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As of July 01, 2022 actual origination of the payment cards were realized by 19 banks and JSC «Kazpost». These institutes issue and distribute payment cards of the international systems like Visa International, Master Card, UnionPay International, American Express International. Beside banks of Kazakhstan issue payment cards of the local systems like Altyn Card – JSC «Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan», local card of Citibank Kazakhstan – JSC «Citibank Kazakhstan» and System of payment cards Kaspi.kz - JSC «Kaspi Bank». 

As of July 01, 2022, 60.2 million payment cards are in circulation. The most common are debit cards, their share is 78.0%, the share of credit cards is 18.8%. Debit cards with a credit limit and prepaid cards account for 3.2%.

In June 2022, the volume of transactions using payment cards of Kazakhstani issuers amounted to 10.8 trillion tenge, the number – 768.7 million transactions. At the same time, compared to the same period of 2021, the number of non-cash transactions increased by 36.5% and reached up to 745.6 million transactions and amount by 38.4%, reaching 8.8 trillion tenge. The holders of payment cards carried out 23.1 million cash withdrawal operations in the amount of 1.9 trillion tenge. There is a decrease in the number of cash withdrawal operations compared to June 2021 by 6.2%. At the same time, the volume of cash withdrawal operations increased by 0.9%.

The main share of non-cash transactions in Kazakhstan is carried out via Internet /mobile banking (64.8% of the total number of transactions and 82.9% of the total volume of non-cash payments and money transfers) and POS terminals (35.1% and 16.7% of the total number and volume of non-cash payments and money transfers). Cash withdrawal operations were mainly carried out through ATMs (98.8% and 89.6% of the total number and volume of cash withdrawal operations).

 

More detailed data on development of the payment cards market in Kazakhstan are shown in Tables 1-7.

Table 1

Specifications

As of 01.07.2021

As of 01.07.2022

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

54 273,5

60 200,0

local systems

17 347,3

20 370,4

international systems, of which:

36 926,3

39 829,5

Visa International, of which:

26 180,1

29 967,1

debit

19 910,9

26 515,8

credit

4 735,0

1 527,9

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

1 534,2

1 923,4

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

9 014,3

8 252,9

debit

8 752,1

7 914,1

credit

258,4

335,5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

3,8

3,2

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

25 897,9

30 244,7

local systems

10 805,0

12 015,2

international systems, of which:

15 092,9

18 229,5

Visa International, of which:

9 388,9

14 008,6

debit

8 725,3

13 416,5

credit

320,6

234,7

ADebit cards with credit limit and prepaid

343,1

357,4

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

4 926,9

3 577,1

debit

4 840,5

3 491,3

credit

85,0

84,9

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

1,5

0,9

Quarterly specifications

01.07.2021

01.07.2022

Number of  POS - terminals (units), of which:

356 258

674 033

commercial enterprises

347 660

665 785

banks

8 598

8 248

Number of ATM (units) , of which:

12 771

12 570

with cash distribution function

6 864

5 472

with cash reception and distribution functions

5 907

7 098

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

210 760

397 313

Number  of users of online bank service (thousand units)[1]

16 456,2

20 546,7

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.07.2022

Total number of cards in circulation (thousand)

Number of used payment cards (thousand)

debit

credit

others[2]

debit

credit

others2

Total, incl.

46 977

11 297

1 927

26 527

3 359

358

Akmola region

1 089

192

80

553

39

11

Aktobe region

1 843

422

111

969

103

19

Almaty region

2 304

307

146

1 218

76

15

Atyrau region

1 671

338

96

884

82

14

East Kazakhstan reg.

2 582

542

159

1 306

117

24

Jambul region

1 778

324

111

914

76

9

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 351

294

71

702

67

11

Karaganda region

2 944

579

220

1 548

140

74

Kostanai region

1 641

300

75

836

62

11

Kyzylorda region

1 427

285

94

692

71

8

Mangistau region

1 644

323

73

827

83

13

Pavlodar region

1 555

330

100

826

71

19

North Kazakhstan reg.

886

147

42

445

27

6

Turkestan reg.

1 926

84

115

885

22

9

Almaty city

15 765

5 211

216

10 427

1 902

72

Shymkent city

2 735

845

77

1 398

195

14

Nur-Sultan city

3 837

773

144

2 094

225

30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.07.2022

Number of POS-terminals

Number of ATMs

Number of enterprises[3]

Number of outlets

Total, incl.

674 033

12 570

397 313

569 848

Akmola region

22 835

395

14 085

19 804

Aktobe region

33 814

605

20 609

29 279

Almaty region

27 038

548

15 437

23 812

Atyrau region

25 538

615

15 049

22 182

East Kazakhstan reg.

39 725

921

23 212

33 437

Jambul region

22 509

517

15 010

19 462

West Kazakhstan reg.

