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As of October 01, 2022 actual origination of the payment cards were realized by 18 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 October 01, 2022, 62.7 million payment cards are in circulation. The most common are debit cards, their share is 78.51%, the share of credit cards is 18.37%. Debit cards with a credit limit and prepaid cards account for 3.12%.

In September 2022, the volume of transactions using payment cards of Kazakhstani issuers amounted to 11.1 trillion tenge, the number – 810.9 million transactions. At the same time, compared to the same period of 2021, the number of non-cash transactions increased by 30.8% and reached up to 790.5 million transactions and amount by 33.3%, reaching 9.3 trillion tenge. The holders of payment cards carried out 20.4 million cash withdrawal operations in the amount of 1.8 trillion tenge. There is a decrease in the number of cash withdrawal operations compared to August 2021 by 6.4%, in the volume of cash withdrawal operations by 2.6%.

The main share of non-cash transactions in Kazakhstan is carried out via Internet /mobile banking (64.3% of the total number of transactions and 82.8% of the total volume of non-cash payments and money transfers) and POS terminals (35.6% and 16.8% of the total number and volume of non-cash payments and money transfers). Cash withdrawal operations were mainly carried out through ATMs (98.9% and 91.0% 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 01.10.2021

As of 01.10.2022

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

56 054,2

62 650,4

local systems

18 444,8

21 241,1

international systems, of which:

37 609,4

41 409,3

Visa International, of which:

29 599,7

31 584,0

debit

23 544,5

28 320,3

credit

4 614,1

1 314,6

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

1 441,1

1 949,2

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

6 233,9

8 164,0

debit

5 971,4

7 806,4

credit

258,2

355,1

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

4,2

2,5

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

26 335,3

31 731,8

local systems

11 712,9

12 603,2

international systems, of which:

14 622,5

19 128,6

Visa International, of which:

11 336,1

15 482,0

debit

10 790,4

14 685,1

credit

293,1

412,3

ADebit cards with credit limit and prepaid

252,6

384,6

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

2 527,4

3 025,6

debit

2 464,5

2 944,6

credit

61,0

80,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

1,9

0,8

Quarterly specifications

01.10.2021

01.10.2022

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

437 680

748 982

commercial enterprises

429 207

732 503

banks

8 473

16 479

Number of ATM (units) , of which:

12 523

12 452

with cash distribution function

6 826

5 301

with cash reception and distribution functions

5 697

7 151

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

241 930

508 502

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

18 073,93

21 796,90

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.10.2022

Total number of cards in circulation (thousand)

Number of used payment cards (thousand)

debit

credit

others[2]

debit

credit

others2

Total, incl.

49 190

11 509

1 952

27 623

3 723

385

Akmola region

1 128

187

82

563

43

10

Aktobe region

1 918

412

113

987

111

19

Almaty region

2 410

298

152

1 249

81

15

Atyrau region

1 702

326

96

902

91

13

East Kazakhstan reg.

2 669

525

160

1 321

129

26

Jambul region

1 840

323

111

934

78

8

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 400

287

73

717

75

11

Karaganda region

3 062

566

217

1 566

150

75

Kostanai region

1 699

291

76

847

69

10

Kyzylorda region

1 472

285

95

703

73

8

Mangistau region

1 686

299

76

852

86

14

Pavlodar region

1 604

321

101

839

78

20

North Kazakhstan reg.

935

142

43

456

31

6

Turkestan reg.

2 029

86

119

902

23

9

Almaty city

16 811

5 583

228

11 240

2 147

94

Shymkent city

2 838

826

65

1 404

221

14

Nur-Sultan city

3 986

752

145

2 142

239

33

  

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.10.2022

Number of POS-terminals

Number of ATMs

Number of enterprises[3]

Number of outlets

Total, incl.

748 982

12 452

508 502

672 272

Akmola region

25 555

390

17 152

22 694

Aktobe region

37 397

598

26 146

34 059

Almaty region

31 519

553

39 765

32 604

Atyrau region

28 559

602

19 474

25 943

East Kazakhstan reg.

43 966

944

28 661

38 053

Jambul region

25 840

520

20 599

24 014

West Kazakhstan reg.

