For August 2016 both banks and JSC «Kazpost» performed 39 828,4 thousand transactions to the sum of 23 124,2 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 orders in August 2016 came to 1 932,5 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 cas.

During the specified period payment request-orders 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 August 2016                                               

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	11 484,6	28,8%	22 194,2	96,0%
Payment request-orders	113,8	0,3%	3,4	0,01%
Collection orders	24,7	0,06%	3,7	0,02%
Payment cards	28 204,6	70,82%	915,0	4,0%
including:
- cash withdrawals	17 921,8	45,0%	770,8	3,3%
- cashless payments	10 282,8	25,8%	144,2	0,6%
Other payment instruments	0,7	0,002%	7,9	0,03%
Total	39 828,4	100,0%	23 124,2	100,0%