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As of December 01, 2001 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 97.0%) 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 December 01, 2011 Banks have issued 9.5mln payment cards and a number of card holders reached 8.8mln (comparing the situation with the same date of 2010, there is a growth of 10,3% and 9,8% respectively).

The most widespread ones are the debit cards with the share of 88,1%, the share of credit cards - 10,3%. The share of debit cards with credit limit and of prepaid cards is 1,6% and 0,1% respectively.

In November 2011 the volume of transactions with credit cards issued by the Kazakhstani originators was 400,8 bln.tenge (growth against November 2010 has totaled 33,7%). The number of transactions reached 13,6mln and increased by 13,6% versus November 2010. At that, the number of payments and amount of the cashless payments went up to 14,2% (2,7mln transactions) and 46,3% (58,8bln tenge), operations with cash withdrawals 13,5% (10,9mln transactions) and 31,8%(342,1bln tenge) respectively.

The main bulk of cashless payments has been made through POS-terminals (42,7% and 77,0% out of the total number of payments and volume of cashless payments) and ATMs  (45,8% and 15,6% respectively). Transactions of cash withdrawals have been realized mainly through ATMs (97,8% 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 01.12.11

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

8 590.2

9 477.3

Visa International, of which:

7 017.3

7 856.6

debit

-

6 855.9

credit

-

903.8

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

-

97.0

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 385.0

1 321.0

debit

-

1 205.6

credit

-

58.2

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

-

57.2

Number of card holders (thousand), of which:

8 009.0

8 796.5

Visa International, of which:

6 493.0

7 292.1

debit

-

6 387.4

credit

-

814.4

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

-

90.3

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

1 336.2

1 224.8

debit

-

1 111.5

credit

-

56.6

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

-

56.6

Number of used cards (thousand), of which:

4 130.7

3 986.0

Visa International, of which:

3 346.7

3 237.7

debit

-

3 029.2

credit

-

160.7

Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

-

47.8

MasterCard Worldwide, of which:

684.1

622.3

debit

-

551.7

credit

-

35.1

    Debit cards with credit limit and prepaid

-

35.5

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

25 599

28 308

commercial enterprises

20 869

23 447

banks

4 730

4 861

Numbers of imprinters (units), of which;

714

613

commercial enterprises

402

384

banks

312

229

Number of ATM (units) , of which;

7 569

8 044

with cash distribution function

-

7 155

with cash reception and distribution functions

-

889

Number of  commercial enterprises (units)

10 712

12 004

Number of bank’s booths (units)

-

1 401

 

Table 2

Specifications

As of 01.12.11.

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.

8 350.7

971.9

154.7

7 768.3

880.8

147.4

3 700.5

202.1

83.4

Akmola region                

277.1

1.7

6.4

264.4

1.6

6.3

138.9

0.7

3.4

Aktobe region

495.0

3.1

5.0

472.3

3.0

4.7

215.5

1.3

2.0

Almaty region

340.3

1.7

11.3

317.6

1.6

11.1

165.6

0.5

7.1

Atyrau region                   

409.7

6.7

8.9

381.8

6.5

8.7

177.3

3.2

4.6

East Kazakhstan reg.

710.2

8.9

10.6

641.5

8.5

10.1

326.1

2.5

7.1

Jambul region

352.3

0.8

3.1

333.9

0.8

3.0

161.7

0.4

1.9

West Kazakhstan reg.

308.7

3.2

5.4

289.1

3.0

5.3

130.8

1.2

2.2

Karaganda region               

814.4

6.9

15.9

758.3

6.7

15.2

395.9

2.8

9.3

Kostanai region                 

368.7

2.5

3.6

351.2

2.4

3.3

191.3

1.0

1.6

Kyzylorda region

320.0

1.3

5.2

301.1

1.2

5.1

153.2

0.6

2.6

Mangistau region                

401.4

3.8

13.4

366.9

3.6

13.1

167.3

1.8

6.9

Pavlodar region

461.1

4.6

11.7

428.4

4.4

10.6

215.2

1.7

7.2

North Kazakhstan reg.

214.0

1.4

4.0

201.5

1.3

3.9

89.1

0.4

2.1

South Kazakhstan reg.

631.1

4.6

12.7

595.2

4.3

12.5

288.5

1.3

8.2

Almaty city

1 576.4

906.6

26.4

1 436.0

818.2

23.9

604.9

175.0

12.4

Astana city                    

670.4

14.2

11.1

629.2

13.7

10.8

279.2

7.8

4.7

 

Table 3

Specifications

As of 01.11.11.

Number of POS-terminals

Number of imprinters

Number of ATMs

Number of  commercial enterprises

Number of bank’s booths

Итого, в т.ч.

28 308

613

8 044

12 004

1 401

Akmola region 

681

-

288

350

68

Aktobe region

1 084

8

442

445

74

Almaty region

647

8

327

197

62

Atyrau region 

1 376

41

467

534

64

East Kazakhstan reg.

1 757

17

653

808

108

Jambul region

684

4

288

300

73

West Kazakhstan reg.

892

16

310

360

56

Karaganda region 

1 924

20

729

780

137

Kostanai region

906

11

332

368

51

Kyzylorda region

426

5

229

178

44

Mangistau region 

1 044

11

399

474

67

Pavlodar region

1 461

13

493

669

88

North Kazakhstan reg.

731

4

243

350

46

South Kazakhstan reg.

1 201

8

497

458

81

Almaty city

9 594

394

1 539

3 936

273

Astana city

3 900

53

808

1 797

109

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

2010

Number of transactions (thousand) of which;

2 374.1

9 610.6

Visa International

1 944.1

7 860.7

MasterCard Worldwide

382.2

1 522.7

Volume (mln.tenge), of which;

40 164.7

259 584.2

Visa International

32 305.6

215 551.8

MasterCard Worldwide

6 629.4

38 054.4

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

Dynamics (%)

Number

14.2%

13.5%

Visa International

8.0%

11.7%

MasterCard Worldwide

16.0%

-2.5%

Volume

46.3%

31.8%

Visa International

29.0%

27.4%

MasterCard Worldwide

83.9%

15.6%

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.

2 310.6

51 359.9

10 901.5

338 832.8

Akmola region

23.8

793.8

377.1

10 057.6

Aktobe region

91.6

1 807.6

608.7

17 569.4

Almaty region

64.3

1 712.5

446.5

13 793.0

Atyrau region

74.2

8 858.5

575.9

18 317.9

East Kazakhstan reg.

131.5

956.7

942.2

26 414.3

Jambul region

58.0

691.0

451.5

13 371.3

West Kazakhstan reg.

67.7

1 959.8

391.0

11 270.7

Karaganda region 

111.5

2 941.0

1 085.1

29 249.0

Kostanai region

243.1

884.9

467.0

13 032.3

Kyzylorda region

81.2

981.2

383.2

12 268.5

Mangistau region

86.8

1 429.7

524.4

19 875.2

Pavlodar region

92.4

870.8

542.6

15 804.7

North Kazakhstan reg.

28.1

232.2

302.1

7 886.2

South Kazakhstan reg.

50.7

2 281.6

742.7

22 210.2

Almaty city

851.4

17 968.1

2 033.8

74 586.6

Astana city

254.3

6 990.5

1 027.9

33 125.7

 

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