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As of May 1, 2010, 21 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»; TemirCard – by JSC «Темirbаnк»; SityCard - by JSC «Citybank Kazakhstan». Also commercial banks of Kazakhstan issue and distribute payment cards of international systems: VISA International, Europay International, American Express International, China Union Pay and Diners Club International.

As of May 1, 2010, the number of cards, issued by banks of Kazakhstan, was 8.0 million, the number of card holders was 7.5 million (growth - by 13.2% and 12.5% 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 May 1, 2009 this ratio was 97.6% and 2.4% correspondingly.

In April 2010 the value of transactions using payment cards issued by banks of Kazakhstan was KZT 262.0 billion (28.5% growth in comparison with the same period of the previous year). In April 2010 volume of transactions was 11.2 million transactions (growth - by 18.6% in comparison with the same period of the last year).

Growth of the volume and value of non-cash payments has made 35.1 % (2.1 million transactions) and 52.9 % (31.5 billion tenge), and of the volume and value of operations on cash withdrawal - 15.4 % (9.1 million transactions) and 25.7 % (230.6 billion tenge) accordingly.

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

Table 1

Figures

As of May 1, 2009

As of May 1, 2010

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

7 044.4

7 973.8

    - local systems

166.6

165.4

    - international systems, of which:

6 877.8

7 808.4

        Visa International

5 471.1

6 415.9

        Europay International

1 400.0

1 384.0

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

6 642.1

7 471.9

    - local systems

158.8

157.5

    -  international systems, of which:

6 483.4

7 314.4

       Visa International

5 127.2

5 974.1

       Europay International

1 349.8

1 332.0

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

3 284.6

3 793.8

    - local systems

91.0

91.5

    - international systems, of which:

3 193.6

3 702.3

        Visa International

2 464.5

2 992.9

        Europay International

725.9

704.9

Number of POS-terminals, of which:

21 541

23 392

    - at business enterprises

17 166

18 848

    - in banks

4 375

4 544

Number of imprinters, of which:

885

800

    - at business enterprises

480

417

    - in banks

405

383

Number of ATMs

6 605

7 166

Number of business enterprises

9 493

10 175

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

101 937.4

128 856.3

 

Table 2

Figures

As of May 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

7 965.2

7 363.9

3 789.3

Akmola

256.9

242.4

143.1

Aktubinsk

436.5

413.9

217.8

Almaty

271.9

260.1

142.7

Atyrau

391.1

358.2

185.1

East Kazakhstan

636.9

603.0

327.7

Jambul

306.6

299.1

175.3

West Kazakhstan

278.7

262.1

131.8

Karaganda

816.3

768.1

398.3

Kostanai

301.0

284.9

163.4

Kyzylorda

282.0

270.6

162.5

Mangistau

381.6

352.2

182.6

Pavlodar

425.7

399.3

222.8

North Kazakhstan

200.4

190.2

102.0

South Kazakhstan

533.3

508.1

258.7

Almaty (city)

1 845.0

1 609.5

717.9

Astana (city)

601.3

542.3

257.5

 

Table 3

Figures

As of May 1, 2010

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of business enterprises

Total on the Republic

23 392

800

7 166

10 175

Akmola

568

4

248

285

Aktubinsk

1 282

13

400

438

Almaty

510

9

282

146

Atyrau

1 141

48

409

490

East Kazakhstan

1 550

27

579

741

Jambul

605

6

259

263

West Kazakhstan

833

19

263

332

Karaganda

1 765

23

648

700

Kostanai

768

19

298

321

Kyzylorda

387

5

205

192

Mangistau

849

16

370

406

Pavlodar

1 219

12

440

560

North Kazakhstan

619

8

214

275

South Kazakhstan

1 083

14

455

425

Almaty (city)

7 237

496

1 413

3 091

Astana (city)

2 976

81

683

1 510

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

Table 4

Figures

April

Non cash payments

Withdrawals of cash

2009

Volume of payments (thousand), of which:

1 552.4

7 915.0

    - local systems

34.8

209.4

    - international systems, of which:

1 517.6

7 705.6

        Visa International

1 215.4

6 082.4

        Europay International

300.7

1 616.7

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

20 573.0

183 365.8

    - local systems

455.9

4 859.0

    - international systems, of which:

20 117.1

178 506.8

        Visa International

16 812.9

145 055.8

        Europay International

3 280.3

33 285.0

2010

Volume of payments (thousand), of which:

2 097.1

9 132.2

    - local systems

45.4

219.0

    - international systems, of which:

2 051.6

8 913.2

        Visa International

1 692.7

7 328.2

        Europay International

356.5

1 578.1

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

31 464.3

230 567.6

    - local systems

664.0

5 232.4

    - international systems, of which:

30 800.3

225 335.2

        Visa International

27 331.2

189 992.7

        Europay International

3 430.9

35 143.2

Dynamics in %

Volume of payments, of which:

35.1%

15.4%

    - local systems

30.5%

4.6%

    - international systems, of which:

35.2%

15.7%

        Visa International

39.3%

20.5%

        Europay International

18.6%

-2.4%

Value of payments, of which:

52.9%

25.7%

    - local systems

45.6%

7.7%

    - international systems, of which:

53.1%

26.2%

        Visa International

62.6%

31.0%

        Europay International

4.6%

5.6%

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

Table 5

Figures

April

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

1 943.9

28 536.4

9 013.6

226 284.4

Akmola

23.2

906.6

286.8

6 170.3

Aktubinsk

56.0

1 364.0

505.6

11 458.9

Almaty

52.8

1 018.9

308.4

7 612.8

Atyrau

53.9

2 206.3

490.7

13 743.4

East Kazakhstan

154.8

813.1

785.0

16 791.6

Jambul

39.9

833.7

359.3

8 042.8

West Kazakhstan

79.9

1 073.2

338.5

7 478.1

Karaganda

79.4

1 352.2

896.0

18 849.4

Kostanai

50.7

909.1

363.6

7 947.0

Kyzylorda

81.2

798.2

278.4

7 294.5

Mangistau

68.3

1 487.9

498.6

17 214.9

Pavlodar

87.6

1 372.1

451.1

10 110.3

North Kazakhstan

38.5

934.7

247.4

4 912.1

South Kazakhstan

40.4

1 451.0

520.7

12 897.7

Almaty (city)

838.4

8 521.6

1 852.9

54 017.4

Astana (city)

198.9

3 493.8

830.7

21 743.3

 

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