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As of August 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 Citybank Kazakhstan – JSC “Citybank Kazakhstan”.

 

As of August 01, 2013 Banks have issued 14,0mln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 12,6mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2012, there is a growth of 26,9% and 23,6% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 77,7%, the share of credit cards - 19,5%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,3% and 1,5% respectively.

 

In July 2013 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 574,0 bln. tenge (growth against July 2012 has totaled 19,6%). The number of transactions reached 18,4mln and increased by 13,4% versus July 2012. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 34,3% (number of transactions -4,6mln transactions) and 21,6% (the volume of transactions - 79,0bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 11,0% (number of transactions -13,7mln transactions) and 19,3%( the volume of transactions - 495,2bln. tenge) respectively.

 

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (55,9% and 70,2% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (30,2% and 20,7% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (98,1% and 88,8% 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 01.08.12

As of 01.08.13

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

11 043,4

14 010,3

local systems

473,4

676,6

international systems, of which:

10 570,0

13 333,7

Visa International, of which:

9 163,6

11 496,8

debit

7415,0

8520,5

credit

1631,6

2646,0

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

117,0

330,4

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 382,8

1 799,4

debit

1 267,1

1666,0

credit

52,3

72,8

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

63,4

60,6

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

10 173,0

12 570,6

local systems

427,5

624,5

international systems, of which:

9 745,5

11946,1

Visa International, of which:

8443,5

10260,0

debit

6 835,2

7 777,0

credit

1 497,0

2273,6

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

111,2

209,4

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1281,1

1650,7

debit

1167,8

1520,6

credit

49,5

70,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

62,7

59,8

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

4 571,4

5 886,0

local systems

232,1

414,3

international systems, of which:

4339,3

5471,7

Visa International, of which:

3669,3

4587,1

debit

3391,6

4062,1

credit

219,4

333,2

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

58,3

191,8

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

658,8

869,1

debit

599,8

803,4

credit

26,2

35,4

   Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

32,8

30,2

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

29 677

39 211

commercial enterprises

24 770

33 125

banks

4 907

6 086

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

222

168

commercial enterprises

98

60

banks

124

108

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

8 429

8 779

with cash distribution function

7 411

7 692

with cash reception and distribution functions

988

1 087

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

12 547

18 011

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 560

2 494

 

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.08.13

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.

10 886,0

2 733,1

391,2

9 943,0

2 358,1

269,5

5 286,0

377,8

222,2

Akmola region

342,5

2,8

9,1

321,1

2,6

8,5

197,4

1,0

4,0

Aktobe region

587,0

6,3

5,7

550,6

6,0

5,2

287,0

2,4

2,8

Almaty region

513,2

7,8

16,7

481,8

7,4

16,0

273,2

2,2

9,8

Atyrau region

521,2

10,1

12,2

475,4

9,7

11,8

237,1

3,6

6,3

East Kazakhstan reg.

897,3

13,8

13,5

805,6

12,9

11,8

454,8

3,9

7,2

Jambul region

444,3

4,1

4,2

417,9

4,0

3,7

255,8

1,3

2,2

West Kazakhstan reg.

386,9

7,5

5,0

351,2

7,2

4,7

185,7

2,6

2,5

Karaganda region

964,9

11,0

24,1

868,7

10,3

20,8

520,1

3,6

10,4

Kostanai region

471,1

3,8

5,5

424,0

3,7

4,9

263,7

1,4

2,2

Kyzylorda region

398,1

3,8

5,9

364,8

3,7

5,5

207,3

1,5

3,1

Mangistau region

465,8

8,4

14,6

425,5

8,1

14,3

226,5

2,8

8,0

Pavlodar region

575,5

7,7

14,5

520,0

7,3

13,6

293,0

2,9

8,2

North Kazakhstan reg.

269,9

3,1

6,3

250,6

2,9

5,5

148,2

0,8

2,0

South Kazakhstan reg.

