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As of November 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 November 01, 2012 Banks have issued 11,8mln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 10,7mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2011, there is a growth of 25,5% and 23,5% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 81,3%, the share of credit cards - 16,5%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,4% and 0,7% respectively.

In October 2012 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 497,2 bln.tenge (growth against October 2011 has totaled 25,9%). The number of transactions reached 16,8mln and increased by 20,8% versus October 2011. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 44,4% (3,9mln transactions) and 43,0% (75,0bln tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 15,2% (12,9mln transactions) and 23,2%(422,2bln tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (45,6% and 64,8% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs  (39,5% and 23,4% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (97,8% and 88,8% 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 01.11.11

As of 01.11.12

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

9 367,0

11 753,3

Visa International, of which:

7 797,8

9 795,2

debit

6 794,7

7 723,4

credit

904,3

1 884,4

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

98,8

187,5

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 301,8

1 403,5

debit

1 188,5

1 293,6

credit

57,8

49,2

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

55,6

60,7

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

8 703,0

10 748,1

Visa International, of which:

7 239,4

8 948,9

debit

6 336,5

7 089,7

credit

810,8

1 714,1

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

92,1

145,1

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 210,2

1 292,5

debit

1 098,8

1 185,7

credit

56,4

46,7

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

55,0

60,1

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

4 254,5

5 642,4

Visa International, of which:

3 475,7

4 550,0

debit

3 250,0

4 179,2

credit

176,5

244,1

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

49,2

126,7

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

640,1

731,8

debit

570,8

678,5

credit

34,7

24,4

    Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

34,6

28,9

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

27 984

31 631

commercial enterprises

23 152

25 650

banks

4 832

5 981

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

617

206

commercial enterprises

388

82

banks

229

124

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

7 974

8 571

with cash distribution function

7 113

7 354

with cash reception and distribution functions

861

1 217

Number of  commercial enterprises (units)

11 832

13 176

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 373

1 619

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.11.12

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.

9 559,7

1 944,9

248,7

8 770,5 

1 772,0

205,6

5 210,4 

276,1

155,8 

Akmola region

310,9

2,2

7,0

290,8

2,0

6,7

198,8

0,7

4,1

Aktobe region

550,6

4,3

5,0

518,0

4,2

4,9

288,3

1,5

2,4

Almaty region

408,7

4,4

14,0

381,9

4,1

13,6

249,8

0,7

8,8

Atyrau region

457,5

7,8

10,7

420,0

7,4

10,3

230,2

2,6

5,6

East Kazakhstan reg.

819,6

11,3

11,0

735,2

10,8

10,1

448,3

2,5

6,9

Jambul region

395,0

2,0

3,3

372,0

1,9

3,1

246,2

0,4

2,1

West Kazakhstan reg.

350,3

5,0

4,7

319,7

4,8

4,5

189,5

1,3

2,1

Karaganda region

898,3

8,9

18,3

814,2

8,6

16,0

530,0

2,6

10,7

Kostanai region

421,4

3,0

4,3

399,0

2,9

4,0

260,6

1,0

2,1

Kyzylorda region

354,2

1,4

5,1

328,0

1,3

5,0

212,6

0,6

2,7

Mangistau region

427,5

5,6

14,6

390,1

5,4

14,3

230,8

1,7

7,7

Pavlodar region

523,0

5,6

12,3

477,7

5,3

11,9

303,1

1,7

7,8

North Kazakhstan reg.

244,9

2,2

4,2

227,5

2,0

3,8

143,2

0,4

2,1

South Kazakhstan reg.

772,4

6,3

15,3

724,8

6,1

15,0

454,8

1,3

9,4

Almaty city

1 853,4

1 857,6

105,2

1 664,0

1 688,5

69,5

837,1

248,9

74,8

Astana city

772,1

17,3

13,6

707,7

16,6

12,9

387,2

8,1

6,5

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.11.12

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of  commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

31 631

206

8 571

13 176

1 619

Akmola region

769

-

297

365

53

Aktobe region

1 331

5

472

454

96

Almaty region

846

3

368

237

79

Atyrau region

1 548

8

488

586

67

East Kazakhstan reg.

1 955

17

693

776

127

Jambul region

644

4

309

286

77

West Kazakhstan reg.

1 086

5

321

379

67

Karaganda region

2 213

11

756

767

197

Kostanai region

1 120

6

355

423

63

Kyzylorda region

455

3

239

187

48

Mangistau region

1 226

5

433

534

76

Pavlodar region

1 570

6

525

708

98

North Kazakhstan reg.

835

2

264

368

54

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 358

6

525

444

92

Almaty city

10 329

110

1 652

4 583

287

Astana city

4 346

15

874

2 079

138

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

October

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2011

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

2 689,6

11 209,5

Visa International

2 089,8

9 003,7

MasterCard Worldwide

436,2

1 531,0

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

52 419,1

342 629,7

Visa International

36 064,8

271 796,9

MasterCard Worldwide

11 704,4

44 197,0

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 882,5

12 911,6

Visa International

3 004,8

10 231,5

MasterCard Worldwide

645,4

1 702,8

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

74 973,4

422 196,9

Visa International

56 488,7

331 395,6

MasterCard Worldwide

10 381,5

54 100,2

Dynamics (%)

Number

44,4%

15,2%

Visa International

43,8%

13,6%

MasterCard Worldwide

48,0%

11,2%

Volume

43,0%

23,2%

Visa International

56,6%

21,9%

MasterCard Worldwide

-11,3%

22,4%

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

October

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions(thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions(thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

3 174,3

62 202,4

12 775,5

417 918,9

Akmola region

34,7

1 154,8

442,9

12 414,0

Aktobe region

113,4

3 717,0

699,9

21 083,5

Almaty region

88,5

3 752,7

554,3

17 914,6

Atyrau region

94,0

3 255,4

649,5

22 031,2

East Kazakhstan reg.

155,2

1 459,0

1 061,8

31 371,9

Jambul region

72,9

2 050,5

543,5

16 705,7

West Kazakhstan reg.

84,0

1 957,5

472,6

13 647,5

Karaganda region

147,2

3 185,5

1 235,7

36 730,8

Kostanai region

490,5

1 194,2

561,7

16 464,2

Kyzylorda region

108,9

2 350,7

444,5

15 372,3

Mangistau region

118,2

2 732,1

606,2

25 621,3

Pavlodar region

106,2

3 331,9

646,2

19 705,8

North Kazakhstan reg.

34,8

484,8

351,5

9 255,7

South Kazakhstan reg.

73,4

3 600,6

892,5

28 436,3

Almaty city

1 094,9

21 088,3

2 370,2

89 475,4

Astana city

357,4

6 887,3

1 242,5

41 688,8

 

 

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