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As of May 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 May 01, 2013 Banks have issued 13,2mln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 11,8mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2012, there is a growth of 25,0% and 22,1% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 78,7%, the share of credit cards - 18,7%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,3% and 1,3% respectively.

 

In April 2013 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 541,2 bln. tenge (growth against April 2012 has totaled 21,2%). The number of transactions reached 18,2mln and increased by 19,3% versus April 2012. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 39,1% (number of transactions -4,5mln transactions) and 22,0% (the volume of transactions - 75,5bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 13,9% (number of transactions -13,7mln transactions) and 21,0%( the volume of transactions - 465,6bln. tenge) respectively.

 

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (47,6% and 63,1% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (34,9% and 23,5% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (97,7% and 88,5% 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 01.05.12

As of 01.05.13

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

10 561.8

13 202,4

local systems

416,6

631,6

international systems, of which:

10 145,2

12 570,8

Visa International, of which:

8 704.3

10 870,2

debit

7 064.4

8 193,1

credit

1 536.3

2 389,8

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

103.6

287,2

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 420.5

1 666,9

debit

1 303.3

1 546,5

credit

53.6

61,9

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

63.7

58,4

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

9 686.5

11 824,0

local systems

369,2

580,1

international systems, of which:

9 317,3

11 244,0

Visa International, of which:

7 993.7

9 705,2

debit

6 528.0

7 374,3

credit

1 375.1

2 144,5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

90.5

186,4

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 304.7

1 507,3

debit

1 191.4

1 390,8

credit

50.2

58,8

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

63.1

57,7

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

4 503.7

5 494,9

local systems

196,7

360,2

international systems, of which:

4 307,0

5 134,7

Visa International, of which:

3 591.5

4 323,2

debit

3 316.4

3 828,0

credit

224.7

313,6

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

50.4

181,6

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

705.2

797,5

debit

640.3

738,3

credit

27.8

32,2

   Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

37.1

27,0

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

29 509

35 608

commercial enterprises

24 584

29 589

banks

4 925

6 019

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

505

202

commercial enterprises

253

82

banks

252

120

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

8 222

8 698

with cash distribution function

7 298

7 648

with cash reception and distribution functions

924

1 050

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

12 439

15 807

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 534

1 744

 

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.05.13

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.

10 391,6

2 464,9

345,9

9 363,3

2 216,3

244,4

4 932,1

354,1

208,8

Akmola region

331,7

2,2

9,2

304,6

2,1

7,7

185,6

0,8

6,2

Aktobe region

570,6

5,0

5,4

526,5

4,8

4,9

266,6

2,0

2,8

Almaty region

447,6

5,8

15,4

408,9

5,5

14,8

234,3

1,6

9,6

Atyrau region

501,8

8,7

11,7

455,1

8,3

11,4

227,5

3,2

6,0

East Kazakhstan reg.

877,4

12,4

13,6

775,3

11,8

11,1

428,3

3,4

9,3

Jambul region

430,0

2,9

4,1

395,2

2,8

3,5

231,1

1,0

2,7

West Kazakhstan reg.

375,3

5,8

5,0

333,7

5,6

4,6

174,7

1,9

2,5

Karaganda region

943,8

9,5

27,0

845,4

9,2

19,8

490,6

3,2

18,0

Kostanai region

454,0

3,1

5,8

421,5

3,0

4,8

248,7

1,1

3,1

Kyzylorda region

384,9

2,4

6,1

344,5

2,3

5,4

195,4

1,2

3,4

Mangistau region

455,8

6,8

14,7

406,8

6,6

14,3

209,5

2,4

7,9

Pavlodar region

558,9

6,8

14,2

495,4

6,4

13,0

275,7

2,4

8,6

North Kazakhstan reg.

260,8

2,6

7,2

236,9

2,4

4,9

132,9

0,7

4,7

South Kazakhstan reg.

866,2

7,9

18,6

791,6

7,6

17,3

453,0

2,3

11,8

Almaty city

2 090,9

2 367,0

170,7

1 860,6

2 122,5

91,9

813,7

319,5

101,7

Astana city

842,0

16,0

17,1

761,2

15,2

15,1

364,4

7,3

8,9

 

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.05.13

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

35 608

202

8 698

15 807

1 744

Akmola region

840

-

298

409

56

Aktobe region

1 465

5

485

499

104

Almaty region

963

3

348

353

81

Atyrau region

1 723

7

496

698

71

East Kazakhstan reg.

2 173

17

705

1 100

132

Jambul region

726

4

309

342

80

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 191

5

329

450

74

Karaganda region

2 530

11

765

961

199

Kostanai region

1 495

6

371

590

66

Kyzylorda region

481

3

236

203

50

Mangistau region

1 244

5

436

576

88

Pavlodar region

1 785

6

541

848

101

North Kazakhstan reg.

921

2

263

427

55

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 591

6

529

598

103

Almaty city

11 710

108

1 707

5 415

324

Astana city

4 770

14

880

2 338

160

 

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

April

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 267.6

12 025.3

local systems

74,9

448,6

international systems, of which:

3 192,7

11 576,7

Visa International

2 479.3

9 426.0

MasterCard Worldwide

581.4

1 808.9

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

61 925.7

384 712.4

local systems

1 118,7

12 574,8

international systems, of which:

60 807,0

372 137,6

Visa International

42 882.1

299 169.5

MasterCard Worldwide

14 433.9

55 305.8

2013

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

4 544,8

13 695,6

local systems

98,3

726,4

international systems, of which:

4 446,5

12 969,2

Visa International

3 387,6

10 301,6

MasterCard Worldwide

749,8

1 925,7

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

75 526,1

465 637,9

local systems

1 176,3

20 068,0

international systems, of which:

74 349,9

445 569,9

Visa International

54 714,2

347 365,5

MasterCard Worldwide

10 726,9

62 564,9

Dynamics (%)

Number

39,1%

13,9%

local systems

31,2%

61,9%

international systems, of which:

39,3%

12,0%

Visa International

36,6%

9,3%

MasterCard Worldwide

29,0%

6,5%

Volume

22,0%

21,0%

local systems

5,1%

59,6%

international systems, of which:

22,3%

19,7%

Visa International

27,6%

16,1%

MasterCard Worldwide

-25,7%

13,1%

 

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

 

Table 5

Specifications

April

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

3 773,0

62 850,2

13 566,1

460 000,8

Akmola region

42,9

2 104,1

459,5

13 124,2

Aktobe region

138,8

3 139,1

723,4

22 943,3

Almaty region

97,7

4 378,7

556,8

18 543,2

Atyrau region

113,0

2 981,5

672,4

23 603,2

East Kazakhstan reg.

160,8

1 881,7

1 089,4

34 459,1

Jambul region

99,9

1 840,7

903,1

26 592,6

West Kazakhstan reg.

93,5

1 451,8

511,8

15 563,3

Karaganda region

151,9

2 110,3

1 206,9

37 737,7

Kostanai region

532,3

1 358,1

696,3

20 991,9

Kyzylorda region

148,9

2 300,9

475,4

17 708,4

Mangistau region

149,1

3 285,2

683,5

30 969,3

Pavlodar region

112,7

2 916,4

770,7

24 168,5

North Kazakhstan reg.

40,4

608,5

390,8

10 991,9

South Kazakhstan reg.

91,1

3 194,4

965,5

31 052,0

Almaty city

1 388,8

21 945,3

2 227,1

88 030,7

Astana city

411,2

7 353,5

1 233,6

43 521,8

 

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