903,1

10,7

20,1

845,2

10,2

19,5

461,0

3,2

11,8

Almaty city

2 268,3

2 614,5

215,4

2 036,3

2 245,5

106,9

870,9

336,8

133,9

Astana city

876,7

17,6

18,3

804,3

16,6

16,8

404,3

7,9

7,7

 

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.08.13

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

39 211

168

8 779

18 011

2 494

Akmola region

986

-

305

486

58

Aktobe region

1 624

5

479

641

108

Almaty region

1 157

3

343

470

132

Atyrau region

2 082

4

508

860

83

East Kazakhstan reg.

2 455

17

704

1 032

140

Jambul region

901

4

313

474

83

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 338

5

333

532

81

Karaganda region

2 841

11

764

1 243

291

Kostanai region

1 640

6

365

721

168

Kyzylorda region

539

3

239

234

54

Mangistau region

1 368

5

436

643

94

Pavlodar region

1 994

6

545

937

109

North Kazakhstan reg.

1 030

2

266

501

58

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 810

6

549

775

252

Almaty city

12 432

80

1 728

5 989

548

Astana city

5 014

11

902

2 473

235

 

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

July

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 452,8

12 357,2

local systems

75,5

529,9

international systems, of which:

3 377,3

11 827,3

Visa International

2 625,2

9 748,2

MasterCard Worldwide

624,1

1 739,2

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

64 964,6

415 067,6

local systems

1 736,2

15 909,7

international systems, of which:

63 228,4

399 157,9

Visa International

47 232,2

323 982,3

MasterCard Worldwide

10 201,6

57 008,2

2013

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

4 636,9

13 714,4

local systems

89,5

736,4

international systems, of which:

4 547,4

12 978,0

Visa International

3 598,9

10 216,2

MasterCard Worldwide

607,1

1 970,9

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

79 007,4

495 166,3

local systems

1 255,9

21 153,7

international systems, of which:

77 751,5

474 012,7

Visa International

58 106,3

366 641,6

MasterCard Worldwide

9 811,5

67 454,9

Dynamics (%)

Number

34,3%

11,0%

local systems

18,5%

39,0%

international systems, of which:

34,6%

9,7%

Visa International

37,1%

4,8%

MasterCard Worldwide

-2,7%

13,3%

Volume

21,6%

19,3%

local systems

-27,7%

33,0%

international systems, of which:

23,0%

18,8%

Visa International

23,0%

13,2%

MasterCard Worldwide

-3,8%

18,3%

 

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 MasterCardsWorldwide that are distributed by commercial banks of Kazakhstan are included)

 

Table 5

Specifications

July

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

4 008,2

65 851,9

13 693,2

491 346,7

Akmola region

45,4

1 437,3

482,6

14 379,9

Aktobe region

127,5

4 048,1

739,2

24 401,5

Almaty region

93,5

4 577,1

602,5

20 800,2

Atyrau region

112,6

2 967,6

694,9

25 125,9

East Kazakhstan reg.

164,5

1 950,0

1 155,9

36 641,8

Jambul region

76,2

1 792,7

596,9

19 520,2

West Kazakhstan reg.

92,7

2 356,6

520,3

16 805,0

Karaganda region

171,0

2 137,4

1 294,4

41 958,8

Kostanai region

550,3

1 838,5

619,9

20 260,6

Kyzylorda region

103,4

1 591,3

474,3

17 434,6

Mangistau region

142,3

2 771,2

661,6

30 664,4

Pavlodar region

113,1

1 431,7

696,6

22 836,1

North Kazakhstan reg.

43,8

654,1

397,7

11 313,2

South Kazakhstan reg.

100,6

3 577,5

1 004,4

34 527,3

Almaty city

1 572,3

24 290,1

2 392,5

102 021,6

Astana city

498,9

8 430,6

1 359,6

52 655,5

 

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