KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in February and the first 2 months of 2004

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, March 4, 04/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined the list of companies - leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in Kazakhstan in February of 2004. Company's position in the list is given according to the stake of deals made by it in total gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold instruments on repo opening and closing transactions). 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). Position of participant was expressed in currency of the payments - tenge. A total of 33 companies participated in making of deals at KASE's repo sector in February excluding National Bank (banks, broker-dealer companies, OCIMPA, non-banking financial organizations). Below is the list of 10 the most active operators, which controlled 64.0% 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 Feb in Jan of a bank trades 2004 2004 or a company volume, % -------- -------- ----------------------------------------- --------- 1 2 Bank TuranAlem JSC (Almaty) 10.7 2 3 Nurbank OJSC (Atyrau) 9.3 3 1 Kazkommertsbank JSC (Almaty) 7.9 4 10 Bank CenterCredit OJSC (Almaty) 7.6 5 7 Eurasian bank JSC (Almaty) 6.6 6 6 ATFBank JSC (Almaty) 6.2 7 5 Alliance Bank OJSC (Almaty) 5.5 8 9 Temirbank JSC (Almaty) 3.8 9 14 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC (Almaty) 3.5 10 8 Tsesnabank JSC (Astana) 3.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomer of the "active ten" relative to January of 2004 is DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC, it replaced PAMC ZHETYSU CJSC (Almaty, the 4th place in January). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members in the repo sector in the first 2 months of 2004. A total of 37 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 JSC 10.7 2 Kazkommertsbank JSC 9.5 3 Nurbank OJSC 9.1 4 Alliance Bank OJSC 5.440 5 ATFBank JSC 5.436 6 Eurasian bank JSC 5.41 7 Bank CenterCredit OJSC 5.3 8 PAMO ZHETYSU JSC 4.7 9 Temirbank JSC 3.7 10 Tsesnabank JSC 3.4 ------------------------------------------------ [2004-03-04]