For December 2017 banks and JSC «Kazpost» performed 66 037,6 thousand transactions to the sum of 25 863,6 billion KZT with the application of payment instruments presented in Table.

As before, payment orders and payment cards are payment instruments used most commonly on the territory of Kazakhstan. Herewith the average value of one payment order in December 2017 came to 1 254,4 thousand KZT.

At the same time, a high specific weight of payment cards on the volume of transactions and a low specific weight on value of transactions are due to the use of this payment instrument primarily for withdrawal of small sums of cash.

During the specified period payment request and collection orders are used the least frequently. The insignificant part of use of given instruments in total volume and value is caused by their specificity.

Other payment instruments include checks for goods and services, direct debits of bank account.

 

Data on the use of payment instruments in December 2017                                             

Table
(volume in thousands transactions; value in billions KZT)
Payment instruments	Volume		Value
	Abs.	in percent of total amount	Abs.	in percent of total amount
Payment orders	19 326,3	29,3%	24 242,0	93,7%
Payment request	150,7	0,2%	19,40	0,1%
Collection orders	80,5	0,12%	7,19	0,03%
Payment cards	46 479,7	70,4%	1 586,6	6,1%
including:		0,0%		0,0%
- cash withdrawals	23 649,5	35,8%	1 175,2	4,5%
- cashless payments	29 924,8	45,3%	411,3	1,6%
Other payment instruments	0,42	0,001%	8,44	0,03%
Total	66 037,6	100,0%	25 863,6	100,0%