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

/IRBIS, Sergey Yakovlev, March 1, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined list of second tier banks - leading operators of the exchange's foreign currency market in Kazakhstan in February of 2005. Bank'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 foreign currency) in US dollar, euro and Russian ruble in KASE's trade system. At that, position of each bank was expressed in total tenge equivalent at the current rate of each concluded transaction. A total of 25 second tier banks participated in making of deals at KASE. Below is the list of ten most active of them, 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 bank volume, % ----------- ----------- --------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Halyk saving bank Kazakhstan JSC* 16.1 2 2 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 12.9 3 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 10.2 4 8 Eurasian bank JSC 7.6 5 5 Kazkommertsbank JSC 7.31 6 4 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC 7.30 7 15 ATFBank JSC 5.4 8 9 Nurbank JSC 4.9 9 10 DB HSBC Bank Kazakhstan JSC 3.5 10 7 Bank CenterCredit JSC 3.3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker on US dollar at KASE Newcomer of the "active ten" relative to January of 2005 is ATFBank JSC, which has substituted BANK CASPIAN JSC (Almaty, the 6th position in January). Below is table of active operators of exchange currency market in 2005. A total of 27 second tier banks participated in making of deals in this period. -------------------------------------------------------- Posi- Brief name of Stake in tion bank trade volume, % ----- -------------------------------- --------------- 1 Halyk saving bank Kazakhstan JSC 15.8 2 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 12.9 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC 9.6 4 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC 6.7 5 Kazkommertsbank JSC 6.4 6 Eurasian bank JSC 6.1 7 Nurbank JSC 4.4 8 Bank CenterCredit JSC 4.0 9 BANK CASPIAN JSC 3.7 10 DB HSBC Bank Kazakhstan JSC 3.4 -------------------------------------------------------- [2005-03-01]