KASE determined leading operators of the exchange market of foreign currency in February and the first two months of this year
02.03.04 16:58
/KASE, Sergey Yakovlev, March 2, 04/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange
(KASE) determined the list of second tier banks - leading operators in stock
market of foreign currency in Kazakhstan in February of 2004.
Place of bank in the list is set in accordance with the stake of deals made by
it in total gross-turnover of trades (sum of purchased and sold currency) on
USD, Euro and Russian rouble in KASE's trade system. At that, position of
each bank was expressed in total tenge equivalent at the current rate of
each made deal.
A total of 26 second tier banks participated in conducting of deals in
February. Below is the list of ten most active of them in descending of their
stake in total volume of deals.
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Position in Position in Brief Stake in
February, January, name of trades
2004 2004 bank volume, %
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1 1 Halyk savings bank of
Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty)* 13.5
2 3 Kazkommertsbank JSC (Almaty) 12.4
3 2 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan
CJSC (Almaty) 11.8
4 4 Bank TuranAlem JSC (Almaty)* 7.9
5 5 Eurasian bank JSC (Almaty) 7.6
6 10 NURBANK OJSC (Atyrau) 4.0
7 12 DB Alfa-bank OJSC (Almaty) 3.79
8 6 Temirbank JSC (Almaty) 3.75
9 13 BANK CASPIAN JSC (Almaty) 3.2
10 9 Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty) 2.8
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* market-maker of USD at KASE
Newcomers of "the active ten", relative to January of 2004 are DB Alfa-bank
OJSC (Almaty, twelfth position in January), BANK CASPIAN JSC (Almaty,
thirteenth position in January).
Stake of US dollar in total turnover of stock exchange's currency market in
February was 99.95% of the volume of conducted deals.
Below is the list of most active operators of stock exchange's currency
market in the first two months of 2004. 26 second tier banks participated
in conducting of deals at KASE in this period.
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Position in Brief Stake in
the first two name of trades
months of 2004 bank volume, %
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1 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 12.8
2 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan 11.6
3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 10.5
4 Bank TuranAlem JSC 7.9
5 Eurasian bank JSC 7.1
6 Temirbank JSC 4.6
7 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC (Almaty) 3.2
8 NURBANK OJSC 2.6
9 Bank CenterCredit OJSC 2.5
10 DB Alfa-bank OJSC 2.4
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In February of 2004 the volume of transactions in foreign currencies at KASE
reached equivalent of USD491,242.5 th. or KZT68,361.0 m. Stake of US
dollar in total turnover of the stock exchange's currency market was 99.95%
of conducted deals volume.
[2004-03-02]