{"id":13449,"date":"2019-08-12T15:26:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=13449"},"modified":"2019-08-12T15:26:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:26:28","slug":"kazakhstan-s-mobile-finance-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/kazakhstan-s-mobile-finance-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan\u2019s mobile finance future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Telecom companies and banks benefit from cooperation in the field of mobile finance, especially in regard to transfers and payments. In Kazakhstan, mobile finance is only at the beginning of its journey; however, there is enormous potential as mobile finance transactions amounted to KZT 65 billion last year.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of this was spent on transportation (i.e. users paying for the cost of public transport from mobile financial sources). This is expected to continue to grow in Kazakhstan, especially as the state pursues its <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital Kazakhstan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> program. Beyond this, the National Bank has also been working to introduce a system of easy payments and transfers using nothing more than a phone number. As mobile finance continues to develop in the country, it will be key for communication efforts to effectively promote these services and their ease-of-use.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-13449 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='8 in 10 millennials ready to switch away from banks'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/8-in-10-millennials-ready-to-switch-away-from-banks\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2335523-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-13045\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-13045'>\n\t\t\t\t8 in 10 millennials ready to switch away from banks\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Isracard selects Temenos as its digital open banking platform'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/isracard-selects-temenos-as-its-digital-open-banking-platform\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isracard-selects-temenos-as-its-digital-open-banking-platform-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-12974\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-12974'>\n\t\t\t\tIsracard selects Temenos as its digital open banking platform\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Uzbekistan to benefit from Payme&#8217;s launch of transfers from international cards to Uzcard'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/payme-announces-launch-of-transfer-from-international-cards-to-uzcard\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/credit-card-payments-system_1426-1070-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-9575\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-9575'>\n\t\t\t\tUzbekistan to benefit from Payme&#8217;s launch of transfers from international cards to Uzcard\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom companies and banks benefit from cooperation in the field of mobile finance, especially in regard to transfers and payments. In Kazakhstan, mobile finance is only at the beginning of its journey; however, there is enormous potential as mobile finance transactions amounted to KZT 65 billion last year.&nbsp; Most of this was spent on transportation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,76],"tags":[400,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13450,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449\/revisions\/13450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}