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As of September 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 September 01, 2013 Banks have issued 14,3mln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 12,8mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2012, there is a growth of 25,4% and 23,7% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 77,2%, the share of credit cards - 20,1%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,3% and 1,4% respectively.

 

In August 2013 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 546,5 bln. tenge (growth against August 2012 has totaled 12,7%). The number of transactions reached 17,4mln and increased by 9,6% versus August 2012. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 25,8% (number of transactions -4,3mln transactions) and 14,1% (the volume of transactions - 76,1bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 5,2% (number of transactions -13,1mln transactions) and 12,5%( the volume of transactions - 470,4bln. tenge) respectively.

 

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (56,3% and 70,1% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (28,9% and 20,7% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (98,1% and 90,2% 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 01.09.12

As of 01.09.13

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

11 392,6

14 291,4

local systems

488,5

686,2

international systems, of which:

10 904,0

13 605,2

Visa International, of which:

9 492,5

11 743,9

debit

7 535,1

8 638,2

credit

1 835,9

2 787,2

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

121,6

318,5

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 386,4

1 822,1

debit

1 272,5

1 685,8

credit

51,3

74,4

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

62,7

61,9

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

10 353,4

12 803,7

local systems

444,8

633,3

international systems, of which:

9 908,5

12 170,4

Visa International, of which:

8 608,1

10 459,6

debit

6 922,5

7 889,0

credit

1 570,0

2 372,2

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

115,7

198,4

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 277,9

1 673,8

debit

1 167,6

1 540,7

credit

48,3

71,9

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

62,0

61,1

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

5 800,4

5 925,8

local systems

346,3

422,2

international systems, of which:

5 454,1

5 503,6

Visa International, of which:

4 686,6

4 606,4

debit

4 380,4

4 064,2

credit

236,6

341,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

69,7

200,8

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

752,2

881,3

debit

694,8

814,6

credit

25,7

34,5

   Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

31,7

32,2

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

30 420

40 333

commercial enterprises

25 368

34 186

banks

5 052

6 147

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

222

168

commercial enterprises

98

60

banks

124

108

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

8 458

8 812

with cash distribution function

7 457

7 724

with cash reception and distribution functions

1 001

1 088

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

12 794

18 622

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 567

2 727

 

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.09.13

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.

11 034,4

2 876,4

380,6

10 085,2

2 458,7

259,8

5 307,3

385,3

233,2

Akmola region

345,9

2,9

8,5

324,1

2,7

8,0

200,2

1,0

4,1

Aktobe region

589,8

6,6

5,7

553,7

6,3

5,1

289,1

2,3

2,9

Almaty region

469,5

8,2

16,1

440,8

7,8

15,5

254,2

2,1

10,1

Atyrau region

526,4

9,7

12,4

480,2

9,3

12,1

235,1

3,5

6,3

East Kazakhstan reg.

904,5

14,0

13,0

812,8

13,2

11,6

455,8

3,7

7,2

Jambul region

447,0

4,3

3,9

421,5

4,1

3,6

257,1

1,2

2,3

West Kazakhstan reg.

391,0

7,4

5,2

355,1

7,1

4,7

182,3

2,4

2,7

Karaganda region

969,8

11,1

22,4

874,6

10,4

19,7

521,2

3,6

10,8

Kostanai region

476,2

4,0

5,2

428,8

3,8

4,8

262,8

1,3

2,2

Kyzylorda region

400,9

4,0

5,9

367,2

3,9

5,4

212,1

1,3

3,2

Mangistau region

471,1

6,7

14,7

430,4

6,4

14,4

228,6

2,6

8,0

Pavlodar region

580,7

8,0

14,3

525,6

7,5

13,5

292,3

2,8

8,4

North Kazakhstan reg.

272,2

3,3

5,6

252,9

3,0

4,9

148,5

0,9

2,1

South Kazakhstan reg.

912,8

11,1

20,5

853,9

10,6

19,9

477,9

2,9

12,2

Almaty city

2 390,8

2 757,3

208,5

2 150,3

2 345,8

99,5

887,8

345,7

142,5

Astana city

885,8

17,8

18,6

813,4

16,8

17,2

402,3

7,9

8,0

 

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.09.13

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

40 333

168

8 812

18 622

2 727

Akmola region

1 011

-

304

485

59

Aktobe region

1 716

5

480

661

107

Almaty region

1 188

3

347

497

131

Atyrau region

1 885

4

506

775

84

East Kazakhstan reg.

2 482

17

710

1 057

149

Jambul region

836

4

314

431

84

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 334

5

335

541

82

Karaganda region

2 944

11

763

1 307

349

Kostanai region

1 819

6

364

827

197

Kyzylorda region

568

3

240

242

53

Mangistau region

1 454

5

437

702

97

Pavlodar region

1 872

6

545

898

113

North Kazakhstan reg.

1 083

2

272

498

59

South Kazakhstan reg.

2 017

6

553

910

258

Almaty city

12 769

80

1 737

6 152

620

Astana city

5 355

11

905

2 639

285

 

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

August

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 434,8

12 466,4

local systems

72,6

545,6

international systems, of which:

3 362,2

11 920,8

Visa International

2 620,5

9 847,6

MasterCard Worldwide

605,1

1 722,1

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

66 703,2

418 111,6

local systems

1 569,4

15 516,6

international systems, of which:

65 133,8

402 595,0

Visa International

50 400,3

327 845,3

MasterCard Worldwide

9 610,4

56 135,9

2013

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

4 322,3

13 110,5

local systems

80,3

709,2

international systems, of which:

4 242,1

12 401,4

Visa International

3 328,3

9 705,8

MasterCard Worldwide

582,4

1 936,2

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

76 093,3

470 428,4

local systems

1 062,7

20 445,5

international systems, of which:

75 030,6

449 982,8

Visa International

55 641,9

348 547,5

MasterCard Worldwide

9 277,2

66 318,4

Dynamics (%)

Number

25,8%

5,2%

local systems

10,6%

30,0%

international systems, of which:

26,2%

4,0%

Visa International

27,0%

-1,4%

MasterCard Worldwide

-3,8%

12,4%

Volume

14,1%

12,5%

local systems

-32,3%

31,8%

international systems, of which:

15,2%

11,8%

Visa International

10,4%

6,3%

MasterCard Worldwide

-3,5%

18,1%

 

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

August

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

3 854,6

64 941,5

13 128,3

467 504,3

Akmola region

41,6

1 379,2

452,2

13 724,7

Aktobe region

122,3

4 030,2

713,3

23 653,9

Almaty region

85,8

4 501,2

580,6

19 452,8

Atyrau region

109,4

3 012,6

693,3

25 236,8

East Kazakhstan reg.

149,7

1 819,0

1 092,8

34 693,8

Jambul region

64,9

1 521,8

566,8

18 351,7

West Kazakhstan reg.

84,1

2 173,4

562,4

18 291,0

Karaganda region

160,5

2 154,1

1 224,3

40 355,8

Kostanai region

501,9

1 527,6

507,4

16 478,8

Kyzylorda region

94,0

1 419,0

456,3

16 471,6

Mangistau region

132,6

2 837,9

643,5

29 529,0

Pavlodar region

105,8

1 450,0

678,5

22 115,0

North Kazakhstan reg.

39,5

577,4

366,4

10 344,8

South Kazakhstan reg.

93,5

3 529,7

1 004,2

33 519,2

Almaty city

1 588,2

24 803,8

2 313,8

96 205,9

Astana city

480,7

8 204,6

1 272,7

49 079,5

 

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