KASE determined leading operators of the exchange market of foreign currency for July and 7 months of the current year

/IRBIS, August 1, 03/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined the list of second tier banks - leading operators of stock market of foreign currency in Kazakhstan for July of 2003. Place of bank in the list is set in accordance with share of deals made by him in total gross-turnover of trades (sum of purchased and sold currency) on USD, Euro and Russian rouble in trading system of KASE. In addition the position of each bank was expressed by total tenge equivalent at the current rate of each deal that was made. Totally in making deals 24 second tier banks were participating at KASE in July. Below the list of ten most active operators in order of priority is given. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Brief Share in in July, in May, name of trades 2003 2003 bank volume, % -------- -------- --------------------------------------- --------- 1 2 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty)* 14.8 2 5 Alliance Bank OJSC (Almaty) 12.5 3 1 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty) 9.5 4 3 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan (Almaty) 7.2 5 4 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty) 6.9 6 6 Temirbank OJSC (Almaty) 6.4 7 7 Nurbank OJSC (Almaty) 4.9 8 8 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty) 3.8 9 11 ATFBank OJSC (Almaty) 3.2 10 15 BANK CASPIAN OJSC (Almaty) 2.7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker of USD at KASE Newcomers of "active ten" relative to June of 2003 - ATFBank OJSC (Almaty) and BANK CASPIAN OJSC. In the total turnover of exchange's money-market the share of US dollar equaled in July of the current year to 99.99%. Below the table of operators' activity of currency stock market for the first seven months of 2003. 26 second tier banks participated in making deals at KASE in this period. -------------------------------------------------------------- Position for the first six Brief Share in months name of trades of 2003 bank volume, % ----------------- -------------------------------- --------- 1 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC 12.8 2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC 12.4 3 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 10.4 4 Alliance Bank OJSC 7.7 5 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC 6.7 6 Eurasian bank CJSC 4.2 7 CITYBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC 4.1 8 Temirbank OJSC 3.8 9 Nurbank OJSC 3.4 10 Bank CenterCredit OJSC 2.9 -------------------------------------------------------------- [2003-08-01]