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As of December 1, 2010, 20 second-tier banks and JSC «Kazpost» realise issue of payment cards. Second-tier banks issue payment cards of local systems: Altyn card – by JSC «Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan»; SmartAlemCard – by JSC «ВТА Bank»; SityCard - by JSC «Citybank Kazakhstan». Also commercial banks of Kazakhstan issue and distribute payment cards of international systems: VISA International, MasterCard, American Express International, China Union Pay and Diners Club International.

As of December 1, 2010, the number of cards, issued by banks of Kazakhstan, was 8.6 million, the number of card holders was 8.0 million (growth - by 13.5% and 13.2% respectively, in comparison with the same period of the last year)[1]. As the most widespread cards, the cards of international payment systems have the share of 97.9% and the local cards – 2.1% respectively. As of November 1, 2009 this ratio was 97.9% and 2.1% correspondingly.

In November 2010 the value of transactions using payment cards issued by banks of Kazakhstan was KZT 299.7 billion (27.0% growth in comparison with the same period of the previous year). In November 2010 volume of transactions was 12.0 million transactions (growth - by 16.9% in comparison with the same period of the last year).

Growth of the volume and value of non-cash payments has made 27.5 % (2.4 million transactions) and 30.0 % (40.2 billion tenge), and of the volume and value of operations on cash withdrawal - 14.6 % (9.6 million transactions) and 26.5 % (259.6 billion tenge) accordingly.

More detailed data on development of Kazakhstan payment cards market are submitted in Tables 1 - 5.

Table 1

Figures

As of December 1, 2009

As of December 1, 2010

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

7 565.3

8 590.2

    - local systems

156.1

176.4

    - international systems, of which:

7 409.2

8 413.8

        Visa International

5 986.9

7 017.3

        MasterCard

1 414.3

1 385.0

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

7 076.3

8 009.0

    - local systems

148.2

168.6

    -  international systems, of which:

6 928.1

7 840.4

       Visa International

5 559.8

6 493.0

       MasterCard

1 360.4

1 336.2

Number of the used payment cards (thousand),of which:

3 547.2

4 130.7

    - local systems

89.2

93.8

    - international systems, of which:

3 458.0

4 036.9

        Visa International

2 701.0

3 346.7

        MasterCard

752.8

684.1

Number of POS-terminals, of which:

22 526

25 599

    - at business enterprises

18 115

20 869

    - in banks

4 411

4 730

Number of imprinters, of which:

840

714

    - at business enterprises

447

402

    - in banks

393

312

Number of ATMs

6 886

7 569

Number of business enterprises

10 002

10 712

Monthly balances on which the transactions using payment cards (mln.KZT)

113 750.6

141 953.0

 

Table 2

Figures

As of December 1, 2010

Total number of cards in circulation (thousand)

Number of card holders (thousand)

Number of the used payment cards (thousand)

Total on the Republic

8 579.4

7 911.2

4 125.5

Akmola

273.9

258.1

154.2

Aktubinsk

469.8

445.3

231.9

Almaty

302.7

288.5

161.9

Atyrau

419.0

386.5

194.1

East Kazakhstan

673.9

634.5

347.8

Jambul

322.9

311.2

185.1

West Kazakhstan

305.3

286.2

140.9

Karaganda

837.9

793.4

421.3

Kostanai

329.8

314.1

178.9

Kyzylorda

308.7

294.6

173.8

Mangistau

406.7

375.5

194.4

Pavlodar

468.8

432.3

237.6

North Kazakhstan

212.3

202.2

109.8

South Kazakhstan

587.0

558.0

290.9

Almaty (city)

2 025.9

1 755.4

811.0

Astana (city)

634.8

575.4

292.2

 

