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Version ¹1 on 01/04/2006

In the 1-quarter of 2006 second-tier banks and JSC «Kazpost» performed 22 544.2 thousand transactions valued at a total of 10 445.2 billion KZT with using payment instruments presented in the Table 1. Overall the use of various payment instruments has been increased.

Compared with the 1-quarter of 2005 the volume of various payment instruments used increased by 36.2 percent, and the value of payments increased by 18.7 percent.

Growth in the total volume of payment instruments was due mainly to an increase in the volume of payment orders by 460.4 thousand transactions and the volume of transactions using payment cards by 3 697.2 thousand transactions. Growth in the value of payments was due to an increase in the amount of payments using payment orders by 1 923.7 billion KZT.

As before payment orders and payment cards are the instruments used most commonly on the territory of Kazakhstan. The average value of payment order in the 1-quarter of 2006 was 1.4 million KZT and in comparison with the 1-quarter of 2005 increased by 16 percent. The high proportion of transactions using payment cards and the low volume of payments is due to the use of this payment instrument primarily for the withdrawal of small sums of cash (the average amount of a cash withdrawal transaction in the 1-quarter of 2006 was 17.8 thousand KZT).

Payment request-orders and collection orders are used the least frequently. The insignificant part of use of given instruments in total volume and value is caused by their specificity (the total part of given instruments has made 0.6% and 1.4% of total volume and value of payments with using payment instruments).

Data on the use of payment instruments in the 1-quarter of 2006

Table 1

 (volume in thousands transactions; value in billions KZT)

Payment instruments

1-quarter of 2005

1-quarter of 2006

Change

Abs.

in percent of total amount

Abs.

in percent of total amount

Payment orders

 

Volume

6 346.3

38.3%

6 806.7

30.2%

7.3%

Value

7 886.9

89.6%

9 810.7

93.9%

24.4%

Payment request-orders

 

Volume

33.7

0.2%

28.6

0.13%

-15.2%

Value

102.8

1.2%

7.6

0.07%

-92.6%

Collection orders

 

Volume

62.7

0.4%

82.3

0.4%

31.3%

Value

24.5

0.3%

56.7

0.5%

by 2.3 times

Payment cards

 

Volume

10 010.0

60.5%

13 707.2

60.8%

36.9%

Value

161.0

1.8%

238.4

2.3%

48.1%

Other payment instruments

Volume

100.8

0.6%

1 919.6

8.5%

by 19 times

Value

624.5

7.1%

331.8

3.2%

-46.9%

Total

Volume

16 553.4

100.0%

22 544.2

100.0%

36.2%

Value

8 799.7

100.0%

10 445.2

100.0%

18.7%

Use of payments instruments in a cut of regions in the 1-quarter of 2006

(volume of transactions)

Table 2

(in unit transactions)

Region

Payment orders

Payment request-orders

Collection orders

Other payment instruments

Akmola

685 824

2 339

6 718

105 250

Aktubinsk

301 134

1 253

1 346

57 045

Almaty

2 527 613

9 731

23 995

784 289

Atyrau

236 003

1 047

3 724

96 786

East Kazakhstan

450 228

2 889

5 282

80 120

Jambul

136 849

755

2 791

65 873

West Kazakhstan

190 529

2 957

3 981

89 799

Karaganda

826 949

2 240

11 807

171 522

Kostanai

284 470

495

2 717

76 616

Kyzylorda

114 749

711

3 022

38 177

Mangistau

174 776

1 067

3 810

40 556

Pavlodar

444 496

1 547

5 766

192 171

North Kazakhstan

170 901

144

2 183

34 614

South Kazakhstan

262 148

1 407

5 113

86 742

Total

6 806 669

28 582

82 255

1 919 560

Use of payments instruments on regions in the 1-quarter of 2006

(value of transactions)

Table 3

(in billion KZT)

Region

Payment orders

Payment request-orders

Collection orders

Other payment instruments

Akmola

   1 266 965.3  

          2 228.2  

          4 791.3  

    40 672.1  

Aktubinsk

      273 174.7  

            702.9  

            215.0  

    21 880.4  

Almaty

   6 553 039.7  

          1 177.4  

        24 793.2  

  105 283.6  

Atyrau

      169 835.6  

            238.4  

            480.6  

     7 027.1  

East Kazakhstan

      179 810.6  

            165.1  

            681.2  

     5 740.1  

Jambul

        58 801.6  

            860.9  

            403.4  

     2 436.3  

West Kazakhstan

        79 983.8  

          1 038.5  

            350.1  

    85 719.8  

Karaganda

      299 678.9  

              24.6  

          1 186.3  

    18 516.8  

Kostanai

      111 138.7  

            242.2  

        18 409.5  

    15 066.2  

Kyzylorda

      101 697.8  

            111.3  

            345.3  

     2 033.2  

Mangistau

      111 813.8  

            439.8  

          1 487.5  

     4 580.6  

Pavlodar

      379 825.8  

            229.3  

          2 406.9  

    12 613.1  

North Kazakhstan

        78 091.4  

                0.2  

            426.1  

     3 136.2  

South Kazakhstan

      146 811.2  

            177.5  

            690.5  

     7 132.3  

Total

   9 810 668.9  

          7 636.3  

        56 667.0  

  331 837.9  

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