KASE determined leading operators of the exchange market of foreign currency for September and 9 months of the current year

/IRBIS, October 1, 03/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined the list of second tier banks - leading operators of exchange market of foreign currency in Kazakhstan for September of 2003. Position of bank in the list is set in accordance with share of deals it concluded 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 concluded. In total, in conclusion of deals 25 second-tier banks were participating at KASE in September. Below the list of ten most active operators in order of priority is given. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Brief Share in in Sep, in Aug, name of trades 2003 2003 bank volume, % -------- -------- --------------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty)* 16.9 2 3 Bank TuranAlem OJSC (Almaty)* 13.0 3 2 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC (Almaty) 9.8 4 5 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan (Almaty) 7.3 5 4 Alliance Bank OJSC (Almaty) 6.3 6 6 Nurbank OJSC (Almaty) 4.6 7 7 Temirbank OJSC (Almaty) 3.3 8 13 ATFBank OJSC (Almaty) 3.2 9 9 Eurasian bank CJSC (Almaty) 2.9 10 8 Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty) 2.8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker of USD at KASE Newcomers of "active ten" relative to August of 2003 - ATFBank OJSC (Almaty), which forced out DB BANK OF CHINA IN KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty, 10th position in August). In the total turnover of exchange's currency market 99.92% of conducted deals fell to the stake of US dollar in September. Below is the table of operators' activity of currency stock market for the first nine months of 2003. 26 second-tier banks participated in conclusion deals at KASE in this period. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Position for the first eight Brief Share in months name of trades of 2003 bank volume, % ------------------- -------------------------------- --------- 1 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC 13.5 2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC 12.2 3 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 9.4 4 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC 7.9 5 Alliance Bank OJSC 7.5 6 Eurasian bank CJSC 3.8 7 Nurbank OJSC 3.7 8 Temirbank OJSC 3.6 9 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC 3.4 10 Bank CenterCredit OJSC 2.8 ---------------------------------------------------------------- [2003-10-01]