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As of July 01, 2014 actual origination of the payment cards were mainly realized by 25 banks and JSC “Kazpost”. These institutes issue and distribute payment cards of the international systems (their share consists of 95,0%) like Visa International, Master Card, American Express International and UnionPay International. Beside banks of Kazakhstan issue payment cards of the local systems like Altyn Card – JSC “Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan”; Smart Alem Card – JSC “BTA Bank” and local card of Citibank Kazakhstan – JSC “Citibank Kazakhstan”.

As of July 01, 2014 banks have issued 16,3 mln. payment cards and a number of card holders reached 14,4 mln. (comparing the situation with the same date of 2013, there is a growth of 19,1% and 18,9% respectively)1. The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 74,6%, the share of credit cards - 22,2%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and share of prepaid cards is 1,4% and 1,8% respectively.

In June 2014 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstan originators was 665,9 bln. tenge (growth against June 2013 has totaled 18,5%). The number of transactions reached 20,8 mln. and increased by 15,0% versus June 2013. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 19,5% (number of transactions 5,4 mln. transactions) and 4,3% (the volume of transactions - 80,7 bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 13,5% (number of transactions -15,4 mln. transactions) and 20,7%( the volume of transactions - 585,2 bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (55,0% and 72,3% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (29,1% and 19,0% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (97,0% and 87,0% out of the total number of payments and volume of cash withdrawal transactions).

 

More detailed data on development of the payment cards market in Kazakhstan are shown in Tables 1-5.

Table 1

Specifications

As of 01.07.13

As of 01.07.14

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

13 681,8

16 299,1

local systems

661,0

813,1

international systems, of which:

13 020,8

15 486,0

Visa International, of which:

11 225,7

13 675,7

debit

8 391,1

9 719,8

credit

2 516,6

3 518,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

318,0

437,6

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 758,6

1 773,8

debit

1 628,0

1 614,3

credit

70,0

89,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

60,6

70,2

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

12 081,3

14 361,5

local systems

602,6

736,9

international systems, of which:

11 478,7

13 624,6

Visa International, of which:

9 863,1

11 955,5

debit

7 451,7

8 821,8

credit

2 207,9

2 935,5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

203,5

198,1

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 581,6

1 634,6

debit

1 453,7

1 478,4

credit

68,0

86,8

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

59,9

69,4

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

5 912,7

6 409,5

local systems

410,2

510,1

international systems, of which:

5 502,5

5 899,3

Visa International, of which:

4 615,0

5 058,8

debit

4 115,0

4 450,5

credit

316,7

294,6

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

183,4

313,7

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

871,6

822,1

debit

807,0

746,2

credit

35,5

32,5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

29,0

43,5

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

37 908

54 475

commercial enterprises

31 821

48 007

banks

6 087

6 468

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which:

168

168

commercial enterprises

60

60

banks

108

108

Number of ATM (units) , of which:

8 742

8 790

with cash distribution function

7 663

7 666

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 079

1 124

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

17 030

29 927

Number of bank’s booths (units)

2 250

7 130

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.07.14

Total number of cards in circulation (thousand)

Number of card holders (thousand)

Number of used payment cards (thousand

debit

credit

others2

debit

credit

others

debit

credit

others

Total, incl.

12 165,8

3 625,5

507,8

11 053,9

3 040,0

267,6

5 713,4

338,8

357,3

Akmola region

354,0

3,4

8,1

331,8

3,2

7,5

198,2

1,2

5,0

Aktobe region

625,7

6,1

7,2

578,7

6,0

5,6

309,0

2,4

4,2

Almaty region

536,2

7,4

20,8

498,1

7,3

19,1

289,8

1,8

11,9

Atyrau region

556,7

9,4

13,9

502,1

9,2

12,9

252,8

3,5

7,7

East Kazakhstan reg.

995,8

13,9

15,4

884,5

13,5

12,1

491,5

4,1

9,8

Jambul region

486,9

4,3

4,9

453,3

4,2

3,6

281,4

1,1

3,1

West Kazakhstan reg.

422,2

6,8

5,8

380,1

6,7

4,7

202,4

2,2

3,4

Karaganda region

1 028,4

10,9

25,0

927,8

10,8

19,3

554,0

4,2

15,1

Kostanai region

520,5

4,4

5,1

464,7

4,3

4,3

281,5

1,9

2,7

Kyzylorda region

428,6

4,5

5,6

389,1

4,4

5,1

231,7

1,1

3,3

Mangistau region

503,2

7,2

15,4

457,2

7,1

14,6

244,1

2,3

9,0

Pavlodar region

622,5

9,7

16,9

554,4

9,5

14,9

304,9

3,8

10,8

North Kazakhstan reg.

