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As of January 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 95,2%) 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 January 01, 2016 banks have issued 17,2 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 0,7% and 5,7% respectively). The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 74,7%, the share of credit cards - 13,7%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and share of prepaid cards is 2,1% and 9,5% respectively.

In December 2015 the volume of transactions with payment cards issued by the Kazakhstan originators was 896,1 bln. tenge (growth against December 2014 has totaled 2,1%). The number of transactions reached 27,7 mln. and increased by 8,8% versus December 2014. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 26,5% (number of transactions 9,0 mln. transactions) and 18,6% (the volume of transactions - 120,0 bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals went up to 2,0% (number of transactions -18,7 mln. transactions) and decreased on 0,1% ( the volume of transactions - 776,1 bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (56,7% and 64,7% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (16,2% and 15,4% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (95,9% and 86,3% 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 01.01.15

As of 01.01.16

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

17 276,1

17 162,4

local systems

1 029,2

824,9

international systems, of which:

16 246,9

16 337,5

Visa International, of which:

14 014,4

13 315,1

debit

9 975,8

9 187,2

credit

3 039,4

2 235,5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

999,3

1 892,4

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

2 166,1

2 480,2

debit

2 006,6

2 288,5

credit

88,1

99,1

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

71,4

92,6

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

15 169,9

14 309,5

local systems

900,8

713,0

international systems, of which:

14 269,1

13 596,5

Visa International, of which:

12 229,1

10 881,9

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 983,7

2 328,0

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

7 219,2

8 480,6

local systems

663,0

509,3

international systems, of which:

6 556,2

7 971,3

Visa International, of which:

5 422,3

6 385,1

debit

4 522,4

4 408,2

credit

363,0

361,0

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

536,9

1 615,9

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 105,0

1 286,9

debit

1 025,2

1 180,2

credit

33,8

54,9

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

45,9

51,8

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

62 752

77 857

commercial enterprises

56 197

70 399

banks

6 555

7 458

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which:

168

3

commercial enterprises

60

1

banks

108

2

Number of ATM (units) , of which:

9 206

9 146

with cash distribution function

8 048

7 793

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 158

1 353

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

35 594

44 113

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 505

1 160

Number of payment terminals (units)[1]

12 156

14 273

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.01.16

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.

12 821,3

2 356,1

1 985,1

14 309,5

6 384,4

428,5

1 667,7

Akmola region

383,8

3,3

18,6

370,4

219,4

1,7

12,5

Aktobe region

667,6

6,6

37,5

640,5

330,3

3,0

26,8

Almaty region

605,7

3,8

34,5

586,1

333,5

1,5

21,7

Atyrau region

580,9

7,7

27,2

548,8

289,4

4,0

17,8

East Kazakhstan reg.

1 040,3

11,1

70,8

983,7

543,7

4,6

47,4

Jambul region

531,5

2,9

15,8

504,2

322,3

1,3

11,3

West Kazakhstan reg.

457,3

5,9

16,3

422,4

231,3

2,7

9,3

Karaganda region

1 069,4

12,1

76,2

1 028,2

591,8

5,4

52,7

Kostanai region

559,9

4,2

24,8

507,4

310,9

2,2

16,3

Kyzylorda region

435,3

3,0

25,1

415,1

242,6

1,3

19,5

Mangistau region

511,9

6,9

22,1

481,4

264,0

3,1

14,4

Pavlodar region

634,7

8,3

43,8

591,5

326,6

4,1

29,9

North Kazakhstan reg.

320,3

2,7

20,8

304,5

183,1

1,4

15,7

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 190,5

6,9

67,6

1 141,7

652,5

2,3

49,6

Almaty city

2 792,1

2 252,4

1 419,1

4 783,4

1 048,9

378,9

1 280,4

Astana city

1 040,0

18,2

64,7

1 000,1

494,2

11,0

42,3

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.01.16

Number of POS-terminals

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Number of payment terminals

Total, incl.

