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As of October 01, 2015 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 94,7%) 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”; Smart Alem Card – JSC “Kazkommertsbank” and local card of Citibank Kazakhstan – JSC “Citibank Kazakhstan”.

As of October 01, 2015 banks have issued 16,7 mln. payment cards and a number of card holders reached 14,6 mln. (comparing the situation with the same date of 2014, there is a low of 0,7% and 2,9% respectively). The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 77,4%, the share of credit cards - 16,6%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and share of prepaid cards is 2,1% and 3,9% respectively.

In September 2015 the volume of transactions with payment cards issued by the Kazakhstan originators was 703,9 bln. tenge (growth against September 2014 has totaled 8,7%). The number of transactions reached 22,6 mln. and increased by 12,6% versus September 2014. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 31,0% (number of transactions 7,1 mln. transactions) and 10,9% (the volume of transactions - 91,5 bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 5,8% (number of transactions -15,6 mln. transactions) and 8,4%( the volume of transactions - 612,4 bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (54,8% and 66,9% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (18,9% and 16,4% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (95,8% and 84,7% 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 01.10.14

As of 01.10.15

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

16 863,1

16 740,9

local systems

831,2

895,4

international systems, of which:

16 031,9

15 845,5

Visa International, of which:

14 046,1

13 040,0

debit

9 876,4

9 640,6

credit

3 307,8

2 540,5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

861,9

858,9

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 949,6

2 429,3

debit

1 787,3

2 271,9

credit

87,6

65,9

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

74,6

91,5

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

15 037,7

14 606,2

local systems

744,4

777,2

international systems, of which:

14 293,3

13 829,0

Visa International, of which:

12 459,1

11 304,4

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 800,0

2 257,6

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

6 602,5

7 106,2

local systems

519,3

557,6

international systems, of which:

6 083,2

6 548,6

Visa International, of which:

5 173,3

5 195,7

debit

4 420,3

4 187,1

credit

319,3

364,0

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

433,6

644,5

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

891,2

1 162,9

debit

810,8

1 073,5

credit

32,9

36,8

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

47,6

52,6

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

58 985

71 479

commercial enterprises

52 463

63 696

banks

6 522

7 783

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which:

168

3

commercial enterprises

60

1

banks

108

2

Number of ATM (units) , of which:

8 930

8 925

with cash distribution function

7 777

7 743

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 153

1 182

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

33 534

39 857

Number of bank’s booths (units)

12 641

1 451

Number of payment terminals (units)[1]

-

13 721

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.10.15

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.

13 163,4

2 627,1

950,5

14 606,2

5 996,1

412,9

697,2

Akmola region

386,5

3,1

17,2

373,1

202,3

1,4

10,1

Aktobe region

659,3

6,2

27,5

623,2

310,3

2,8

18,1

Almaty region

614,9

3,9

26,4

588,3

312,2

1,4

17,6

Atyrau region

587,5

7,3

22,6

550,0

270,0

3,7

14,0

East Kazakhstan reg.

1 093,6

10,7

52,3

1 012,1

515,6

4,4

34,5

Jambul region

535,2

2,8

11,3

505,8

300,0

1,2

7,6

West Kazakhstan reg.

458,8

5,6

12,2

421,3

215,4

2,5

6,3

Karaganda region

1 097,6

11,1

54,0

1 041,5

569,9

4,9

36,2

Kostanai region

577,2

4,1

16,4

514,8

294,4

2,1

9,9

Kyzylorda region

459,9

2,7

20,3

423,0

226,8

1,2

15,3

Mangistau region

527,4

6,0

20,0

493,0

249,9

2,6

12,7

Pavlodar region

665,6

8,2

31,9

610,8

313,4

3,9

21,2

North Kazakhstan reg.

325,7

2,5

16,1

308,4

172,8

1,2

11,9

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 214,9

7,1

56,6

1 152,7

598,8

2,1

39,5

Almaty city

2 900,2

2 528,1

515,5

4 982,5

983,6

367,3

409,9

Astana city

1 059,0

17,5

50,1

1 005,6

460,6

10,2

32,4

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.10.15

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Number of payment terminals

Total, incl.

