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As of September 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 94,4%) 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 September 01, 2015 banks have issued 16,5 mln. payment cards and a number of card holders reached 14,5 mln. (comparing the situation with the same date of 2014, there is a low of 4,0% and 2,6% respectively). The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 78,4%, the share of credit cards - 16,1%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and share of prepaid cards is 1,9% and 3,6% respectively.

In August 2015 the volume of transactions with payment cards issued by the Kazakhstan originators was 683,8 bln. tenge (growth against August 2014 has totaled 2,0%). The number of transactions reached 21,9 mln. and increased by 11,7% versus August 2014. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 34,3% (number of transactions 6,8 mln. transactions) and 4,3% (the volume of transactions - 86,6 bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 3,8% (number of transactions -15,0 mln. transactions) and 1,7%( the volume of transactions - 597,2 bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (56,9% and 67,4% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (17,0% and 16,1% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (95,7% and 86,4% 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 01.09.14

As of 01.09.15

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

17 185,9

16 500,3

local systems

817,1

916,3

international systems, of which:

16 368,7

15 584,0

Visa International, of which:

14 482,9

12 948,1

debit

9 832,4

9 557,3

credit

3 414,3

2 565,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

1 236,3

825,5

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 850,2

2 327,0

debit

1 689,2

2 171,9

credit

87,3

65,1

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

73,8

90,0

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

14 846,4

14 454,2

local systems

734,6

797,6

international systems, of which:

14 111,8

13 656,5

Visa International, of which:

12 371,8

11 264,0

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 706,5

2 169,0

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

6 855,2

6 970,5

local systems

512,0

570,4

international systems, of which:

6 343,2

6 400,1

Visa International, of which:

5 494,6

5 136,4

debit

4 383,5

4 144,4

credit

331,9

363,4

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

779,3

628,5

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

831,0

1 106,6

debit

751,4

1 017,4

credit

32,9

35,9

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

46,7

53,3

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

58 167

70 823

commercial enterprises

51 647

63 487

banks

6 520

7 336

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which:

168

76

commercial enterprises

60

1

banks

108

75

Number of ATM (units) , of which:

8 813

8 904

with cash distribution function

7 667

7 725

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 146

1 179

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

32 576

39 870

Number of bank’s booths (units)

12 380

1 412

Number of payment terminals (units)[1]

-

13 701

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.09.15

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.

12 934,0

2 650,8

915,6

14 454,2

5 877,1

411,7

681,8

Akmola region

376,4

3,1

16,4

363,2

200,6

1,4

9,9

Aktobe region

649,8

6,1

24,7

614,8

305,5

2,7

16,4

Almaty region

604,2

3,8

25,3

579,3

306,5

1,4

17,0

Atyrau region

577,1

7,2

21,4

540,5

261,0

3,7

13,6

East Kazakhstan reg.

1 061,7

10,6

47,9

988,8

505,9

4,1

32,0

Jambul region

528,2

2,7

10,5

499,7

294,7

1,1

7,2

West Kazakhstan reg.

450,0

5,6

11,6

414,0

208,7

2,5

6,2

Karaganda region

1 084,9

10,9

49,3

1 028,9

562,1

4,7

33,3

Kostanai region

567,7

4,1

14,6

507,2

289,3

2,0

8,7

Kyzylorda region

443,0

2,7

18,2

417,0

220,7

1,2

13,7

Mangistau region

520,5

5,8

19,2

487,1

244,3

2,6

12,3

Pavlodar region

655,2

8,1

30,1

603,3

306,9

3,9

20,0

North Kazakhstan reg.

320,6

2,4

12,9

302,1

170,0

1,2

9,2

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 192,7

7,2

52,9

1 133,5

576,2

2,1

36,9

Almaty city

2 868,2

2 553,3

512,9

4 990,4

969,6

367,1

414,6

Astana city

1 033,9

17,0

47,5

984,3

455,0

10,1

30,9

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.09.15

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.

