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As of July 01, 2012 actual origination of the payment cards were mainly realized by 23 banks and JSC “Kazpost”. These institutes issue and distribute payment cards of the international systems (their share consists of 96.0%) 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 July 01, 2012 Banks have issued 11.0mln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 10.0mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2011, there is a growth of 23,6% and 22,7% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 82,1%, the share of credit cards - 16,3%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,4% and 0,1% respectively.

In June 2012 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 480,9 bln.tenge (growth against June 2011 has totaled 27,0%). The number of transactions reached 15,9mln and increased by 20,1% versus June 2011. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 32,2% (3,4mln transactions) and 24,3% (60,1bln tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 17,2% (12,6mln transactions) and 27,4%(420,9bln tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (45,5% and 65,4% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs  (42,4% and 25,4% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (98,0% and 88,7% 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 01.07.11

As of 01.07.12

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

8 898,8

11 000,5

Visa International, of which:

7 321,1

9 126,6

debit

6 300,9

7 290,9

credit

915,7

1 721,5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

104,6

114,2

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 319,5

1 397,1

debit

1 218,6

1 280,1

credit

56,6

53,5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

44,2

63,5

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

8 190,1

10 048,5

Visa International, of which:

6 715,9

8 333,9

debit

5 896,1

6 740,6

credit

721,8

1 500,6

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

98,0

92,7

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 229,4

1 285,7

debit

1 130,4

1 172,8

credit

55,4

50,1

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

43,7

62,8

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

4 169,2

4 639,2

Visa International, of which:

3 379,5

3 717,5

debit

3 125,4

3 444,8

credit

198,6

217,8

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

55,5

55,0

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

669,7

684,9

debit

605,1

623,5

credit

36,0

26,9

    Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

28,5

34,5

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

26 758

29 433

commercial enterprises

21 940

24 550

banks

4 818

4 883

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

658

222

commercial enterprises

386

98

banks

272

124

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

7 783

8 285

with cash distribution function

6 968

7 318

with cash reception and distribution functions

815

967

Number of  commercial enterprises (units)

11 266

12 406

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 261

1 548

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.07.12

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.

9 033,4

1 789,0

178.1

8 328,3

1 564,3

155.9

4 296,9

252,7

89.7

Akmola region                

296,0

2,3

6,8

277,9

2,1

6,7

164,9

0,7

3,7

Aktobe region

525,2

4,5

4,9

498,4

4,3

4,8

246,3

1,5

2,3

Almaty region

381,1

4,3

13,0

357,1

4,0

12,8

199,0

0,6

8,3

Atyrau region                   

435,9

8,1

9,8

402,1

7,6

9,6

195,5

2,6

5,1

East Kazakhstan reg.

776,7

12,3

10,6

699,9

11,6

9,9

383,3

2,6

6,7

Jambul region

373,9

1,7

3,1

354,6

1,6

3,0

198,2

0,4

2,0

West Kazakhstan reg.

325,2

5,1

4,9

300,4

4,8

4,8

151,0

1,3

2,2

Karaganda region               

864,3

10,3

16,5

787,6

9,8

15,2

442,4

2,7

9,0

Kostanai region                  

396,3

3,1

3,8

374,9

3,0

3,4

214,3

1,0

1,7

Kyzylorda region

339,5

1,9

5,1

315,2

1,8

5,0

173,6

0,6

2,6

Mangistau region                

414,3

5,8

14,3

378,0

5,6

14,0

191,0

1,6

7,4

Pavlodar region

497,5

6,1

11,6

456,8

5,5

10,3

248,6

1,7

7,1

North Kazakhstan reg.

229,8

2,2

3,9

216,3

2,1

3,8

115,6

0,4

1,9

South Kazakhstan reg.

720,5

6,8

14,4

676,6

6,5

14,2

360,7

1,4

9,0

Almaty city

1 738,2

1 696,7

43,5

1 568,5

1 477,0

26,7

695,2

225,8

15,2

Astana city                    

718,7

17,9

12,0

664,0

16,9

11,7

317,3

7,6

5,3

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.07.12

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of  commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

29 433

222

8 285

12 406

1 548

Akmola region

684

-

296

348

60

Aktobe region

1 285

5

461

470

91

Almaty region

730

3

336

207

74

Atyrau region

1 480

8

471

565

64

East Kazakhstan reg.

1 732

17

677

745

125

Jambul region

626

4

287

283

76

West Kazakhstan reg.

978

5

316

364

64

Karaganda region

1 882

11

738

720

195

Kostanai region

1 020

6

346

399

56

Kyzylorda region

453

3

234

177

45

Mangistau region 

1 172

5

411

505

70

Pavlodar region

1 485

6

514

659

97

North Kazakhstan reg.

759

2

250

352

51

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 112

6

505

412

84

Almaty city

10 010

126

1 615

4 292

266

Astana city

4 025

15

828

1 908

130

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

June

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2011

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

2 543,9

10 704,1

Visa International

1 924,4

8 440,1

MasterCard Worldwide

448,4

1 624,5

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

48 319,1

330 392,7

Visa International

33 386,4

252 795,4

MasterCard Worldwide

9 220,7

46 924,0

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 363,1

12 550,0

Visa International

2 559,4

9 861,3

MasterCard Worldwide

599,1

1 815,9

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

60 074,2

420 866,3

Visa International

44 509,7

325 850,2

MasterCard Worldwide

9 212,4

59 131,7

Dynamics (%)

Number

32,2%

17,2%

Visa International

33,0%

16,8%

MasterCard Worldwide

33,6%

11,8%

Volume

24,3%

27,4%

Visa International

33,3%

28,9%

MasterCard Worldwide

-0,1%

26,0%

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

June

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions(thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions(thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

2 845,5

50 144,3

12 490,4

417 607,3

Akmola region

30,8

1 463,0

447,4

12 803,6

Aktobe region

104,2

2 578,8

702,0

24 431,2

Almaty region

79,2

3 171,2

524,4

17 639,1

Atyrau region

83,8

2 588,4

642,9

22 244,5

East Kazakhstan reg.

151,4

1 397,9

1 080,8

32 888,5

Jambul region

64,0

1 326,9

519,9

16 880,3

West Kazakhstan reg.

80,5

1 909,1

457,1

13 263,3

Karaganda region

134,5

1 449,5

1 320,1

39 610,5

Kostanai region

433,4

1 312,6

533,8

15 972,6

Kyzylorda region

101,2

1 359,0

368,5

13 753,4

Mangistau region

101,2

3 144,9

567,8

23 619,6

Pavlodar region

100,5

1 321,4

618,6

18 734,0

North Kazakhstan reg.

32,7

467,3

351,8

9 520,7

South Kazakhstan reg.

63,0

2 488,7

897,0

30 823,9

Almaty city

961,5

18 094,7

2 263,1

85 829,9

Astana city

323,7

6 070,8

1 195,2

39 592,2

 

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