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As of February 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 95,1%) 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”; Smart Alem Card – JSC “Kazkommertsbank” and local card of Citibank Kazakhstan – JSC “Citibank Kazakhstan”.

As of February 01, 2016 banks have issued 16,6 mln. payment cards and a number of card holders reached 14,3 mln. (comparing the situation with the same date of 2015, there is a low of 3,1% and 4,9% respectively). The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 76,6%, the share of credit cards - 14,4%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and share of prepaid cards is 2,2% and 6,9% respectively.

In January 2016 the volume of transactions with payment cards issued by the Kazakhstan originators was 638,6 bln. tenge (growth against January 2015 has totaled 15,2%). The number of transactions reached 21,0 mln. and increased by 14,0% versus January 2015. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 33,4% (number of transactions 7,7 mln. transactions) and 40,8% (the volume of transactions - 97,5 bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 5,2% (number of transactions -13,3 mln. transactions) and 11,5%( the volume of transactions - 541,1 bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (56,0% and 66,2% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (13,0% and 12,7% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (95,0% and 83,8% 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 01.02.15

As of 01.02.16

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

17 077,1

16 553,3

local systems

1 016,0

804,5

international systems, of which:

16 061,2

15 748,7

Visa International, of which:

13 804,0

12 669,7

debit

10 024,8

9 012,1

credit

2 946,9

2 253,7

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

832,3

1 403,8

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

2 166,4

2 475,6

debit

2 008,4

2 275,3

credit

86,5

108,8

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

71,6

91,6

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

15 065,2

14 329,3

local systems

888,1

695,6

international systems, of which:

14 177,1

13 633,7

Visa International, of which:

12 117,4

10 870,1

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 983,5

2 321,5

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

6 625,3

7 306,2

local systems

636,9

476,5

international systems, of which:

5 988,4

6 829,7

Visa International, of which:

4 943,6

5 364,4

debit

4 140,1

3 981,0

credit

339,7

400,2

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

463,8

983,2

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 003,2

1 152,0

debit

924,5

1 045,2

credit

34,5

56,8

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

44,2

50,0

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

63 080

81 510

commercial enterprises

56 635

74 084

banks

6 445

7 426

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which:

168

3

commercial enterprises

60

1

banks

108

2

Number of ATM (units) , of which:

9 535

9 156

with cash distribution function

8 391

7 783

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 144

1 373

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

36 014

47 084

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 493

1 143

Number of payment terminals (units)[1]

12 777

14 320

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.02.16

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.

12 674,1

2 383,8

1 495,4

14 329,3

5 803,8

469,3

1 033,2

Akmola region

379,5

3,3

18,8

366,9

198,2

1,6

12,4

Aktobe region

674,1

6,5

38,6

649,3

291,6

2,9

27,3

Almaty region

618,7

7,5

34,1

602,5

312,8

1,8

21,4

Atyrau region

573,5

7,5

27,5

544,3

264,2

3,9

17,8

East Kazakhstan reg.

1 015,2

10,7

71,0

967,6

502,2

4,3

45,8

Jambul region

525,2

2,7

15,9

499,4

293,1

1,2

10,9

West Kazakhstan reg.

453,6

5,7

15,5

420,2

205,4

2,5

8,8

Karaganda region

1 056,1

12,0

78,8

1 019,9

549,4

5,2

54,0

Kostanai region

555,0

4,2

25,4

505,4

287,9

2,1

16,5

Kyzylorda region

428,8

2,9

25,2

410,9

208,9

1,3

19,4

Mangistau region

504,2

6,6

21,9

476,0

236,8

2,9

14,0

Pavlodar region

626,3

8,1

45,4

585,8

303,4

4,0

31,0

North Kazakhstan reg.

315,7

2,6

19,8

301,2

166,9

1,4

14,6

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 188,8

6,9

68,2

1 142,3

583,6

2,2

49,9

Almaty city

2 729,3

2 278,4

925,1

4 844,1

948,2

421,2

647,7

Astana city

1 030,0

18,1

64,2

993,3

451,2

10,7

41,7

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.02.16

Number of POS-terminals

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Number of payment terminals

Total, incl.

