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As of June 01, 2016 actual origination of the payment cards were mainly realized by 26 banks and JSC “Kazpost”. These institutes issue and distribute payment cards of the international systems (their share consists of 95,9%) 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 June 01, 2016 banks have issued 15,6 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 7,9% and 6,6% respectively). The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 76,5%, the share of credit cards - 15,2%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and share of prepaid cards is 2,6% and 5,6% respectively.

In May 2016 the volume of transactions with payment cards issued by the Kazakhstan originators was 827,9 bln. tenge (growth against May 2015 has totaled 29,2%). The number of transactions reached 27,2 mln. and increased by 22,8% versus May 2015. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 38,9% (number of transactions 9,4 mln. transactions) and 59,3% (the volume of transactions - 121,2 bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 15,8% (number of transactions -17,8 mln. transactions) and 25,1%( the volume of transactions - 706,7 bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (56,5% and 62,3% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and Internet (30,1% and 22,1% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (95,5% and 86,2% 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 01.06.15

As of 01.06.16

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

16 925,9

15 592,0

local systems

952,4

639,0

international systems, of which:

15 973,5

14 953,1

Visa International, of which:

13 531,1

11 802,2

-       debit

9 960,6

8 371,5

-       credit

2 631,2

2 228,4

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

939,3

1 202,3

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

2 265,6

2 406,1

-       debit

2 121,1

2 196,5

-       credit

71,3

126,1

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

73,1

83,4

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

14 877,9

13 901,0

local systems

831,6

544,5

international systems, of which:

14 046,3

13 356,5

Visa International

11 794,8

10 559,3

MasterCard Worldwide

2 106,2

2 271,5

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

7 066,4

7 892,0

local systems

613,4

392,7

international systems, of which:

6 453,0

7 499,3

Visa International, of which:

5 249,9

5 819,3

-       debit

4 281,5

4 394,0

-       credit

353,1

536,1

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

615,3

889,1

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 096,5

1 276,8

-       debit

1 019,9

1 152,2

-       credit

33,7

80,4

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

42,9

44,2

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

67 324

90 846

commercial enterprises

60 386

83 290

banks

6 938

7 556

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which:

167

4

commercial enterprises

59

1

banks

108

3

Number of ATM (units) , of which:

9 771

9 304

with cash distribution function

8 584

7 852

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 187

1 452

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

38 067

54 600

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 164

1 061

Number of payment terminals (units)[1]

13 378

14 597

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.06.16

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.

11 929,9

2 376,3

1 285,8

13 901,0

6 329,1

629,6

933,3

Akmola region

369,5

3,2

21,7

365,1

216,2

1,7

15,9

Aktobe region

606,5

6,0

43,3

599,2

324,4

3,0

36,1

Almaty region

587,2

3,5

36,7

585,5

334,5

1,4

24,8

Atyrau region

532,4

7,4

29,1

515,9

288,6

4,2

19,7

East Kazakhstan reg.

935,4

9,3

75,1

929,6

537,6

4,6

55,4

Jambul region

507,5

2,5

15,6

490,4

321,1

1,3

11,4

West Kazakhstan reg.

439,1

5,5

16,0

417,5

234,4

2,7

10,1

Karaganda region

1 005,4

11,5

81,1

985,8

582,0

5,7

64,1

Kostanai region

530,9

3,9

27,4

496,9

307,1

2,2

20,7

Kyzylorda region

406,2

2,8

26,2

398,5

236,8

1,3

20,0

Mangistau region

481,2

6,2

23,9

466,2

262,9

3,1

15,7

Pavlodar region

569,2

7,4

43,8

556,5

324,6

4,1

33,0

North Kazakhstan reg.

303,6

2,6

19,4

296,1

181,2

1,4

16,2

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 148,7

5,9

70,1

1 127,0

657,8

2,4

48,1

Almaty city

2 508,7

2 281,4

690,1

4 687,6

1 025,4

579,5

497,0

Astana city

998,4

17,2

66,1

983,2

494,3

11,1

45,1

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.06.16

Number of POS-terminals

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Number of payment terminals

Total, incl.

