KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's currency market in February and in the first two months of 2006

/IRBIS, Sergey Yakovlev, March 2, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined list of second tier banks - leading operators of the exchange's foreign currency market in Kazakhstan in February 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 commercial 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 February January name trade 2006 2006 of bank volume, % ----------- ----------- --------------------------------- --------- 1 1 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 16.5 2 2 Halyk saving bank Kazakhstan JSC* 14.7 3 3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 9.7 4 6 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 6.3 5 4 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 5.7 6 8 Nurbank JSC 4.9 7 5 Eurasian bank JSC 3.1 8 7 Temirbank JSC 2.9 9 15 Kazinvestbank JSC 2.0 10 9 Bank CenterCredit JSC 1.8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker on US dollar on KASE Newcomer of the "active ten" relative to January 2006 - Kazinvestbank JSC, it has substituted BANK CASPIAN JSC (Almaty, the tenth position in January). Below is table of active operators of exchange currency market for the first two months of 2006. A total of 26 commercial banks participated in making of deals in this period. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position in the first two months of Brief Stake in 2006 name of trade volume, % bank ------------------------- -------------------------------- --------------- 1 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 17.5 2 Halyk saving bank Kazakhstan JSC 15.0 3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 10.3 4 Bank TuranAlem JSC 6.3 5 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 5.8 6 Nurbank JSC 4.5 7 Temirbank JSC 4.4 8 Eurasian bank JSC 3.8 9 Bank CenterCredit JSC 2.0 10 Alliance Bank JSC 1.8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2006-03-02]