ASTANA, Kazakhstan, February 15. The volume of trading in foreign currencies on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) amounted to 2.6 trillion tenge (about $5.8 billion) in January 2024, Trend reports.
This figure increased by 54.2 percent compared to the same period in 2022.
In addition, compared to December 2023, trading volume decreased by 2.5 percent.
Meanwhile, the total trading volume across all market sectors was 36 trillion tenge (about $79.7 billion). In comparison to the same period in 2023, this statistic climbed by 51.7 percent.
Furthermore, 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.
