On the whole 13,1 mln. transactions to the amount of 311,7 trln. KZT were conducted through payment systems of Kazakhstan (Interbank System of Money Transfer and Interbank Clearing System) in January-April of 2019. As compared to January-April of 2018 number of payments in payment systems decreased by 1,1% (by 147,4 thousand transactions), while increased amount of payments by 18,7% (by 49,0 trln. KZT).

 

ISMT and Interbank Clearing System
(thousand transactions and bln. KZT)
Year	April		Total (Jan-Apr)
	number	volume	number	volume
2018	3 262,4	59 843,8	13 267,3	262 624,1
2019	3 411,4	66 708,2	13 119,9	311 669,0
Change in %	4,6%	11,5%	-1,1%	18,7%

 

Interbank System of Money Transfer (ISMT)

In January-April of 2019 4,6 mln. transactions to the amount of 309,7 trln. KZT were conducted through ISMT. As compared to similar period of last year number of payments decreased by 7,2% (by 355,4 thousand transactions), while amount of payments increased by 18,8% (by 49,0 trln. KZT).

On an average 58,0 thousand transactions to the amount of 3,9 trln. KZT passed through ISMT per day in January-April of 2019 which is less than the level of the similar period of 2018 in respect of number by 6,0% (by 3,7 thousand transactions) and more in respect of amount by 20,3% (by 0,7 trln. KZT).

 

Interbank System of Money Transfer (ISMT)
(thousand transactions and bln. KZT)
Year		April		Total (Jan-Apr)
		number	volume	number	volume
2018	total	1 308,9	59 296,3	4 937,4	260 675,5
	average per day	62,3	2 823,6	61,7	3 258,4
2019	total	1 173,0	66 127,4	4 582,0	309 701,8
	average per day	53,3	3 005,8	58,0	3 920,3
Change in %	total	-10,4%	11,5%	-7,2%	18,8%
	average per day	-14,5%	6,5%	-6,0%	20,3%

 

Interbank Clearing System.

Flows of retail payments during January-April of 2019 made up 8,5 mln. documents to the amount of 2,0 trln. KZT. As compared to January-April of 2018 volume of documents in clearing system increased by 2,5% (by 208,0 thousand documents), value of payments increased by 1,0% (by 18,6 bln. KZT).

On an average 108,1 thousand documents to the amount of 24,9 bln. KZT passed through clearing system per day, which is more than the level of the similar period of 2018 in respect of number of payments by 3,8% (by 4,0 thousand transactions) and more in respect of amount of payments by 1,9% (by 0,5 bln. KZT).

 

Interbank Clearing System
(thousand transactions and bln. KZT)
Year		April		Total (Jan-Apr)
		number	volume	number	volume
2018	total	1 953,5	547,4	8 329,9	1 948,6
	average per day	93,0	26,1	104,1	24,4
2019	total	2 238,4	580,8	8 537,9	1 967,2
	average per day	101,7	26,4	108,1	24,9
Change in %	total	14,6%	6,1%	2,5%	1,0%
	average per day	9,4%	1,3%	3,8%	1,9%