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As of November 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 97,8%) 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 November 01, 2016 banks have issued 15,5 mln. payment cards and a number of card holders reached 14,1 mln. (comparing the situation with the same date of 2015, there is a low of 7,1% and 3,1% respectively). The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 80,8%, the share of credit cards - 15,4%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and share of prepaid cards is 3,0% and 0,8% respectively.

In October 2016 the volume of transactions with payment cards issued by the Kazakhstan originators was 904,8 bln. tenge (growth against October 2015 has totaled 27,4%). The number of transactions reached 29,0 mln. and increased by 24,2% versus October 2015. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 47,7% (number of transactions 11,0 mln. transactions) and 58,4% (the volume of transactions - 148,7 bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 13,1% (number of transactions - 17,9 mln. transactions) and 22,7%( the volume of transactions - 756,1 bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (56,0% and 59,3% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and Internet (34,1% and 26,8% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (94,9% and 85,3% 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.

Table 1

Specifications

As of 01.11.15

As of 01.11.16

Total number of cards in circulation (thousand), of which:

16 666,2

15 491,1

local systems

1 081,8

344,0

international systems, of which:

15 791,5

15 147,0

Visa International, of which:

12 693,5

11 153,8

-       debit

9 521,4

8 465,4

-       credit

2 465,7

2 164,7

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

706,5

523,7

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

2 437,7

2 858,1

-       debit

2 275,6

2 599,6

-       credit

70,4

190,5

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

91,8

67,9

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

14 546,6

14 100,5

local systems

847,2

291,0

international systems, of which:

13 789,1

13 809,5

Visa International

11 111,1

10 308,9

MasterCard Worldwide

2 275,5

2 656,1

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

7 332,5

8 080,0

local systems

697,1

213,9

international systems, of which:

6 795,2

7 866,1

Visa International, of which:

5 194,4

5 731,5

-       debit

4 303,7

4 450,9

-       credit

359,5

950,0

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

531,2

330,6

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 219,3

1 484,9

-       debit

1 130,1

1 340,0

-       credit

37,7

115,3

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

51,6

29,6

Number of  POS - terminals (units), of which:

72 066

103 907

commercial enterprises

64 888

96 002

banks

7 178

7 905

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which:

3

4

commercial enterprises

1

1

banks

2

3

Number of ATM (units) , of which:

8 945

9 483

with cash distribution function

7 745

7 970

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 200

1 513

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

40 467

63 348

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 420

1 443

Number of payment terminals (units)[1]

13 857

14 433

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.11.16

Total number of cards in circulation (thousand)

Number of card holders (thousand)

Number of used payment cards (thousand

debit

credit

others[2]

debit

credit

others

Total, incl.

12 513,3

2 386,0

591,7

14 100,5

6 637,9

1 081,9

360,2

Akmola region

387,8

4,3

21,4

383,9

226,1

2,1

14,8

Aktobe region

627,6

7,8

26,5

611,4

335,7

3,6

18,3

Almaty region

625,7

4,7

33,3

617,8

350,3

1,9

20,1

Atyrau region

555,5

9,1

25,4

540,2

303,7

4,9

15,5

East Kazakhstan reg.

954,5

10,7

54,5

944,3

551,7

5,1

31,5

Jambul region

532,1

3,4

10,4

512,2

333,6

1,7

5,9

West Kazakhstan reg.

476,9

6,7

12,1

453,0

250,4

3,3

4,9

Karaganda region

1 038,0

15,6

49,5

1 001,4

606,4

7,3

29,5

Kostanai region

557,7

4,9

20,4

519,1

320,5

2,4

12,1

Kyzylorda region

426,0

3,6

28,2

417,6

248,3

1,6

20,8

Mangistau region

499,6

7,9

23,7

483,9

272,1

3,9

14,8

Pavlodar region

609,5

8,1

28,2

585,3

341,1

4,3

14,7

North Kazakhstan reg.

321,9

3,3

14,1

310,0

191,8

1,7

10,7

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 224,0

7,9

67,1

1 178,7

676,9

3,2

40,8

Almaty city

2 625,4

2 268,0

127,3

4 518,5

1 105,5

1 022,4

79,3

Astana city

1 051,1

20,2

49,7

1 023,2

523,8

12,5

26,3

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.11.16

Number of POS-terminals

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Number of payment terminals

Total, incl.

