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As of February 01, 2012 actual origination of the payment cards were mainly realized by 21 banks and JSC “Kazpost”. These institutes issue and distribute payment cards of the international systems (their share consists of 96.7%) 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 February 01, 2012 Banks have issued 9.9ln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 9.2mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2011, there is a growth of 17,1% and 17,1% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 85,9%, the share of credit cards - 12,5%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,5% and 0,1% respectively.

In January 2012 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 345,9 bln.tenge (growth against January 2011 has totaled 36,1%). The number of transactions reached 12,1mln and increased by 21,6% versus January 2011. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 21,7% (2,6mln transactions) and 38,6% (47,8bln tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 21,6% (9,5mln transactions) and 35,7%(298,1bln tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (46,1% and 75,1% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs  (42,0% and 16,6% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (97,9% 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 01.02.11

As of 01.02.12

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

8 477.7

9 931.2

Visa International, of which:

6 923.5

8 212.8

debit

-

6 944.9

credit

-

1 167.7

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

-

100.2

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 369.4

1 374.6

debit

-

1 254.7

credit

-

58.3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

-

61.6

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

7 847.2

9 185.5

Visa International, of which:

6 357.8

7 598.6

debit

-

6 424.2

credit

-

1 086.3

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

-

88.1

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 312.7

1 258.3

debit

-

1 140.8

credit

-

56.5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

-

61.0

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

3 941.1

4 562.3

Visa International, of which:

3 185.8

3 691.8

debit

-

3 461.5

credit

-

183.8

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

-

46.5

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

661.7

688.9

debit

-

614.9

credit

-

36.5

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

-

37.5

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

26 048

28 739

commercial enterprises

21 287

23 799

banks

4 761

4 940

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

694

661

commercial enterprises

396

408

banks

298

253

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

7 641

8 132

with cash distribution function

-

7 209

with cash reception and distribution functions

-

923

Number of  commercial enterprises (units)

10 789

12 205

Number of bank’s booths (units)

-

1 425

  

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.02.12

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.

8 532.4

1 236.6

162.2

7 882.8

1 153.1

149.5

4 251.4

226.6

84.3

Akmola region                

284.0

1.8

6.5

269.0

1.7

6.4

167.5

0.7

3.5

Aktobe region

505.3

3.3

5.1

479.6

3.2

4.8

240.2

1.3

2.1

Almaty region

352.5

2.5

11.7

325.2

2.3

11.5

190.5

0.6

7.4

Atyrau region                   

420.8

6.8

9.1

386.8

6.6

8.9

197.7

3.3

4.6

East Kazakhstan reg.

724.4

9.0

10.7

653.9

8.6

10.1

383.4

2.4

6.9

Jambul region

357.2

0.9

3.1

337.2

0.9

3.0

209.4

0.4

2.0

West Kazakhstan reg.

313.0

3.2

5.3

290.0

3.0

5.2

154.5

1.2

2.2

Karaganda region               

827.1

7.4

16.2

764.1

7.2

15.2

447.5

2.7

9.2

Kostanai region                 

376.4

2.4

3.6

356.7

2.4

3.3

210.5

0.9

1.6

Kyzylorda region

326.5

1.4

5.2

304.9

1.3

5.1

178.6

0.6

2.6

Mangistau region                

405.7

3.8

13.6

366.9

3.7

13.3

194.5

1.8

6.9

Pavlodar region

467.9

4.8

11.6

432.7

4.6

10.6

244.8

1.6

7.1

North Kazakhstan reg.

220.3

1.4

4.0

206.5

1.3

3.9

120.6

0.4

2.0

South Kazakhstan reg.

654.0

4.6

13.1

613.6

4.3

12.9

326.8

1.3

8.3

Almaty city

1 618.1

1 168.7

32.2

1 464.7

1 088.0

24.6

677.0

199.4

12.9

Astana city                    

678.9

14.7

11.3

631.2

14.1

11.0

307.9

8.2

4.9

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.02.12

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of  commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Итого, в т.ч.

28 739

661

8 132

12 205

1 425

Akmola region                

681

-

293

350

59

Aktobe region

1 148

9

454

455

88

Almaty region

672

10

331

215

63

Atyrau region                   

1 397

41

469

541

64

East Kazakhstan reg.

1 788

17

667

830

106

Jambul region

690

4

288

305

72

West Kazakhstan reg.

918

16

307

369

57

Karaganda region               

1 929

20

734

787

141

Kostanai region                 

925

11

336

369

54

Kyzylorda region

440

5

231

191

45

Mangistau region                

1 063

11

409

485

68

Pavlodar region

1 478

13

495

692

88

North Kazakhstan reg.

729

4

241

356

46

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 125

8

498

438

82

Almaty city

9 840

442

1 559

4 008

271

Astana city

3 916

50

820

1 814

121

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

January

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

2011

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

2 146.9

7 784.3

Visa International

1 755.1

6 334.0

MasterCard Worldwide

351.5

1 255.9

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

34 481.9

219 663.5

Visa International

25 038.2

183 028.3

MasterCard Worldwide

8 550.8

31 226.7

2012

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

2 612.4

9 468.4

Visa International

1 843.6

7 528.2

MasterCard Worldwide

542.9

1 384.8

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

47 800.9

298 119.2

Visa International

31 414.0

234 519.0

MasterCard Worldwide

11 901.7

41 742.0

Dynamics (%)

Number

21.7%

21.6%

Visa International

5.0%

18.9%

MasterCard Worldwide

54.5%

10.3%

Volume

38.6%

35.7%

Visa International

25.5%

28.1%

MasterCard Worldwide

39.2%

33.7%

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

January

Cashless payments

Cash withdrawals

Number of transactions(thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Number of transactions(thousand)

Amount (mln.tenge)

Total, incl.

2 185.7

38 224.3

9 489.5

293 219.6

Akmola region                 

20.4

705.2

335.2

8 504.0

Aktobe region

86.8

1 314.8

529.2

15 156.5

Almaty region

56.9

1 215.6

396.3

11 579.4

Atyrau region                   

70.9

5 339.7

504.9

15 912.0

East Kazakhstan reg.

110.6

923.1

832.9

22 823.0

Jambul region

51.3

527.6

392.3

11 382.3

West Kazakhstan reg.

63.7

1 832.2

354.1

9 643.4

Karaganda region               

91.5

3 048.4

990.9

27 354.7

Kostanai region                 

231.2

710.4

437.5

12 055.1

Kyzylorda region

60.1

636.6

326.9

10 377.2

Mangistau region                

81.7

1 241.2

472.5

18 887.2

Pavlodar region

79.1

564.4

495.7

14 015.6

North Kazakhstan reg.

25.9

175.9

270.7

6 749.0

South Kazakhstan reg.

49.1

1 444.7

645.9

19 173.6

Almaty city

850.2

14 591.6

1 624.9

60 979.2

Astana city

256.3

3 953.0

879.6

28 627.5

 

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