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As of April 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 95,6%) 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 April 01, 2016 banks have issued 16,3 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 3,3% and 5,3% respectively). The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 75,1%, the share of credit cards - 14,2%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and share of prepaid cards is 2,3% and 8,4% respectively.

In March 2016 the volume of transactions with payment cards issued by the Kazakhstan originators was 795,6 bln. tenge (growth against March 2015 has totaled 19,5%). The number of transactions reached 27,0 mln. and increased by 16,9% versus March 2015. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 37,4% (number of transactions 9,5 mln. transactions) and 49,3% (the volume of transactions - 119,6 bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 8,1% (number of transactions -17,5 mln. transactions) and 15,4%( the volume of transactions - 676,0 bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (56,9% and 65,2% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (13,1% and 13,2% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (95,5% and 85,4% 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 01.04.15

As of 01.04.16

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

16 833,0

16 281,0

local systems

988,8

719,4

international systems, of which:

15 844,2

15 561,6

Visa International, of which:

13 550,7

12 536,5

debit

9 906,1

8 699,9

credit

2 741,4

2 180,7

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

903,2

1 656,0

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

2 162,1

2 387,0

debit

2 012,3

2 184,1

credit

77,8

115,5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

71,9

87,4

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

14 823,7

14 034,1

local systems

863,7

597,9

international systems, of which:

13 960,1

13 436,2

Visa International, of which:

11 835,7

10 727,8

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

2 015,6

2 240,5

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

7 023,3

8 030,4

local systems

637,8

442,1

international systems, of which:

6 385,5

7 588,3

Visa International, of which:

5 255,4

5 936,4

debit

4 353,4

4 323,5

credit

359,1

458,4

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

542,9

1 154,4

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 055,6

1 276,6

debit

977,2

1 156,1

credit

34,5

73,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

43,9

47,2

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

65 604

86 611

commercial enterprises

59 159

79 176

banks

6 445

7 435

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which:

168

4

commercial enterprises

60

1

banks

108

3

Number of ATM (units) , of which:

9 740

9 242

with cash distribution function

8 580

7 814

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 160

1 428

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

38 077

52 192

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 393

1 141

Number of payment terminals (units)[1]

13 785

14 104

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.04.16

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.

12 220,0

2 317,6

1 743,4

14 034,1

6 284,2

544,6

1 201,6

Akmola region

370,5

3,3

22,4

361,5

216,5

1,7

14,8

Aktobe region

615,9

6,3

51,1

601,6

311,2

2,9

36,3

Almaty region

584,7

3,6

38,7

577,2

329,8

1,5

24,5

Atyrau region

540,8

7,5

31,0

517,8

287,2

4,0

20,1

East Kazakhstan reg.

978,8

10,7

85,2

944,1

536,6

4,5

55,2

Jambul region

514,6

2,7

19,6

492,9

322,3

1,3

13,5

West Kazakhstan reg.

447,0

5,6

18,7

419,3

231,7

2,7

11,0

Karaganda region

1 033,4

12,0

95,2

1 006,0

583,4

5,7

65,0

Kostanai region

538,3

4,1

32,7

499,8

308,1

2,2

21,7

Kyzylorda region

413,5

2,9

28,3

400,3

239,1

1,3

21,8

Mangistau region

494,4

6,5

24,2

471,7

259,6

3,1

15,5

Pavlodar region

596,8

8,0

53,9

572,6

325,3

4,1

35,4

North Kazakhstan reg.

309,0

2,7

23,8

297,7

182,5

1,4

17,5

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 171,0

6,8

76,5

1 133,5

648,8

2,3

51,7

Almaty city

2 597,6

2 216,9

1 067,5

4 748,9

1 009,7

494,9

750,5

Astana city

1 013,8

18,1

74,7

989,2

492,2

11,1

47,1

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.04.16

Number of POS-terminals

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Number of payment terminals

Total, incl.