103 907

9 483

63 348

1 443

14 433

Akmola region

2 325

326

1 285

46

443

Aktobe region

3 893

495

1 961

109

768

Almaty region

2 535

385

1 429

49

467

Atyrau region

3 842

545

1 875

81

672

East Kazakhstan reg.

6 124

747

3 333

130

1 420

Jambul region

1 822

346

977

62

653

West Kazakhstan reg.

3 440

364

1 918

76

625

Karaganda region

8 840

752

5 629

117

1 671

Kostanai region

7 983

378

5 769

58

827

Kyzylorda region

1 507

302

750

57

418

Mangistau region

3 132

535

1 651

81

382

Pavlodar region

5 919

549

3 759

73

835

North Kazakhstan reg.

2 700

287

1 454

38

617

South Kazakhstan reg.

4 019

637

2 006

85

1 131

Almaty city

29 323

1 820

18 743

226

2 280

Astana city

16 503

1 015

10 809

155

1 224

 

Use of payment cards, issued by the banks of Kazakhstan, in and outside the country

Table 4

Specifications

October

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2015

Number of transactions (thousand) of which:

7 456,9

15 861,8

local systems

67,6

740,6

international systems, of which:

7 389,3

15 121,2

Visa International

6 405,5

11 970,8

MasterCard Worldwide

918,0

2 815,9

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

93 960,8

616 280,6

local systems

2 770,3

23 287,9

international systems, of which:

91 190,5

592 992,7

Visa International

77 959,5

483 904,4

MasterCard Worldwide

11 894,0

99 430,0

2016

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

11 016,7

17 940,1

local systems

14,6

236,4

international systems, of which:

11 002,0

17 703,7

Visa International

8 983,6

12 935,5

MasterCard Worldwide

1 893,9

3 754,0

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

148 680,6

756 110,9

local systems

4 566,8

8 890,0

international systems, of which:

144 113,7

747 220,9

Visa International

116 092,1

569 605,4

MasterCard Worldwide

26 338,7

145 195,6

Dynamics (%)

Number

47,7%

13,1%

local systems

-78,4%

-68,1%

international systems, of which:

48,9%

17,1%

Visa International

40,2%

8,1%

MasterCard Worldwide

106,3%

33,3%

Volume

58,2%

22,7%

local systems

64,8%

-61,8%

international systems, of which:

58,0%

26,0%

Visa International

48,9%

17,7%

MasterCard Worldwide

121,4%

46,0%

 

Use of the payment cards issued by Kazakhstan and foreign banks, on the territory of Kazakhstan, by regions

Table 5

Specifications

October

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

9 525,6

123 787,0

17 883,7

751 382,3

Akmola region

61,2

1 444,3

527,4

19 527,7

Aktobe region

234,8

4 542,5

907,5

33 086,0

Almaty region

82,2

1 911,3

783,0

32 805,4

Atyrau region

226,5

5 139,3

839,5

36 552,1

East Kazakhstan reg.

191,7

2 856,0

1 341,0

51 059,0

Jambul region

79,0

1 405,1

723,5

28 009,4

West Kazakhstan reg.

144,8

4 096,6

641,7

24 182,2

Karaganda region

282,3

4 582,5

1 489,6

58 894,4

Kostanai region

554,3

2 980,0

745,2

29 109,4

Kyzylorda region

83,9

1 062,6

541,1

22 866,6

Mangistau region

201,7

3 254,3

748,7

40 363,5

Pavlodar region

171,1

4 321,8

835,8

32 539,0

North Kazakhstan reg.

89,8

1 243,7

456,6

15 592,7

South Kazakhstan reg.

167,3

7 240,2

1 470,9

63 010,3

Almaty city

5 711,4

60 472,2

3 867,8

176 173,9

Astana city

1 243,7

17 234,5

1 964,4

87 610,7

 

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

Table 6

Specifications

October

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

8 804,0

115 620,6

17 092,9

723 524,0

POS - terminal

5 370,4

75 798,6

898,8

111 167,3

ATM

1 000,1

16 129,6

16 984,9

640 215,0

bank kiosk

29,8

881,7

-

-

Internet

3 125,4

30 977,1

-

-

 

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