90 846

9 304

54 600

1 061

14 597

Akmola region

2 048

319

1 140

40

465

Aktobe region

3 328

490

1 585

67

810

Almaty region

2 433

368

1 461

37

474

Atyrau region

3 484

537

1 679

53

680

East Kazakhstan reg.

5 583

725

3 105

85

1 453

Jambul region

1 600

341

834

48

642

West Kazakhstan reg.

3 169

357

1 766

59

628

Karaganda region

8 005

744

5 135

93

1 680

Kostanai region

6 235

373

4 265

49

832

Kyzylorda region

1 374

297

728

39

433

Mangistau region

2 861

515

1 530

77

403

Pavlodar region

5 329

544

3 316

60

846

North Kazakhstan reg.

2 439

284

1 356

38

627

South Kazakhstan reg.

3 717

619

1 899

56

1 158

Almaty city

27 680

1 797

18 071

188

2 279

Astana city

11 561

994

6 730

72

1 187

 

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

Table 4

Specifications

May

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2015

Number of transactions (thousand) of which:

6 771,5

15 380,2

local systems

84,4

889,5

international systems, of which:

6 687,1

14 490,7

Visa International

5 810,9

11 868,7

MasterCard Worldwide

813,5

2 445,1

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

76 083,8

564 795,9

local systems

2 268,7

26 546,9

international systems, of which:

73 815,1

538 248,9

Visa International

63 404,9

448 113,5

MasterCard Worldwide

9 334,2

84 717,0

2016

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

9 408,4

17 803,8

local systems

39,0

559,2

international systems, of which:

9 369,4

17 244,6

Visa International

7 957,3

13 264,8

MasterCard Worldwide

1 321,5

3 344,6

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

121 189,9

706 686,2

local systems

4 404,0

18 997,9

international systems, of which:

116 785,8

687 688,3

Visa International

98 056,7

548 307,2

MasterCard Worldwide

17 316,7

121 359,3

Dynamics (%)

Number

38,9%

15,8%

local systems

-53,8%

-37,1%

international systems, of which:

40,1%

19,0%

Visa International

36,9%

11,8%

MasterCard Worldwide

62,4%

36,8%

Volume

59,3%

25,1%

local systems

94,1%

-28,4%

international systems, of which:

58,2%

27,8%

Visa International

54,7%

22,4%

MasterCard Worldwide

85,5%

43,3%

 

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

Table 5

Specifications

May

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

8 186,1

99 409,4

17 628,9

698 158,6

Akmola region

62,7

1 627,5

529,8

18 710,0

Aktobe region

216,1

2 772,3

901,0

31 718,8

Almaty region

102,0

1 769,9

802,8

31 453,7

Atyrau region

200,2

3 792,9

806,0

33 802,9

East Kazakhstan reg.

194,5

2 607,4

1 371,7

49 985,3

Jambul region

87,4

1 249,3

754,2

27 557,3

West Kazakhstan reg.

130,9

4 994,3

651,6

23 522,3

Karaganda region

256,9

4 032,6

1 500,9

55 576,2

Kostanai region

461,4

2 298,5

753,5

27 459,2

Kyzylorda region

97,0

898,5

536,5

21 760,5

Mangistau region

198,8

3 177,8

740,3

37 863,1

Pavlodar region

159,4

2 741,2

840,8

30 282,5

North Kazakhstan reg.

84,0

994,9

471,2

15 215,2

South Kazakhstan reg.

173,9

6 554,2

1 504,7

60 219,3

Almaty city

4 667,9

45 609,5

3 583,0

155 362,1

Astana city

1 093,2

14 288,6

1 880,9

77 670,3

 

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

May

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

8 186,1

99 409,4

17 628,9

698 158,6

POS - terminal

4 516,8

62 668,8

803,2

97 305,9

ATM

1 185,8

15 857,7

16 825,7

600 852,7

bank kiosk

37,4

778,2

-

-

Internet

2 445,0

20 101,0

-

-

payment terminal

1,0

3,7

-

-

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