293,1

2,8

4,8

269,5

2,7

3,6

162,2

0,9

2,9

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 028,7

9,9

27,0

957,1

9,7

25,0

541,5

2,2

17,3

Almaty city

2 813,2

3 507,5

308,0

2 532,2

2 924,7

94,7

947,1

297,6

237,8

Astana city

950,1

17,2

24,0

873,3

16,7

20,6

421,6

8,4

13,2

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.07.14

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

54 475

168

8 790

29 927

7 130

Akmola region

1 216

-

293

630

202

Aktobe region

2 123

5

469

1 003

347

Almaty region

1 450

3

327

786

329

Atyrau region

2 321

4

513

970

233

East Kazakhstan reg.

3 246

17

707

1 607

510

Jambul region

1 008

4

305

560

239

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 796

5

340

918

240

Karaganda region

4 160

11

774

2 556

756

Kostanai region

3 109

6

367

1 862

304

Kyzylorda region

720

3

244

303

137

Mangistau region

1 787

5

455

943

158

Pavlodar region

2 680

6

534

1 462

395

North Kazakhstan reg.

1 443

2

267

733

180

South Kazakhstan reg.

2 536

6

551

1 315

641

Almaty city

18 024

80

1 738

10 496

1 632

Astana city

6 856

11

906

3 783

827

Use of payment cards, issued by the banks of Kazakhstan, in and outside the country (the transactions with American Express International,  Visa International, and MasterCards Worldwide that were distributed by commercial banks of Kazakhstan are not included)

Table 4

Specifications

June

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2013

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

4 482,2

13 558,1

local systems

90,0

717,7

international systems, of which:

4 392,2

12 840,4

Visa International

3 290,5

10 069,9

MasterCard Worldwide

780,6

1 987,5

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

77 383,4

484 653,9

local systems

1 379,6

20 972,6

international systems, of which:

76 003,8

463 681,3

Visa International

55 202,7

354 326,2

MasterCard Worldwide

11 553,9

68 092,5

2014

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

5 357,1

15 393,5

local systems

99,7

919,7

international systems, of which:

5 257,3

14 473,8

Visa International

3 830,2

11 266,7

MasterCard Worldwide

619,5

1 923,4

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

80 749,3

585 165,0

local systems

1 503,4

29 619,5

international systems, of which:

79 245,8

555 545,5

Visa International

52 391,8

437 056,6

MasterCard Worldwide

7 498,0

71 327,8

Dynamics (%)

Number

19,5%

13,5%

local systems

10,8%

28,1%

international systems, of which:

19,7%

12,7%

Visa International

16,4%

11,9%

MasterCard Worldwide

-20,6%

-3,2%

Volume

4,3%

20,7%

local systems

9,0%

41,2%

international systems, of which:

4,3%

19,8%

Visa International

-5,1%

23,3%

MasterCard Worldwide

-35,1%

4,8%

Use of payment cards, issued by banks of Kazakhstan and foreign banks, on the territory of Kazakhstan, by regions (the transactions with American Express International, Visa International and MasterCards Worldwide that are distributed by commercial banks of Kazakhstan are included)

Table 5

Specifications

June

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

4 674,1

70 114,3

15 338,1

580 651,6

Akmola region

44,3

1 301,4

507,9

16 048,6

Aktobe region

149,2

2 514,1

838,0

31 132,9

Almaty region

100,6

3 794,3

685,7

24 493,6

Atyrau region

146,4

2 916,6

777,0

30 521,9

East Kazakhstan reg.

172,9

1 717,3

1 250,6

41 746,7

Jambul region

83,4

1 640,1

678,5

23 619,3

West Kazakhstan reg.

104,4

3 070,5

570,6

19 019,2

Karaganda region

194,1

2 324,8

1 394,6

48 184,5

Kostanai region

490,5

1 441,7

679,1

23 138,9

Kyzylorda region

123,9

1 410,7

547,3

22 112,4

Mangistau region

158,2

2 752,6

687,2

35 338,9

Pavlodar region

127,5

1 225,2

755,8

25 651,5

North Kazakhstan reg.

54,8

686,4

436,2

13 247,7

South Kazakhstan reg.

131,3

4 479,0

1 238,7

47 696,7

Almaty city

1 923,3

28 002,1

2 794,9

120 576,9

Astana city

669,2

10 837,4

1 495,9

58 121,8

 

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