24 971

456

14 275

20 824

Karaganda region

51 888

1 071

30 255

42 678

Kostanai region

32 796

486

18 455

27 981

Kyzylorda region

17 436

405

12 547

15 976

Mangistau region

30 679

623

17 377

26 764

Pavlodar region

32 922

607

17 909

27 348

North Kazakhstan reg.

15 058

323

7 849

12 539

Turkestan reg.

14 760

418

15 812

13 967

Almaty city

151 571

2 343

84 610

123 073

Shimkent city

37 079

764

22 334

33 407

Nur-Sultan city

93 414

1 473

52 488

77 315

 

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

Table 4

Specifications

January-June

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2021

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

2 626 794,00

137 088,60

local systems

2 069 740,93

8 542,44

international systems, of which:

557 053,07

128 546,16

Visa International

318 686,16

76 661,05

MasterCard Worldwide

233 902,16

46 171,61

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

29 945 897,17

9 608 668,31

local systems

23 170 667,33

453 830,04

international systems, of which:

6 775 229,84

9 154 838,28

Visa International

4 445 040,22

5 682 888,67

MasterCard Worldwide

2 263 529,44

3 140 097,18

2022

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 788 031,11

127 327,62

local systems

3 217 529,82

15 670,83

international systems, of which:

570 501,30

111 656,80

Visa International

429 167,57

82 810,40

MasterCard Worldwide

120 912,10

24 153,22

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

44 432 539,31

10 280 575,90

local systems

35 257 549,63

1 005 409,93

international systems, of which:

9 174 989,68

9 275 165,96

Visa International

6 298 687,79

6 777 572,28

MasterCard Worldwide

2 014 319,34

2 210 439,88

 

Use of the payment cards issued by Kazakhstan and foreign banks, on the territory of Kazakhstan, by regions

Table 5

Specifications

January-June 2022

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

3 734 315,4

43 876 621,1

129 802,6

10 341 038,3

Akmola region

52 197,0

560 332,8

4 440,4

272 606,6

Aktobe region

131 824,0

1 416 244,0

6 199,5

429 822,6

Almaty region

134 949,3

1 511 136,9

8 709,2

586 790,2

Atyrau region

127 649,9

1 687 299,3

4 911,7

415 006,6

East Kazakhstan reg.

117 732,3

1 327 827,3

10 507,7

650 398,5

Jambul region

108 990,5

1 183 710,1

6 408,4

432 387,7

West Kazakhstan reg.

78 551,4

902 689,9

4 841,1

315 441,6

Karaganda region

184 216,4

2 172 295,9

11 226,7

762 170,2

Kostanai region

83 584,8

823 389,5

5 772,2

380 182,7

Kyzylorda region

86 209,4

983 230,0

4 593,2

315 594,2

Mangistau region

123 726,2

1 687 187,3

4 924,9

473 394,7

Pavlodar region

86 341,9

913 877,8

6 441,4

405 488,1

North Kazakhstan reg.

34 819,8

364 874,1

3 659,1

218 066,6

Turkestan reg.

84 947,3

1 098 055,8

6 045,6

464 782,3

Almaty city

1 635 676,9

19 303 445,3

22 235,2

2 331 310,8

Nur-Sultan city

423 056,8

5 048 566,9

11 324,1

1 210 280,2

Shimkent city

239 841,7

2 892 458,1

7 562,4

677 314,7

 

 

Use of the payment cards issued by Kazakhstan and foreign banks on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the context of the operation environment

 

Table 6

Specifications

January-June 2022

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

3 734 315,4

43 876 621,1

129 802,6

10 341 038,3

POS - terminal

1 372 506,8

7 314 128,9

1 705,2

1 227 385,8

ATM

581,8

65 545,4

128 097,4

9 113 652,5

Internet and mobile phone

2 361 225,9

36 496 817,4

-

-

Payment terminals

1,0

129,4

-

-

 

Use of the payment cards issued by Kazakhstan banks outside of Republic of Kazakhstan in the context of the operation environment

Table 7

Specifications

January-June

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

2021

Total, incl.

40 208,5

415 134,1

1 328,2

86 418,8

POS - terminal

15 289,0

196 244,4

           15,53  

        3 940,90  

ATM

6,9

416,2

     1 312,63  

     82 477,94  

Internet and mobile phone

24 787,9

215 818,0

-

-

others

124,7

2 655,5

-

-

2022

Total, incl.

43 226,3

658 541,8

1 759,9

113 112,9

POS - terminal

17 397,6

342 135,4

34,9

5 727,7

ATM

6,2

374,1

1 725,1

107 385,3

Internet and mobile phone

25 691,0

309 118,9

-

-

others

131,4

6 913,4

-

-

 

 

[1] Placed by banks.

[2] Debit cards with credit limits and prepaid payment cards.

[3] Entrepreneurs who have concluded an agreement with an acquirer for servicing payment card holders.

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