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As of May 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 94,2%) 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 “BTA Bank” and local card of Citibank Kazakhstan – JSC “Citibank Kazakhstan”.

As of May 01, 2015 banks have issued 16,9 mln. payment cards and a number of card holders reached 14,8 mln. (comparing the situation with the same date of 2014, there is a growth of 2,5% and 2,8% respectively). The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 77,7%, the share of credit cards - 16,4%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and share of prepaid cards is 1,7% and 4,1% respectively.

In April 2015 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstan originators was 700,0 bln. tenge (growth against April 2014 has totaled 16,5%). The number of transactions reached 22,5 mln. and increased by 16,2% versus April 2014. At that, the number of cashless payments went up to 31,0% (number of transactions 6,7 mln. transactions) and their amount decreased to 5,5% (the volume of transactions made 77,5 bln. tenge), number and volume of operations with cash withdrawals went up to 10,9% (number of transactions -15,8 mln. transactions) and 20,0%( the volume of transactions - 622,4 bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (54,1% and 65,2% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (22,3% and 19,0% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (95,8% and 84,6% 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 01.05.14

As of 01.05.15

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

16 482,4

16 891,9

local systems

786,1

971,6

international systems, of which:

15 696,3

15 920,2

Visa International, of which:

13 868,8

13 520,6

debit

9 569,9

9 929,3

credit

3 543,9

2 681,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

755,0

909,9

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 789,1

2 243,0

debit

1 631,1

2 094,8

credit

90,7

76,1

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

67,3

72,1

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

14 414,6

14 825,2

local systems

704,5

848,6

international systems, of which:

13 710,1

13 976,6

Visa International, of which:

12 042,6

11 767,3

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 631,0

2 080,7

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

6 559,2

7 079,9

local systems

502,9

632,6

international systems, of which:

6 056,3

6 447,3

Visa International, of which:

5 200,9

5 273,4

debit

4 453,9

4 360,9

credit

302,1

365,8

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

444,9

546,6

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

836,6

1 082,1

debit

763,0

1 004,3

credit

33,1

34,5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

40,5

43,3

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

51 521

66 221

commercial enterprises

45 175

59 609

banks

6 346

6 612

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which:

168

167

commercial enterprises

60

59

banks

108

108

Number of ATM (units) , of which:

8 840

9 830

with cash distribution function

7 738

8 646

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 102

1 184

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

27 236

37 788

Number of bank’s booths (units)

5 489

1 368

Number of payment terminals (units)[1]

-

13 156

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.05.15

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.

13 132,1

2 777,6

982,1

14 825,2

6 077,3

412,7

589,9

Akmola region

372,1

3,4

11,0

359,3

205,9

1,4

6,5

Aktobe region

650,3

6,1

11,9

609,3

316,5

2,8

6,7

Almaty region

588,7

4,9

24,5

567,6

314,1

1,4

14,5

Atyrau region

590,5

8,2

17,5

549,0

271,9

3,7

10,2

East Kazakhstan reg.

1 073,1

12,1

29,6

990,4

522,3

4,3

16,9

Jambul region

522,8

3,3

7,1

485,0

304,9

1,1

4,2

West Kazakhstan reg.

439,9

6,1

9,9

407,1

218,1

2,4

4,5

Karaganda region

1 057,6

11,3

37,2

1 006,6

579,6

4,6

22,1

Kostanai region

555,4

4,7

9,2

472,6

298,5

2,2

4,3

Kyzylorda region

447,8

3,4

7,9

414,6

231,7

1,2

4,5

Mangistau region

520,4

6,3

17,1

486,9

252,7

2,4

10,3

Pavlodar region

649,7

9,3

23,4

598,7

314,8

4,1

12,5

North Kazakhstan reg.

316,4

2,5

7,5

295,8

175,3

1,1

4,4

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 161,5

8,8

43,3

1 113,7

602,0

2,1

23,9

Almaty city

3 154,5

2 669,9

684,3

5 480,5

1 005,9

368,2

422,0

Astana city

1 031,3

17,5

40,7

988,1

463,0

9,7

22,2

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.05.15

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.

