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As of October 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 October 01, 2013 Banks have issued 14,7mln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 13,1mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2012, there is a growth of 27,3% and 23,7% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 76,8%, the share of credit cards - 20,6%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,3% and 1,3% respectively.

 

In September 2013 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 540,0 bln. tenge (growth against September 2012 has totaled 18,6%). The number of transactions reached 17,7mln and increased by 17,2% versus September 2012. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 34,4% (number of transactions -4,5mln transactions) and 23,9% (the volume of transactions - 82,0bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 12,4% (number of transactions -13,2mln transactions) and 17,7%( the volume of transactions - 458,1bln. tenge) respectively.

 

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (55,0% and 70,1% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (30,2% and 20,6% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (98,1% and 89,8% 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 01.10.12

As of 01.10.13

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

11 509,0

14 651,2

local systems

505,7

700,6

international systems, of which:

11 003,3

13 950,6

Visa International, of which:

9 586,4

12 023,6

debit

7 635,2

8 772,7

credit

1 814,4

2 933,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

136,8

317,6

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 391,2

1 886,6

debit

1 280,4

1 746,9

credit

49,9

76,4

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

60,8

63,3

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

10 573,6

13 080,2

local systems

462,3

646,6

international systems, of which:

10 111,3

12 433,6

Visa International, of which:

8 806,9

10 655,9

debit

7 031,5

8 006,0

credit

1 644,4

2 457,6

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

131,0

192,3

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 281,2

1 739,7

debit

1 174,2

1 603,1

credit

46,9

74,1

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

60,2

62,5

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

5 896,5

6 006,9

local systems

366,0

434,4

international systems, of which:

5 530,5

5 572,6

Visa International, of which:

4 760,6

4 646,0

debit

4 455,8

4 125,6

credit

227,4

322,7

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

77,5

197,8

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

754,0

909,7

debit

699,1

842,0

credit

24,7

34,2

   Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

30,2

33,5

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

31 780

41 217

commercial enterprises

25 964

35 089

banks

5 816

6 128

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

206

168

commercial enterprises

82

60

banks

124

108

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

8 514

8 832

with cash distribution function

7 507

7 714

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 007

1 118

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

12 926

19 281

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 605

3 091

 

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.10.13

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.

11 244,9

3 025,1

381,1

10 278,3

2 547,0

255,0

5 408,8

366,6

231,5

Akmola region

351,7

3,0

7,4

329,3

2,8

7,1

202,0

1,0

4,3

Aktobe region

596,8

6,8

5,5

559,2

6,4

5,1

291,7

2,3

2,9

Almaty region

478,7

8,5

16,0

449,9

8,0

15,5

259,9

2,0

9,9

Atyrau region

533,6

10,0

12,6

486,0

9,6

12,2

244,9

3,5

6,5

East Kazakhstan reg.

919,0

14,3

11,8

825,9

13,5

10,3

464,9

3,7

7,5

Jambul region

453,9

4,5

3,6

427,8

4,3

3,3

263,3

1,2

2,2

West Kazakhstan reg.

398,4

7,7

5,1

361,5

7,4

4,7

189,1

2,3

2,6

Karaganda region

985,1

11,1

19,9

887,6

10,5

17,5

528,3

3,5

11,1

Kostanai region

486,8

4,0

4,6

437,9

3,9

4,2

267,3

1,3

2,3

Kyzylorda region

406,6

4,2

5,7

372,0

4,1

5,3

217,2

1,2

3,3

Mangistau region

474,0

6,9

14,7

433,1

6,7

14,4

233,1

2,6

8,1

Pavlodar region

590,0

8,2

14,4

533,6

7,7

13,5

295,8

2,8

8,8

North Kazakhstan reg.

277,0

2,6

4,0

256,9

2,4

3,6

150,5

0,8

2,2

South Kazakhstan reg.

931,3

11,3

20,0

872,1

10,8

19,5

492,1

2,7

12,4

Almaty city

2 458,4

2 903,8

216,8

2 216,5

2 431,7

101,3

902,3

327,9

138,8

Astana city

903,7

18,2

18,8

829,1

17,2

17,5

406,4

7,9

8,6

 

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.10.13

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

41 217

168

8 832

19 281

3 091

Akmola region

1 041

-

310

510

61

Aktobe region

1 741

5

475

690

111

Almaty region

1 219

3

356

516

150

Atyrau region

1 929

4

509

793

84

East Kazakhstan reg.

2 544

17

707

1 100

151

Jambul region

843

4

317

425

84

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 366

5

340

570

84

Karaganda region

3 046

11

766

1 386

446

Kostanai region

1 874

6

361

882

246

Kyzylorda region

618

3

237

260

56

Mangistau region

1 441

5

438

722

98

Pavlodar region

1 918

6

548

916

114

North Kazakhstan reg.

1 099

2

271

516

59

South Kazakhstan reg.

2 122

6

551

1 018

377

Almaty city

13 054

80

1 749

6 297

676

Astana city

5 362

11

897

2 680

294

 

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

September

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 332,8

11 771,6

local systems

75,0

537,1

international systems, of which:

3 257,8

11 234,5

Visa International

2 545,3

9 287,1

MasterCard Worldwide

580,5

1 599,9

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

66 164,4

389 224,2

local systems

1 446,8

14 746,8

international systems, of which:

64 717,6

374 477,4

Visa International

50 862,9

303 680,6

MasterCard Worldwide

9 481,9

52 454,8

2013

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

4 480,3

13 229,6

local systems

88,2

742,2

international systems, of which:

4 392,1

12 487,4

Visa International

3 445,0

9 762,0

MasterCard Worldwide

597,3

1 963,9

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

81 969,3

458 053,2

local systems

1 186,2

20 775,6

international systems, of which:

80 783,1

437 277,6

Visa International

61 313,7

337 024,9

MasterCard Worldwide

9 215,2

65 404,7

Dynamics (%)

Number

34,4%

12,4%

local systems

17,6%

38,2%

international systems, of which:

34,8%

11,2%

Visa International

35,3%

5,1%

MasterCard Worldwide

2,9%

22,8%

Volume

23,9%

17,7%

local systems

-18,0%

40,9%

international systems, of which:

24,8%

16,8%

Visa International

20,5%

11,0%

MasterCard Worldwide

-2,8%

24,7%

 

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

September

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

3 906,7

71 532,7

13 167,0

453 135,9

Akmola region

42,3

1 305,9

438,9

12 917,7

Aktobe region

125,3

4 224,0

709,3

22 272,3

Almaty region

88,8

5 054,8

562,2

18 839,7

Atyrau region

115,8

5 271,1

672,5

24 241,4

East Kazakhstan reg.

162,9

2 090,1

1 087,8

33 780,4

Jambul region

70,9

1 698,1

565,1

18 103,9

West Kazakhstan reg.

91,7

1 862,3

497,0

15 350,9

Karaganda region

176,1

2 426,3

1 252,2

39 891,8

Kostanai region

473,8

1 193,6

580,7

18 461,8

Kyzylorda region

103,9

1 585,3

464,1

16 144,0

Mangistau region

139,5

4 366,2

609,8

27 300,6

Pavlodar region

109,4

1 518,9

654,8

21 155,4

North Kazakhstan reg.

41,7

605,0

364,6

10 024,1

South Kazakhstan reg.

99,4

3 689,8

1 008,9

33 517,7

Almaty city

1 567,8

26 042,0

2 396,1

93 023,4

Astana city

497,6

8 599,1

1 303,0

48 111,0

 

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