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

/IRBIS, Sergey Yakovlev, May 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 April 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 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 April March name trade 2006 2006 of bank volume, % ----------- ----------- --------------------------------- --------- 1 2 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 12.8 2 1 Halyk saving bank Kazakhstan JSC* 11.8 3 4 Kazkommertsbank JSC 11.7 4 3 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 9.0 5 6 Nurbank JSC 7.2 6 5 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 4.7 7 7 Eurasian bank JSC 2.9 8 9 Bank CenterCredit JSC 2.14 9 13 Alliance Bank JSC 2.13 10 8 Temirbank JSC 1.9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker on US dollar on KASE Newcomer of the "active ten" relative to March 2006 - Alliance Bank JSC, it has substituted Kazinvestbank JSC (Almaty, the tenth position in January). Below is table of active operators of exchange currency market for the first four months of 2006. A total of 26 second tier banks participated in making of deals in this period. ------------------------------------------------------------- Position in the first fouth Brief Stake in months of name of trade 2006 bank volume, % --------------- --------------------------------- --------- 1 Halyk saving bank Kazakhstan JSC* 14.6 2 DB ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan JSC 13.7 3 Kazkommertsbank JSC 9.4 4 Bank TuranAlem JSC* 7.7 5 Nurbank JSC 5.17 6 Citibank Kazakhstan JSC 5.15 7 Eurasian bank JSC 3.2 8 Temirbank JSC 3.0 9 Bank CenterCredit JSC 2.0 10 Kazinvestbank JSC 1.6 ------------------------------------------------------------- * market-maker on US dollar on KASE [2006-05-03]