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As of May 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 95,7%) 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 May 01, 2016 banks have issued 16,1 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 4,5% and 6,1% respectively). The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 74,8%, the share of credit cards - 14,4%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and share of prepaid cards is 2,4% and 8,3% respectively.

In April 2016 the volume of transactions with payment cards issued by the Kazakhstan originators was 807,3 bln. tenge (growth against April 2015 has totaled 15,3%). The number of transactions reached 26,1 mln. and increased by 15,9% versus April 2015. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 36,3% (number of transactions 9,2 mln. transactions) and 56,0% (the volume of transactions - 121,0 bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 7,3% (number of transactions -17,0 mln. transactions) and 10,3%( the volume of transactions - 686,3 bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (56,3% and 63,4% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (12,9% and 13,8% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (95,2% and 85,2% 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 01.05.15

As of 01.05.16

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

16 891,9

16 123,4

local systems

971,6

688,5

international systems, of which:

15 920,2

15 434,9

Visa International, of which:

13 520,6

12 389,8

-       debit

9 929,3

8 551,1

-       credit

2 681,3

2 186,2

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

909,9

1 652,5

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

2 243,0

2 358,2

-       debit

2 094,8

2 150,9

-       credit

76,1

121,5

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

72,1

85,8

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

14 825,2

13 927,8

local systems

848,6

576,2

international systems, of which:

13 976,6

13 351,6

Visa International

11 767,3

10 641,5

MasterCard Worldwide

2 080,7

2 221,7

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

7 079,9

8 086,1

local systems

632,6

415,9

international systems, of which:

6 447,3

7 670,2

Visa International, of which:

5 273,4

6 016,2

-       debit

4 360,9

4 384,3

-       credit

365,8

462,2

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

546,6

1 169,7

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 082,1

1 275,8

-       debit

1 004,3

1 153,1

-       credit

34,5

76,9

-       debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

43,3

45,8

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

66 221

89 273

commercial enterprises

59 609

81 735

banks

6 612

7 538

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which:

167

4

commercial enterprises

59

1

banks

108

3

Number of ATM (units) , of which:

9 830

9 236

with cash distribution function

8 646

7 787

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 184

1 449

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

37 788

53 603

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 368

1 127

Number of payment terminals (units)[1]

13 156

14 262

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.05.16

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.

12 055,7

2 329,3

1 738,3

13 927,8

6 318,7

551,9

1 215,5

Akmola region

367,8

3,3

24,0

360,1

216,9

1,7

15,9

Aktobe region

607,4

6,3

55,5

596,4

323,4

3,0

39,1

Almaty region

579,5

3,6

41,1

574,9

331,4

1,5

26,3

Atyrau region

534,2

7,6

32,6

513,7

288,9

4,1

21,3

East Kazakhstan reg.

959,2

10,7

91,1

930,2

537,0

4,5

58,8

Jambul region

509,9

2,6

20,7

490,1

318,0

1,3

14,2

West Kazakhstan reg.

443,9

5,6

19,6

418,2

233,9

2,7

11,5

Karaganda region

1 020,7

12,0

99,8

997,6

586,5

5,7

68,0

Kostanai region

532,0

4,1

34,8

495,5

310,3

2,2

22,9

Kyzylorda region

408,1

2,9

28,5

396,5

235,6

1,3

21,7

Mangistau region

486,5

6,4

25,1

466,5

259,2

3,1

15,9

Pavlodar region

583,5

8,0

56,6

564,2

323,6

4,1

37,2

North Kazakhstan reg.

305,6

2,7

24,8

296,1

182,3

1,4

18,1

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 158,4

6,9

80,3

1 125,3

652,0

2,4

54,9

Almaty city

2 558,8

2 228,6

1 023,7

4 721,9

1 024,7

502,0

740,4

Astana city

1 000,3

18,2

80,0

980,9

495,1

11,0

49,5

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.05.16

Number of POS-terminals

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Number of payment terminals

Total, incl.

