KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's GS purchase-sale sector in December 2005 and in 2005

/IRBIS, Ranida Gabdeyeva, January 4, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) determined the list of companies - leading operators of exchange's market of government securities (GS) purchase-sale in Kazakhstan in December 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 27 companies participated in making GS purchase-sale deals on KASE in December, excluding the National Bank. Below is the list of ten most active operators given in descending order of their stakes in total deals volume (companies' headquarters are in Almaty) and their positions in November 2005. The stake of these operators in November was 91.5% of the exchange's GS sector turnover. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in December November trades 2005 2005 Company's brief name volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 1 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 18.7 2 4 Bank TuranAlem JSC 13.4 3 2 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 12.0 4 16 PAIMO Zhetysu JSC 11.4 5 10 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 9.6 6 3 ATFBank JSC 8.3 7 8 SB HSBC Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 5.14 8 7 Kazkommertsbank JSC 5.11 9 6 PAIMO ABN AMRO Asset Management JSC 4.5 10 12 Bank CenterCredit JSC 3.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the top ten relative to November 2005 became PAIMO Zhetysu JSC and Bank CenterCredit JSC, they have replaced from top-10 Development Bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Astana, the fifth position in November) and KG Securities JSC (Karaganda, the ninth position in November). Following is the corresponding table of the most active members of KASE of "K" category in 2005. 44 companies participated in deals making in this period, besides the National Bank. --------------------------------------------------------------- Stake in trades Position Company's brief name volume, % -------- ------------------------------------ --------------- 1 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 14.5 2 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 12.7 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC 10.4 4 ATFBank JSC 10.1 5 PAIMO Bailyk Asset Management JSC 5.4 6 PAIMO Zhetysu JSC 5.0 7 Kazkommertsbank JSC 4.0 8 Alliance Bank JSC 3.6 9 BANK CASPIAN JSC 3.5 10 APF SAPF JSC 3.1 --------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-01-04]