86 611

9 242

52 192

1 141

14 104

Akmola region

2 002

319

1 107

40

456

Aktobe region

3 180

487

1 529

67

781

Almaty region

2 316

367

1 309

44

469

Atyrau region

3 376

535

1 632

53

649

East Kazakhstan reg.

5 331

724

3 034

96

1 410

Jambul region

1 551

339

834

48

599

West Kazakhstan reg.

3 048

356

1 718

58

603

Karaganda region

7 491

742

4 858

136

1 637

Kostanai region

5 567

377

3 725

48

830

Kyzylorda region

1 302

292

659

41

422

Mangistau region

2 741

511

1 474

77

390

Pavlodar region

4 853

545

2 951

71

825

North Kazakhstan reg.

2 323

282

1 299

37

618

South Kazakhstan reg.

3 563

598

1 841

60

1 131

Almaty city

27 183

1 787

17 825

194

2 151

Astana city

10 784

981

6 397

71

1 133

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

Table 4

Specifications

March

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2015

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

6 925,5

16 172,7

local systems

96,0

969,9

international systems, of which:

6 829,5

15 202,9

Visa International

5 874,7

12 530,7

MasterCard Worldwide

893,2

2 545,1

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

80 156,2

585 818,1

local systems

2 426,1

28 374,9

international systems, of which:

77 730,1

557 443,2

Visa International

55 908,4

440 889,2

MasterCard Worldwide

7 777,8

78 116,5

2016

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

9 512,8

17 488,1

local systems

52,8

654,4

international systems, of which:

9 460,0

16 833,7

Visa International

8 072,4

12 943,5

MasterCard Worldwide

1 299,4

3 279,4

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

119 648,2

675 999,0

local systems

4 418,7

21 926,6

international systems, of which:

115 229,5

654 072,4

Visa International

94 075,2

523 744,6

MasterCard Worldwide

19 506,4

112 575,8

Dynamics (%)

Number

37,4%

8,1%

local systems

-45,0%

-32,5%

international systems, of which:

38,5%

10,7%

Visa International

37,4%

3,3%

MasterCard Worldwide

45,5%

28,9%

Volume

49,3%

15,4%

local systems

82,1%

-22,7%

international systems, of which:

48,2%

17,3%

Visa International

68,3%

18,8%

MasterCard Worldwide

150,8%

44,1%

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

Table 5

Specifications

March

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

8 330,8

97 006,1

17 336,0

668 594,0

Akmola region

56,7

1 157,0

548,7

17 905,3

Aktobe region

241,0

3 134,8

858,0

28 767,7

Almaty region

114,8

1 996,5

1 128,2

37 882,5

Atyrau region

182,3

3 351,9

830,7

33 145,1

East Kazakhstan reg.

184,4

2 333,9

1 315,4

46 272,0

Jambul region

91,8

1 371,7

794,9

27 725,6

West Kazakhstan reg.

124,9

6 010,8

592,1

20 529,4

Karaganda region

243,2

3 750,8

1 387,6

50 049,2

Kostanai region

488,9

2 284,7

803,8

28 310,4

Kyzylorda region

140,4

1 348,1

555,2

21 529,6

Mangistau region

197,9

3 252,1

797,0

39 720,5

Pavlodar region

153,6

1 971,2

898,9

31 116,3

North Kazakhstan reg.

82,7

912,8

472,7

15 001,9

South Kazakhstan reg.

165,8

3 420,5

1 411,9

53 938,9

Almaty city

4 881,3

47 924,6

3 166,5

144 315,5

Astana city

981,2

12 784,7

1 774,4

72 384,1

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

March

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

8 330,8

97 006,1

17 336,0

668 594,0

POS - terminal

4 610,6

63 194,3

794,2

97 981,8

ATM

1 234,3

14 672,0

16 541,8

570 612,2

bank kiosk

41,3

742,5

-

-

Internet

2 444,6

18 397,4

-

-

 

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