KASE determined leading operators of the exchange market of foreign currency in May and the first 5 months of current year

02.06.04 18:29
/IRBIS, Sergey Yakovlev, June 2, 04/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined the list of second tier banks - leading operators in stock market of foreign currency in Kazakhstan in May 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 May, April, name of trades 2004 2004 bank volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 13.7 2 2 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC* 11.7 3 3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 10.8 4 4 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 10.3 5 11 ATFBank JSC 7.0 6 5 Eurasian bank JSC 3.9 7 8 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC 3.68 8 6 NURBANK OJSC 3.67 9 14 BANK CASPIAN JSC 3.3 10 13 Bank CenterCredit OJSC 2.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker of USD at KASE Newcomers of "the active ten", relative to April of 2004 are ATFBank JSC, BANK CASPIAN JSC and Bank CenterCredit OJSC that replaced Alliance Bank (Almaty, the seventh position in April), Temirbank JSC (Almaty, the ninth position in April) and DB Alpha-bank OJSC (Almaty, eighths position in April). Below is the list of most active operators of stock exchange's currency market in the first 5 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 Bank TuranAlem JSC 10.4 3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 10.5 4 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan 10.3 5 Eurasian bank JSC 7.2 6 NURBANK OJSC 3.8 7 Temirbank JSC 4.1 8 ATFBank JSC 2.9 9 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC 2.8 10 Bank CenterCredit OJSC 2.75 --------------------------------------------------------- In May of 2004 the volume of transactions in foreign currencies at KASE reached equivalent of USD595,872.7 th. or KZT81,697.2 m. [2004-06-02]