KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's foreign currency market for December and the whole year

/IRBIS, January 6, 04/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined the list of second tier banks - leading operators of stock exchange's foreign currency market in Kazakhstan for December 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 concluded deal. In total, in conclusion of deals 25 second-tier banks were participating at KASE in December. Below the list of ten most active operators in order of priority is given. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Brief Share in in Dec, in Nov, name of trades 2003 2003 bank volume, % -------- -------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 2 Bank TuranAlem JSC (Almaty)* 20.9 2 1 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty)* 12.5 3 9 Temirbank OJSC (Almaty) 10.8 4 3 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan (Almaty) 8.3 5 4 KAZKOMMERTSBANK JSC (Almaty) 6.4 6 8 BANK CASPIAN JSC (Almaty) 4.9 7 11 Alliance Bank OJSC (Almaty) 3.7 8 6 Eurasian bank JSC (Almaty) 3.5 9 12 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty) 3.4 10 7 Nurbank OJSC (Atyrau) 2.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker of USD at KASE Newcomers of "the active ten" relative to November of 2003 - Alliance Bank OJSC (Almaty, eleventh position in November), CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty, twelfth position in November). In December of 2003 the volume of transactions with foreign currency at KASE was equivalent of USD1,082,703.8 th. or KZT156,664.4 m. In the whole turnover of exchange's currency market 99.56% of conducted deals fell to the stake of US dollar. Below is the table of operators' activity of currency stock market in 2003. 27 second-tier banks participated in conclusion of deals at KASE in this period. --------------------------------------------------------- Position Brief Stake in in name of trade 2003 bank volume, % -------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 14.4 2 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 14.0 3 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan 9.1 4 KAZKOMMERTSBANK JSC 7.5 5 Alliance Bank OJSC 6.1 6 Temirbank OJSC 4.9 7 Eurasian bank JSC 3.9 8 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC 3.42 9 Nurbank OJSC 3.37 10 Bank CenterCredit OJSC 2.6 --------------------------------------------------------- In 2003 volume of transactions with foreign currency at KASE was equivalent of USD6,413,441.4 th. or KZT953,972.4 m. In the whole turnover of stock exchange's currency market 99.88% of the volume of conducted deals fell to the stake of US dollar. [2004-01-06]