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As of January 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 Citibank Kazakhstan – JSC “Citibank Kazakhstan”.

 

As of January 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 36,3% and 29,8% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 69,2%, the share of credit cards - 21,0%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,2% and 8,5% respectively.

 

In December 2013 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 700,5bln. tenge (growth against December 2012 has totaled 18,8%). The number of transactions reached 22,0mln and increased by 17,1% versus December 2012. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 28,4% (number of transactions -5,56mln transactions) and 17,1% (the volume of transactions - 91,6bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 13,8% (number of transactions -16,5mln transactions) and 19,0%( the volume of transactions - 609,0bln. tenge) respectively.

 

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (55,9% and 68,3% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (29,4% and 22,9% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (97,4% and 88,4% 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 01.01.13

As of 01.01.14

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

12 139,8

16 544,1

local systems

558,0

732,8

international systems, of which:

11 581,8

15 811,4

Visa International, of which:

10 105,0

13 935,6

debit

7 796,8

9 016,5

credit

2 075,1

3 375,0

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

233,1

1 544,1

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 449,7

1 834,9

debit

1 341,3

1 682,4

credit

49,5

85,0

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

58,9

67,6

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

11 081,2

14 378,0

local systems

516,2

680,6

international systems, of which:

10 565,1

13 697,5

Visa International, of which:

9 197,7

11 962,6

debit

7 146,4

8 291,6

credit

1 890,3

2 756,2

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

161,0

914,8

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 341,8

1 695,9

debit

1 237,0

1 546,6

credit

46,5

82,4

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

58,3

66,9

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

6 346,3

6 891,9

local systems

430,7

477,1

international systems, of which:

5 915,6

6 414,8

Visa International, of which:

5 091,2

5 453,2

debit

4 654,2

4 381,2

credit

261,5

351,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

175,5

720,7

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

807,8

943,1

debit

755,8

872,0

credit

25,0

33,9

   Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

27,0

37,2

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

33 318

46 432

commercial enterprises

27 325

40 117

banks

5 993

6 315

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

202

168

commercial enterprises

82

60

banks

120

108

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

8 652

8 965

with cash distribution function

7 612

7 816

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 040

1 149

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

14 173

22 904

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 678

3 982

 

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.01.14

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.

11 455,2

3 477,1

1 611,8

10 540,6

2 855,5

981,9

5 737,7

396,2

758,0

Akmola region

346,6

3,9

7,5

329,3

3,6

7,1

206,1

1,2

4,6

Aktobe region

601,9

7,5

5,8

565,2

7,1

5,1

314,8

2,4

3,3

Almaty region

495,4

8,1

17,3

465,9

7,5

16,6

283,7

2,2

10,8

Atyrau region

530,0

11,7

12,7

486,6

11,0

12,2

251,4

3,8

6,7

East Kazakhstan reg.

937,2

17,5

12,3

844,1

15,8

10,4

489,0

4,3

8,1

Jambul region

460,1

5,4

3,7

434,9

5,1

3,4

281,4

1,3

2,4

West Kazakhstan reg.

402,2

8,0

5,2

366,6

7,6

4,6

203,9

2,5

2,8

Karaganda region

987,2

12,9

21,6

894,9

11,9

17,7

555,3

4,0

13,2

Kostanai region

498,5

4,9

4,6

451,2

4,6

4,0

281,2

1,6

2,4

Kyzylorda region

410,1

5,3

5,2

377,5

5,0

4,9

234,6

1,3

3,0

Mangistau region

480,2

8,1

14,9

441,8

7,8

14,5

246,7

2,7

8,4

Pavlodar region

592,7

10,1

15,2

537,7

9,2

13,9

306,5

3,4

9,5

North Kazakhstan reg.

279,7

3,2

4,2

260,4

3,0

3,6

161,2

0,9

2,4

South Kazakhstan reg.

