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As of August 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 August 01, 2015 banks have issued 16,7 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 2,9% and 1,6% respectively). The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 78,1%, the share of credit cards - 16,5%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and share of prepaid cards is 1,8% and 3,6% respectively.

In July 2015 the volume of transactions with payment cards issued by the Kazakhstan originators was 712,3 bln. tenge (growth against July 2014 has totaled 5,1%). The number of transactions reached 23,0 mln. and increased by 13,6% versus July 2014. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 34,5% (number of transactions 7,2 mln. transactions) and 1,0% (the volume of transactions - 86,0 bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 6,0% (number of transactions -15,8 mln. transactions) and 5,7%( the volume of transactions - 626,3 bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (57,7% and 67,7% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (17,4% and 16,5% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (95,7% and 86,2% 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 01.08.14

As of 01.08.15

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

17 156,3

16 658,6

local systems

817,6

927,8

international systems, of which:

16 338,6

15 730,7

Visa International, of which:

14 499,8

13 208,8

debit

9 793,8

9 731,5

credit

3 517,7

2 662,7

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

1 188,4

814,6

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 803,2

2 278,2

debit

1 641,3

2 129,6

credit

89,6

64,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

72,2

84,3

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

14 791,3

14 549,1

local systems

738,2

808,6

international systems, of which:

14 053,2

13 740,5

Visa International, of which:

12 357,9

11 429,1

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 661,6

2 124,3

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

6 818,5

7 019,4

local systems

509,2

582,8

international systems, of which:

6 309,2

6 436,6

Visa International, of which:

5 470,5

5 188,2

debit

4 413,3

4 208,9

credit

317,4

362,7

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

739,8

616,6

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

821,1

1 109,5

debit

743,1

1 025,0

credit

32,8

35,1

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

45,1

49,3

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

57 064

70 054

commercial enterprises

50 512

62 767

banks

6 552

7 287

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which:

168

167

commercial enterprises

60

59

banks

108

108

Number of ATM (units) , of which:

8 785

8 901

with cash distribution function

7 656

7 722

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 129

1 179

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

31 731

39 604

Number of bank’s booths (units)

11 924

1 401

Number of payment terminals (units)[1]

-

13 579

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.08.15

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.

13 012,3

2 747,3

899,0

14 549,1

5 943,5

409,9

666,0

Akmola region

373,4

3,1

15,9

361,6

202,2

1,5

9,3

Aktobe region

646,6

6,0

23,2

611,5

309,5

2,7

15,1

Almaty region

599,4

3,8

24,7

575,5

307,0

1,4

16,3

Atyrau region

576,3

7,3

20,8

539,2

265,8

3,7

12,9

East Kazakhstan reg.

1 056,6

10,6

44,5

982,7

510,5

4,3

29,7

Jambul region

525,3

2,6

10,2

497,5

296,1

1,1

6,9

West Kazakhstan reg.

445,3

5,6

11,1

410,3

211,7

2,5

5,6

Karaganda region

1 075,4

10,8

46,5

1 023,1

569,1

4,6

30,8

Kostanai region

560,8

4,2

13,4

502,8

292,5

2,1

7,8

Kyzylorda region

439,7

2,6

17,6

413,6

223,6

1,1

13,1

Mangistau region

518,9

5,7

19,0

485,5

247,6

2,6

12,0

Pavlodar region

652,6

8,1

28,4

599,9

310,5

4,0

18,7

North Kazakhstan reg.

318,0

2,4

12,2

299,6

171,9

1,2

8,7

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 166,4

7,3

51,2

1 115,4

566,6

2,1

35,3

Almaty city

3 031,6

2 650,5

515,3

5 154,7

992,7

365,1

414,7

Astana city

1 026,2

16,7

45,2

976,0

466,1

10,0

29,1

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.08.15

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.

