/IRBIS, Ranida Gabdeyeva, May 7, 04/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined the list of companies - leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in Kazakhstan in April 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 37 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 64.8% of this sector of the stock exchange's market, given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (all headquartered are in Almaty).

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Position  Position  Brief title                          Stake in
  in Apr    in Mar  of a bank                              trades
    2004      2004  or a company                        volume, %
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       1         1  Bank TuranAlem JSC                       12.4
       2         3  Kazkommertsbank JSC                       9.4
       3         9  ATFBank JSC                               7.1
       4         5  Eurasian bank JSC                         6.8
       5         7  Bank Caspian JSC                          5.8
       6         2  Bank CenterCredit OJSC                    5.7
       7         6  Central Asian Trust Company LLP           5.0
       8         4  Alliance Bank OJSC                        4.9
       9        11  Nurbank OJSC                              4.5
      10        16  Development Bank of Kazakhstan JSC        3.2
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Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to March of 2004 are Nurbank OJSC and Development Bank of Kazakhstan, they replaced (Almaty, 8th position in March) and PAMC Zhetysu JSC (Almaty, 10th position in March).

Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members in the repo sector in the first 4 months of 2004. A total of 39 companies participated in making of deals in this period, besides the National Bank.

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Posi-  Brief name of                         Stake in gross
 tion  company                          volume of trades, %
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    1  Bank TuranAlem JSC                              12.3
    2  Kazkommertsbank JSC                              8.9
    3  Nurbank OJSC                                     6.4
    4  Eurasian bank JSC                               6.04
    5  Bank CenterCredit OJSC                          6.02
    6  Alliance Bank OJSC                               5.7
    7  ATFBank JSC                                      5.5
    8  BANK CASPIAN JSC                                 3.7
    9  Central-Asian Trust Company LLP                  3.6
   10  Temirbank JSC                                    3.5
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[2004-05-07]