89 273

9 236

53 603

1 127

14 262

Akmola region

2 027

319

1 117

40

456

Aktobe region

3 278

484

1 569

67

785

Almaty region

2 397

368

1 338

45

471

Atyrau region

3 455

532

1 654

53

658

East Kazakhstan reg.

5 478

726

3 107

96

1 429

Jambul region

1 587

338

847

48

614

West Kazakhstan reg.

3 125

354

1 752

59

618

Karaganda region

7 821

740

5 054

129

1 663

Kostanai region

5 906

373

4 046

49

829

Kyzylorda region

1 330

292

672

37

422

Mangistau region

2 793

508

1 492

77

392

Pavlodar region

5 101

546

3 163

71

834

North Kazakhstan reg.

2 396

283

1 335

37

624

South Kazakhstan reg.

3 676

601

1 858

61

1 141

Almaty city

27 603

1 786

18 004

186

2 181

Astana city

11 300

986

6 595

72

1 145

 

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

Table 4

Specifications

April

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2015

Number of transactions (thousand) of which:

6 720,1

15 819,9

local systems

90,8

925,0

international systems, of which:

6 629,3

14 894,9

Visa International

5 758,1

12 259,3

MasterCard Worldwide

811,4

2 483,2

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

77 543,5

622 441,8

local systems

2 554,1

28 201,8

international systems, of which:

74 989,4

594 239,9

Visa International

64 302,2

498 625,4

MasterCard Worldwide

9 641,5

90 550,2

2016

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

9 512,8

17 488,1

local systems

9 156,9

16 972,8

international systems, of which:

40,7

572,2

Visa International

9 116,2

16 400,5

MasterCard Worldwide

7 786,1

12 672,4

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

1 245,0

3 140,6

local systems

120 982,8

686 321,5

international systems, of which:

4 742,4

19 640,7

Visa International

116 240,4

666 680,8

MasterCard Worldwide

97 044,2

535 234,3

Dynamics (%)

Number

36,3%

7,3%

local systems

-55,2%

-38,1%

international systems, of which:

37,5%

10,1%

Visa International

35,2%

3,4%

MasterCard Worldwide

53,4%

26,5%

Volume

56,0%

10,3%

local systems

85,7%

-30,4%

international systems, of which:

55,0%

12,2%

Visa International

50,9%

7,3%

MasterCard Worldwide

84,6%

26,7%

 

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

Table 5

Specifications

April

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

8 141,7

98 487,4

16 937,3

682 246,4

Akmola region

55,8

1 979,7

505,1

17 741,5

Aktobe region

198,6

2 709,8

856,1

29 775,9

Almaty region

95,9

1 616,8

737,2

29 204,1

Atyrau region

186,0

3 488,5

796,9

33 678,4

East Kazakhstan reg.

181,5

2 575,5

1 303,3

47 719,2

Jambul region

82,5

1 485,1

686,8

25 213,1

West Kazakhstan reg.

120,9

5 445,9

619,3

22 719,7

Karaganda region

240,7

3 850,0

1 473,8

55 115,7

Kostanai region

465,4

2 414,1

727,9

26 683,3

Kyzylorda region

94,4

926,5

504,2

21 008,6

Mangistau region

185,6

3 121,0

723,8

40 378,9

Pavlodar region

148,2

2 335,0

795,2

29 718,4

North Kazakhstan reg.

76,4

945,7

439,4

14 272,3

South Kazakhstan reg.

164,1

3 986,9

1 403,6

56 596,0

Almaty city

4 817,9

47 915,0

3 520,3

156 296,4

Astana city

1 028,0

13 691,8

1 844,3

76 124,9

 

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

April

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

8 141,7

98 487,4

16 937,3

682 246,4

POS - terminal

4 540,5

62 684,6

800,6

101 409,4

ATM

1 163,6

15 128,7

16 136,7

580 836,9

bank kiosk

38,6

749,1

-

-

Internet

2 399,1

19 925,0

-

-

 

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