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As of February 01, 2014 actual origination of the payment cards were mainly realized by 24 banks and JSC “Kazpost”. These institutes issue and distribute payment cards of the international systems (their share consists of 95,6%) like Visa International, Master Card, American Express International and China Union Pay. Beside Kazakhstani 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 Citybank Kazakhstan – JSC “Citybank Kazakhstan”.

 

As of February 01, 2014 Banks have issued 16,8mln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 14,5mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2013, there is a growth of 35,0% and 28,5% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 69,0%, the share of credit cards - 21,7%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,2% and 8,1% respectively.

 

In January 2014 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 479,6 bln.tenge (growth against January 2013 has totaled 14,2%). The number of transactions reached 16,1mln and increased by 13,0% versus January 2013. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 19,2% (number of transactions -4,5mln transactions) and 4,2% (the volume of transactions - 67,9bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 10,8% (number of transactions -11,6mln transactions) and 16,1%( the volume of transactions - 411,6bln. tenge) respectively.

 

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (58,3% and 70,7% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (25,9% and 19,9% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (97,1% 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 01.02.13

As of 01.02.14

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

12 432,1

16 780,6

local systems8

574,8

745,7

international systems, of which:

11 857,3

16 034,9

Visa International, of which:

10 326,3

14 179,8

debit

7 859,4

9 140,7

credit

2 225,4

3 545,2

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

241,5

1 493,9

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 502,5

1 814,2

debit

1 395,3

1 661,4

credit

50,1

86,1

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

57,1

66,7

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

11 272,8

14 480,1

local systems

532,6

690,1

international systems, of which:

10 740,3

13 790,0

Visa International, of which:

9 330,8

12 078,8

debit

7 188,2

8 401,6

credit

1 978,3

2 825,7

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

164,2

851,5

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 382,7

1 672,2

debit

1 278,7

1 522,5

credit

47,4

83,6

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

56,5

66,1

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

5 258,3

6 319,9

local systems

349,3

461,2

international systems, of which:

4 909,0

5 858,7

Visa International, of which:

4 182,2

4 998,5

debit

3 768,1

4 044,1

credit

264,4

324,8

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

149,8

629,6

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

713,4

843,1

debit

663,5

773,3

credit

24,4

32,7

   Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

25,5

37,1

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

34 478

47 840

commercial enterprises

28 441

41 496

banks

6 037

6 344

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

202

168

commercial enterprises

82

60

banks

120

108

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

8 629

8 997

with cash distribution function

7 594

7 847

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 035

1 150

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

14 863

23 948

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 688

4 330

  

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.02.14

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.

11 571,2

3 648,7

1 560,7

10 635,8

2 926,6

917,7

5 284,9

368,3

666,7

Akmola region

349,9

3,7

7,5

332,0

3,4

7,1

186,9

1,3

4,4

Aktobe region

606,8

6,9

6,0

568,6

6,4

5,2

281,0

2,3

3,2

Almaty region

503,4

8,3

18,0

473,1

7,8

17,2

259,6

2,2

11,2

Atyrau region

529,1

11,0

12,8

486,2

10,4

12,2

230,4

3,8

6,7

East Kazakhstan reg.

947,9

16,4

12,4

853,4

14,9

10,6

463,0

4,2

7,8

Jambul region

463,9

4,9

3,8

438,1

4,6

3,4

263,8

1,2

2,4

West Kazakhstan reg.

412,3

8,3

5,2

368,1

7,7

4,6

181,9

2,5

2,7

Karaganda region

993,6

11,6

21,8

903,1

10,6

17,9

516,1

3,9

12,6

Kostanai region

502,0

4,7

4,6

453,9

4,4

4,1

263,2

1,5

2,3

Kyzylorda region

413,0

5,4

5,1

379,7

5,1

4,8

208,1

1,3

2,8

Mangistau region

483,6

8,3

14,9

446,9

7,9

14,5

225,8

2,6

8,3

Pavlodar region

594,1

10,6

15,2

540,1

9,5

13,9

290,5

3,3

9,2

North Kazakhstan reg.

