KASE determined leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in April and the first 3 months of 2004

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, April 2, 04/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined the list of companies - leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in Kazakhstan in March 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 36 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 top ten operators, which controlled 61.9% of this sector of the stock exchange's market, given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (all headquartered in Almaty). -------------------------------------------------------------- Position Position Brief title Stake in in Mar in Feb of a bank trades 2004 2004 or a company volume, % -------- -------- ------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 15.4 2 4 Bank CenterCredit OJSC 7.7 3 3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 7.0 4 7 Alliance Bank OJSC 6.9 5 5 Eurasian bank JSC 6.4 6 14 Central Asian Trust Company LLP 4.1 7 12 Bank Caspian JSC 3.7 8 8 Temirbank JSC 3.61 9 6 ATFBank JSC 3.60 10 11 PAMC Zhetysu JSC 3.5 -------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to February of 2004 are Central Asian Trust Company LLP, Bank Caspian JSC and PAMC Zhetysu JSC; they replaced NURBANK OJSC (Atyrau, 2nd position in February), DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC (Almaty, the 9th place in February) and Tcesnabank JSC (Astana, 10th position in February). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members in the repo sector in the first 3 months of 2004. 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 JSC 12.3 2 Kazkommertsbank JSC 8.7 3 Nurbank OJSC 7.1 4 Bank CenterCredit OJSC 6.1 5 Alliance Bank OJSC 5.9 6 Eurasian bank JSC 5.7 7 ATFBank JSC 4.8 8 PAMO ZHETYSU JSC 4.3 9 Temirbank JSC 3.6 10 Tsesnabank JSC 3.1 -------------------------------------------------- [2004-04-02]