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As of August 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 96,5%) 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 August 01, 2016 banks have issued 15,2 mln. payment cards and a number of card holders reached 13,9 mln. (comparing the situation with the same date of 2015, there is a low of 8,5% and 4,1% respectively). The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 79,2%, the share of credit cards - 15,5%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and share of prepaid cards is 2,9% and 2,4% respectively.

In July 2016 the volume of transactions with payment cards issued by the Kazakhstan originators was 871,6 bln. tenge (growth against July 2015 has totaled 22,4%). The number of transactions reached 26,6 mln. and increased by 15,9% versus July 2015. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 32,5% (number of transactions 9,6 mln. transactions) and 55,1% (the volume of transactions - 133,4 bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 8,3% (number of transactions - 17,1 mln. transactions) and 17,9%( the volume of transactions - 738,1 bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (56,9% and 61,2% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and Internet (32,0% and 24,6% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (95,1% and 85,0% 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 01.08.15

As of 01.08.16

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

16 658,6

15 248,0

local systems

927,8

532,4

international systems, of which:

15 730,7

14 715,6

Visa International, of which:

13 208,8

11 306,0

-       debit

9 731,5

8 380,1

-       credit

2 662,7

2 202,4

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

814,6

723,5

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

2 278,2

2 533,1

-       debit

2 129,6

2 314,3

-       credit

64,3

141,7

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

84,3

77,1

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

14 549,1

13 946,1

local systems

808,6

451,4

international systems, of which:

13 740,5

13 494,7

Visa International

11 429,1

10 474,4

MasterCard Worldwide

2 124,3

2 381,4

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

7 019,4

7 761,8

local systems

582,8

320,9

international systems, of which:

6 436,6

7 440,9

Visa International, of which:

5 188,2

5 678,5

-       debit

4 208,9

4 351,9

-       credit

362,7

924,5

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

616,6

402,1

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 109,5

1 295,4

-       debit

1 025,0

1 169,2

-       credit

35,1

88,0

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

49,3

38,2

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

70 054

96 709

commercial enterprises

62 767

89 062

banks

7 287

7 647

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which:

167

4

commercial enterprises

59

1

banks

108

3

Number of ATM (units) , of which:

8 901

9 414

with cash distribution function

7 722

7 934

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 179

1 480

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

39 604

58 464

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 401

1 251

Number of payment terminals (units)[1]

13 579

14 416

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.08.16

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.

12 079,8

2 367,6

800,6

13 946,1

6 295,6

1 025,9

440,4

Akmola region

375,8

3,4

20,6

371,6

213,1

1,8

14,8

Aktobe region

611,0

6,4

23,6

591,6

318,6

3,0

16,3

Almaty region

597,4

3,8

31,4

593,2

332,4

1,5

18,9

Atyrau region

536,0

7,9

23,8

520,8

287,2

4,2

14,5

East Kazakhstan reg.

935,4

9,3

50,4

923,9

530,4

4,5

29,3

Jambul region

516,4

2,6

10,0

495,3

311,0

1,3

5,7

West Kazakhstan reg.

454,9

5,7

11,0

432,1

234,2

2,7

4,7

Karaganda region

1 008,7

12,6

45,7

978,1

587,0

5,9

28,5

Kostanai region

540,3

3,9

18,5

503,0

305,8

2,1

11,0

Kyzylorda region

411,0

3,0

25,0

402,6

227,8

1,3

18,6

Mangistau region

486,5

6,5

22,0

470,6

259,9

3,2

13,6

Pavlodar region

588,1

7,4

26,7

565,6

322,4

4,0

15,5

North Kazakhstan reg.

306,8

2,8

13,3

298,5

180,0

1,4

10,4

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 160,8

6,4

61,2

1 137,5

625,1

2,4

35,7

Almaty city

2 534,8

2 268,3

370,1

4 675,6

1 053,3

975,4

177,2

Astana city

1 016,1

17,7

47,4

985,9

507,3

11,2

25,4

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.08.16

Number of POS-terminals

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Number of payment terminals

Total, incl.