281,0

3,3

4,1

261,3

3,0

3,6

149,8

0,9

2,2

South Kazakhstan reg.

974,4

11,1

22,2

912,6

10,6

21,4

485,6

2,6

14,2

Almaty city

2 617,3

3 515,5

1 387,1

2 387,6

2 802,9

759,3

900,7

326,4

566,5

Astana city

898,8

18,9

19,9

830,8

17,3

17,9

378,6

8,3

10,0

  

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.02.14

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

47 840

168

8 997

23 948

4 330

Akmola region

1 131

-

312

593

140

Aktobe region

1 904

5

477

858

175

Almaty region

1 383

3

362

667

199

Atyrau region

2 072

4

523

847

94

East Kazakhstan reg.

2 921

17

714

1 367

305

Jambul region

910

4

321

452

89

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 628

5

349

738

205

Karaganda region

3 659

11

774

1 899

603

Kostanai region

2 846

6

367

1 564

288

Kyzylorda region

672

3

254

290

58

Mangistau region

1 635

5

448

824

104

Pavlodar region

2 326

6

557

1 160

302

North Kazakhstan reg.

1 283

2

273

610

83

South Kazakhstan reg.

2 369

6

563

1 162

489

Almaty city

15 112

80

1 790

7 723

832

Astana city

5 989

11

913

3 194

364

 

Use of payment cards, issued by the Kazakhstani 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

January

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2013

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 781,9

10 466,8

local systems

76,6

572,6

international systems, of which:

3 705,3

9 894,3

Visa International

2 865,6

8 194,3

MasterCard Worldwide

625,9

1 414,9

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

65 185,8

354 639,6

local systems

1 117,1

16 507,6

international systems, of which:

64 068,7

338 132,1

Visa International

47 889,5

276 621,7

MasterCard Worldwide

9 494,0

47 044,0

2014

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

4 508,2

11 595,4

local systems

80,8

721,6

international systems, of which:

4 427,3

10 873,8

Visa International

3 529,8

8 589,9

MasterCard Worldwide

566,7

1 576,1

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

67 940,3

411 619,1

local systems

919,8

21 171,4

international systems, of which:

67 020,6

390 447,7

Visa International

51 475,2

307 297,7

MasterCard Worldwide

7 622,5

53 338,5

Dynamics (%)

Number

19,2%

10,8%

local systems

5,5%

26,0%

international systems, of which:

19,5%

9,9%

Visa International

23,2%

4,8%

MasterCard Worldwide

-9,5%

11,4%

Volume

4,2%

16,1%

local systems

-17,7%

28,3%

international systems, of which:

4,6%

15,5%

Visa International

7,5%

11,1%

MasterCard Worldwide

-19,7%

13,4%

 

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

 

Table 5

Specifications

January

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

3 869,8

54 801,6

11 462,9

406 144,1

Akmola region

37,2

873,4

367,8

11 196,5

Aktobe region

126,9

2 490,4

602,3

20 091,3

Almaty region

79,8

3 667,6

517,3

16 874,4

Atyrau region

121,7

2 532,1

585,2

20 371,0

East Kazakhstan reg.

135,0

1 822,5

935,1

30 102,5

Jambul region

70,4

1 327,7

532,6

17 010,5

West Kazakhstan reg.

81,4

2 087,9

617,1

18 544,7

Karaganda region

146,4

2 350,3

1 014,6

33 419,9

Kostanai region

456,1

1 006,5

519,9

16 658,1

Kyzylorda region

119,8

1 763,2

371,7

13 880,3

Mangistau region

131,5

2 672,5

547,4

27 621,7

Pavlodar region

100,0

993,7

620,4

19 889,9

North Kazakhstan reg.

42,4

473,3

333,3

9 688,8

South Kazakhstan reg.

98,3

2 519,4

912,9

29 623,2

Almaty city

1 637,6

20 990,2

1 916,9

81 257,8

Astana city

485,3

7 231,0

1 068,4

39 913,5

 

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