KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's currency market in September and the first nine months of the current year

/IRBIS, Ranida Gabdeyeva, October 3, 05/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined list of second tier banks - leading operators of the exchange's foreign currency market in Kazakhstan in September 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 23 commercial banks participated in making of deals on 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 September August name trade 2005 2005 of bank volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 2 Halyk saving bank of Kazakhstan JSC* 16.6 2 1 SB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 13.8 3 5 Kazkommertsbank JSC 8.54 4 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 8.47 5 7 Temirbank JSC 6.3 6 6 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC 6.0 7 4 Eurasian bank JSC 5.8 8 8 Nurbank JSC 4.7 9 14 SB HSBC Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 3.7 10 9 Bank CenterCredit JSC 2.7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker on US dollar on KASE Newcomer of the "active ten" relative to August 2005 became SB HSBC Bank of Kazakhstan JSC, which has substituted from top-10 SB Alfa-Bank JSC (Almaty, the tenth position in August). Below is table of active operators of exchange currency market in the first nine months of 2005. A total of 26 commercial banks participated in making of deals in this period. --------------------------------------------------------------- Position for the first 9 months of Brief name of Stake in 2005 bank trade volume, % ------------ -------------------------------- --------------- 1 Halyk saving bank Kazakhstan JSC 14.9 2 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan CJSC 12.0 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC 9.8 4 Kazkommertsbank JSC 6.9 5 Eurasian bank JSC 6.5 6 CITIBANK KAZAKHSTAN CJSC 6.0 7 Nurbank JSC 5.0 8 Temirbank JSC 4.5 9 Bank CenterCredit JSC 3.7 10 BANK CASPIAN JSC 2.8 --------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-10-03]