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As of February 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 95,4%) 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 February 01, 2013 Banks have issued 12,4mln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 11,3mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2012, there is a growth of 25,2% and 22,7% respectively). The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 79,2%, the share of credit cards - 18,4%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,3% and 1,1% respectively.

In January 2013 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 419,8 bln.tenge (growth against January 2012 has totaled 21,4%). The number of transactions reached 14,2mln and increased by 17,9% versus January 2012. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 44,8% (number of transactions -3,8mln transactions) and 36,4% (the volume of transactions - 65,2bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 10,5% (number of transactions -10,5mln transactions) and 19,0%( the volume of transactions - 354,6bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (49,1% and 66,7% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs (33,3% and 20,8% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (97,6% and 87,8% 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 01.02.12

As of 01.02.13

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

9 931,2

12 432,1

Visa International, of which:

8 212,8

10 326,3

debit

6 944,9

7 859,4

credit

1 167,7

2 225,4

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

100,2

241,5

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 374,6

1 502,5

debit

1 254,7

1 395,3

credit

58,3

50,1

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

61,6

57,1

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

9 185,5

11 272,8

Visa International, of which:

7 598,6

9 330,8

debit

6 424,2

7 188,2

credit

1 086,3

1 978,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

88,1

164,2

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 258,3

1 382,7

debit

1 140,8

1 278,7

credit

56,5

47,4

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

61,0

56,5

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

4 562,3

5 258,3

Visa International, of which:

3 691,8

4 182,2

debit

3 461,5

3 768,1

credit

183,8

264,4

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

46,5

149,8

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

688,9

713,4

debit

614,9

663,5

credit

36,5

24,4

   Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

37,5

25,5

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

28 739

34 478

commercial enterprises

23 799

28 441

banks

4 940

6 037

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

661

202

commercial enterprises

408

82

banks

253

120

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

8 132

8 629

with cash distribution function

7 209

7 594

with cash reception and distribution functions

923

1 035

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

12 205

14 863

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 425

1 688

 

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.02.13

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.

9 846,0

2 287,1

298,9

9 014,6

2 037,3

221,0

4 786,6

296,3

175,4

Akmola region

316,2

2,1

7,7

295,5

1,9

7,0

183,3

0,6

4,7

Aktobe region

557,1

4,3

5,2

520,8

4,2

4,9

264,4

1,5

2,6

Almaty region

420,7

4,5

14,7

392,8

4,2

14,2

224,2

0,7

9,2

Atyrau region

481,5

7,7

11,3

442,3

7,4

10,9

220,1

2,5

5,9

East Kazakhstan reg.

836,4

11,3

12,7

751,1

10,8

10,8

423,4

2,4

8,3

Jambul region

410,1

2,1

3,7

381,7

2,0

3,3

232,4

0,5

2,4

West Kazakhstan reg.

359,3

5,0

4,8

326,0

4,8

4,6

166,3

1,3

2,3

Karaganda region

902,8

8,7

22,9

822,0

8,4

17,7

477,8

2,4

14,8

Kostanai region

430,5

2,8

5,1

405,9

2,7

4,3

241,1

0,9

2,7

Kyzylorda region

363,3

1,4

5,4

334,1

1,4

5,0

191,0

0,6

3,1

Mangistau region

435,4

5,7

14,7

397,0

5,5

14,4

209,5

1,7

7,9

Pavlodar region

533,1

5,7

13,1

482,7

5,4

12,3

274,7

1,7

7,8

North Kazakhstan reg.

249,9

2,2

5,5

230,9

2,0

4,3

133,4

0,4

3,4

South Kazakhstan reg.

809,4

6,3

15,9

754,8

6,1

15,4

404,6

1,2

9,7

Almaty city

1 940,8

2 200,7

140,5

1 743,8

1 954,8

77,8

781,2

271,1

82,9

Astana city

799,7

16,4

15,8

733,2

15,7

14,2

359,3

6,9

7,7

 

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.02.13

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

34 478

202

8 629

14 863

1 688

Akmola region

817

-

303

398

51

Aktobe region

1 394

5

477

497

103

Almaty region

902

3

353

292

81

Atyrau region

1 712

7

496

663

70

East Kazakhstan reg.

2 218

17

694

936

130

Jambul region

701

4

307

320

78

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 190

5

328

440

73

Karaganda region

2 511

11

763

955

199

Kostanai region

1 353

6

361

531

63

Kyzylorda region

491

3

240

210

49

Mangistau region

1 324

5

428

605

81

Pavlodar region

1 736

6

520

832

100

North Kazakhstan reg.

889

2

263

399

56

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 505

6

527

582

102

Almaty city

11 096

108

1 685

4 964

303

Astana city

4 639

14

884

2 239

149

 

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

January

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

2 612.4

9 468.4

Visa International

1 843.6

7 528.2

MasterCard Worldwide

542.9

1 384.8

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

47 800.9

298 119.2

Visa International

31 414.0

234 519.0

MasterCard Worldwide

11 901.7

41 742.0

2013

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 781,9

10 466,8

Visa International

2 865,6

8 194,3

MasterCard Worldwide

625,9

1 414,9

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

65 185,8

354 639,6

Visa International

47 889,5

276 621,7

MasterCard Worldwide

9 494,0

47 044,0

Dynamics (%)

Number

44,8%

10,5%

Visa International

55,4%

8,8%

MasterCard Worldwide

15,3%

2,2%

Volume

36,4%

19,0%

Visa International

52,4%

18,0%

MasterCard Worldwide

-20,2%

12,7%

 

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

January

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

3 044,4

50 218,4

10 318,2

348 505,2

Akmola region

31,5

1 037,1

346,4

9 873,5

Aktobe region

102,4

2 637,2

576,2

18 196,1

Almaty region

74,4

4 592,9

437,9

13 716,3

Atyrau region

84,9

3 276,3

527,9

18 212,9

East Kazakhstan reg.

127,8

1 473,0

893,7

27 165,3

Jambul region

57,1

1 003,2

429,9

13 388,5

West Kazakhstan reg.

68,0

1 423,9

366,2

10 936,9

Karaganda region

136,3

2 064,3

1 017,4

31 229,3

Kostanai region

467,5

895,1

475,3

14 726,3

Kyzylorda region

84,6

1 326,6

341,1

11 825,5

Mangistau region

111,6

2 132,7

519,7

23 593,5

Pavlodar region

87,7

1 809,6

548,3

17 606,8

North Kazakhstan reg.

31,6

346,2

284,9

7 756,9

South Kazakhstan reg.

70,1

2 303,5

726,3

22 711,2

Almaty city

1 163,4

18 355,2

1 839,9

72 282,4

Astana city

345,2

5 541,6

987,1

35 284,0

 

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