KASE determined leading operators of the exchange market of foreign currency in April and the first 4 months of current year

05.05.04 18:44
/IRBIS, Sergey Yakovlev, May 5, 04/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined the list of second tier banks - leading operators in stock market of foreign currency in Kazakhstan in April 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 (total 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 order of their stake in total volume of deals (all headquartered in Almaty). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Brief Stake in April, March, name of trades 2004 2004 bank volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------- --------- 1 2 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 15.0 2 1 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC* 11.3 3 3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 10.3 4 4 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 8.6 5 5 Eurasian bank JSC 7.0 6 6 NURBANK OJSC 4.7 7 10 Alliance Bank JSC 3.713 8 15 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC 3.710 9 9 Temirbank JSC (Almaty) 3.3 10 12 DB Alfa-bank OJSC 2.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker of USD at KASE Newcomers of "the active ten", relative to March of 2004 are CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC and DB Alfa-bank OJSC, they have replaced ATFBank JSC (Almaty, the seventh position in March) and BANK CASPIAN JSC (Almaty, the eighth position in March). Below is the list of most active operators of stock exchange's currency market in the first 4 months of 2004. 26 second tier banks participated in conducting of deals at KASE in this period. --------------------------------------------------------- Brief Stake in name of trades Position bank volume, % -------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 13.1 2 Kazkommertsbank JSC 10.5 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC 10.4 4 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan 10.3 5 Eurasian bank JSC 7.2 6 Temirbank JSC 4.1 7 NURBANK OJSC 3.8 8 ATFBank JSC 2.9 9 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC 2.8 10 Alliance Bank OJSC 2.75 --------------------------------------------------------- In April of 2004 the volume of transactions in foreign currencies at KASE reached equivalent of USD546,140.0 th. or KZT75,450.6 m. [2004-05-05]