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As of May 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 95,2%) like Visa International, Master Card, American Express International and China Union Pay. Beside Kazakhstan Banks 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 May 01, 2014 Banks have issued 16,5mln. payment cards and a number of card holders reached 14,4mln. (comparing the situation with the same date of 2013, there is a growth of 24,8% and 21,9% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 72,8%, the share of credit cards - 22,2%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,3% and 3,7% respectively.

 

In April 2014 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstan originators was 600,7bln. tenge (growth against April 2013 has totaled 11,0%). The number of transactions reached 19,4mln. and increased by 6,3% versus April 2013. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 12,9% (number of transactions -5,1mln. transactions) and 8,7% (the volume of transactions - 82,1bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 4,2% (number of transactions -14,3mln. transactions) and 11,4% ( the volume of transactions - 518,6bln. tenge) respectively.

 

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (55,5% and 68,5% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (28,5% and 22,0% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (97,0% and 87,1% 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 01.05.13

As of 01.05.14

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

13 202,4

16 482,4

local systems

631,6

786,1

international systems, of which:

12 570,8

15 696,3

Visa International, of which:

8 704,3

13 868,8

debit

7 064,4

9 569,9

credit

1 536,3

3 543,9

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

103,6

755,0

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 420,5

1 789,1

debit

1 303,3

1 631,1

credit

53,6

90,7

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

63,7

67,3

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

11 824,0

14 414,6

local systems

580,1

704,5

international systems, of which:

11 244,0

13 710,1

Visa International, of which:

7 993,7

12 042,6

debit

6 528,0

8 698,0

credit

1 375,1

2 887,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

90,5

457,3

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 304,7

1 631,0

debit

1 191,4

1 476,3

credit

50,2

88,2

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

63,1

66,5

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

5 494,9

6 559,2

local systems

360,2

502,9

international systems, of which:

5 134,7

6 056,3

Visa International, of which:

3 591,5

5 200,9

debit

3 316,4

4 453,9

credit

224,7

302,1

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

50,4

444,9

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

705,2

836,6

debit

640,3

763,0

credit

27,8

33,1

   Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

37,1

40,5

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

35 608

51 521

commercial enterprises

29 589

45 175

banks

6 019

6 346

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

202

168

commercial enterprises

82

60

banks

120

108

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

8 698

8 840

with cash distribution function

7 648

7 738

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 050

1 102

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

15 807

27 236

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 744

5 489

  

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.05.14

Total number of cards in circulation (thousand)

Number of card holders (thousand)

Number of used payment cards (thousand)

debit

credit

others[1]

debit

credit

others

debit

credit

others

Total, incl.

12007,2

3 652,8

822,4

10897,2

2 993,5

523,9

5726,6

347,0

485,5

Akmola region

348,9

3,5

8,0

327,8

3,3

7,4

196,1

1,3

4,9

Aktobe region

621,8

6,3

6,9

578,1

6,2

5,5

312,5

2,4

4,0

Almaty region

533,4

7,8

19,9

495,8

7,6

18,7

292,3

1,9

11,6

Atyrau region

550,1

10,0

13,4

497,5

9,8

12,6

252,2

3,6

7,3

East Kazakhstan reg.

986,2

14,0

14,3

875,9

13,6

11,4

489,8

4,2

9,2

Jambul region

480,7

4,5

4,6

448,2

4,4

3,6

280,8

1,2

3,0

West Kazakhstan reg.

417,2

7,4

5,5

375,9

7,2

4,6

205,2

2,4

3,2

Karaganda region

1 021,7

10,9

23,6

890,7

10,7

18,4

553,2

4,1

14,5

Kostanai region

515,8

4,3

5,0

461,8

4,3

4,2

281,4

1,6

2,7

Kyzylorda region

427,3

4,9

5,5

387,8

4,8

5,0

232,0

1,2

3,2

Mangistau region

497,9

7,8

15,4

452,9

7,6

14,7

243,9

2,4

9,0

Pavlodar region

614,3

9,6

16,4

552,3

9,3

14,6

303,6

3,6

10,6

North Kazakhstan reg.

