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As of October 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 97,2%) 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 October 01, 2016 banks have issued 15,4 mln. payment cards and a number of card holders reached 14,0 mln. (comparing the situation with the same date of 2015, there is a low of 8,0% and 3,8% respectively). The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 80,6%, the share of credit cards - 15,7%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and share of prepaid cards is 3,0% and 0,8% respectively.

In September 2016 the volume of transactions with payment cards issued by the Kazakhstan originators was 877,5 bln. tenge (growth against September 2015 has totaled 24,7%). The number of transactions reached 27,5 mln. and increased by 21,6% versus September 2015. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 45,4% (number of transactions 10,3 mln. transactions) and 58,4% (the volume of transactions - 144,9 bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 10,8% (number of transactions - 17,2 mln. transactions) and 19,6%( the volume of transactions - 732,6 bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (55,6% and 60,9% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and Internet (33,6% and 25,4% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (94,7% and 84,4% 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 01.10.15

As of 01.10.16

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

16 740,9

15 395,9

local systems

895,4

435,3

international systems, of which:

15 845,5

14 960,6

Visa International, of which:

13 040,0

11 172,0

-       debit

9 640,6

8 452,3

-       credit

2 540,5

2 214,3

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

858,9

505,4

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

2 429,3

2 745,0

-       debit

2 271,9

2 505,0

-       credit

65,9

170,2

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

91,5

69,8

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

14 606,2

14 046,4

local systems

777,2

368,6

international systems, of which:

13 829,0

13 677,8

Visa International

11 304,4

10 358,1

MasterCard Worldwide

2 257,6

2 565,8

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

7 106,2

7 870,1

local systems

557,6

263,5

international systems, of which:

6 548,6

7 606,6

Visa International, of which:

5 195,7

5 628,1

-       debit

4 187,1

4 365,2

-       credit

364,0

941,4

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

644,5

321,4

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 162,9

1 409,5

-       debit

1 073,5

1 275,4

-       credit

36,8

102,2

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

52,6

31,8

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

71 479

101 931

commercial enterprises

63 696

94 119

banks

7 783

7 812

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which:

3

4

commercial enterprises

1

1

banks

2

3

Number of ATM (units) , of which:

8 925

9 428

with cash distribution function

7 743

7 933

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 182

1 495

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

39 857

61 926

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 451

1 361

Number of payment terminals (units)[1]

13 721

14 395

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.10.16

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.

12 408,2

2 412,5

575,2

14 046,4

6 458,0

1 058,8

353,3

Akmola region

383,4

3,9

21,3

380,7

219,3

2,0

15,2

Aktobe region

620,7

7,1

26,2

605,9

325,5

3,2

18,6

Almaty region

616,4

4,3

32,6

610,3

339,2

1,8

19,8

Atyrau region

550,1

8,6

24,7

534,1

297,1

4,6

15,3

East Kazakhstan reg.

954,6

10,3

52,4

939,9

542,5

4,8

30,8

Jambul region

529,9

3,0

9,7

505,6

323,9

1,6

5,6

West Kazakhstan reg.

471,8

6,3

11,6

446,1

242,4

3,0

4,9

Karaganda region

1 035,1

14,4

48,4

993,7

591,1

6,6

29,9

Kostanai region

558,9

4,4

19,5

514,2

312,5

2,3

11,7

Kyzylorda region

422,3

3,4

27,5

412,5

238,3

1,5

20,5

Mangistau region

494,8

7,2

22,9

478,9

266,6

3,6

14,2

Pavlodar region

607,9

7,8

27,7

581,6

330,1

4,2

15,3

North Kazakhstan reg.

319,8

3,1

13,6

307,4

185,2

1,6

10,3

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 193,4

7,3

65,4

1 166,6

659,9

2,9

39,0

Almaty city

2 605,5

2 302,4

123,4

4 552,3

1 077,1

1 003,2

77,2

Astana city

1 043,6

19,2

48,3

1 016,8

507,1

12,0

25,2

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.10.16

Number of POS-terminals

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Number of payment terminals

Total, incl.

