KASE determined leading operators of exchange's repo market in May of 2005 and first 5 months of 2005

/IRBIS, Ranida Gabdeyeva, June 3, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined the list of companies - leading operators of stock exchange's repo market in Kazakhstan in May 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 in KASE's repo sector in May 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 May April name trade 2005 2005 of participant volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 1 Bank TuranAlem JSC 12.25 2 2 PAIMO AB AMRO Asset Management JSC 12.22 3 3 BANK CASPIAN JSC 8.9 4 10 Eurasian bank JSC 6.4 5 13 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 5.8 6 16 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 4.5 7 5 ATFBank JSC 4.0 8 19 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 3.08 9 7 DJSB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 3.06 10 9 Kazkommertsbank JSC 3.05 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to April of 2005 are APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC, Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC and PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC, they have replaced Nurbank (Almaty, the 4th position in April), PAIMO Zhetysu JSC (Almaty, the 6th position in April) and Alliance Bank JSC (Almaty, the 8th position in April). Below is similar table of the most active KASE's members in the repo sector in first 5 months of 2005. A total of 47 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 12.3 2 PAIMO AB AMRO Asset Management JSC 6.9 3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 6.1 4 BANK CASPIAN JSC 5.8 5 Eurasian bank JSC 5.4 6 ATFBank JSC 5.0 7 Alliance Bank JSC 4.9 8 Nurbank JSC 4.10 9 DJSB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 4.05 10 Temirbank JSC 3.7 -------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-06-03]