KASE determined leading operators of the exchange's currency market in March and in the first three months of 2006
/IRBIS, Sergey Yakovlev, April 3, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) has determined list of second tier banks - leading operators of the exchange's foreign currency market in Kazakhstan in Mart of 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 25 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).
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Position in Position in Brief Stake in
March February name trade
2006 2006 of bank volume, %
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1 2 Halyk saving bank of Kazakhstan JSC* 16.6
2 1 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 9.9
3 5 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 8.3
4 3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 6.3
5 4 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 4.7
6 6 Nurbank JSC 4.3
7 8 Eurasian bank JSC 2.8
8 7 Temirbank JSC 2.2
9 10 Bank CenterCredit JSC 2.0
10 9 Kazinvestbank JSC 1.9
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* market-maker on US dollar on KASE
Newcomers of the "active ten" relative to February of 2006 were absent.
Below is table of active operators of exchange currency market in three months of 2006. A total of 26 commercial banks participated in making of deals in this period.
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Position in Brief
three months of name of Stake in
2006 bank trade volume, %
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1 Halyk saving bank of Kazakhstan JSC 15,7
2 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 14,1
3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 8,5
4 Bank TuranAlem JSC 7,2
5 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 5,3
6 Nurbank JSC 4,4
7 Temirbank JSC 3,4
8 Eurasian bank JSC 3,3
9 Bank CenterCredit JSC 2,0
10 Kazinvestbank JSC 1,7
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