OREANDA-NEWS. On July 08, 2008 Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty), being the listing company of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), had provided KASE with press release of the following content, reported the press-centre of KASE:

250th. user was registered in "Mobile banking" system (http://www.halykbank.kz/cards/mobil_banking) of Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan JSC on June 28, 2008! Nowadays it is the most popular system of remote banking service in Kazakhstan, exceeding by number of clients of mobile and internet-banking system of other banks of the country. Owing to simple register procedure per any bank cash point over Kazakhstan, every hour we fix connecting of 29 new users to mobile service.

29 new users of mobile banking every hour is incredible result for the country with 15.6 m. population, where 3 yers earlier term "mobile banking" was known  to specialists only. Unique bank account management system for Kazakhstan by means of mobile phone was launched by Halyk Bank on April 19, 2005 within the frames of pilot project with VISA CEMEA - "Mobile bank - Verified by Visa".

At the current moment, the system covers all Kazakhstan cellular operators (Altel JSC (Dalacom, Pathword), KaR-Tel LLP (Beeline), GSM Kazakhstan LLP (K-cell, Activ), Mobile Telecom Service LLP (NEO)), and three Kirgiz operators (Sky Mobile CLL (Bitel and MobiCard), BiMoKom Ltd CLL (Megacom) and Aktel CLL (Fonex)). You may connect to service through any bank cash point in Kazakhstan and Kirghizia. For this you should have bank`s card and mobile phone.

On the first stage holder of any charge card of Halyk Bank, connected to service, get SMS-notification, while conducting any operation on card account (purchase, service payment, salary receipt, payment e.t.c.). March 1, 2006 started the second stage of "Mobile banking" service development - the opportunity to pay for mobile communication by phone was implemented in the system (for Dalacom, K-cell, Beeline subscribers). Since June 8, 2006 clients of "Mobile banking" system of Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan have an opportunity to get comfortable menu  for banking operations.

Menu appears after downloading of free midlet HalykBank on phone from wap-portal http://wap.halykbank.kz. And since December 26, 2007 there was an official start of mobile commerce - Halyk Bank and Beeline announced on launching of joint project - on Beeline Sim-cards, bank`s uplet and keys of electronic digital signiture were placed. Thus, clients of Halyk Bank  had got the opportunity to replace their Sim-card by new one for free with uplet (number is retained) and make transference and paymnts by means of phone at more than 40 Kazakhsatn companies (utilities service, mobile communication, Internet, cabel TV e.t.c). Detailed information is at http://www.halykbank.kz/cards/mobil_banking/m_commerce.

Tree years of technological development of mobile service contained a good range of events and technologies. The bank jointly with Intervale (Moscow) organized flash-presentation of "Mobile banking" system with purpose to help Kazakhstan user to understand the variety of mobile banking opportunities and choose the most suitable variant of usage (sms-notification, midlet or uplet). 

It is available at bank`s site for all interested persons` free review at http://www.halyk24.kz/remote/mobile_bank#page=4. We hope that after its review, the speed of Kazakhstan users` connection to modern banking services will become rasher.