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As of July 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 July 01, 2013 Banks have issued 13,7mln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 12,1mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2012, there is a growth of 24,4% and 20,2% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 78,2%, the share of credit cards - 19,0%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,3% and 1,5% respectively.

 

In June 2013 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 562,0 bln. tenge (growth against June 2012 has totaled 16,9%). The number of transactions reached 18,0mln and increased by 13,4% versus May 2012. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 33,3% (number of transactions -4,5mln transactions) and 28,8% (the volume of transactions - 77,4bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 8,0% (number of transactions -13,6mln transactions) and 15,2%( the volume of transactions - 484,7bln. tenge) respectively.

 

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (48,8% and 65,1% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs  (33,1% and 22,0% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (97,9% and 89,4% 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 01.07.12

As of 01.07.13

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

11 000,5

13 681,8

local systems

454,5

661,0

international systems, of which:

10 546,0

13 020,8

Visa International, of which:

9 126,6

11 225,7

debit

7 290,9

8 391,1

credit

1 721,5

2 516,6

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

114,2

318,0

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 397,1

1 758,6

debit

1 280,1

1 628,0

credit

53,5

70,0

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

63,5

60,6

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

10 048,5

12 081,3

local systems

408,7

602,6

international systems, of which:

9 639,9

11 478,7

Visa International, of which:

8 333,9

9 863,1

debit

6 740,6

7 451,7

credit

1 500,6

2 207,9

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

92,7

203,5

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 285,7

1 581,6

debit

1 172,8

1 453,7

credit

50,1

68,0

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

62,8

59,9

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

4 639,2

5 912,7

local systems

225,6

410,2

international systems, of which:

4 413,7

5 502,5

Visa International, of which:

3 717,5

4 615,0

debit

3 444,8

4 115,0

credit

217,8

316,7

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

55,0

183,4

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

684,9

871,6

debit

623,5

807,0

credit

26,9

35,5

    Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

34,5

29,0

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

29 433

37 908

commercial enterprises

24 550

31 821

banks

4 883

6 087

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

222

168

commercial enterprises

98

60

banks

124

108

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

8 285

8 742

with cash distribution function

7 318

7 663

with cash reception and distribution functions

967

1 079

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

12 406

17 030

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 548

2 250

 

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.07.13

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.

10 702,4

2 600,6

378,8

9 527,9

2 289,8

263,6

5 338,9

361,2

212,6

Akmola region

338,8

2,7

8,8

308,1

2,5

8,2

202,0

1,0

4,1

Aktobe region

581,0

6,0

5,6

530,2

5,7

5,1

291,4

2,5

2,8

Almaty region

459,2

7,2

15,9

416,1

6,2

15,2

250,6

2,1

9,8

Atyrau region

516,6

9,8

12,1

459,5

9,4

11,7

242,5

3,6

6,2

East Kazakhstan reg.

888,8

13,2

13,2

780,4

12,4

11,6

463,0

3,9

7,4

Jambul region

438,2

3,8

4,1

398,9

3,6

3,7

257,8

1,3

2,3

West Kazakhstan reg.

382,1

7,0

5,0

336,5

6,7

4,7

185,8

2,4

2,5

Karaganda region

958,9

10,6

24,2

839,7

10,0

20,7

523,6

3,6

10,7

Kostanai region

459,5

3,7

5,4

400,3

3,5

4,9

262,0

1,4

2,1

Kyzylorda region

393,8

3,4

5,9

347,6

3,2

5,5

215,2

1,4

3,1

Mangistau region

461,2

8,0

14,7

409,2

7,7

14,3

227,4

2,7

8,0

Pavlodar region

568,9

7,3

14,3

498,9

6,9

13,4

295,3

2,9

8,0

North Kazakhstan reg.

266,8

3,0

6,2

238,4

2,8

5,3

150,0

0,8

2,2

South Kazakhstan reg.

889,7

9,9

20,4

806,6

9,4

19,6

479,8

3,0

11,1

Almaty city

2 234,8

2 487,9

205,8

1 980,8

2 183,5

104,0

884,1

320,6

124,6

Astana city

864,0

17,1

17,4

776,8

16,3

15,9

408,4

7,9

7,6

 

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.07.13

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

37 908

168

8 742

17 030

2 250

Akmola region

923

-

304

447

57

Aktobe region

1 590

5

487

618

106

Almaty region

1 118

3

343

447

95

Atyrau region

1 877

4

502

764

82

East Kazakhstan reg.

2 393

17

708

966

135

Jambul region

794

4

309

397

82

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 280

5

328

500

80

Karaganda region

2 686

11

763

1 076

282

Kostanai region

1 629

6

364

672

133

Kyzylorda region

531

3

240

231

50

Mangistau region

1 333

5

436

616

94

Pavlodar region

1 894

6

545

908

109

North Kazakhstan reg.

986

2

261

461

58

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 665

6

540

664

177

Almaty city

12 226

80

1 716

5 801

487

Astana city

4 983

11

896

2 462

223

 

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

June

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 363,1

12 550,0

local systems

78,1

521,4

international systems, of which:

3 285,0

12 028,6

Visa International

2 559,4

9 861,3

MasterCard Worldwide

599,1

1 815,9

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

60 074,2

420 866,3

local systems

1 767,0

17 742,4

international systems, of which:

58 307,2

403 123,9

Visa International

44 509,7

325 850,2

MasterCard Worldwide

9 212,4

59 131,7

2013

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

4 482,2

13 558,1

local systems

90,0

717,7

international systems, of which:

4 392,2

12 840,4

Visa International

3 290,5

10 069,9

MasterCard Worldwide

780,6

1 987,5

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

77 383,4

484 653,9

local systems

1 379,6

20 972,6

international systems, of which:

76 003,8

463 681,3

Visa International

55 202,7

354 326,2

MasterCard Worldwide

11 553,9

68 092,5

Dynamics (%)

Number

33,3%

8,0%

local systems

15,2%

37,6%

international systems, of which:

33,7%

6,7%

Visa International

28,6%

2,1%

MasterCard Worldwide

30,3%

9,4%

Volume

28,8%

15,2%

local systems

-21,9%

18,2%

international systems, of which:

30,4%

15,0%

Visa International

24,0%

8,7%

MasterCard Worldwide

25,4%

15,2%

 

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

June

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

3 763,2

64 336,3

13 480,5

480 346,7

Akmola region

42,5

1 619,7

470,1

14 229,1

Aktobe region

130,3

3 446,6

750,1

24 662,2

Almaty region

88,3

5 200,3

569,3

20 565,9

Atyrau region

107,7

3 254,6

682,7

24 778,9

East Kazakhstan reg.

159,8

1 936,2

1 130,5

36 466,9

Jambul region

71,1

1 592,0

574,9

19 588,6

West Kazakhstan reg.

88,7

2 422,6

505,2

16 151,4

Karaganda region

167,5

2 189,0

1 279,4

41 632,4

Kostanai region

483,2

1 397,9

593,1

19 359,4

Kyzylorda region

107,1

1 395,5

488,6

19 185,6

Mangistau region

133,1

2 685,8

604,7

27 437,8

Pavlodar region

106,7

1 849,3

682,8

22 615,9

North Kazakhstan reg.

41,2

641,9

385,1

11 067,3

South Kazakhstan reg.

96,3

3 931,3

1 052,1

38 248,2

Almaty city

1 477,6

23 331,2

2 389,5

96 776,3

Astana city

462,1

7 442,6

1 322,3

47 580,9

 

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