KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's currency market in January 2006

/IRBIS, Sergey Yakovlev, February 1, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined list of second tier banks - leading operators of the exchange's foreign currency market in Kazakhstan in January 2006. 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 26 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 January December name trade 2006 2005 of bank volume, % ----------- ----------- --------------------------------- --------- 1 1 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 18.7 2 2 Halyk saving bank Kazakhstan JSC* 15.3 3 6 Kazkommertsbank JSC 11.1 4 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 6.9 5 7 Temirbank JSC 5.9 6 5 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 5.1 7 4 Eurasian bank JSC 4.8 8 8 Nurbank JSC 4.0 9 11 Bank CenterCredit JSC 2.27 10 14 BANK CASPIAN JSC 2.26 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker on US dollar on KASE Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to December 2005 - Bank CenterCredit JSC and BANK CASPIAN JSC, they have substituted Alliance Bank JSC (Almaty, the ninth position in December) and ATFBank JSC (Almaty, the tenth position in December). [2006-02-01]