71 479

3

8 925

39 857

1 451

13 721

Akmola region

1 736

-

296

903

52

449

Aktobe region

2 669

-

476

1 183

82

762

Almaty region

1 887

-

358

942

103

443

Atyrau region

2 778

-

519

1 184

65

646

East Kazakhstan reg.

4 383

-

699

2 234

120

1 329

Jambul region

1 413

-

328

717

64

530

West Kazakhstan reg.

2 324

-

336

1 127

72

608

Karaganda region

5 601

-

724

3 364

147

1 605

Kostanai region

3 965

-

359

2 386

54

804

Kyzylorda region

1 180

-

278

540

50

424

Mangistau region

2 374

-

503

1 220

84

372

Pavlodar region

3 712

-

524

1 983

84

815

North Kazakhstan reg.

1 847

-

272

961

42

621

South Kazakhstan reg.

3 281

-

568

1 606

80

1 104

Almaty city

23 475

2

1 743

14 431

254

2 085

Astana city

8 854

1

942

5 076

98

1 124

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

Table 4

Specifications

September

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2014

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

5 380,9

14 706,7

local systems

90,6

904,2

international systems, of which:

5 290,3

13 802,4

Visa International

3 796,8

10 715,6

MasterCard Worldwide

619,7

1 832,7

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

82 466,0

565 087,2

local systems

966,4

27 422,5

international systems, of which:

81 499,6

537 664,7

Visa International

52 909,4

422 262,5

MasterCard Worldwide

7 811,6

66 061,3

2015

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

7 050,1

15 565,2

local systems

73,3

800,7

international systems, of which:

6 976,7

14 764,6

Visa International

6 037,5

11 790,1

MasterCard Worldwide

881,2

2 670,7

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

91 475,9

612 374,9

local systems

3 023,1

24 704,0

international systems, of which:

88 452,8

587 670,9

Visa International

75 536,3

483 838,6

MasterCard Worldwide

11 757,0

94 988,3

Dynamics (%)

Number

31,0%

5,8%

local systems

-19,1%

-11,4%

international systems, of which:

31,9%

7,0%

Visa International

59,0%

10,0%

MasterCard Worldwide

42,2%

45,7%

Volume

10,9%

8,4%

local systems

212,8%

-9,9%

international systems, of which:

8,5%

9,3%

Visa International

42,8%

14,6%

MasterCard Worldwide

50,5%

43,8%

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

Table 5

Specifications

September

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

5 993,9

72 708,8

15 359,4

602 142,1

Akmola region

44,1

1 223,0

462,7

15 362,5

Aktobe region

164,2

2 283,4

797,4

27 393,9

Almaty region

97,9

1 269,8

693,6

25 018,0

Atyrau region

156,3

2 605,8

747,4

31 565,9

East Kazakhstan reg.

174,6

2 646,5

1 202,1

40 996,9

Jambul region

98,8

1 355,7

655,2

22 434,7

West Kazakhstan reg.

103,9

3 388,2

568,7

19 982,5

Karaganda region

200,8

2 677,6

1 357,7

48 699,6

Kostanai region

445,9

1 463,2

661,5

22 469,5

Kyzylorda region

103,3

943,1

485,9

18 657,1

Mangistau region

162,8

3 206,0

685,7

34 879,6

Pavlodar region

127,7

1 869,4

743,2

25 839,7

North Kazakhstan reg.

57,8

689,7

408,9

12 291,5

South Kazakhstan reg.

154,3

3 364,4

1 272,6

47 085,6

Almaty city

3 138,9

33 141,7

2 990,8

143 544,5

Astana city

762,5

10 581,2

1 626,0

65 920,7

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

September

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

5 993,9

72 708,8

15 359,4

602 142,1

POS - terminal

3 177,5

49 021,9

650,5

92 774,7

ATM

1 324,0

14 240,2

14 708,9

509 367,4

bank kiosk

60,0

1 121,2

-

-

Internet

1 432,3

8 325,5

-

-

 

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