/CHANGED/ KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's currency market in November and first 11 months of 2005

/IRBIS, Sergey Yakovlev, December 1, 05, is to be resend in connection with wrong stakes of banks in the second table/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined list of second tier banks - leading operators of the exchange's foreign currency market in Kazakhstan in November 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 24 second tier 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 November October name trade 2005 2005 of bank volume, % ----------- ----------- --------------------------------- --------- 1 2 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 15.0 2 1 Halyk saving bank Kazakhstan JSC* 11.5 3 4 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 10.4 4 3 Temirbank JSC 10.3 5 5 Eurasian bank JSC 7.9 6 6 Kazkommertsbank JSC 7.4 7 8 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 6.1 8 7 Nurbank JSC 5.7 9 12 ATFBank JSC 5.5 10 9 Bank CenterCredit JSC 4.5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker on US dollar on KASE Newcomer of the "active ten" relative to October 2005 is ATFBank JSC (Almaty), which has substituted SB Alfa-Bank JSC (Almaty, the tenth position in October). Below is table of active operators of exchange currency market in the first eleven months of 2005. A total of 27 second tier banks participated in making of deals in this period. --------------------------------------------------------------- Position for Brief Stake in 11 months of name of trade volume, % 2005 bank ------------ -------------------------------- --------------- 1 Halyk saving bank Kazakhstan JSC 14.6 2 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 12.5 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC 9.7 4 Kazkommertsbank JSC 6.9 5 Eurasian bank JSC 6.8 6 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 6.0 7 Temirbank JSC 5.8 8 Nurbank JSC 5.2 9 Bank CenterCredit JSC 3.8 10 ATFBank JSC 3.0 --------------------------------------------------------------- [2005-12-01]