KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's GS purchase-sale sector for April and the first 4 months of 2005

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, May 4, 05/ - Kazakhsan stock exchange (KASE) has composed the list of companies - leading operators of exchange's market of government securities (GS) purchase-sale in Kazakhstan for April of 2005. Companies are ranked according to the stake of deals made by them in total gross turnover of trades (total of purchased and sold bonds). Position of each participant is expressed in the currency of payments - tenge. A total of 32 companies participated in making GS purchase-sale deals at KASE in April, excluding the National Bank. Below is the list of 10 most active operators given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (companies' headquarters are in Almaty) and their positions in March of 2005. The stake of these operators in April was 79.7% of the exchange's GS sector turnover. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Position in Position in Stake in April March trades 2005 2005 Company's brief name volume, % ----------- ----------- ----------------------------------- --------- 1 1 ATFBank JSC 15.0 2 3 APF of Halyk bank of Kazakhstan JSC 10.7 3 15 PAIMO Zhetysu JSC 9.09 4 13 Kazkommertsabnk JSC 9.05 5 7 Bank CenterCredit JSC 8.1 6 2 Bank TuranAlem JSC 7.6 7 4 Alliance Bank JSC 7.0 8 5 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 5.3 9 10 KIB ASSET MANAGEMENT JSC 4.3 10 16 RG Securities JSC 3.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Newcomers of the top ten in comparison with March of 2005: PAIMO Zhetysu JSC, Kazkommertsbank JSC and RG Securities JSC that replaced Eurasina bank JSC (Almaty, 6th position in March), TuranAlem Securities JSC (Almaty, 8th position in March) and APF GNPG JSC (Almaty, 9th position in March). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "K" category for the first 4 months of 2005. 40 companies participated in deals making in this period, besides the National Bank. --------------------------------------------------------------- Stake in trades Position Company's brief name volume, % -------- ------------------------------------ --------------- 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 11.1 2 ATFBank JSC 7.6 3 Halyk Saving Bank Kazakhstan JSC 7.3 4 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 7.2 5 Alliance Bank JSC 6.8 6 Kazkommertsbank JSC 6.4 7 Bank CenterCredit JSC 5.4 8 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 4.9 9 Eurasian bank JSC 4.8 10 APF Zhetysu JSC 4.7 --------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-05-04]