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As of June 01, 2012 actual origination of the payment cards were mainly realized by 22 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 June 01, 2012 Banks have issued 10.8mln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 9.9mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2011, there is a growth of 21,2% and 21,9% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 82,7%, the share of credit cards - 15,8%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,4% and 0,1% respectively.

In May 2012 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 473,4 bln.tenge (growth against May 2011 has totaled 36,8%). The number of transactions reached 16,4mln and increased by 25,6% versus May 2011. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 37,1% (3,6mln transactions) and 45,2% (67,8bln tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 22,8% (12,9mln transactions) and 35,5%(405,6bln tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (44,0% and 64,5% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs  (44,5% and 25,0% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (98,1% 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 01.06.11

As of 01.06.12

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

8 892.2

10 780.2

Visa International, of which:

7 345.9

8 911.2

debit

6 375.6

7 175.7

credit

857.0

1 631.6

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

113.2

103.9

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 349.3

1 412.5

debit

1 250.5

1 294.9

credit

56.5

54.1

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

42.2

63.5

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

8 102.4

9 875.4

Visa International, of which:

6 690.5

8 172.4

debit

5 950.4

6 634.7

credit

640.2

1 445.5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

99.9

92.2

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 226.3

1 293.8

debit

1 138.2

1 180.2

credit

49.7

50.8

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

38.5

62.9

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

4 252.4

4 825.8

Visa International, of which:

3 463.4

3 864.9

debit

3 206.6

3 585.0

credit

196.0

226.7

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

60.8

53.2

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

684.8

720.4

debit

622.4

657.3

credit

35.7

27.5

    Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

26.7

35.7

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

26 449

29 291

commercial enterprises

21 637

24 423

banks

4 812

4 868

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

661

234

commercial enterprises

386

98

banks

275

136

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

7 759

8 242

with cash distribution function

6 950

7 307

with cash reception and distribution functions

809

935

Number of  commercial enterprises (units)

11 205

12 363

Number of bank’s booths (units)

1 154

1 547

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.06.12

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.

8 913.2

1 699.1

167.9

8 210.6

1 509.3

155.5

4 474.7

261.9

89.1

Akmola region                

293.2

2.3

6.7

275.3

2.2

6.6

174.4

0.7

3.7

Aktobe region

521.2

4.6

5.0

493.2

4.5

4.9

254.5

1.5

2.3

Almaty region

375.1

4.3

12.8

351.4

4.0

12.6

209.9

0.6

8.1

Atyrau region                   

429.6

8.0

9.6

396.1

7.6

9.4

203.3

2.8

5.1

East Kazakhstan reg.

765.5

12.3

10.7

689.4

11.6

10.0

400.3

2.6

6.8

Jambul region

370.2

1.8

3.1

350.3

1.6

3.0

213.4

0.4

2.0

West Kazakhstan reg.

321.6

5.1

5.0

295.9

4.8

4.9

159.9

1.3

2.2

Karaganda region               

855.8

10.4

16.6

779.8

10.0

15.4

461.9

2.8

9.2

Kostanai region                  

390.8

3.1

3.7

369.3

3.0

3.3

221.1

1.0

1.6

Kyzylorda region

336.8

1.9

5.2

311.8

1.8

5.1

185.1

0.6

2.7

Mangistau region                

409.3

5.8

14.1

374.9

5.5

13.8

201.9

1.7

7.4

Pavlodar region

490.4

6.1

11.8

450.4

5.7

10.7

258.8

1.7

7.2

North Kazakhstan reg.

228.0

2.2

3.9

213.2

2.1

3.8

123.2

0.4

1.9

South Kazakhstan reg.

703.8

6.8

14.2

659.9

6.5

14.0

369.0

1.3

9.1

Almaty city

1 709.0

1 606.3

33.7

1 541.7

1 421.4

26.4

711.6

234.3

14.7

Astana city                    

712.9

18.0

12.0

657.8

17.1

11.7

326.3

8.0

5.3

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.06.12

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of  commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Total, incl.

29 291

234

8 242

12 363

1 547

Akmola region                

675

-

294

340

60

Aktobe region

1 275

5

460

465

90

Almaty region

734

3

333

214

76

Atyrau region                   

1 481

12

472

564

64

East Kazakhstan reg.

1 798

17

674

793

125

Jambul region

630

4

287

283

74

West Kazakhstan reg.

990

5

311

381

63

Karaganda region               

1 903

13

736

756

195

Kostanai region                 

1 006

8

343

400

56

Kyzylorda region

458

4

231

186

46

Mangistau region                

1 121

6

411

503

70

Pavlodar region

1 460

6

505

659

97

North Kazakhstan reg.

753

2

248

355

50

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 096

7

499

427

81

Almaty city

9 918

126

1 612

4 109

270

Astana city

3 993

16

826

1 928

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

May

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2011

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

2 595.4

10 479.2

Visa International

1 985.7

8 326.8

MasterCard Worldwide

454.7

1 600.7

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

46 720.2

299 387.8

Visa International

32 346.9

235 059.9

MasterCard Worldwide

9 847.1

43 216.0

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

3 558.8

12 866.7

Visa International

2 736.6

10 126.6

MasterCard Worldwide

627.6

1 872.0

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

67 835.0

405 579.6

Visa International

45 323.6

315 536.6

MasterCard Worldwide

15 604.7

56 475.5

Dynamics (%)

Number

37.1%

22.8%

Visa International

37.8%

21.6%

MasterCard Worldwide

38.0%

16.9%

Volume

45.2%

35.5%

Visa International

40.1%

34.2%

MasterCard Worldwide

58.5%

30.7%

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

May

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions(thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions(thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

2 973.9

58 070.5

12 753.5

401 061.0

Akmola region

35.1

2 162.8

451.8

12 238.7

Aktobe region

109.7

2 472.7

684.4

20 397.9

Almaty region

98.6

2 599.2

587.7

18 188.4

Atyrau region

86.0

7 339.3

656.6

21 417.6

East Kazakhstan reg.

143.6

1 564.5

1 040.9

30 148.7

Jambul region

106.6

1 895.5

911.2

24 666.2

West Kazakhstan reg.

74.6

1 935.2

462.6

13 480.8

Karaganda region

126.3

1 508.2

1 199.3

33 545.8

Kostanai region

480.7

1 492.1

603.0

16 682.6

Kyzylorda region

112.8

1 511.0

470.1

16 935.3

Mangistau region

121.9

4 258.0

618.1

23 663.0

Pavlodar region

115.8

1 710.5

707.9

20 365.3

North Kazakhstan reg.

35.0

496.3

358.8

9 688.0

South Kazakhstan reg.

66.2

2 410.5

847.9

26 679.8

Almaty city

940.0

18 517.6

2 016.8

77 020.4

Astana city

320.9

6 196.8

1 136.3

35 942.6

 

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