70 054

167

8 901

39 604

1 401

13 579

Akmola region

1 671

-

294

876

42

444

Aktobe region

2 692

5

475

1 246

81

764

Almaty region

1 751

3

360

936

103

435

Atyrau region

2 631

4

512

1 145

60

642

East Kazakhstan reg.

4 283

17

697

2 191

115

1 318

Jambul region

1 401

4

329

722

61

517

West Kazakhstan reg.

2 255

4

340

1 109

69

600

Karaganda region

5 461

11

721

3 317

148

1 604

Kostanai region

3 844

6

355

2 355

51

803

Kyzylorda region

1 098

3

272

530

48

427

Mangistau region

2 212

5

499

1 182

84

401

Pavlodar region

3 518

6

526

1 947

77

816

North Kazakhstan reg.

1 796

2

274

976

40

625

South Kazakhstan reg.

3 245

6

567

1 591

76

1 093

Almaty city

23 565

80

1 742

14 491

247

2 028

Astana city

8 631

11

938

4 990

99

1 062

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

Table 4

Specifications

July

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2014

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

5 378,3

14 862,9

local systems

89,7

881,9

international systems, of which:

5 288,6

13 981,1

Visa International

3 805,1

10 966,6

MasterCard Worldwide

605,2

1 775,2

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

85 178,5

592 586,6

local systems

1 462,1

27 749,6

international systems, of which:

83 716,3

564 837,0

Visa International

55 643,9

448 027,8

MasterCard Worldwide

7 513,5

67 688,8

2015

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

7 235,4

15 754,6

local systems

76,4

843,4

international systems, of which:

7 159,0

14 911,2

Visa International

6 215,3

12 031,2

MasterCard Worldwide

880,6

2 653,3

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

86 021,8

626 322,6

local systems

2 904,2

26 353,5

international systems, of which:

83 117,6

599 969,1

Visa International

70 700,3

494 355,9

MasterCard Worldwide

11 222,0

98 998,7

Dynamics (%)

Number

34,5%

6,0%

local systems

-14,8%

-4,4%

international systems, of which:

35,4%

6,7%

Visa International

63,3%

9,7%

MasterCard Worldwide

45,5%

49,5%

Volume

1,0%

5,7%

local systems

98,6%

-5,0%

international systems, of which:

-0,7%

6,2%

Visa International

27,1%

10,3%

MasterCard Worldwide

49,4%

46,3%

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

Table 5

Specifications

July

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

6 192,8

67 999,1

15 692,1

620 809,4

Akmola region

45,9

1 203,2

492,0

16 869,0

Aktobe region

163,7

2 052,0

814,9

28 988,4

Almaty region

98,1

1 321,0

721,3

26 522,4

Atyrau region

153,7

2 268,2

748,6

31 399,8

East Kazakhstan reg.

173,8

2 394,3

1 258,5

43 856,4

Jambul region

91,8

1 845,0

660,6

23 206,6

West Kazakhstan reg.

103,7

2 955,8

575,0

20 333,0

Karaganda region

199,2

2 491,1

1 396,8

51 173,6

Kostanai region

458,8

1 498,7

679,6

23 732,8

Kyzylorda region

97,7

764,5

495,6

20 023,3

Mangistau region

148,1

2 855,0

696,9

38 321,5

Pavlodar region

131,9

1 310,3

762,0

26 568,8

North Kazakhstan reg.

58,4

560,5

423,9

13 383,9

South Kazakhstan reg.

138,8

2 997,4

1 233,6

46 321,0

Almaty city

3 357,8

31 177,3

3 050,4

136 944,0

Astana city

771,5

10 304,9

1 682,6

73 165,2

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

July

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

6 192,8

67 999,1

15 692,1

620 809,4

POS - terminal

3 536,9

46 070,9

676,8

86 298,4

ATM

1 258,7

13 550,5

15 015,3

534 511,1

bank kiosk

63,1

1 094,5

-

-

Internet

1 334,1

7 283,2

-

-

 

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