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As of November 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 November 01, 2013 Banks have issued 15,0mln 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 27,9% and 24,6% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 76,2%, the share of credit cards - 21,1%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,3% and 1,4% respectively.

 

In October 2013 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 562,6bln. tenge (growth against October 2012 has totaled 13,2%). The number of transactions reached 18,3mln and increased by 9,2% versus October 2012. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 20,6% (number of transactions -4,7mln transactions) and 9,3% (the volume of transactions - 81,9bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 5,8% (number of transactions -13,7mln transactions) and 13,9%( the volume of transactions - 480,7bln. tenge) respectively.

 

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (54,9% and 69,5% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (29,9% and 21,2% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (97,8% and 88,7% 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 01.11.12

As of 01.11.13

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

11 753,3

15 027,0

local systems

528,3

718,2

international systems, of which:

11 225,0

14 308,7

Visa International, of which:

9 795,2

12 365,0

debit

7 723,4

8 943,2

credit

1 884,4

3 081,4

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

187,5

340,4

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 403,5

1 902,9

debit

1 293,6

1 757,9

credit

49,2

79,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

60,7

65,6

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

10 748,1

13 388,3

local systems

482,9

660,9

international systems, of which:

10 265,2

12 727,4

Visa International, of which:

8 948,9

10 949,2

debit

7 089,7

8 200,9

credit

1 714,1

2 553,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

145,1

195,0

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 292,5

1 739,6

debit

1 185,7

1 597,7

credit

46,7

77,0

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

60,1

64,9

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

5 642,4

6 261,5

local systems

345,3

449,3

international systems, of which:

5 297,1

5 812,2

Visa International, of which:

4 550,0

4 841,2

debit

4 179,2

4 294,2

credit

244,1

325,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

126,7

221,8

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

731,8

953,3

debit

678,5

882,7

credit

24,4

35,0

   Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

28,9

35,5

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

31 631

42 273

commercial enterprises

25 650

36 054

banks

5 981

6 219

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

206

168

commercial enterprises

82

60

banks

124

108

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

8 571

8 864

with cash distribution function

7 354

7 744

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 217

1 120

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

13 176

19 988

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 619

3 314

 

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.11.13

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.

11 443,9

3 176,8

406,3

10 482,1

2 646,2

260,0

5 633,6

370,6

257,4

Akmola region

355,3

3,1

7,6

333,7

2,9

7,3

210,0

1,1

4,4

Aktobe region

604,2

7,0

5,7

565,0

6,7

5,1

302,6

2,3

3,1

Almaty region

488,5

9,0

16,4

458,0

8,3

15,8

271,8

2,1

10,2

Atyrau region

540,0

10,3

13,1

492,7

9,9

12,5

250,7

3,6

6,8

East Kazakhstan reg.

932,9

15,3

12,3

838,2

14,0

10,6

480,3

3,9

7,9

Jambul region

462,2

4,7

3,7

433,9

4,5

3,4

272,9

1,2

2,3

West Kazakhstan reg.

404,4

8,0

5,3

367,7

7,7

4,7

196,2

2,3

2,8

Karaganda region

996,7

11,3

21,3

899,2

10,6

17,9

546,3

3,6

12,1

Kostanai region

493,3

4,1

4,8

445,0

3,9

4,3

279,3

1,3

2,4

Kyzylorda region

412,9

4,4

5,8

377,9

4,3

5,4

225,9

1,3

3,3

Mangistau region

478,0

7,4

14,8

437,6

7,1

14,4

237,5

2,6

8,2

Pavlodar region

599,2

8,5

14,8

540,5

8,0

13,8

306,5

2,9

9,1

North Kazakhstan reg.

283,1

2,9

4,3

262,6

2,5

3,7

157,2

0,8

2,4

South Kazakhstan reg.

954,2

11,7

20,7

891,9

11,3

20,1

520,9

2,8

12,7

Almaty city

2 518,7

3 050,6

235,8

2 293,6

2 526,7

103,2

950,0

330,6

160,3

Astana city

920,1

18,7

19,8

844,4

17,8

18,0

425,5

8,2

9,3

 

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.11.13

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

42 273

168

8 864

19 988

3 314

Akmola region

1 068

-

311

530

62

Aktobe region

1 691

5

478

702

117

Almaty region

1 240

3

354

534

163

Atyrau region

1 965

4

511

809

86

East Kazakhstan reg.

2 602

17

709

1 143

152

Jambul region

851

4

318

421

84

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 426

5

341

613

86

Karaganda region

3 173

11

767

1 484

497

Kostanai region

2 021

6

360

970

253

Kyzylorda region

634

3

238

265

57

Mangistau region

1 484

5

439

736

101

Pavlodar region

1 988

6

551

961

116

North Kazakhstan reg.

1 122

2

271

528

59

South Kazakhstan reg.

2 204

6

553

1 072

411

Almaty city

13 391

80

1 762

6 485

739

Astana city

5 413

11

901

2 735

331

 

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

October

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 882,5

12 911,6

local systems

84,2

607,2

international systems, of which:

3 798,3

12 304,4

Visa International

3 004,8

10 231,5

MasterCard Worldwide

645,4

1 702,8

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

74 973,4

422 196,9

local systems

1 594,6

16 658,7

international systems, of which:

73 378,8

405 538,3

Visa International

56 488,7

331 395,6

MasterCard Worldwide

10 381,5

54 100,2

2013

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

4 683,9

13 658,5

local systems

90,8

751,7

international systems, of which:

4 593,2

12 906,8

Visa International

3 645,5

10 036,2

MasterCard Worldwide

628,2

2 035,4

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

81 923,2

480 687,1

local systems

1 326,9

21 449,5

international systems, of which:

80 596,3

459 237,6

Visa International

61 321,8

353 712,1

MasterCard Worldwide

9 239,0

66 966,1

Dynamics (%)

Number

20,6%

5,8%

local systems

7,8%

23,8%

international systems, of which:

20,9%

4,9%

Visa International

21,3%

-1,9%

MasterCard Worldwide

-2,7%

19,5%

Volume

9,3%

13,9%

local systems

-16,8%

28,8%

international systems, of which:

9,8%

13,2%

Visa International

8,6%

6,7%

MasterCard Worldwide

-11,0%

23,8%

 

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

October

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

4 051,1

71 325,6

13 541,6

474 994,6

Akmola region

41,3

1 224,1

446,5

13 398,8

Aktobe region

128,8

5 237,3

723,2

23 274,7

Almaty region

90,7

4 430,5

587,0

20 329,1

Atyrau region

118,8

3 196,5

670,9

24 141,9

East Kazakhstan reg.

160,5

2 014,6

1 105,5

34 510,4

Jambul region

74,6

1 708,4

584,8

18 779,7

West Kazakhstan reg.

92,5

1 931,7

501,7

15 251,6

Karaganda region

174,8

2 472,8

1 263,3

40 910,9

Kostanai region

485,9

1 492,8

601,1

19 162,0

Kyzylorda region

111,0

1 892,7

481,1

17 198,4

Mangistau region

139,8

3 452,5

599,5

28 296,5

Pavlodar region

108,4

1 946,3

670,9

22 013,9

North Kazakhstan reg.

42,5

663,6

366,7

10 421,1

South Kazakhstan reg.

106,6

3 936,7

1 048,3

35 405,4

Almaty city

1 658,4

26 782,8

2 542,4

101 883,1

Astana city

516,3

8 942,1

1 348,7

50 017,0

 

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