A recent survey by the National Bank of Kazakhstan has revealed that 31% of the country’s financial market participants are already using artificial intelligence (AI), with the highest adoption rate …
Read More »Kazakhstan: The Largest Fintech Hub in the CIS
Kazakhstan has emerged as a prominent fintech hub within the CIS region, having made tremendous progress with key fintech solutions related to mobile payments, blockchain applications and online lending platforms. …
Read More »Key Trends and Growth Opportunities for Kazakhstan’s Industry
According to a recent report issued by RISE Research, Kazakhstan’s MOST holding, and Fintech Consult international consulting company on key trends and growth opportunities in Kazakhstan’s fintech industry, fintech is …
Read More »The State of Mobile Bank in Kazakhstan
Markswebb recently released its Mobile Banking Rankings: Kazakhstan 2022, finding the following key insights regarding the development of mobile bank in Kazakhstan: There is no unified vision of user experience …
Read More »The State of Kazakhstan’s Digital Tenge
Binur Zhalenov, chairman of the board for the Center for Development of Payment and Financial Technologies of the National Bank of Kazakhstan, recently spoke at the FinTech without Borders: Digital …
Read More »The Importance of FinTech in Central Asia
Central Asia has enormous FinTech potential as access to mobile communication devices and the internet continue to increase, especially with the rising popularity of digital payments, better government support initiatives …
Read More »2nd International Plus-Forum to Be Held in Almaty
The 2nd International Plus-Forum is being held at the Rixos Almaty Hotel in Almaty, Kazakhstan October 27–28, 2021. This year’s theme, FinTech without Borders. Digital Eurasia, will feature speakers and …
Read More »Classic banking models no longer profitable
The landscape around the financial sector has changed drastically recently, and the relatively straightforward indicators traditionally used to assess its growth and profitability are simply no longer applicable, at least …
Read More »Kazakhstan working on a digital version of its national currency
The National Bank of Kazakhstan has announced that it is working on creating a digital version of its national currency. As part of the first step towards this aim, the …
Read More »Telecoms may come to dominant the Kazakh payments industry
With many companies expanding their product and service offering, it’s no surprise that we are seeing new and interesting combinations for what companies offer. For example, we have seen the …
Read More »Digitization an inevitability in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan began its journey toward digitization in 2006. Since that time, digitization has gained much traction in the country in both the public and commercial sectors. Our friends at Terrasoft …
Read More »How financial institutions are supporting SMEs in the CIS and the Caucasus with non-financial services
There has been a large focus on how financial institutions are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic; however, much of that focus has been of the financial services they are offering …
Read More »7 things COVID-19 changed in Kazakhstan’s banking sector
COVID-19 has impacted the way Kazakhstanis are living their lives, and many believe that the new normal will look very different from the old one. Within the banking sector, COVID-19 …
Read More »7 key compliance trends for Kazakhstan in 2020
Compliance is continuing to evolve in Kazakhstan, and our friends at banker.kz have outlined 7 key compliance trends for the country in 2020: Compliance risk management and internal control systems …
Read More »Digitalization levels in Kazakhstani financial institutions extremely low
Kazakhstan suffers from a lack of digitalization in the financial sector, as is evident by the fact that there is not a single full-fledged digital financial institution in the country. …
Read More »How technology can help grow Kazakhstan’s insurance market
Insurance markets are changing all over the world thanks to digital innovations. This includes: changes to calculation models, increased competition (due to the rise of insurance platforms), a rise in …
Read More »Ongoing digitalization efforts in Kazakhstan
Consumers choose to use digital services for one main reason – it solves an issue. In Kazakhstan, however, the adoption of digital services has been somewhat lower than in other …
Read More »Kazakhstani police launch investigation into data leak
Kazakhstani police are investigating the leak of the personal data of Kazakhstani citizens. Earlier this year, it was discovered that an online database containing the personal data of about 11 …
Read More »Big Data in Kazakhstan: press review
Big Data technologies are gradually entering the Kazakh market. Large companies use solutions based on them, schools of big data analysts open, state projects on digitalization are launched. A lot …
Read More »Kazakhstan to create Personal Data Agency
The government of Kazakhstan is planning to create the Personal Data Agency under the Security Committee of the Ministry of Digital Development. This new agency will be responsible for coordinating …
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