70 823

76

8 904

39 870

1 412

13 701

Akmola region

1 703

-

295

897

47

452

Aktobe region

2 736

5

475

1 245

81

763

Almaty region

1 764

3

356

936

103

438

Atyrau region

2 655

4

516

1 161

61

647

East Kazakhstan reg.

4 363

13

687

2 234

116

1 324

Jambul region

1 420

4

328

723

61

521

West Kazakhstan reg.

2 294

3

341

1 131

68

604

Karaganda region

5 541

11

709

3 339

145

1 643

Kostanai region

3 893

5

356

2 366

51

801

Kyzylorda region

1 117

2

273

537

49

423

Mangistau region

2 264

3

500

1 204

84

380

Pavlodar region

3 581

6

525

1 959

79

822

North Kazakhstan reg.

1 825

1

271

972

41

622

South Kazakhstan reg.

3 292

6

563

1 612

77

1 101

Almaty city

23 587

7

1 768

14 476

251

2 071

Astana city

8 788

3

941

5 078

98

1 089

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

Table 4

Specifications

August

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2014

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

5 099,4

14 500,7

local systems

84,5

880,0

international systems, of which:

5 014,9

13 620,6

Visa International

3 614,6

10 327,8

MasterCard Worldwide

588,8

2 077,6

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

83 013,6

587 181,2

local systems

1 223,0

27 360,2

international systems, of which:

81 790,6

559 820,9

Visa International

53 663,6

427 958,4

MasterCard Worldwide

7 644,5

81 995,2

2015

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

6 848,9

15 045,2

local systems

67,9

798,9

international systems, of which:

6 781,0

14 246,3

Visa International

5 886,9

11 538,8

MasterCard Worldwide

832,1

2 463,2

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

86 613,7

597 215,0

local systems

3 117,8

24 968,8

international systems, of which:

83 495,9

572 246,2

Visa International

71 379,8

472 647,2

MasterCard Worldwide

10 848,3

92 489,6

Dynamics (%)

Number

34,3%

3,8%

local systems

-19,6%

-9,2%

international systems, of which:

35,2%

4,6%

Visa International

62,9%

11,7%

MasterCard Worldwide

41,3%

18,6%

Volume

4,3%

1,7%

local systems

154,9%

-8,7%

international systems, of which:

2,1%

2,2%

Visa International

33,0%

10,4%

MasterCard Worldwide

41,9%

12,8%

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

Table 5

Specifications

August

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

6 048,1

69 699,0

15 012,9

591 476,6

Akmola region

42,7

1 290,4

465,0

15 825,9

Aktobe region

154,6

1 976,5

766,5

26 913,0

Almaty region

91,9

1 408,2

697,6

25 338,3

Atyrau region

147,2

2 355,8

728,4

29 498,6

East Kazakhstan reg.

165,5

2 774,5

1 195,8

41 329,5

Jambul region

87,1

1 305,4

643,3

22 275,3

West Kazakhstan reg.

97,6

2 375,6

547,7

19 304,8

Karaganda region

190,7

2 279,2

1 325,4

49 164,2

Kostanai region

419,8

1 432,9

647,5

22 299,2

Kyzylorda region

90,7

850,2

473,6

18 274,3

Mangistau region

142,6

2 966,1

668,6

34 548,1

Pavlodar region

122,9

1 700,9

730,5

25 815,4

North Kazakhstan reg.

53,9

566,3

394,5

12 386,8

South Kazakhstan reg.

134,5

2 851,0

1 238,5

45 212,8

Almaty city

3 352,6

33 040,6

2 912,5

135 564,0

Astana city

753,8

10 525,4

1 577,6

67 726,3

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

August

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

6 048,1

69 699,0

15 012,9

591 476,6

POS - terminal

3 469,7

47 409,8

649,8

80 366,5

ATM

1 160,2

13 386,5

14 363,2

511 110,1

bank kiosk

51,5

944,4

-

-

Internet

1 366,6

7 958,3

-

-

 

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