289,7

2,8

4,6

266,9

2,8

3,7

161,7

0,9

2,8

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 018,9

10,4

24,8

945,9

10,1

23,3

541,9

2,2

16,5

Almaty city

2 748,6

3 531,0

632,0

2 478,5

2 874,7

356,9

964,4

305,4

370,9

Astana city

934,7

17,6

22,5

861,2

17,0

19,5

415,7

8,6

12,2

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.05.14

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

51 521

168

8 840

27 236

5 489

Akmola region

1 189

-

302

610

197

Aktobe region

1 981

5

472

944

256

Almaty region

1 385

3

337

702

255

Atyrau region

2 241

4

515

922

219

East Kazakhstan reg.

3 054

17

708

1 382

431

Jambul region

986

4

312

523

172

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 694

5

339

826

232

Karaganda region

3 856

11

769

2 066

648

Kostanai region

3 039

6

367

1 758

290

Kyzylorda region

692

3

241

294

73

Mangistau region

1 759

5

458

889

131

Pavlodar region

2 572

6

541

1 384

356

North Kazakhstan reg.

1 322

2

268

647

126

South Kazakhstan reg.

2 414

6

550

1 263

581

Almaty city

16 821

80

1 749

9 499

1 045

Astana city

6 516

11

912

3 527

477

 

Use of payment cards, issued by the Kazakhstan banks, 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

April

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2013

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

4 544,8

13 695,6

local systems

98,3

726,4

international systems, of which:

4 446,5

12 969,2

Visa International

3 387,6

10 301,6

MasterCard Worldwide

749,8

1 925,7

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

75 526,1

465 637,9

local systems

1 176,3

20 068,0

international systems, of which:

74 349,9

445 569,9

Visa International

54 714,2

347 365,5

MasterCard Worldwide

10 726,9

62 564,9

2014

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

5 130,1

14 265,8

local systems

97,3

854,0

international systems, of which:

5 032,7

13 411,7

Visa International

4 029,3

10 728,2

MasterCard Worldwide

621,1

1 799,6

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

82 072,8

518 611,8

local systems

1 168,2

24 892,9

international systems, of which:

80 904,6

493 718,9

Visa International

61 559,5

392 253,6

MasterCard Worldwide

8 272,1

62 338,8

Dynamics (%)

Number

12,9%

4,2%

local systems

-1,0%

17,6%

international systems, of which:

13,2%

3,4%

Visa International

18,9%

4,1%

MasterCard Worldwide

-17,2%

-6,5%

Volume

8,7%

11,4%

local systems

-0,7%

24,0%

international systems, of which:

8,8%

10,8%

Visa International

12,5%

12,9%

MasterCard Worldwide

-22,9%

-0,4%

 

Use of payment cards, issued by 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

April

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

4 478,9

71 914,3

14 161,8

513 080,2

Akmola region

43,1

1 461,0

458,5

14 026,6

Aktobe region

141,3

2 457,9

759,5

25 567,3

Almaty region

93,0

4 412,0

614,8

20 683,0

Atyrau region

137,6

3 180,5

703,8

27 070,6

East Kazakhstan reg.

164,5

2 351,4

1 140,5

36 518,8

Jambul region

79,6

2 099,0

590,2

19 271,0

West Kazakhstan reg.

100,1

2 147,3

529,2

17 220,9

Karaganda region

187,8

2 737,1

1 305,3

43 378,4

Kostanai region

488,7

1 492,8

611,6

20 034,0

Kyzylorda region

117,3

1 537,2

467,8

17 509,8

Mangistau region

150,5

3 782,8

649,5

33 189,0

Pavlodar region

113,9

1 204,0

671,0

22 591,4

North Kazakhstan reg.

50,3

683,6

386,6

11 088,0

South Kazakhstan reg.

128,6

4 050,8

1 094,9

38 179,7

Almaty city

1 922,0

28 644,2

2 730,9

113 611,5

Astana city

560,5

9 672,7

1 447,7

53 140,3

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