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As of April 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 95,3%) 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 April 01, 2013 Banks have issued 13,0mln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 11,7mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2012, there is a growth of 24,6% and 21,6% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 78,9%, the share of credit cards - 18,5%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,3% and 1,2% respectively.

 

In March 2013 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 519,4 bln. tenge (growth against March 2012 has totaled 21,7%). The number of transactions reached 18,1mln and increased by 16,9% versus March 2012. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 32,0% (number of transactions -4,4mln transactions) and 28,6% (the volume of transactions - 72,2bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 10,7% (number of transactions -13,7mln transactions) and 20,7%( the volume of transactions - 447,3bln. tenge) respectively.

 

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (47,2% and 64,2% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (35,1% and 22,5% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (97,8% and 89,7% 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 01.04.12

As of 01.04.13

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

10 417.5

12 984,3

Visa International, of which:

8 583.6

10 725,7

debit

7 032.8

8 115,4

credit

1 448.2

2 337,8

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

102.6

272,6

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 417.6

1 615,3

debit

1 300.4

1 500,9

credit

53.6

57,9

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

63.6

56,5

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

9 579.9

11 651,5

Visa International, of which:

7 905.6

9 595,2

debit

6 505.0

7 325,2

credit

1 310.8

2 095,9

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

89.8

174,0

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 307.0

1 466,5

debit

1 193.0

1 355,6

credit

51.2

55,0

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

62.9

55,8

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

4 937.3

5 711,9

Visa International, of which:

3 962.9

4 530,2

debit

3 690.1

4 046,1

credit

223.1

302,6

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

49.7

181,5

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

747.0

778,6

debit

680.3

723,8

credit

28.6

29,2

   Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

38.2

25,6

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

29 422

35 156

commercial enterprises

24 506

29 144

banks

4 916

6 012

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

453

202

commercial enterprises

224

82

banks

229

120

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

8 203

8 665

with cash distribution function

7 294

7 614

with cash reception and distribution functions

909

1 051

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

12 194

15 186

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 445

1 714

 

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.04.13

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.

10 246,8

2 408,2

329,3

9 258,1

2 163,3

230,1

5 164,7

340,0

207,2

Akmola region

329,0

2,1

9,2

302,7

2,0

7,7

198,8

0,7

6,2

Aktobe region

568,1

4,7

5,3

524,7

4,5

4,9

275,2

1,8

2,8

Almaty region

439,4

5,2

15,2

403,2

5,0

14,6

241,0

1,2

9,6

Atyrau region

495,3

8,3

11,5

450,3

8,0

11,2

237,1

3,0

6,0

East Kazakhstan reg.

866,1

11,9

13,5

766,9

11,3

11,1

447,3

3,0

9,3

Jambul region

425,6

2,6

4,0

391,6

2,5

3,4

252,1

0,8

2,7

West Kazakhstan reg.

371,9

5,5

4,9

330,8

5,3

4,6

185,1

1,7

2,5

Karaganda region

933,4

9,1

26,3

837,7

8,8

19,2

510,3

2,9

18,0

Kostanai region

445,4

2,9

5,6

415,6

2,8

4,6

257,0

1,0

3,1

Kyzylorda region

381,0

2,0

5,7

341,9

1,9

5,2

202,8

0,9

3,4

Mangistau region

450,5

6,4

14,6

404,4

6,1

14,3

223,5

2,1

7,9

Pavlodar region

552,9

6,3

13,9

491,8

6,0

12,7

287,4

2,2

8,6

North Kazakhstan reg.

259,2

2,4

6,8

235,5

2,3

4,7

148,1

0,5

4,7

South Kazakhstan reg.

852,0

7,3

17,7

778,3

7,0

16,7

442,2

2,0

11,8

Almaty city

2 048,7

2 315,2

157,8

1 831,1

2 074,2

80,4

866,7

308,8

101,7

Astana city

828,4

16,2

17,1

751,6

15,5

14,9

390,0

7,2

8,9

 

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.04.13

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

35 156

202

8 665

15 186

1 714

Akmola region

840

-

300

400

55

Aktobe region

1 419

5

481

492

104

Almaty region

939

3

343

330

81

Atyrau region

1 749

7

495

679

70

East Kazakhstan reg.

2 198

17

703

888

132

Jambul region

717

4

308

335

78

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 171

5

328

431

73

Karaganda region

2 494

11

765

938

199

Kostanai region

1 456

6

367

581

66

Kyzylorda region

467

3

236

193

50

Mangistau region

1 233

5

430

554

88

Pavlodar region

1 774

6

538

835

101

North Kazakhstan reg.

899

2

268

412

52

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 569

6

524

589

104

Almaty city

11 472

108

1 697

5 228

305

Astana city

4 759

14

882

2 301

156

 

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

March

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 347.0

12 154.5

Visa International

2 541.5

9 576.5

MasterCard Worldwide

607.2

1 811.0

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

56 118.4

370 577.6

Visa International

38 173.2

291 378.1

MasterCard Worldwide

13 173.0

52 507.9

2013

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

4 418,7

13 698,9

Visa International

3 225,8

10 316,6

MasterCard Worldwide

770,4

1 920,8

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

72 153,8

447 277,6

Visa International

50 682,0

335 973,9

MasterCard Worldwide

10 932,6

59 872,9

Dynamics (%)

Number

32,0%

12,7%

Visa International

26,9%

7,7%

MasterCard Worldwide

26,9%

6,1%

Volume

28,6%

20,7%

Visa International

32,8%

15,3%

MasterCard Worldwide

-17,0%

14,0%

 

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

March

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

3 699,5

59 415,7

13 597,9

442 172,0

Akmola region

40,6

1 235,2

461,8

12 914,6

Aktobe region

131,8

3 408,1

737,8

22 109,3

Almaty region

92,6

3 241,3

590,7

18 878,2

Atyrau region

106,4

4 272,7

676,3

22 566,9

East Kazakhstan reg.

162,4

1 644,4

1 156,1

33 585,2

Jambul region

78,0

1 303,5

571,3

17 487,2

West Kazakhstan reg.

92,0

1 967,1

491,6

13 766,6

Karaganda region

166,2

2 289,7

1 273,6

38 244,8

Kostanai region

447,7

1 073,4

583,7

17 260,1

Kyzylorda region

110,8

1 643,0

473,7

15 506,7

Mangistau region

138,1

2 876,7

628,8

26 773,8

Pavlodar region

108,3

1 893,6

687,0

21 062,1

North Kazakhstan reg.

38,8

531,8

377,9

10 014,8

South Kazakhstan reg.

87,4

2 851,6

997,7

31 219,3

Almaty city

1 455,2

22 069,5

2 555,9

95 431,1

Astana city

443,1

7 113,9

1 334,0

45 351,5

 

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