96 709

9 414

58 464

1 251

14 416

Akmola region

2 135

324

1 205

42

455

Aktobe region

3 550

491

1 760

90

777

Almaty region

2 475

380

1 408

42

468

Atyrau region

3 722

543

1 813

66

660

East Kazakhstan reg.

5 878

740

3 271

95

1 425

Jambul region

1 669

341

899

57

638

West Kazakhstan reg.

3 260

365

1 827

69

619

Karaganda region

8 299

749

5 363

108

1 689

Kostanai region

7 301

375

5 238

56

824

Kyzylorda region

1 435

303

722

42

415

Mangistau region

2 939

531

1 576

83

394

Pavlodar region

5 663

551

3 625

65

835

North Kazakhstan reg.

2 558

286

1 392

40

618

South Kazakhstan reg.

3 829

624

1 936

70

1 144

Almaty city

28 896

1 802

18 415

220

2 234

Astana city

13 100

1 009

8 014

106

1 221

 

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

Table 4

Specifications

July

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2015

Number of transactions (thousand) of which:

7 235,4

15 754,6

local systems

76,4

843,4

international systems, of which:

7 159,0

14 911,2

Visa International

6 215,3

12 031,2

MasterCard Worldwide

880,6

2 653,3

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

86 021,8

626 322,6

local systems

2 904,2

26 353,5

international systems, of which:

83 117,6

599 969,1

Visa International

70 700,3

494 355,9

MasterCard Worldwide

11 222,0

98 998,7

2016

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

9 585,8

17 062,5

local systems

24,2

401,5

international systems, of which:

9 561,6

16 661,0

Visa International

8 035,6

12 736,5

MasterCard Worldwide

1 427,8

3 205,5

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

133 423,6

738 143,1

local systems

4 919,6

14 290,0

international systems, of which:

128 504,0

723 853,1

Visa International

107 240,1

573 859,2

MasterCard Worldwide

19 560,2

126 950,4

Dynamics (%)

Number

32,5%

8,3%

local systems

-68,3%

-52,4%

international systems, of which:

33,6%

11,7%

Visa International

29,3%

5,9%

MasterCard Worldwide

62,1%

20,8%

Volume

55,1%

17,9%

local systems

69,4%

-45,8%

international systems, of which:

54,6%

20,6%

Visa International

51,7%

16,1%

MasterCard Worldwide

74,3%

28,2%

 

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

Table 5

Specifications

July

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

8 494,8

107 665,4

17 071,2

735 038,7

Akmola region

66,8

1 835,3

530,8

19 735,7

Aktobe region

221,0

3 860,4

858,4

32 569,9

Almaty region

92,3

2 187,7

786,2

32 164,7

Atyrau region

210,9

4 046,6

821,8

36 616,5

East Kazakhstan reg.

198,4

3 173,8

1 317,4

50 152,4

Jambul region

77,9

1 337,0

704,9

27 280,4

West Kazakhstan reg.

133,0

3 357,1

629,4

24 475,5

Karaganda region

262,6

3 988,7

1 462,1

59 108,6

Kostanai region

457,6

2 600,2

726,7

28 644,6

Kyzylorda region

86,0

852,9

527,3

22 492,7

Mangistau region

193,6

3 574,0

737,3

40 276,9

Pavlodar region

166,8

3 114,1

816,2

31 066,7

North Kazakhstan reg.

86,1

1 128,1

447,7

15 551,7

South Kazakhstan reg.

159,9

5 055,1

1 409,0

59 337,3

Almaty city

4 947,5

52 469,0

3 465,6

170 743,4

Astana city

1 134,2

15 085,4

1 830,4

84 821,5

 

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

July

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

8 494,8

107 665,4

17 071,2

735 038,7

POS - terminal

4 813,5

66 347,5

831,9

110 552,7

ATM

992,5

15 376,7

16 239,3

624 486,0

bank kiosk

27,4

596,4

-

-

Internet

2 661,3

25 344,8

-

-

 

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