KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in August and the first 8 months of 2003

/IRBIS, September 2, 03/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined the list of companies - leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in Kazakhstan in August of 2003. The place in the list is given according to portion of concluded deals in total 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 37 companies participated in making of deals at KASE's repo sector in August 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 67.4% of this sector of the stock exchange's market, given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Brief title Stake in in August in July of a bank trades 2003 2003 or a company volume, % --------- -------- ----------------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty) 13.7 2 3 Nurbank OJSC (Atyrau) 13.4 3 2 ATFBank OJSC (Almaty) 11.4 4 6 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty) 5.8 5 4 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty) 5.7 6 12 Alliance Bank OJSC 4.1 7 7 Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty) 3.83 8 5 BANK CASPIAN OJSC (Almaty) 3.77 9 15 RG Securities LLP 3.1 10 13 DB ABN AMRO BANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty) 2.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The newcomers of the "active ten" in comparison with July of 2003 are Alliance Bank OJSC, RG Securities LLP and DB ABN AMRO BANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC, they have substituted Kazpost (Almaty, the 8th place in July), TEMIRBANK OJSC (Almaty, the 9th place in July) and KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd JSC (Almaty, the 10th place in July). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members in the repo sector for the first eight months of 2003. A total of 38 companies participated in making of deals in this period, besides the National Bank. -------------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief name of Stake in gross tion company volume of trades, % ----- ---------------------------------- ------------------- 1 Bank TuranAlem OJSC 13.6 2 ATFBank OJSC 12.4 3 Nurbank OJSC 8.7 4 Eurasian bank CJSC 6.6 5 Bank Caspian OJSC 5.4 6 Bank CenterCredit OJSC 4.8 7 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC 4.6 8 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC 4.1 9 DB "ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan" CJSC 3.0 10 TEMIRBANK OJSC 2.8 -------------------------------------------------------------- [2003-09-02]