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As of July 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 July 01, 2015 banks have issued 16,6 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 growth of 2,0% and 1,3% respectively). The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 77,8%, the share of credit cards - 16,2%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and share of prepaid cards is 1,8% and 4,2% respectively.

In June 2015 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstan originators was 687,4 bln. tenge (growth against June 2014 has totaled 3,2%). The number of transactions reached 22,9 mln. and increased by 10,2% versus June 2014. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 31,7% (number of transactions 7,1 mln. transactions) and 3,6% (the volume of transactions - 83,6 bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 2,8% (number of transactions -15,8 mln. transactions) and 3,2%( the volume of transactions - 603,7 bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (56,6% and 67,2% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (19,6% and 17,2% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (95,8% and 87,2% 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 01.07.14

As of 01.07.15

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

16 299,1

16 625,5

local systems

813,1

888,6

international systems, of which:

15 486,0

15 736,9

Visa International, of which:

13 675,7

13 272,4

debit

9 719,8

9 751,3

credit

3 518,3

2 611,4

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

437,6

909,7

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 773,8

2 267,3

debit

1 614,3

2 125,9

credit

89,3

63,5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

70,2

77,9

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

14 361,5

14 546,2

local systems

736,9

768,5

international systems, of which:

13 624,6

13 777,7

Visa International, of which:

11 955,5

11 550,7

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 634,6

2 065,5

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

6 409,5

7 080,5

local systems

510,1

575,4

international systems, of which:

5 899,3

6 505,1

Visa International, of which:

5 058,8

5 234,8

debit

4 450,5

4 270,5

credit

294,6

352,0

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

313,7

612,4

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

822,1

1 146,4

debit

746,2

1 066,4

credit

32,5

34,6

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

43,5

45,5

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

54 475

68 827

commercial enterprises

48 007

61 607

banks

6 468

7 220

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which:

168

167

commercial enterprises

60

59

banks

108

108

Number of ATM (units) , of which:

8 790

8 902

with cash distribution function

7 666

7 734

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 124

1 168

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

29 927

38 789

Number of bank’s booths (units)

7 130

1 353

Number of payment terminals (units)[1]

-

13 350

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.07.15

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.

12 942,8

2 695,2

987,6

14 546,2

6 023,9

398,8

657,9

Akmola region

369,6

3,0

15,9

359,0

203,3

1,4

8,5

Aktobe region

640,3

5,8

24,2

555,5

312,6

2,7

13,1

Almaty region

590,9

3,7

24,3

568,8

311,8

1,4

15,5

Atyrau region

572,3

7,3

20,7

535,3

269,0

3,7

12,0

East Kazakhstan reg.

1 049,0

10,8

44,4

976,4

519,7

4,3

26,5

Jambul region

520,9

2,6

10,2

494,0

299,3

1,1

6,0

West Kazakhstan reg.

439,5

5,6

10,5

405,8

212,1

2,4

5,0

Karaganda region

1 057,0

10,8

44,8

1 008,8

572,0

4,6

27,8

Kostanai region

554,0

4,2

12,8

499,1

297,0

2,1

6,6

Kyzylorda region

435,7

2,6

19,8

410,4

230,1

1,1

11,5

Mangistau region

515,7

5,6

19,5

482,1

248,6

2,5

11,6

Pavlodar region

646,4

8,1

27,1

594,9

312,2

4,1

17,0

North Kazakhstan reg.

315,4

2,4

13,3

297,7

173,9

1,1

7,9

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 147,6

7,3

50,2

1 101,0

597,1

2,2

32,9

Almaty city

3 075,3

2 598,7

606,2

5 294,0

1 000,8

354,1

428,6

Astana city

1 013,1

16,6

43,7

963,4

464,5

9,9

27,4

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.07.15

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.

