KASE determined leading operators of exchange's repo market in December of 2004 and in 2004

/IRBIS, Ranida Gabdeyeva, January 5, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined the list of companies - leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in Kazakhstan in December 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 42 companies participated in making of deals at KASE's repo sector in December excluding National Bank. Below is the list of ten most active operators, which controlled 66.0% of this sector of the stock exchange's market, given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (all headquarters are in Almaty). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Brief Stake in December November name trade 2004 2004 of participant volume, % ----------- ----------- -------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 14.6 2 6 Kazkommertsbank JSC 9.8 3 4 Alliance Bank JSC 6.7 4 7 ATFBank JSC 6.1 5 9 BANK CASPIAN JSC 5.7 6 3 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 5.4 7 17 General Asset management JSC 4.9 8 11 Bank CenterCredit JSC 4.6 9 8 Eurasian bank JSC 4.4 10 2 PAIMO ZHETYSU JSC 3.8 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to November of 2004 are General Asset management JSC and Bank CenterCredit JSC, which have substituted Temirbank JSC (Almaty, the 5th position in November) and PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC (Almaty, the 10th position in November). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members in the repo sector in 2004. A total of 45 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 15.7 2 Kazkommertsbank JSC 7.8 3 Alliance Bank JSC 5.6 4 Bank CenterCredit JSC 5.2 5 NURBANK JSC 5.11 6 PAIMO ZHETYSU JSC 5.07 7 ATFBank JSC 5.0 8 Eurasian bank JSC 4.9 9 BANK CASPIAN JSC 4.3 10 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 3.8 ------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-05]