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As of December 01, 2012 actual origination of the payment cards were mainly realized by 25 banks and JSC “Kazpost”. These institutes issue and distribute payment cards of the international systems (their share consists of 95,5%) 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 December 01, 2012 Banks have issued 12,0mln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 10,9mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2011, there is a growth of 26,9% and 24,3% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 80,5%, the share of credit cards - 17,0%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,4% and 1,1% respectively.

In November 2012 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 491,2 bln.tenge (growth against November 2011 has totaled 22,6%). The number of transactions reached 16,3mln and increased by 19,9% versus November 2011. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 41,4% (number of transactions -3,9mln transactions) and 22,6% (the volume of transactions - 72,0bln. tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 14,5% (number of transactions -12,5mln transactions) and 22,5%( the volume of transactions - 419,2bln. tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (45,5% and 64,6% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs  (38,5% and 23,6% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (97,7% and 88,4% 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 01.12.11

As of 01.12.12

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

9 477,3

12 026,0

Visa International, of which:

7 856,6

10 027,3

debit

6 855,9

7 804,9

credit

903,8

1 982,5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

97,0

239,8

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 321,0

1 426,9

debit

1 205,6

1 316,5

credit

58,2

50,1

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

57,2

60,3

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

8 796,5

10 932,9

Visa International, of which:

7 292,1

9 096,5

debit

6 387,4

7 130,8

credit

814,4

1 795,2

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

90,3

170,6

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 224,8

1 308,7

debit

1 111,5

1 202,7

credit

56,6

46,4

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

56,6

59,6

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

3 986,0

5 539,9

Visa International, of which:

3 237,7

4 472,8

debit

3 029,2

4 063,8

credit

160,7

250,0

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

47,8

158,9

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

622,3

718,6

debit

551,7

666,3

credit

35,1

24,6

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

35,5

27,7

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

28 308

32 216

commercial enterprises

23 447

26 230

banks

4 861

5 986

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

613

206

commercial enterprises

384

82

banks

229

124

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

8 044

8 566

with cash distribution function

7 155

7 540

with cash reception and distribution functions

889

1 026

Number of commercial enterprises (units)

12 004

13 462

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 401

1 631

 

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.12.12

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.

9 681,5

2044,0

300,5

8849,5

1852,8

230,6

5071,0

282,1

186,8

Akmola region

312,9

2,0

7,3

292,5

1,9

6,8

198,5

0,6

4,2

Aktobe region

555,4

4,3

5,1

521,7

4,1

4,9

284,3

1,5

2,5

Almaty region

415,2

4,4

14,3

388,1

4,1

13,9

239,3

0,7

9,0

Atyrau region

459,4

7,8

10,9

422,5

7,3

10,6

226,5

2,7

5,8

East Kazakhstan reg.

827,8

11,3

11,6

744,1

10,7

10,4

446,4

2,4

7,4

Jambul region

400,5

2,0

3,4

376,4

1,9

3,2

248,1

0,4

2,2

West Kazakhstan reg.

355,2

5,0

4,8

313,8

4,7

4,6

183,2

1,3

2,2

Karaganda region

906,8

8,9

20,1

824,2

8,5

16,6

506,5

2,5

12,1

Kostanai region

426,4

2,8

4,5

402,3

2,7

4,0

250,2

0,9

2,2

Kyzylorda region

359,5

1,4

5,2

330,2

1,3

5,0

206,4

0,6

2,8

Mangistau region

431,0

5,6

14,6

393,2

5,4

14,4

224,2

1,7

7,8

Pavlodar region

532,6

5,6

12,5

470,9

5,3

11,9

277,8

1,7

7,3

North Kazakhstan reg.

250,1

2,2

4,4

230,4

2,0

4,0

144,8

0,4

2,3

South Kazakhstan reg.

786,5

6,3

15,5

735,0

5,9

15,1

429,9

1,2

9,5

Almaty city

1 880,3

1 957,5

151,7

1 684,8

1 771,0

91,7

823,4

255,9

102,7

Astana city

781,9

16,8

14,6

719,6

16,0

13,5

381,6

7,5

6,8

 

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.12.12

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

32 216

206

8 566

13 462

1 631

Akmola region

788

-

298

376

50

Aktobe region

1 305

5

475

448

98

Almaty region

836

3

347

246

80

Atyrau region

1 563

8

489

600

70

East Kazakhstan reg.

2 032

17

696

822

127

Jambul region

653

4

305

292

77

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 103

5

323

384

68

Karaganda region

2 303

11

763

794

196

Kostanai region

1 155

6

356

436

62

Kyzylorda region

456

3

239

189

48

Mangistau region

1 253

5

431

560

80

Pavlodar region

1 593

6

522

729

97

North Kazakhstan reg.

835

2

263

374

54

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 321

6

525

439

98

Almaty city

10 591

110

1 660

4 669

284

Astana city

4 429

15

874

2 104

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

November

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2011

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

2 711,7

10 904,3

Visa International

2 098,7

8 777,6

MasterCard Worldwide

443,4

1 484,3

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

58 759,1

342 083,4

Visa International

41 685,7

274 603,6

MasterCard Worldwide

12 194,7

43 981,1

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 833,6

12 486,4

Visa International

2 925,3

9 888,5

MasterCard Worldwide

628,8

1 631,7

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

72 016,7

419 217,3

Visa International

54 040,5

328 534,0

MasterCard Worldwide

9 531,4

53 499,5

Dynamics (%)

Number

41,37%

14,51%

Visa International

39,39%

12,66%

MasterCard Worldwide

41,81%

9,93%

Volume

22,56%

22,55%

Visa International

29,64%

19,64%

MasterCard Worldwide

-21,84%

21,64%

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

November

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions (thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

3 177,8

60 268,2

12 376,3

413 969,3

Akmola region

34,5

1 080,4

427,6

12 393,6

Aktobe region

111,5

3 307,3

684,8

20 931,6

Almaty region

95,2

4 690,0

520,6

17 019,3

Atyrau region

94,1

3 769,1

629,5

21 591,7

East Kazakhstan reg.

137,4

1 662,0

1 037,3

31 528,6

Jambul region

99,8

2 287,8

512,2

16 116,4

West Kazakhstan reg.

72,6

1 256,1

466,1

13 749,1

Karaganda region

138,1

3 335,0

1 193,5

36 967,1

Kostanai region

490,9

1 216,3

546,4

16 783,9

Kyzylorda region

105,4

1 372,0

428,1

14 787,7

Mangistau region

126,3

2 719,6

563,3

23 531,9

Pavlodar region

107,5

2 272,8

611,5

19 228,5

North Kazakhstan reg.

36,7

510,5

348,1

9 373,9

South Kazakhstan reg.

71,7

3 182,4

868,6

27 814,0

Almaty city

1 113,3

20 680,4

2 330,1

89 669,7

Astana city

342,9

6 926,4

1 208,8

42 482,3

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