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As of January 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 95,1%) 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 January 01, 2013 Banks have issued 12,1mln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 11,1mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2012, there is a growth of 26,9% and 25,1% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 80,0%, the share of credit cards - 17,6%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,4% and 1,1% respectively.

In December 2012 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 589,8 bln.tenge (growth against December 2011 has totaled 16,7%). The number of transactions reached 18,8mln and increased by 11,5% versus December 2011. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 32,4% (number of transactions -4,3mln transactions) and 28,0% (the volume of transactions - 78,2bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 6,5% (number of transactions -14,5mln transactions) and 15,1%( the volume of transactions - 511,6bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (45,1% and 61,9% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs  (38,2% and 25,8% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (97,6% 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 01.01.12

As of 01.01.13

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

9 568.8

12 139,8

Visa International, of which:

7 898.9

10 105,0

debit

6 902.9

7 796,8

credit

894.5

2 075,1

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

101.6

233,1

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 346.5

1 449,7

debit

1 227.9

1 341,3

credit

58.3

49,5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

60.2

58,9

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

8 855.4

11 081,2

Visa International, of which:

7 301.7

9 197,7

debit

6 402.3

7 146,4

credit

810.0

1 890,3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

89.5

161,0

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 244.6

1 341,8

debit

1 128.3

1 237,0

credit

56.6

46,5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

59.6

58,3

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

4 518.9

6 346,3

Visa International, of which:

3 643.5

5 091,2

debit

3 450.6

4 654,2

credit

146.0

261,5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

46.9

175,5

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

708.1

807,8

debit

633.7

755,8

credit

36.6

25,0

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

37.8

27,0

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

28 597

33 318

commercial enterprises

23 707

27 325

banks

4 890

5 993

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

613

202

commercial enterprises

383

82

banks

230

120

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

8 110

8 652

with cash distribution function

7 196

7 612

with cash reception and distribution functions

914

1 040

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

12 033

14 173

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 422

1 678

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.01.13

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.

9 711,5

2 136,1

292,3

8 913,6

1 948,1

219,6

5 849,5

294,2

202,6

Akmola region

314,2

2,0

7,6

294,1

1,9

7,0

226,7

0,6

4,6

Aktobe region

555,8

4,3

5,1

522,1

4,1

4,8

326,0

1,5

2,6

Almaty region

416,8

4,4

14,6

390,0

4,1

14,1

279,9

0,7

9,2

Atyrau region

458,8

7,7

11,2

421,8

7,3

10,8

252,1

2,7

5,9

East Kazakhstan reg.

829,8

11,3

12,6

746,5

10,7

10,7

499,6

2,5

8,5

Jambul region

403,2

2,0

3,5

379,0

1,9

3,2

291,4

0,5

2,3

West Kazakhstan reg.

355,0

5,0

4,8

323,2

4,8

4,6

213,5

1,4

2,4

Karaganda region

899,2

8,7

21,6

820,4

8,4

17,2

577,9

2,5

14,2

Kostanai region

426,8

2,8

4,9

404,1

2,7

4,2

286,3

0,9

2,7

Kyzylorda region

360,1

1,4

5,2

331,8

1,3

5,0

241,3

0,6

2,9

Mangistau region

430,6

5,6

14,7

394,2

5,4

14,4

257,6

1,7

7,9

Pavlodar region

533,5

5,6

13,0

483,1

5,3

12,0

333,9

1,8

8,5

North Kazakhstan reg.

251,0

2,2

5,3

231,4

2,0

4,2

170,4

0,4

3,2

South Kazakhstan reg.

798,1

6,3

16,1

745,8

5,9

15,4

504,7

1,3

10,3

Almaty city

1 888,4

2 050,3

137,0

1 698,8

1 866,5

78,1

949,4

267,5

109,8

Astana city

790,2

16,5

15,2

727,3

15,8

13,8

438,8

7,6

7,7

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.01.13

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

33 318

202

8 652

14 173

1 678

Akmola region

829

-

307

424

51

Aktobe region

1 345

5

487

481

102

Almaty region

884

3

364

285

81

Atyrau region

1 528

7

464

583

71

East Kazakhstan reg.

2 145

17

705

901

130

Jambul region

682

4

309

311

78

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 208

5

368

456

70

Karaganda region

2 417

11

769

888

198

Kostanai region

1 244

6

360

454

65

Kyzylorda region

483

3

239

203

49

Mangistau region

1 337

5

428

634

82

Pavlodar region

1 671

6

521

790

99

North Kazakhstan reg.

854

2

255

379

57

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 577

6

580

631

104

Almaty city

10 662

108

1 625

4 654

299

Astana city

4 452

14

871

2 099

142

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

December

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2011

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 232.2

13 636.9

Visa International

2 504.2

10 944.8

MasterCard Worldwide

521.6

1 921.6

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

61 095.2

444 287.1

Visa International

43 433.7

354 364.7

MasterCard Worldwide

12 721.4

62 682.6

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

4 279,0

14 524,2

Visa International

3 217,0

11 460,2

MasterCard Worldwide

740,3

1 987,9

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

78 173,3

511 578,5

Visa International

58 168,2

401 580,3

MasterCard Worldwide

11 353,1

68 525,4

Dynamics (%)

Number

32,4%

6,5%

Visa International

28,5%

4,7%

MasterCard Worldwide

41,9%

3,5%

Volume

28,0%

15,1%

Visa International

33,9%

13,3%

MasterCard Worldwide

-10,8%

9,3%

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

December

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount(mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

3 591,0

64 995,0

14 402,5

506 652,7

Akmola region

41,2

1 232,6

506,2

14 958,6

Aktobe region

128,5

2 995,7

818,2

27 171,0

Almaty region

93,7

4 317,5

616,8

20 625,7

Atyrau region

103,3

3 720,4

728,9

26 847,8

East Kazakhstan reg.

159,3

1 737,4

1 201,5

39 208,3

Jambul region

73,6

1 584,5

609,9

19 374,6

West Kazakhstan reg.

97,6

1 941,4

538,4

16 705,1

Karaganda region

160,7

3 675,0

1 363,1

42 884,0

Kostanai region

445,4

1 152,7

634,0

20 034,8

Kyzylorda region

109,9

1 487,1

512,0

18 515,4

Mangistau region

141,0

3 003,5

696,8

30 769,4

Pavlodar region

106,4

2 828,5

706,3

23 546,6

North Kazakhstan reg.

37,0

524,4

396,1

10 966,3

South Kazakhstan reg.

87,8

2 967,2

1 022,4

32 429,5

Almaty city

1 369,8

23 272,8

2 621,1

106 270,5

Astana city

435,9

8 554,2

1 430,7

56 345,1

 

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