Version ¹148 on 01/12/2016
As of December 01, 2016 actual origination of the payment cards were mainly realized by 25 banks and JSC “Kazpost”. These institutes issue and distribute payment cards of the international systems (their share consists of 98,4%) like Visa International, Master Card, American Express International and UnionPay International. Beside banks of Kazakhstan issue payment cards of the local systems like Altyn Card – JSC “Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan” and local card of Citibank Kazakhstan – JSC “Citibank Kazakhstan”.
As of December 01, 2016 banks have issued 15,6 mln. payment cards and a number of card holders reached 14,2 mln. (comparing the situation with the same date of 2015, there is a low of 5,6% and 1,6% respectively). The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 81,0%, the share of credit cards - 15,1%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and share of prepaid cards is 3,0% and 0,8% respectively.
In November 2016 the volume of transactions with payment cards issued by the Kazakhstan originators was 920,3 bln. tenge (growth against November 2015 has totaled 31,0%). The number of transactions reached 29,6 mln. and increased by 27,2% versus November 2015. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 53,3% (number of transactions 11,8 mln. transactions) and 59,0% (the volume of transactions - 156,6 bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 14,5% (number of transactions - 17,8 mln. transactions) and 26,5%( the volume of transactions - 763,7 bln. tenge) respectively.
The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (56,0% and 58,9% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and Internet (35,0% and 28,1% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (94,2% and 83,5% out of the total number of payments and volume of cash withdrawal transactions).
More detailed data on development of the payment cards market in Kazakhstan are shown in Tables 1-6.
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Table 1 |
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Specifications |
As of 01.12.15 |
As of 01.12.16 |
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Total number of cards in circulation (thousand), of which: |
16 530,6 |
15 602,2 |
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local systems |
849,8 |
256,3 |
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international systems, of which: |
15 680,8 |
15 345,9 |
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Visa International, of which: |
12 717,7 |
11 163,2 |
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- debit |
9 376,3 |
8 518,5 |
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- credit |
2 378,3 |
2 108,9 |
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- debit cards with credit limit and prepaid |
963,1 |
535,8 |
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MasterCard Worldwide, of which: |
2 467,0 |
2 987,2 |
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- debit |
2 279,9 |
2 704,0 |
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- credit |
95,3 |
216,2 |
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- debit cards with credit limit and prepaid |
91,7 |
67,0 |
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Number of card holders (thousand), of which: |
14 410,0 |
14 177,9 |
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local systems |
734,9 |
216,3 |
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international systems, of which: |
13 675,1 |
13 961,5 |
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Visa International |
11 015,5 |
10 286,0 |
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MasterCard Worldwide |
2 309,9 |
2 758,2 |
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Number of used cards (thousand), of which: |
7 395,3 |
8 159,8 |
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local systems |
520,2 |
156,6 |
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international systems, of which: |
6 875,1 |
8 003,2 |
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Visa International, of which: |
5 374,3 |
5 748,1 |
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- debit |
4 304,9 |
4 469,3 |
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- credit |
358,6 |
939,0 |
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- debit cards with credit limit and prepaid |
710,8 |
339,9 |
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MasterCard Worldwide, of which: |
1 239,0 |
1 537,7 |
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- debit |
1 143,0 |
1 386,7 |
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- credit |
45,1 |
122,9 |
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- debit cards with credit limit and prepaid |
51,0 |
28,0 |
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Number of POS - terminals (units), of which: |
74 222 |
105 573 |
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commercial enterprises |
66 933 |
97 568 |
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banks |
7 289 |
8 005 |
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Numbers of imprinters (units), of which: |
3 |
4 |
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commercial enterprises |
1 |
1 |
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banks |
2 |
3 |
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Number of ATM (units) , of which: |
9 094 |
9 532 |
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with cash distribution function |
7 767 |
7 998 |
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with cash reception and distribution functions |
1 327 |
1 534 |
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Number of commercial enterprises (units) |
41 860 |
64 656 |
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Number of bank’s booths (units) |
