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As of April 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 April 1, 2010, the number of cards, issued by banks of Kazakhstan, was 7.8 million, the number of card holders was 7.4 million (growth - by 12.4% and 12.8% 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 April 1, 2009 this ratio was 97.6% and 2.4% correspondingly.

In March 2010 the value of transactions using payment cards issued by banks of Kazakhstan was KZT 258.6 billion (25.3% growth in comparison with the same period of the previous year). In March 2010 volume of transactions was 11.8 million transactions (growth - by 17.4% in comparison with the same period of the last year).

Growth of the volume and value of non-cash payments has made 35.1 % (2.2 million transactions) and 53.3 % (33.4 billion tenge), and of the volume and value of operations on cash withdrawal - 13.9 % (9.5 million transactions) and 22.0 % (225.1 billion tenge) accordingly.

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

Table 1

Figures

As of April 1, 2009

As of April 1, 2010

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

6 969.9

7 837.1

    - local systems

166.5

163.7

    - international systems, of which:

6 803.4

7 673.4

        Visa International

5 406.7

6 275.3

        Europay International

1 390.3

1 389.8

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

6 547.1

7 386.7

    - local systems

158.6

155.9

    -  international systems, of which:

6 388.5

7 230.8

       Visa International

5 068.8

5 883.1

       Europay International

1 313.4

1 339.5

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

3 251.8

3 731.2

    - local systems

91.6

91.4

    - international systems, of which:

3 160.2

3 639.8

        Visa International

2 453.9

2 921.8

        Europay International

703.0

713.6

Number of POS-terminals, of which:

21 339

23 154

    - at business enterprises

17 044

18 681

    - in banks

4 295

4 473

Number of imprinters, of which:

880

799

    - at business enterprises

477

420

    - in banks

403

379

Number of ATMs

6 524

7 110

Number of business enterprises

9 423

10 161

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

101 973.0

128 424.1

 

Table 2

Figures

As of April 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

7 829.5

7 277.3

3 726.7

Akmola

250.9

238.5

139.9

Aktubinsk

429.6

407.8

215.3

Almaty

265.2

254.7

137.7

Atyrau

384.7

347.2

181.7

East Kazakhstan

623.0

591.6

321.1

Jambul

302.3

295.9

170.8

West Kazakhstan

275.7

259.2

131.1

Karaganda

809.6

766.5

394.6

Kostanai

296.4

281.9

161.1

Kyzylorda

277.0

264.5

157.9

Mangistau

385.7

352.0

182.3

Pavlodar

423.0

397.3

218.3

North Kazakhstan

196.4

188.0

101.3

South Kazakhstan

521.5

496.3

253.7

Almaty (city)

1 796.2

1 594.5

706.8

Astana (city)

592.3

541.6

253.3

 

Table 3

Figures

As of April 1, 2010

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of business enterprises

Total on the Republic

23 154

799

7 110

10 161

Akmola

571

4

249

290

Aktubinsk

1 307

13

398

433

Almaty

516

9

281

151

Atyrau

1 140

48

406

492

East Kazakhstan

1 534

27

577

733

Jambul

593

6

258

261

West Kazakhstan

850

19

265

328

Karaganda

1 730

23

638

694

Kostanai

765

19

291

324

Kyzylorda

386

5

203

191

Mangistau

849

16

364

416

Pavlodar

1 209

12

439

555

North Kazakhstan

608

8

210

272

South Kazakhstan

1 069

14

450

427

Almaty (city)

7 073

496

1 403

3 095

Astana (city)

2 954

80

678

1 499

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

March

Non cash payments

Withdrawals of cash

2009

Volume of payments (thousand), of which:

1 642.0

8 371.6

    - local systems

37.7

233.6

    - international systems, of which:

1 604.3

8 138.0

        Visa International

1 283.1

6 423.1

        Europay International

320.0

1 707.8

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

21 811.8

184 590.7

    - local systems

423.6

5 292.2

    - international systems, of which:

21 388.2

179 298.5

        Visa International

18 138.0

145 499.6

        Europay International

3 239.6

33 623.1

2010

Volume of payments (thousand), of which:

2 219.0

9 534.2

    - local systems

47.7

237.5

    - international systems, of which:

2 171.3

9 296.7

        Visa International

1 790.3

7 593.9

        Europay International

379.0

1 695.8

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

33 447.3

225 140.4

    - local systems

648.0

5 335.5

    - international systems, of which:

32 799.3

219 804.8

        Visa International

28 672.1

183 823.6

        Europay International

4 085.1

35 766.2

Dynamics in %

Volume of payments, of which:

35.1%

13.9%

    - local systems

26.5%

1.7%

    - international systems, of which:

35.3%

14.2%

        Visa International

39.5%

18.2%

        Europay International

18.4%

-0.7%

Value of payments, of which:

53.3%

22.0%

    - local systems

53.0%

0.8%

    - international systems, of which:

53.4%

22.6%

        Visa International

58.1%

26.3%

        Europay International

26.1%

6.4%

Use of payment cards, issued by the banks of Kazakhstan and foreign banks, in the territory of Kazakhstan, in March 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

March

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

2 022.7

27 877.2

9 408.3

220 164.1

Akmola

24.4

903.4

308.8

6 159.3

Aktubinsk

57.6

1 300.0

526.9

11 249.0

Almaty

59.3

784.6

367.8

8 181.0

Atyrau

55.3

1 792.9

506.1

13 112.3

East Kazakhstan

167.1

856.1

762.7

15 845.3

Jambul

41.0

630.6

375.1

7 989.2

West Kazakhstan

87.8

1 441.9

354.5

7 242.5

Karaganda

83.7

1 504.1

934.5

18 663.2

Kostanai

51.5

896.6

363.2

7 281.0

Kyzylorda

87.6

845.6

341.1

7 897.0

Mangistau

72.3

1 493.0

494.4

14 485.9

Pavlodar

93.0

1 816.7

467.5

9 688.7

North Kazakhstan

41.4

827.8

275.6

5 128.6

South Kazakhstan

41.0

1 282.2

537.2

12 226.8

Almaty (city)

852.2

8 494.0

1 915.0

53 239.5

Astana (city)

207.4

3 007.6

877.7

21 774.7

 

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