KASE determined leading operators of exchange's repo market in January of 2005

/IRBIS, Ranida Gabdeyeva, February 2, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined the list of companies - leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in Kazakhstan in January of 2005. 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 January excluding National Bank. Below is the list of ten most active operators, which controlled 60.6% 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 January December name trade 2005 2004 of participant volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 3 Alliance Bank JSC 10.8 2 2 Kazkommertsbank JSC 9.8 3 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 8.2 4 4 ATFBank JSC 6.6 5 9 Eurasian bank JSC 6.0 6 5 BANK CASPIAN JSC 5.2 7 6 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 4.2 8 12 Temirbank JSC 3.4 9 14 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 3.3 10 8 Bank CenterCredit JSC 3.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to December of 2004 are Temirbank JSC and Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC, they have replaced General Asset management JSC (Almaty, the 7th position in December) and PAIMO ZHETYSU JSC (Almaty, the 10th position in December). [2005-02-02]