66 221

167

9 830

37 788

1 368

13 156

Akmola region

1 563

-

315

825

43

445

Aktobe region

2 541

5

510

1 193

81

760

Almaty region

1 624

3

377

890

56

439

Atyrau region

2 572

4

574

1 088

59

628

East Kazakhstan reg.

4 071

17

786

2 116

112

1 259

Jambul region

1 286

4

367

673

64

498

West Kazakhstan reg.

2 120

4

381

1 053

69

604

Karaganda region

5 087

11

848

3 183

151

1 487

Kostanai region

3 639

6

413

2 249

50

802

Kyzylorda region

995

3

318

488

49

367

Mangistau region

2 067

5

533

1 117

81

398

Pavlodar region

3 284

6

567

1 840

79

784

North Kazakhstan reg.

1 678

2

296

931

40

625

South Kazakhstan reg.

2 959

6

631

1 529

76

1 093

Almaty city

22 462

80

1 901

13 842

253

1 942

Astana city

8 273

11

1 013

4 771

105

1 025

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

Table 4

Specifications

April

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2014

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

5 130,1

14 265,8

local systems

97,3

854,0

international systems, of which:

5 032,7

13 411,7

Visa International

4 029,3

10 728,2

MasterCard Worldwide

621,1

1 799,6

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

82 072,8

518 611,8

local systems

1 168,2

24 892,9

international systems, of which:

80 904,6

493 718,9

Visa International

61 559,5

392 253,6

MasterCard Worldwide

8 272,1

62 338,8

2015

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

6 720,1

15 819,9

local systems

90,8

925,0

international systems, of which:

6 629,3

14 894,9

Visa International

5 758,1

12 259,3

MasterCard Worldwide

811,4

2 483,2

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

77 543,5

622 441,8

local systems

2 554,1

28 201,8

international systems, of which:

74 989,4

594 239,9

Visa International

64 302,2

498 625,4

MasterCard Worldwide

9 641,5

90 550,2

Dynamics (%)

Number

31,0%

10,9%

local systems

-6,7%

8,3%

international systems, of which:

31,7%

11,1%

Visa International

42,9%

14,3%

MasterCard Worldwide

30,6%

38,0%

Volume

-5,5%

20,0%

local systems

118,6%

13,3%

international systems, of which:

-7,3%

20,4%

Visa International

4,5%

27,1%

MasterCard Worldwide

16,6%

45,3%

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

Table 5

Specifications

April

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

5 762,8

64 035,8

15 686,6

615 202,5

Akmola region

42,4

1 181,9

474,2

16 138,9

Aktobe region

156,3

1 653,1

805,5

28 650,0

Almaty region

104,6

2 062,8

689,8

25 539,7

Atyrau region

159,4

2 610,3

743,8

31 577,9

East Kazakhstan reg.

169,7

2 013,9

1 244,9

42 717,0

Jambul region

98,4

1 388,1

668,4

23 101,7

West Kazakhstan reg.

106,6

2 461,6

577,1

20 751,9

Karaganda region

210,8

2 417,0

1 394,6

50 212,4

Kostanai region

464,5

1 656,5

672,4

22 963,6

Kyzylorda region

113,2

869,6

488,3

20 137,6

Mangistau region

167,8

2 987,6

688,2

40 526,4

Pavlodar region

119,5

1 482,3

740,5

26 603,3

North Kazakhstan reg.

51,8

526,2

419,1

13 070,2

South Kazakhstan reg.

156,3

2 924,7

1 268,0

47 463,0

Almaty city

2 905,9

28 340,9

3 141,7

138 188,0

Astana city

735,5

9 459,3

1 670,0

67 561,0

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

April

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

5 762,8

64 035,8

15 686,6

615 202,5

POS - terminal

3 093,8

42 706,7

661,2

95 555,7

ATM

1 498,1

14 213,3

15 025,5

519 646,8

bank kiosk

82,3

1 294,8

-

-

Internet

1 079,8

5 812,9

-

-

mobile phone

8,9

8,1

-

-

 

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