Table 3

Figures

As of December 1, 2010

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of business enterprises

Total on the Republic

25 599

714

7 569

10 712

Akmola

594

4

261

289

Aktubinsk

1 216

12

412

452

Almaty

536

9

300

142

Atyrau

1 232

46

443

509

East Kazakhstan

1 674

26

612

751

Jambul

642

6

273

250

West Kazakhstan

920

17

295

340

Karaganda

1 853

24

678

692

Kostanai

795

19

306

323

Kyzylorda

397

5

210

176

Mangistau

946

15

382

431

Pavlodar

1 258

19

462

560

North Kazakhstan

652

7

226

281

South Kazakhstan

1 124

13

475

423

Almaty (city)

8 243

416

1 477

3 454

Astana (city)

3 517

76

757

1 639

Use of payment cards, issued by the banks of Kazakhstan, in and outside the territory of Kazakhstan, in November 2010 (the transactions with American Express International, Diners Club International, Visa International and MasterCard payment cards that are distributed by commercial banks of Kazakhstan are not included)

Table 4

Figures

November

Non cash payments

Withdrawals of cash

2009

Volume of payments (thousand), of which:

1 862.1

8 386.2

    - local systems

40.5

199.4

    - international systems, of which:

1 821.7

8 186.8

        Visa International

1 472.2

6 520.5

        MasterCard

347.3

1 658.5

Value of payments (mln.KZT), of which:

30 902.4

205 200.4

    - local systems

612.2

4 720.3

    - international systems, of which:

30 290.2

200 480.1

        Visa International

26 819.8

163 862.3

        MasterCard

3 422.2

36 386.9

2010

Volume of payments (thousand), of which:

2 374.1

9 610.6

    - local systems

44.7

219.3

    - international systems, of which:

2 329.3

9 391.3

        Visa International

1 944.1

7 860.7

        MasterCard

382.2

1 522.7

Value of payments (mln.KZT), of which:

40 164.7

259 584.2

    - local systems

1 157.1

5 733.3

    - international systems, of which:

39 007.6

253 850.9

        Visa International

32 305.6

215 551.8

        MasterCard

6 629.4

38 054.4

Dynamics in %

Volume of payments, of which:

27.5%

14.6%

    - local systems

10.4%

10.0%

    - international systems, of which:

27.9%

14.7%

        Visa International

32.1%

20.6%

        MasterCard

10.0%

-8.2%

Value of payments, of which:

30.0%

26.5%

    - local systems

89.0%

21.5%

    - international systems, of which:

28.8%

26.6%

        Visa International

20.5%

31.5%

        MasterCard

93.7%

4.6%

Use of payment cards, issued by the banks of Kazakhstan and foreign banks, in the territory of Kazakhstan, in November 2010 (the transactions with American Express International, Diners Club International, Visa International and MasterCard payment cards that are distributed by commercial banks of Kazakhstan are included)

Table 5

Figures

November

Non cash payments

Withdrawals of cash

Volume of payments (thousand)

Value of payments (mln.KZT)

Volume of payments (thousand)

Value of payments (mln.KZT)

Total on the Republic

2 015.7

35 231.7

9 515.2

256 227.9

Akmola

22.6

627.6

309.1

7 151.9

Aktubinsk

57.7

1 565.5

533.3

13 373.4

Almaty

51.1

1 291.7

342.6

9 207.7

Atyrau

58.4

5 116.4

504.8

14 447.1

East Kazakhstan

141.7

1 329.5

805.8

18 625.9

Jambul

49.3

1 991.0

375.2

9 339.1

West Kazakhstan

71.3

1 192.4

352.1

8 631.9

Karaganda

78.3

1 102.7

940.5

21 693.8

Kostanai

49.8

501.0

395.8

9 148.7

Kyzylorda

74.8

929.1

307.6

8 476.0

Mangistau

74.0

2 039.4

463.2

16 020.4

Pavlodar

85.2

937.5

458.3

10 950.1

North Kazakhstan

33.0

215.4

260.1

5 628.5

South Kazakhstan

44.7

1 930.9

589.7

15 621.7

Almaty (city)

898.4

10 437.7

1 981.3

61 881.0

Astana (city)

225.4

4 023.9

895.8

26 030.7

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