{"id":15866,"date":"2021-03-17T12:42:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T12:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=15866"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:42:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T12:42:32","slug":"fintech-prospects-in-central-asia-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/fintech-prospects-in-central-asia-video\/","title":{"rendered":"FinTech Prospects in Central Asia | Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakhstan and Central Asia are not obvious locations for FinTech, but they should also not be overlooked as they are filled with highly-skilled tech and science talent pools. Moreover, Central Asia\u2019s location between European and Asian markets makes it a prime location for an ever-growing and prosperous FinTech sector. Let\u2019s listen in as Simon Hardie (CEO of Findexable) and Bekzhan Mutanov (deputy CEO of AIFC Fintech) explore the present and future of FinTech in Kazakhstan and Central Asia in <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ns8s2vaLbf0\">this illuminating video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Market scan - Central Asia fintech\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ns8s2vaLbf0?start=13&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-15866 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='BFC FinTech Monitor (13th August \u2014 19th September)'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/bfc-fintech-monitor-13th-august-19th-september\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fty9lP1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-16839\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-16839'>\n\t\t\t\tBFC FinTech Monitor (13th August \u2014 19th September)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='The problem of Bitcoin\u2019s energy usage'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/the-problem-of-bitcoin-s-energy-usage\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/the-problem-of-bitcoin-s-energy-usage-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-10949\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-10949'>\n\t\t\t\tThe problem of Bitcoin\u2019s energy usage\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='BFC FinTech Monitor (21st July \u2013 17th August)'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/bfc-fintech-monitor-21st-july-17th-august\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/eesZeE1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-16795\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-16795'>\n\t\t\t\tBFC FinTech Monitor (21st July \u2013 17th August)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakhstan and Central Asia are not obvious locations for FinTech, but they should also not be overlooked as they are filled with highly-skilled tech and science talent pools. Moreover, Central Asia\u2019s location between European and Asian markets makes it a prime location for an ever-growing and prosperous FinTech sector. Let\u2019s listen in as Simon Hardie &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15869,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866\/revisions\/15869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}