KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's currency market in December 2005 and in 2005

/IRBIS, Sergey Yakovlev, January 4, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined list of second tier banks - leading operators of the exchange's foreign currency market in Kazakhstan in December 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 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 December November name trade 2005 2005 of bank volume, % ----------- ----------- --------------------------------- --------- 1 1 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 24.1 2 2 Halyk saving bank Kazakhstan JSC* 15.0 3 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 11.9 4 5 Eurasian bank JSC 5.9 5 7 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 5.3 6 6 Kazkommertsbank JSC 5.2 7 4 Temirbank JSC 4.7 8 8 Nurbank JSC 3.2 9 13 Alliance Bank JSC 3.1 10 9 ATFBank JSC 3.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker on US dollar on KASE Newcomer of the "active ten" relative to November 2005 is Alliance Bank JSC (Almaty), which has substituted Bank CenterCredit JSC SB (Almaty, the tenth position in November). Below is table of active operators of exchange currency market for the whole 2005. A total of 26 second tier banks participated in making of deals in this period. --------------------------------------------------------------- Position for Brief Stake in 12 months of name of trade volume, % 2005 bank ------------ -------------------------------- --------------- 1 Halyk saving bank Kazakhstan JSC 14.7 2 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 14.3 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC 10.0 4 Kazkommertsbank JSC 6.68 5 Eurasian bank JSC 6.67 6 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 5.9 7 Temirbank JSC 5.6 8 Nurbank JSC 4.9 9 Bank CenterCredit JSC 3.6 10 ATFBank JSC 3.0 --------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-01-04]