OF CHINA IN KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty) 2.9 10 9 Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty) 2.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * market-maker of US dollar at KASE There are no newcomers of "the active ten banks", relative to April of 2003. In the total turnover of exchange's money-market the share of US dollar equaled in May of the current year to 99.99%. Below is the table of activity of stock exchange's currency market for the first 5 months of 2003. 27 second tier banks took part in making of deals at KASE in this period. --------------------------------------------------------- Position Brief Stake in in the first 5 name of trades months of 2003 bank volume, % -------------- -------------------------------- --------- 1 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC* 11.6 2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC* 10.8 3 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 10.7 4 Alliance Bank OJSC 7.6 5 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC 7.2 6 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC 5.6 7 Eurasian bank CJSC 4.7 8 TEMIRBANK OJSC 3.3 9 Bank CenterCredit OJSC 3.2 10 Nurbank OJSC 3.0 --------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker of US dollar at KASE [2003-06-02]