27 377

450

17 488

23 625

Karaganda region

56 495

1 066

37 121

48 413

Kostanai region

36 887

477

22 717

31 719

Kyzylorda region

19 422

400

17 302

19 288

Mangistau region

34 029

598

22 281

31 095

Pavlodar region

35 988

605

21 639

30 276

North Kazakhstan reg.

16 775

319

11 126

14 236

Turkestan reg.

17 282

422

21 609

18 030

Almaty city

167 642

2 322

92 336

147 533

Shimkent city

41 353

743

29 733

40 947

Nur-Sultan city

102 896

1 443

63 353

89 743

 

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

Table 4

Specifications

January-September

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2021

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

4 387 964,34

203 982,60

local systems

3 546 311,13

14 323,45

international systems, of which:

841 653,22

189 659,16

Visa International

505 137,13

116 370,21

MasterCard Worldwide

329 813,54

64 783,31

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

50 207 403,24

14 886 521,90

local systems

39 655 094,76

834 128,61

international systems, of which:

10 552 308,48

14 052 393,28

Visa International

7 091 759,14

8 946 568,30

MasterCard Worldwide

3 360 675,80

4 608 887,25

2022

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

6 127 273,81

191 585,41

local systems

5 209 628,81

26 646,97

international systems, of which:

917 645,00

164 938,44

Visa International

683 292,65

124 686,40

MasterCard Worldwide

169 906,12

33 370,43

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

72 408 516,24

15 737 398,77

local systems

56 366 845,22

1 777 328,36

international systems, of which:

16 041 671,02

13 960 070,41

Visa International

10 017 731,49

10 390 195,74

MasterCard Worldwide

3 120 589,53

3 145 286,87

 

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

Table 5

Specifications

January-September 2022

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

6 060 510,6

71 553 977,6

197 406,0

15 995 829,9

Akmola region

85 789,7

928 136,3

6 686,4

419 052,7

Aktobe region

212 319,0

2 323 549,0

9 625,3

684 746,0

Almaty region

216 021,3

2 433 341,3

13 156,9

901 443,5

Atyrau region

204 972,8

2 712 146,5

7 314,0

623 155,2

East Kazakhstan reg.

192 091,4

2 160 276,3

15 596,4

979 054,1

Jambul region

176 116,2

1 936 031,0

9 649,2

658 272,4

West Kazakhstan reg.

130 395,4

1 488 598,1

7 432,1

507 780,8

Karaganda region

292 412,9

3 487 992,2

16 946,9

1 160 364,3

Kostanai region

134 899,4

1 357 113,6

8 701,9

588 819,5

Kyzylorda region

138 995,2

1 650 279,2

6 842,3

479 237,4

Mangistau region

199 698,4

2 675 822,4

7 359,9

697 151,8

Pavlodar region

138 941,5

1 485 678,6

9 681,0

614 864,6

North Kazakhstan reg.

57 303,8

610 704,9

5 660,9

353 858,6

Turkestan reg.

137 128,7

1 811 853,6

8 949,0

700 777,5

Almaty city

2 671 263,4

31 401 596,1

35 381,0

3 753 672,6

Nur-Sultan city

685 949,9

8 307 619,3

17 224,0

1 853 670,4

Shimkent city

386 211,5

4 783 239,3

11 198,8

1 019 908,5

 

 

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-September 2022

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

6 060 510,6

71 553 977,6

197 406,0

15 995 829,9

POS - terminal

2 251 894,5

12 233 953,9

2 426,0

1 737 656,8

ATM

844,6

107 281,9

194 980,0

14 258 173,1

Internet and mobile phone

3 807 770,3

59 212 542,8

-

-

Payment terminals

1,2

198,9

-

-

 

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-September

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

2021

Total, incl.

63 169,8

670 668,2

2 187,0

142 814,8

POS - terminal

25 415,8

331 781,9

23,63

6 719,73

ATM

10,3

615,1

2 163,39

136 095,11

Internet and mobile phone

37 569,3

334 448,8

-

-

others

174,3

3 822,4

-

-

2022

Total, incl.

66 131,5

1 167 151,4

2 537,4

169 545,0

POS - terminal

27 395,5

619 790,6

42,0

7 445,3

ATM

10,8

781,7

2 495,5

162 099,7

Internet and mobile phone

38 430,6

528 867,0

-

-

others

294,7

17 712,1

-

-

 

 

[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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