963,5

10,9

21,7

902,5

10,4

21,0

532,1

2,7

14,0

Almaty city

2 579,7

3 340,2

1 440,1

2 358,3

2 727,8

825,3

979,4

353,4

656,2

Astana city

890,2

19,3

19,7

823,8

18,3

17,6

410,3

8,6

10,1

 

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.01.14

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

46 432

168

8 965

22 904

3 982

Akmola region

1 119

-

312

572

119

Aktobe region

1 863

5

478

811

122

Almaty region

1 361

3

355

654

184

Atyrau region

2 115

4

521

871

94

East Kazakhstan reg.

2 842

17

711

1 308

231

Jambul region

881

4

319

433

89

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 604

5

347

727

139

Karaganda region

3 551

11

777

1 795

601

Kostanai region

2 555

6

369

1 331

284

Kyzylorda region

668

3

245

288

57

Mangistau region

1 635

5

443

829

105

Pavlodar region

2 216

6

555

1 091

270

North Kazakhstan reg.

1 204

2

275

582

62

South Kazakhstan reg.

2 367

6

560

1 156

487

Almaty city

14 577

80

1 788

7 350

793

Astana city

5 874

11

910

3 106

345

 

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

December

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

4 279,0

14 524,2

local systems

83,6

601,9

international systems, of which:

3 750,0

11 884,5

Visa International

3 217,0

11 460,2

MasterCard Worldwide

740,3

1 987,9

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

78 173,3

511 578,5

local systems

1 619,1

16 611,9

international systems, of which:

70 397,6

402 605,4

Visa International

58 168,2

401 580,3

MasterCard Worldwide

11 353,1

68 525,4

2013

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

5 493,6

16 523,6

local systems

104,9

871,9

international systems, of which:

5 388,7

15 651,6

Visa International

4 274,1

12 365,8

MasterCard Worldwide

717,5

2 335,8

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

91 572,6

608 972,4

local systems

2 025,8

27 390,7

international systems, of which:

89 546,9

581 581,6

Visa International

70 277,6

457 059,3

MasterCard Worldwide

9 906,1

81 587,3

Dynamics (%)

Number

28,4%

13,8%

local systems

25,5%

44,9%

international systems, of which:

43,7%

31,7%

Visa International

32,9%

7,9%

MasterCard Worldwide

-3,1%

17,5%

Volume

17,1%

19,0%

local systems

25,1%

64,9%

international systems, of which:

27,2%

44,5%

Visa International

20,8%

13,8%

MasterCard Worldwide

-12,7%

19,1%

 

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 MasterCards Worldwide that are distributed by commercial banks of Kazakhstan are included)

 

Table 5

Specifications

December

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

4 823,2

80 271,3

16 424,8

603 882,4

Akmola region

47,3

1 237,0

561,1

17 481,6

Aktobe region

157,4

4 309,0

913,2

33 425,8

Almaty region

101,8

3 265,8

713,0

24 569,7

Atyrau region

142,8

3 625,4

814,5

30 201,9

East Kazakhstan reg.

182,7

2 514,3

1 324,6

43 059,3

Jambul region

85,9

2 082,1

704,0

22 667,6

West Kazakhstan reg.

111,9

1 975,2

617,5

19 701,7

Karaganda region

202,1

2 730,1

1 498,7

49 081,4

Kostanai region

477,5

2 022,5

715,0

23 452,5

Kyzylorda region

128,7

2 034,2

575,8

21 322,3

Mangistau region

170,3

3 838,3

748,1

36 421,9

Pavlodar region

127,7

3 134,3

811,8

27 778,0

North Kazakhstan reg.

53,4

745,5

452,0

13 005,8

South Kazakhstan reg.

127,7

4 723,3

1 222,9

41 672,0

Almaty city

2 039,8

30 558,6

3 069,9

130 626,4

Astana city

666,0

11 475,8

1 682,9

69 414,8

 

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