77 857

9 146

44 113

1 160

14 273

Akmola region

1 862

308

976

42

466

Aktobe region

2 882

480

1 290

67

790

Almaty region

2 052

364

1 045

49

524

Atyrau region

3 055

526

1 362

53

666

East Kazakhstan reg.

4 838

721

2 578

97

1 432

Jambul region

1 511

334

763

49

606

West Kazakhstan reg.

2 675

351

1 360

59

615

Karaganda region

6 388

731

3 865

136

1 646

Kostanai region

4 414

370

2 732

48

831

Kyzylorda region

1 262

285

595

41

434

Mangistau region

2 588

509

1 372

75

392

Pavlodar region

4 094

538

2 202

69

832

North Kazakhstan reg.

2 116

279

1 097

37

628

South Kazakhstan reg.

3 399

594

1 667

60

1 145

Almaty city

24 978

1 782

15 625

204

2 095

Astana city

9 743

974

5 584

74

1 171

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

Table 4

Specifications

December

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2015

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

7 113,5

18 365,8

local systems

103,4

1 038,6

international systems, of which:

7 010,2

17 327,2

Visa International

6 037,2

14 386,3

MasterCard Worldwide

899,1

2 875,8

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

101 129,6

776 624,8

local systems

3 615,1

32 747,0

international systems, of which:

97 514,5

743 877,8

Visa International

84 592,7

633 179,6

MasterCard Worldwide

11 380,8

108 315,8

2016

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

8 996,9

18 732,7

local systems

68,0

733,6

international systems, of which:

8 928,9

17 999,1

Visa International

7 644,2

14 100,3

MasterCard Worldwide

1 204,8

3 435,0

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

119 965,2

776 102,5

local systems

3 710,2

24 130,0

international systems, of which:

116 255,0

751 972,5

Visa International

98 990,7

612 465,5

MasterCard Worldwide

15 612,7

125 948,4

Dynamics (%)

Number

26,5%

2,0%

local systems

-34,2%

-29,4%

international systems, of which:

27,4%

3,9%

Visa International

26,6%

-2,0%

MasterCard Worldwide

34,0%

19,4%

Volume

18,6%

-0,1%

local systems

2,6%

-26,3%

international systems, of which:

19,2%

1,1%

Visa International

17,0%

-3,3%

MasterCard Worldwide

37,2%

16,3%

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

Table 5

Specifications

December

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

7 972,0

101 441,6

18 584,0

768 434,2

Akmola region

56,3

1 149,8

577,7

19 909,7

Aktobe region

254,4

3 570,9

1 004,8

36 031,7

Almaty region

124,5

2 544,7

1 165,5

42 697,1

Atyrau region

196,8

3 834,5

883,7

39 228,0

East Kazakhstan reg.

201,7

2 847,5

1 407,8

51 485,8

Jambul region

118,2

1 330,4

791,4

28 333,9

West Kazakhstan reg.

132,0

3 674,8

686,5

26 588,8

Karaganda region

246,2

3 671,6

1 514,3

56 857,0

Kostanai region

473,7

2 224,2

870,8

31 276,4

Kyzylorda region

159,9

1 545,2

603,2

24 046,0

Mangistau region

212,7

3 883,2

877,2

46 939,6

Pavlodar region

161,0

2 123,0

990,1

37 141,8

North Kazakhstan reg.

80,3

1 055,4

503,2

16 159,5

South Kazakhstan reg.

178,5

3 745,1

1 486,6

56 207,8

Almaty city

4 411,9

49 689,1

3 289,2

162 880,1

Astana city

963,7

14 552,0

1 932,2

92 651,0

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

December

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

7 972,0

101 441,6

18 584,0

768 434,2

POS - terminal

4 478,6

66 770,2

759,3

106 165,4

ATM

1 443,5

17 288,5

17 824,8

662 268,8

bank kiosk

56,3

1 097,1

-

-

Internet

1 993,7

16 285,8

-

-

 

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