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As of December 01, 2013 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 95,2%) 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 December 01, 2013 Banks have issued 15,1mln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 13,4mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2012, there is a growth of 25,8% and 22,9% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 75,0%, the share of credit cards - 22,4%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,3% and 1,3% respectively.

 

In November 2013 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 556,2bln. tenge (growth against November 2012 has totaled 13,2%). The number of transactions reached 18,1mln and increased by 11,1% versus October 2012. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 20,9% (number of transactions -4,6mln transactions) and 10,6% (the volume of transactions - 79,6bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 8,1% (number of transactions -13,5mln transactions) and 13,7%( the volume of transactions - 476,6bln. tenge) respectively.

 

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (55,1% and 69,2% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (29,6% and 20,8% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (97,5% and 88,5% 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 01.12.12

As of 01.12.13

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

12 026,0

15 126,2

local systems

544,6

721,0

international systems, of which:

11 481,4

14 405,2

Visa International, of which:

10 027,3

12 514,3

debit

7 804,9

8 903,2

credit

1 982,5

3 283,8

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

239,8

327,3

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 426,9

1 850,2

debit

1 316,5

1 701,7

credit

50,1

81,5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

60,3

67,0

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

10 932,9

13 435,4

local systems

502,9

671,3

international systems, of which:

10 430,0

12 764,1

Visa International, of which:

9 096,5

11 019,9

debit

7 130,8

8 186,9

credit

1 795,2

2 649,2

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

170,6

183,8

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 308,7

1 705,3

debit

1 202,7

1 560,0

credit

46,4

78,9

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

59,6

66,4

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

5 539,9

6 205,0

local systems

334,8

458,7

international systems, of which:

5 205,1

5 746,2

Visa International, of which:

4 472,8

4 790,0

debit

4 063,8

4 242,5

credit

250,0

327,6

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

158,9

219,8

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

718,6

938,3

debit

666,3

867,2

credit

24,6

34,5

   Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

27,7

36,7

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

32 216

44 095

commercial enterprises

26 230

37 830

banks

5 986

6 265

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

206

168

commercial enterprises

82

60

banks

124

108

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

8 566

8 939

with cash distribution function

7 540

7 824

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 026

1 115

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

13 462

21 280

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 631

3 531

 

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.12.13

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.

11 349,7

3 382,1

394,5

10 440,3

2 744,8

250,3

5 575,6

372,7

256,6

Akmola region

345,3

3,7

7,4

327,8

3,3

7,1

200,7

1,1

4,4

Aktobe region

599,5

7,3

5,6

562,6

6,8

5,0

305,3

2,4

3,0

Almaty region

490,0

9,1

16,5

460,8

8,4

15,8

274,5

2,1

10,3

Atyrau region

528,2

11,4

12,6

485,1

10,8

12,1

246,7

3,8

6,7

East Kazakhstan reg.

929,7

16,6

12,1

837,3

15,0

10,4

479,1

4,0

7,9

Jambul region

458,1

5,3

3,6

432,5

4,9

3,3

272,6

1,3

2,3

West Kazakhstan reg.

401,3

8,7

5,1

365,8

8,1

4,6

200,7

2,4

2,7

Karaganda region

981,6

12,6

20,8

889,0

11,5

17,4

543,5

3,8

12,2

Kostanai region

494,5

4,5

4,6

446,8

4,3

4,0

276,4

1,5

2,4

Kyzylorda region

409,2

5,0

5,4

376,0

4,8

5,0

227,6

1,3

3,1

Mangistau region

478,7

7,7

14,8

439,2

7,4

14,4

239,6

2,8

8,2

Pavlodar region

590,6

9,7

14,8

535,4

8,8

13,7

298,6

3,2

9,3

North Kazakhstan reg.

278,5

3,1

4,2

259,2

2,7

3,6

156,4

0,8

2,4

South Kazakhstan reg.

954,9

11,6

21,3

894,2

10,7

20,7

516,9

2,7

13,2

Almaty city

2 528,3

3 246,6

226,7

2 312,9

2 619,3

96,1

938,1

331,2

158,8

Astana city

881,2

19,1

19,0

815,7

18,0

17,2

398,7

8,5

9,7

 

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.12.13

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

44 095

168

8 939

21 280

3 531

Akmola region

1 085

-

311

548

66

Aktobe region

1 769

5

483

745

115

Almaty region

1 305

3

356

584

166

Atyrau region

2 042

4

516

842

89

East Kazakhstan reg.

2 698

17

713

1 213

154

Jambul region

864

4

318

425

87

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 480

5

349

657

87

Karaganda region

3 282

11

767

1 577

581

Kostanai region

2 298

6

370

1 147

256

Kyzylorda region

658

3

241

280

56

Mangistau region

1 548

5

440

780

103

Pavlodar region

2 080

6

554

1 009

197

North Kazakhstan reg.

1 184

2

272

567

62

South Kazakhstan reg.

2 318

6

553

1 118

436

Almaty city

13 905

80

1 787

6 892

747

Astana city

5 579

11

909

2 896

329

 

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

November

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 833,6

12 486,4

local systems

83,6

601,9

international systems, of which:

3 750,0

11 884,5

Visa International

2 925,3

9 888,5

MasterCard Worldwide

628,8

1 631,7

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

72 016,7

419 217,3

local systems

1 619,1

16 611,9

international systems, of which:

70 397,6

402 605,4

Visa International

54 040,5

328 534,0

MasterCard Worldwide

9 531,4

53 499,5

2013

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

4 633,7

13 491,9

local systems

90,0

754,5

international systems, of which:

4 543,7

12 737,5

Visa International

3 605,3

9 998,0

MasterCard Worldwide

615,6

1 937,6

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

79 620,1

476 573,7

local systems

1 232,2

21 453,3

international systems, of which:

78 387,9

455 120,4

Visa International

59 769,1

354 737,2

MasterCard Worldwide

9 285,1

64 650,2

Dynamics (%)

Number

20,9%

8,1%

local systems

7,7%

25,4%

international systems, of which:

21,2%

7,2%

Visa International

23,2%

1,1%

MasterCard Worldwide

-2,1%

18,7%

Volume

10,6%

13,7%

local systems

-23,9%

29,1%

international systems, of which:

11,4%

13,0%

Visa International

10,6%

8,0%

MasterCard Worldwide

-2,6%

20,8%

 

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

November

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

4 051,7

70 019,9

13 414,1

471 766,0

Akmola region

40,9

1 040,5

439,8

13 266,1

Aktobe region

138,8

5 145,7

719,1

23 105,1

Almaty region

86,2

3 883,5

569,9

19 699,5

Atyrau region

122,5

3 155,7

670,8

24 219,0

East Kazakhstan reg.

155,5

1 929,8

1 088,2

34 236,6

Jambul region

72,7

2 223,1

553,9

17 965,7

West Kazakhstan reg.

96,1

1 892,8

513,4

15 690,6

Karaganda region

177,9

2 158,9

1 253,6

40 935,5

Kostanai region

473,7

1 673,9

610,1

19 958,8

Kyzylorda region

109,4

1 444,4

458,0

16 186,3

Mangistau region

137,2

3 073,5

585,5

26 916,1

Pavlodar region

106,3

2 799,7

648,6

21 273,8

North Kazakhstan reg.

43,5

659,5

365,3

10 254,3

South Kazakhstan reg.

108,2

3 355,0

1 028,7

34 250,5

Almaty city

1 675,3

26 887,8

2 547,3

103 396,2

Astana city

507,5

8 696,1

1 362,0

50 412,0

 

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