In the 1 quarter of 2014 both banks and JSC «Kazpost» performed 84 764.2 thousand transactions to the sum of 28 603.0 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 the 1 quarter of 2014 came to 885.5 thousand KZT.

At the same time, a high specific weight of payment cards on the volume of payments and a low specific weight on value of payments are due to the use of this payment instrument primarily for withdrawal of small sums of cash (the average amount of one cash withdrawal transaction for the 1 quarter of 2014 came to 30.6 thousand KZT).

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 1-quarter of 2014

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	30 202.6	35.6%	26 744.8	93.5%
Payment request-orders	569.4	0.7%	2.1	0.01%
Collection orders	25.2	0.03%	25.6	0.1%
Payment cards	53 964.6	63.7%	1 650.5	5.8%
Other payment instruments	2.5	0.003%	180.1	0.6%
Total	84 764.2	100.0%	28 603.0	100.0%