ASTANA, Kazakhstan, March 18. Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) has published the results of trading in all market sectors from January through February 2024, Trend reports.
Thus, the total trading volume across all market sectors was 66.8 trillion tenge (about $148 billion). In comparison to the same period in 2023, this statistic climbed by 41.2 percent.
At the same time, compared to the previous two-month period (from November through December 2023), trading volume decreased by 20.9 percent.
On November 15, 1993, Kazakhstan's national currency, the tenge, was introduced. The Kazakhstan Interbank Currency Exchange, which was later renamed the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange, was founded on November 17, 1993, to organize and strengthen the national foreign currency market.
KASE has been Kazakhstan's exclusive trading platform for the stock, currency, and money markets since its founding.
Kazakhstan has made the growth of its stock exchange a top priority.
Kazakhstan has two stock exchanges: the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) and the Astana International Financial Center (AIX).
On September 1, President Tokayev said that the two stock exchanges largely duplicate each other and sometimes even compete with each other, which is redundant for the country's financial system. In order to increase the capacity and attractiveness of the domestic market, it was decided to work on potentially combining the two exchanges into a single management.