101 931

9 428

61 926

1 361

14 395

Akmola region

2 268

323

1 256

46

450

Aktobe region

3 845

492

1 940

106

774

Almaty region

2 514

381

1 422

39

463

Atyrau region

3 816

544

1 860

66

658

East Kazakhstan reg.

6 067

743

3 319

114

1 421

Jambul region

1 794

344

955

65

630

West Kazakhstan reg.

3 352

360

1 892

71

619

Karaganda region

8 614

749

5 549

110

1 679

Kostanai region

7 751

378

5 586

58

825

Kyzylorda region

1 484

303

738

57

417

Mangistau region

3 081

532

1 622

82

395

Pavlodar region

5 884

549

3 731

65

838

North Kazakhstan reg.

2 658

288

1 427

40

617

South Kazakhstan reg.

3 954

629

1 982

64

1 141

Almaty city

29 557

1 803

18 778

224

2 244

Astana city

15 292

1 010

9 869

154

1 224

 

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

Table 4

Specifications

September

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2015

Number of transactions (thousand) of which:

7 050,1

15 565,2

local systems

73,3

800,7

international systems, of which:

6 976,7

14 764,6

Visa International

6 037,5

11 790,1

MasterCard Worldwide

881,2

2 670,7

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

91 475,9

612 374,9

local systems

3 023,1

24 704,0

international systems, of which:

88 452,8

587 670,9

Visa International

75 536,3

483 838,6

MasterCard Worldwide

11 757,0

94 988,3

2016

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

10 250,4

17 245,6

local systems

18,7

311,6

international systems, of which:

10 231,6

16 934,1

Visa International

8 439,3

12 575,1

MasterCard Worldwide

1 680,7

3 479,7

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

144 894,7

732 558,9

local systems

6 245,2

11 243,8

international systems, of which:

138 649,5

721 315,2

Visa International

113 594,1

556 530,3

MasterCard Worldwide

23 404,6

136 246,6

Dynamics (%)

Number

45,4%

10,8%

local systems

-74,5%

-61,1%

international systems, of which:

46,7%

14,7%

Visa International

39,8%

6,7%

MasterCard Worldwide

90,7%

30,3%

Volume

58,4%

19,6%

local systems

106,6%

-54,5%

international systems, of which:

56,7%

22,7%

Visa International

50,4%

15,0%

MasterCard Worldwide

99,1%

43,4%

 

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

Table 5

Specifications

September

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

Akmola region

60,4

1 652,2

503,3

18 636,0

Aktobe region

215,9

5 378,9

853,6

31 770,1

Almaty region

83,6

2 027,7

757,5

31 248,0

Atyrau region

212,5

4 729,2

839,4

38 551,4

East Kazakhstan reg.

182,8

2 860,3

1 289,7

48 994,5

Jambul region

77,7

1 352,0

699,6

27 021,4

West Kazakhstan reg.

135,7

3 924,0

627,7

25 051,6

Karaganda region

257,7

4 112,6

1 438,2

57 209,9

Kostanai region

536,7

2 636,0

721,8

28 498,7

Kyzylorda region

85,4

854,0

523,6

21 851,2

Mangistau region

192,6

3 294,0

720,9

38 308,9

Pavlodar region

160,2

4 252,2

799,4

31 498,8

North Kazakhstan reg.

84,2

1 406,2

438,2

15 117,2

South Kazakhstan reg.

160,7

5 645,1

1 413,8

60 512,5

Almaty city

5 208,6

55 538,4

3 630,1

167 119,8

Astana city

1 149,4

15 958,1

1 836,1

82 134,1

 

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

September

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

4 902,9

70 952,1

866,8

109 929,6

ATM

1 012,2

15 922,7

16 226,2

613 594,4

bank kiosk

26,5

663,9

-

-

Internet

2 860,9

28 074,9

-

-

payment terminal

1,4

7,1

-

-

 

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