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As of June 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 June 01, 2013 Banks have issued 13,5mln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 11,9mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2012, there is a growth of 24,9% and 20,9% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 78,3%, the share of credit cards - 18,9%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,3% and 1,5% respectively.

 

In May 2013 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 546,8 bln. tenge (growth against May 2012 has totaled 15,5%). The number of transactions reached 18,5mln and increased by 12,6% versus May 2012. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 31,3% (number of transactions -4,7mln transactions) and 12,7% (the volume of transactions - 76,4bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 7,4% (number of transactions -13,8mln transactions) and 16,0%( the volume of transactions - 470,4bln. tenge) respectively.

 

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (47,8% and 63,3% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (34,7% and 23,4% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (97,9% and 88,9% 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 01.06.12

As of 01.06.13

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

10 780,2

13 461,4

local systems

435,4

646,5

international systems, of which:

10 344,8

12 814,9

Visa International, of which:

8 911,2

11 083,2

debit

7 175,7

8 301,2

credit

1 631,6

2 461,2

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

103,9

320,8

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 412,5

1 696,1

debit

1 294,9

1 569,7

credit

54,1

66,8

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

63,5

59,6

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

9 875,4

11 942,7

local systems

389,6

591,0

international systems, of which:

9 485,8

11 351,7

Visa International, of which:

8 172,4

9 785,8

debit

6 634,7

7 426,0

credit

1 445,5

2 167,2

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

92,2

192,6

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 293,8

1 532,7

debit

1 180,2

1 410,2

credit

50,8

63,7

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

62,9

58,9

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

4 825,8

5 995,7

local systems

229,1

411,5

international systems, of which:

4 596,7

5 584,2

Visa International, of which:

3 864,9

4 705,2

debit

3 585,0

4 160,5

credit

226,7

324,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

53,2

220,4

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

720,4

863,3

debit

657,3

800,9

credit

27,5

34,6

   Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

35,7

27,8

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

29 291

36 195

commercial enterprises

24 423

30 129

banks

4 868

6 066

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

234

180

commercial enterprises

98

65

banks

136

115

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

8 242

8 671

with cash distribution function

7 307

7 625

with cash reception and distribution functions

935

1 046

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

12 363

16 007

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 547

1 765

 

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.06.13

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.

10 539,0

2 541,7

380,7

9 446,6

2 244,3

251,8

5 379,6

367,7

248,3

Akmola region

334,8

2,5

10,6

305,5

2,3

8,2

204,2

0,9

7,6

Aktobe region

576,1

5,5

5,6

528,5

5,3

5,0

293,5

2,3

3,1

Almaty region

454,4

6,5

15,9

413,2

6,1

15,1

257,5

1,9

10,0

Atyrau region

507,2

9,3

12,0

457,9

8,9

11,6

242,2

3,5

6,3

East Kazakhstan reg.

886,1

12,9

14,5

780,2

12,1

11,5

465,5

3,7

10,4

Jambul region

434,7

3,4

4,3

396,3

3,2

3,6

263,6

1,1

3,0

West Kazakhstan reg.

378,8

6,5

5,1

334,9

6,1

4,7

190,7

2,3

2,6

Karaganda region

929,2

10,2

29,3

824,3

9,5

20,5

511,0

3,4

21,1

Kostanai region

459,6

3,4

6,0

424,7

3,2

4,8

265,0

1,2

3,6

Kyzylorda region

389,2

2,9

6,5

344,8

2,8

5,5

217,0

1,3

4,1

Mangistau region

460,3

7,5

14,7

408,8

7,2

14,4

231,4

2,7

8,1

Pavlodar region

563,3

7,1

14,4

497,1

6,7

13,1

296,7

2,7

8,8

North Kazakhstan reg.

264,0

2,8

8,3

237,4

2,6

5,3

151,3

0,8

6,4

South Kazakhstan reg.

877,8

9,0

2,8

797,8

8,5

18,4

487,1

2,7

13,5

Almaty city

2 170,7

2 435,5

158,3

1 927,3

2 144,2

94,5

897,2

329,3

129,9

Astana city

852,9

16,6

5,2

767,8

15,7

15,6

405,6

7,7

9,8

 

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.06.13

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

36 195

180

8 671

16 007

1 765

Akmola region

863

-

302

417

55

Aktobe region

1 512

5

483

547

104

Almaty region

1 038

3

339

391

85

Atyrau region

1 933

4

496

726

74

East Kazakhstan reg.

2 243

17

708

889

132

Jambul region

820

4

304

347

80

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 253

5

327

468

77

Karaganda region

2 558

11

759

986

201

Kostanai region

1 388

6

363

615

68

Kyzylorda region

496

3

234

212

50

Mangistau region

1 242

5

430

579

91

Pavlodar region

1 889

6

540

848

109

North Kazakhstan reg.

936

2

261

427

57

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 600

6

537

616

109

Almaty city

11 664

92

1 705

5 554

311

Astana city

4 760

11

883

2 385

162

 

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

May

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 558,8

12 866,7

local systems

81,1

510,2

international systems, of which:

3 477,7

12 356,5

Visa International

2 736,6

10 126,6

MasterCard Worldwide

627,6

1 872,0

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

67 835,0

405 579,6

local systems

1 496,9

14 081,1

international systems, of which:

66 338,1

391 498,5

Visa International

45 323,6

315 536,6

MasterCard Worldwide

15 604,7

56 475,5

2013

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

4 674,3

13 821,3

local systems

98,0

734,9

international systems, of which:

4 576,3

13 086,4

Visa International

3 472,7

10 347,9

MasterCard Worldwide

784,7

1 960,2

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

76 437,4

470 372,4

local systems

1 335,8

20 266,2

international systems, of which:

75 101,7

450 106,2

Visa International

54 893,5

348 161,8

MasterCard Worldwide

11 892,4

63 080,1

Dynamics (%)

Number

31,3%

7,4%

local systems

20,8%

44,0%

international systems, of which:

31,6%

5,9%

Visa International

26,9%

2,2%

MasterCard Worldwide

25,0%

4,7%

Volume

12,7%

16,0%

local systems

-10,8%

43,9%

international systems, of which:

13,2%

15,0%

Visa International

21,1%

10,3%

MasterCard Worldwide

-23,8%

11,7%

 

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

 

Table 5

Specifications

May

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

3 891,3

63 511,2

13 727,7

465 475,9

Akmola region

44,6

2 018,2

467,2

13 434,6

Aktobe region

144,0

3 469,3

734,4

23 302,6

Almaty region

98,9

4 303,1

584,2

19 664,9

Atyrau region

117,7

2 874,8

674,8

23 611,4

East Kazakhstan reg.

163,5

1 970,9

1 100,3

35 271,2

Jambul region

100,1

1 845,5

933,4

27 486,5

West Kazakhstan reg.

94,0

2 274,3

508,9

15 665,8

Karaganda region

157,3

2 114,4

1 203,6

37 874,2

Kostanai region

509,2

1 517,1

717,2

21 932,5

Kyzylorda region

152,7

2 179,8

480,4

18 155,1

Mangistau region

156,2

3 134,9

630,3

26 914,8

Pavlodar region

111,6

1 774,9

732,2

22 888,8

North Kazakhstan reg.

42,5

685,0

394,9

11 208,1

South Kazakhstan reg.

96,8

3 864,9

1 005,3

33 375,9

Almaty city

1 458,0

21 997,5

2 259,8

89 770,8

Astana city

444,2

7 486,6

1 300,9

44 918,7

 

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