81 510

9 156

47 084

1 143

14 320

Akmola region

1 930

309

1 002

42

468

Aktobe region

2 983

483

1 373

67

808

Almaty region

2 188

362

1 162

46

528

Atyrau region

3 171

529

1 480

53

667

East Kazakhstan reg.

5 044

718

2 732

96

1 440

Jambul region

1 541

336

780

48

609

West Kazakhstan reg.

2 837

350

1 504

59

617

Karaganda region

6 748

733

4 169

136

1 619

Kostanai region

4 873

371

3 026

48

836

Kyzylorda region

1 275

283

611

40

435

Mangistau region

2 613

509

1 387

75

405

Pavlodar region

4 268

541

2 368

67

830

North Kazakhstan reg.

2 228

281

1 177

37

630

South Kazakhstan reg.

3 389

589

1 707

59

1 155

Almaty city

26 206

1 786

16 680

200

2 099

Astana city

10 216

976

5 926

70

1 174

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

Table 4

Specifications

January

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2015

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

5 744,4

12 648,4

local systems

79,8

879,1

international systems, of which:

5 664,6

11 769,3

Visa International

4 917,5

9 810,2

MasterCard Worldwide

691,9

1 895,0

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

69 249,3

485 107,8

local systems

1 412,1

26 244,3

international systems, of which:

67 837,3

458 863,5

Visa International

58 573,9

388 680,9

MasterCard Worldwide

8 158,3

67 761,3

2016

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

7 664,2

13 312,2

local systems

51,2

630,5

international systems, of which:

7 613,0

12 681,6

Visa International

6 579,9

9 904,3

MasterCard Worldwide

963,5

2 324,6

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

97 513,4

541 061,8

local systems

3 682,4

21 104,4

international systems, of which:

93 831,0

519 957,5

Visa International

77 466,2

419 643,7

MasterCard Worldwide

14 938,5

86 261,4

Dynamics (%)

Number

33,4%

5,2%

local systems

-35,8%

-28,3%

international systems, of which:

34,4%

7,8%

Visa International

33,8%

1,0%

MasterCard Worldwide

39,3%

22,7%

Volume

40,8%

11,5%

local systems

160,8%

-19,6%

international systems, of which:

38,3%

13,3%

Visa International

32,3%

8,0%

MasterCard Worldwide

83,1%

27,3%

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

Table 5

Specifications

January

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

6 885,7

78 845,0

13 238,2

534 535,4

Akmola region

45,3

828,7

407,5

13 877,1

Aktobe region

199,4

2 282,9

662,3

23 669,8

Almaty region

95,7

2 315,5

783,9

27 463,9

Atyrau region

161,2

2 782,8

620,8

26 150,5

East Kazakhstan reg.

147,5

1 844,0

1 002,9

36 323,5

Jambul region

78,3

726,7

600,3

21 403,9

West Kazakhstan reg.

100,0

4 731,1

459,3

17 171,8

Karaganda region

185,9

2 836,6

1 116,5

41 929,7

Kostanai region

404,5

1 564,2

635,2

23 767,5

Kyzylorda region

114,0

1 122,1

410,5

16 085,1

Mangistau region

160,7

3 242,6

621,0

32 908,9

Pavlodar region

123,6

2 079,7

683,7

25 483,9

North Kazakhstan reg.

62,8

671,6

353,3

11 690,6

South Kazakhstan reg.

135,6

2 752,4

1 092,2

38 905,2

Almaty city

4 096,9

39 180,2

2 461,8

119 147,6

Astana city

774,1

9 883,8

1 327,2

58 556,4

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

January

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

6 885,7

78 845,0

13 238,2

534 535,4

POS - terminal

3 865,0

52 956,4

663,8

87 344,4

ATM

983,7

11 488,1

12 574,4

447 191,0

bank kiosk

39,3

669,5

-

-

Internet

1 997,7

13 730,9

-

-

 

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