KASE determined leading operators of exchange's repo market in February of 2005 and first two months of 2005

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, March 1, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined the list of companies - leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in Kazakhstan in February 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 43 companies participated in making of deals at KASE's repo sector in February excluding the National Bank. Below is the list of ten most active operators, which controlled 58.4% 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 February January name trade 2005 2005 of participant volume, % ----------- ----------- ----------------------------------- --------- 1 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC 13.1 2 2 Kazkommertsbank JSC 9.3 3 5 Eurasian bank JSC 6.5 4 7 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 4.8 5 8 Temirbank JSC 4.7 6 11 Nurbank JSC 4.1899 7 6 BANK CASPIAN JSC 4.1898 8 4 ATFBank JSC 4.0 9 13 OCIMPA AB AMRO Asset Management JSC 3.9 10 12 Tcesnabank JSC (Astana) 3.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to January of 2005 are Nurbank JSC, OCIMPA ABN AMRO Asset Management JSC and Tcesnabank JSC having replaced Alliance Bank (Almaty, the first position in January), Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, the 9th position in January) and Bank CenterCredit JSC (Almaty, the 10th position in January). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members in the repo sector in first two months of 2005. A total of 44 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 10.6 2 Kazkommertsbank JSC 9.5 3 Alliance Bank JSC 7.0 8 Eurasian bank JSC 6.2 7 ATFBank JSC 5.3 9 BANK CASPIAN JSC 4.7 10 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 4.5 6 Temirbank JSC 4.1 5 NURBANK JSC 3.4 4 Bank CenterCredit JSC 3.3 ------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-03-01]