1 173 |
1 501 |
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Number of payment terminals (units)[1] |
14 123 |
14 442 |
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Table 2 |
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Specifications |
As of 01.12.16 |
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Total number of cards in circulation (thousand) |
Number of card holders (thousand) |
Number of used payment cards (thousand |
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debit |
credit |
others[2] |
debit |
credit |
others |
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Total, incl. |
12 640,4 |
2 358,9 |
602,9 |
14 177,9 |
6 712,2 |
1 079,7 |
368,0 |
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Akmola region |
390,9 |
4,5 |
22,2 |
386,9 |
229,4 |
2,3 |
14,9 |
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Aktobe region |
633,7 |
8,1 |
29,9 |
618,9 |
339,6 |
3,9 |
19,2 |
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Almaty region |
630,2 |
4,9 |
34,0 |
624,0 |
355,2 |
1,9 |
20,4 |
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Atyrau region |
561,8 |
9,9 |
25,8 |
546,1 |
306,3 |
5,1 |
15,9 |
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East Kazakhstan reg. |
966,6 |
11,3 |
54,6 |
949,0 |
552,6 |
5,2 |
31,6 |
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Jambul region |
540,1 |
3,6 |
10,6 |
517,3 |
334,9 |
1,8 |
5,9 |
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West Kazakhstan reg. |
484,8 |
7,2 |
12,4 |
459,5 |
254,4 |
3,4 |
4,8 |
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Karaganda region |
1 048,8 |
16,6 |
50,2 |
1 007,7 |
608,7 |
7,5 |
29,6 |
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Kostanai region |
561,1 |
5,4 |
20,0 |
520,5 |
323,2 |
2,6 |
12,1 |
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Kyzylorda region |
430,8 |
3,9 |
28,8 |
421,3 |
250,5 |
1,7 |
21,3 |
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Mangistau region |
502,7 |
8,5 |
24,6 |
487,1 |
274,3 |
4,1 |
15,3 |
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Pavlodar region |
617,4 |
8,4 |
28,6 |
588,0 |
339,7 |
4,5 |
15,2 |
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North Kazakhstan reg. |
324,9 |
3,6 |
14,1 |
312,4 |
192,1 |
1,9 |
10,5 |
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South Kazakhstan reg. |
1 224,5 |
8,5 |
67,9 |
1 198,8 |
701,2 |
3,4 |
41,5 |
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Almaty city |
2 659,9 |
2 232,6 |
128,0 |
4 506,6 |
1 123,7 |
1 017,5 |
82,7 |
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Astana city |
1 062,5 |
21,8 |
51,3 |
1 033,6 |
526,5 |
12,9 |
27,0 |
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Table 3 |
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Specifications |
As of 01.12.16 |
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Number of POS-terminals |
Number of ATMs |
Number of commercial enterprises |
Number of bank’s booths |
Number of payment terminals |
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Total, incl. |
105 573 |
9 532 |
64 656 |
1 501 |
14 442 |
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Akmola region |
2 318 |
333 |
1 287 |
57 |
447 |
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Aktobe region |
4 065 |
498 |
1 988 |
133 |
770 |
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Almaty region |
2 504 |
389 |
1 422 |
49 |
463 |
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Atyrau region |
3 798 |
548 |
1 871 |
81 |
657 |
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East Kazakhstan reg. |
6 151 |
747 |
3 351 |
130 |
1 419 |
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Jambul region |
1 837 |
350 |
973 |
62 |
649 |
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West Kazakhstan reg. |
3 500 |
368 |
1 955 |
85 |
620 |
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Karaganda region |
8 945 |
752 |
5 723 |
120 |
1 667 |
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Kostanai region |
8 120 |
382 |
5 894 |
64 |
826 |
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Kyzylorda region |
1 541 |
304 |
764 |
57 |
422 |
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Mangistau region |
3 153 |
535 |
1 674 |
81 |
398 |
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Pavlodar region |
6 035 |
552 |
3 880 |
74 |
840 |
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North Kazakhstan reg. |
2 749 |
288 |
1 473 |
47 |
617 |
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South Kazakhstan reg. |
4 100 |
641 |
2 021 |
83 |
1 132 |
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Almaty city |
29 591 |
1 831 |
18 970 |
223 |
2 284 |
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Astana city |
17 166 |
1 014 |
11 410 |
155 |
1 231 |
Use of payment cards, issued by the banks of Kazakhstan, in and outside the country
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Table 4 |
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Specifications |
November |
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Cashless payments |
Cash withdrawals |
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2015 |
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Number of transactions (thousand) of which: |
7 694,3 |
15 522,1 |
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local systems |
64,5 |
715,3 |
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international systems, of which: |
7 629,8 |
14 806,8 |
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Visa International |
6 585,1 |
11 623,8 |
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MasterCard Worldwide |
976,9 |
2 795,8 |
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Volume (mln.tenge), of which; |
98 505,5 |
603 887,7 |
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local systems |
3 409,0 |
