KASE determined leading operators of exchange's repo market in March of 2005 and first Three months of 2005

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, April 1, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined the list of companies - leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in Kazakhstan in March 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 44 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 57.4% 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 March February name trade 2005 2005 of participant volume, % ----------- ----------- ----------------------------------- --------- 1 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 13.5 2 6 Nurbank JSC 6.2 3 9 OCIMPA AB AMRO Asset Management JSC 5.8 4 8 ATFBank JSC 5.5 5 2 Kazkommertsbank JSC 5.1 6 5 Temirbank JSC 4.74 7 7 BANK CASPIAN JSC 4.66 8 3 Eurasian bank JSC 4.3 9 16 OCIMPA Bailyk Asset Management JSC 3.81 10 15 Kazakhstan Development Bank JSC 3.75 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to February of 2005 are OCIMPA Bailyk Asset Management JSC and Kazakhstan Development Bank JSC having replaced ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, the fourth position in January) and Tsesnabank JSC (Astana, the tenth position in February). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members in the repo sector in first three months of 2005. A total of 46 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 11.5 2 Kazkommertsbank JSC 8.2 3 Alliance Bank JSC 5.9 4 Eurasian bank JSC 5.7 5 ATFBank JSC 5.4 6 BANK CASPIAN JSC 4.7 7 Nurbank JSC 4.265 8 Temirbank JSC 4.2644 9 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 4.2639 10 OCIMPA AB AMRO Asset Management JSC 4.0 --------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-04-01]