{"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='Forget why FinTech is good;\u200ahere\u2019s why cash is bad'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/forget-why-fintech-is-good-here-s-why-cash-is-bad\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/forget-why-fintech-is-good-here-s-why-cash-is-bad-1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-10951\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-10951'>\n\t\t\t\tForget why FinTech is good;\u200ahere\u2019s why cash is bad\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Armenian company brings the internet of things to fashion'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/armenian-company-brings-the-internet-of-things-to-fashion\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/armenian-company-brings-the-internet-of-things-to-fashion-2-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-11814\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-11814'>\n\t\t\t\tArmenian company brings the internet of things to fashion\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='BFC FinTech Monitor 10th \u2013 17th March'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/bfc-fintech-monitor-10th-17th-march\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/66d22d64-f4bd-4dba-879c-fae5ff2fced11-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-15878\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-15878'>\n\t\t\t\tBFC FinTech Monitor 10th \u2013 17th March\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}]}}