22 484,1 |
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international systems, of which: |
95 096,4 |
581 403,6 |
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Visa International |
80 734,5 |
471 379,8 |
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MasterCard Worldwide |
12 950,8 |
98 929,6 |
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2016 |
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Number of transactions (thousand) of which; |
11 793,6 |
17 767,0 |
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local systems |
11,7 |
161,4 |
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international systems, of which: |
11 781,9 |
17 605,6 |
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Visa International |
9 579,3 |
12 729,5 |
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MasterCard Worldwide |
2 071,5 |
3 785,9 |
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Volume (mln.tenge), of which; |
156 575,3 |
763 747,6 |
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local systems |
3 601,4 |
9 474,7 |
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international systems, of which: |
152 973,9 |
754 273,0 |
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Visa International |
122 935,1 |
569 517,5 |
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MasterCard Worldwide |
28 238,3 |
149 643,2 |
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Dynamics (%) |
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Number |
53,3% |
14,5% |
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local systems |
-81,9% |
-77,4% |
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international systems, of which: |
54,4% |
18,9% |
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Visa International |
45,5% |
9,5% |
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MasterCard Worldwide |
112,0% |
35,4% |
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Volume |
59,0% |
26,5% |
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local systems |
5,6% |
-57,9% |
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international systems, of which: |
60,9% |
29,7% |
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Visa International |
52,3% |
20,8% |
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MasterCard Worldwide |
118,0% |
51,3% |
Use of the payment cards issued by Kazakhstan and foreign banks, on the territory of Kazakhstan, by regions
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Table 5 |
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Specifications |
November |
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Cashless payments |
Cash withdrawals |
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Number of transactions (thousand) |
Amount (mln.tenge) |
Number of transactions (thousand) |
Amount (mln.tenge) |
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Total, incl. |
9 869,9 |
126 304,5 |
17 643,1 |
755 264,2 |
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Akmola region |
60,5 |
1 327,3 |
518,1 |
19 577,3 |
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Aktobe region |
236,5 |
3 846,0 |
877,7 |
33 002,5 |
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Almaty region |
81,4 |
2 052,7 |
762,2 |
32 568,0 |
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Atyrau region |
224,4 |
4 757,5 |
842,6 |
36 885,0 |
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East Kazakhstan reg. |
187,2 |
2 703,8 |
1 294,6 |
50 062,8 |
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Jambul region |
79,0 |
1 599,3 |
708,1 |
27 705,4 |
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West Kazakhstan reg. |
146,9 |
3 595,1 |
640,5 |
24 787,1 |
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Karaganda region |
289,6 |
4 701,8 |
1 465,5 |
58 572,3 |
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Kostanai region |
575,0 |
3 214,3 |
742,3 |
29 129,5 |
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Kyzylorda region |
83,8 |
1 062,7 |
534,9 |
22 542,3 |
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Mangistau region |
199,9 |
3 420,0 |
728,8 |
38 455,1 |
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Pavlodar region |
166,9 |
4 710,1 |
805,2 |
32 103,1 |
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North Kazakhstan reg. |
90,7 |
1 239,0 |
446,1 |
15 859,5 |
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South Kazakhstan reg. |
169,2 |
7 017,0 |
1 489,3 |
63 478,6 |
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Almaty city |
6 030,2 |
64 680,6 |
3 879,9 |
182 438,1 |
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Astana city |
1 248,7 |
16 377,2 |
1 907,4 |
88 097,6 |
Use of the payment cards issued by Kazakhstan and foreign banks on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the context of the operation environment
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Table 6 |
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Specifications |
November |
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Cashless payments |
Cash withdrawals |
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Number of transactions (thousand) |
Amount (mln.tenge) |
Number of transactions (thousand) |
Amount (mln.tenge) |
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Total, incl. |
9 869,9 |
126 304,5 |
17 643,1 |
755 264,2 |
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POS - terminal |
5 447,6 |
74 322,9 |
987,8 |
121 834,9 |
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ATM |
986,0 |
16 070,9 |
16 655,3 |
633 429,3 |
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bank kiosk |
30,6 |
1 137,6 |
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- |
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Internet |
3 405,6 |
34 770,1 |
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