68 827

167

8 902

38 789

1 353

13 350

Akmola region

1 648

-

290

865

42

445

Aktobe region

2 652

5

474

1 225

79

746

Almaty region

1 717

3

360

918

57

427

Atyrau region

2 617

4

509

1 123

59

636

East Kazakhstan reg.

4 214

17

700

2 140

113

1 299

Jambul region

1 344

4

326

695

61

501

West Kazakhstan reg.

2 219

4

336

1 088

69

592

Karaganda region

5 387

11

726

3 271

148

1 572

Kostanai region

3 722

6

359

2 323

50

804

Kyzylorda region

1 075

3

270

516

50

412

Mangistau region

2 169

5

498

1 161

83

412

Pavlodar region

3 441

6

524

1 911

80

803

North Kazakhstan reg.

1 761

2

273

959

40

619

South Kazakhstan reg.

3 207

6

564

1 576

75

1 086

Almaty city

23 165

80

1 756

14 158

245

1 964

Astana city

8 489

11

937

4 860

102

1 032

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

Table 4

Specifications

June

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2014

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

5 357,1

15 393,5

local systems

99,7

919,7

international systems, of which:

5 257,3

14 473,8

Visa International

3 830,2

11 266,7

MasterCard Worldwide

619,5

1 923,4

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

80 749,3

585 165,0

local systems

1 503,4

29 619,5

international systems, of which:

79 245,8

555 545,5

Visa International

52 391,8

437 056,6

MasterCard Worldwide

7 498,0

71 327,8

2015

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

7 054,0

15 821,5

local systems

75,9

873,2

international systems, of which:

6 978,1

14 948,3

Visa International

6 054,2

12 144,0

MasterCard Worldwide

861,1

2 595,7

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

83 644,1

603 731,4

local systems

2 684,2

26 554,3

international systems, of which:

80 959,9

577 177,1

Visa International

69 405,2

476 861,8

MasterCard Worldwide

10 431,7

94 089,8

Dynamics (%)

Number

31,7%

2,8%

local systems

-23,9%

-5,1%

international systems, of which:

32,7%

3,3%

Visa International

58,1%

7,8%

MasterCard Worldwide

39,0%

35,0%

Volume

3,6%

3,2%

local systems

78,5%

-10,3%

international systems, of which:

2,2%

3,9%

Visa International

32,5%

9,1%

MasterCard Worldwide

39,1%

31,9%

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

Table 5

Specifications

June

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

6 039,8

67 965,0

16 119,5

616 662,5

Akmola region

45,9

1 076,6

507,6

17 010,2

Aktobe region

155,7

2 579,9

818,5

28 041,1

Almaty region

101,5

1 367,5

734,7

27 864,4

Atyrau region

159,5

2 484,3

751,0

30 597,1

East Kazakhstan reg.

174,7

2 193,2

1 301,7

44 605,4

Jambul region

102,0

1 449,8

703,4

25 136,1

West Kazakhstan reg.

109,1

2 713,5

594,7

20 494,2

Karaganda region

213,3

2 516,7

1 431,7

50 740,0

Kostanai region

482,7

1 534,6

706,5

24 108,0

Kyzylorda region

109,2

845,7

532,2

22 221,6

Mangistau region

147,0

3 247,5

678,9

36 054,7

Pavlodar region

130,1

2 368,4

782,6

27 152,8

North Kazakhstan reg.

57,3

532,3

445,6

13 893,2

South Kazakhstan reg.

151,6

3 869,3

1 380,6

54 216,2

Almaty city

3 150,7

29 607,6

3 070,7

127 941,7

Astana city

749,1

9 578,1

1 679,2

66 585,8

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

June

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

6 039,8

67 965,0

16 119,5

616 662,5

POS - terminal

3 324,6

45 938,2

668,8

77 660,9

ATM

1 408,2

13 902,2

15 450,6

539 001,5

bank kiosk

75,2

1 260,3

-

-

Internet

1 231,9

6 864,3

-

-

 

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