KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's GS purchase-sale sector in January 2006

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, February 1, 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 January 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 25 companies participated in making GS purchase-sale deals on KASE in January, 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 December 2005. The stake of these operators in January was 92.1% of the exchange's GS sector turnover. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in Position in Stake in Janauary December trades 2006 2005 Company's brief name volume, % ----------- ----------- ------------------------------------ --------- 1 7 HSBC Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 23.7 2 1 Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC 19.3 3 2 Bank TuranAlem JSC 10.9 4 6 ATFBank JSC 10.6 5 8 Kazkommertsbank JSC 9.5 6 14 Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC 5.4 7 5 PAIMO Bailyk asset management JSC 4.0 8 9 PAIMO ABN AMRO Asset Management JSC 3.4 9 17 RG Securities JSC 3.3 10 16 Development Bank of Kazakhstan JSC 2.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newcomers of the top ten relative to December 2005 became Accumulative pension fund SAPF JSC, RG Securities JSC and Development Bank of Kazakhstan JSC, they have replaced from top-10 APF of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty, the third position in December), PAIMO Zhetysu (Almaty, the fourth position in December) and Bank CenterCredit JSC (Almaty, the tenth position in December). [2006-02-01]