Every event in Central Asia's fintech market — briefly, with a link to the source. Analysis and explainers are in our news.
Development Bank of Kazakhstan has arranged up to $700 million in financing for NC QazAvtoJol from a syndicate of commercial banks to rebuild republican highways.
Source: kdb.kzTajikistan and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have signed loan and grant agreements totaling **€62.45 million** for two projects: water supply and sanitation in Kulob, and the rehabilitation of the Baldzhuvon–Sari Khosor road.
Source: khovar.tjThe Tashkent International Financial Centre (TIFC) has become a member of the World Alliance of International Financial Centers (WAIFC), which brings together international financial hubs.
Source: uzdaily.uzThe EDB will set up the Central Asia and Caucasus Private Equity Fund (CACPEF) alongside China Investment Corporation, Oman Investment Authority, the Fund for Reconstruction and Development of Uzbekistan, Turkish fund OYAK, and Shenwan Hongyuan Securities.
Source: podrobno.uzThe Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and the Ministry of Finance of the Sultanate of Oman have signed an agreement on the terms of the Bank's presence in Oman during the Sultan's state visit to Kazakhstan.
Source: khovar.tjKazakh fintech company Solva Group announced the exit of 13 minority shareholders, whose stakes were transferred to the private company AG Holding Ltd.
Source: kapital.kzThe World Bank will provide Kazakhstan with a **$75 million** (11.9 billion yen) loan to implement the ALEM project for human capital development in artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, and markets.
Source: kapital.kzQazaqstan Investment Corporation (QIC), a subsidiary of the Baiterek holding, and Dasco Capital have signed a strategic partnership agreement to establish the Tolqyn AI Venture Fund with a target size of **$50 million**.
Source: kapital.kzAmerican venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar, founder of Sofreh Capital, has announced plans to open a company office in Kazakhstan and relocate part of its operations to the country.
Source: kapital.kzAccording to spot.uz, citing Bloomberg, Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International is looking at Central Asia as a new growth frontier and exploring potential acquisitions in the region.
Source: spot.uzAccording to spot.uz, Yangi Bank's liquidation commission has put the bank's five-story building in Tashkent up for auction again with a starting price of **120 billion soums** — 43.3 billion soums lower than in the summer.
Source: spot.uzAccording to kapital.kz, Bank CenterCredit has acted as a senior lender in the syndicated financing for Almaty International Airport arranged by Bank of America.
Source: kapital.kzFintech holding Kaspi.kz set up a brokerage firm, Kaspi Broker Ltd, at the Astana International Financial Centre on September 25, 2026.
Source: kapital.kzKazakh fintech platform Solva has raised an additional 1.18 billion tenge ($2.5 million) in equity from existing shareholder AG Holding.
Source: kapital.kzThe Astana International Financial Centre and the Busan financial center signed a memorandum of understanding on September 16 during the Kazakh president's visit to South Korea.
Source: aifc.kzUzbekistan's State Assets Management Agency has fully transferred proceeds from the privatization of the Humo payment system ($65m) and the SamAuto car plant ($80m) to the state budget.
Source: spot.uzFintech holding Kaspi.kz has signed a contract to prepurchase 70% of the AI-Farabium supercomputer's resources from Kazakhstani operator Kazakhtelecom for two years, Kazakhtelecom CEO Bagdat Mussin announced at the Kazakhstan Growth Forum'26 in Almaty.
Source: kapital.kzIn the first half of 2026, the volume of new loans issued to medium-sized businesses in Kazakhstan rose by 56.2% year-on-year to 1.9 trillion tenge, according to the analytical center of the Association of Financiers of Kazakhstan.
Source: kapital.kzKazakhstan's Alatau City Bank, controlled by businessman Vyacheslav Kim, will start trading $50 million in commercial paper on the Astana International Exchange on September 15, 2026.
Source: kz.kursiv.mediaThe savings rate of Kazakhstani households reached 11.7% in the first quarter of 2026—the highest figure on record, the National Bank reported in its August monetary policy report.
Source: kz.kursiv.mediaSerbian minority shareholder Marko Blanuša has sold his 9.98% stake in Nurbank's issued common shares.
Source: kapital.kzKazakhstani microfinance organizations posted 22.1 billion KZT in net profit in the first half of 2026—2.2 times less than in the same period of 2025.
Source: ranking.kzVenture fund Imkon Ventures has invested $20,000 in Dcard, a startup that aggregates loyalty programs and brand discounts into a single app.
Source: t.me/uzbekfintechInternational ratings agency S&P Global Ratings has upgraded the long-term credit rating of Kazakhstan's Bank CenterCredit from BB to BB+, affirmed its short-term rating at B, and raised its national scale rating from kzAA- to kzAA+.
Source: inbusiness.kzMortgage applications in Kazakhstan fell 13.4% year-on-year to 419,200 in the first half of 2026, according to a review by the Association of Financiers of Kazakhstan.
Source: kapital.kzThe Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) and the Association of Islamic Finance and Business (AIFB) have signed a memorandum of cooperation covering Islamic finance and the capital market.
Source: t.me/KASEofficialUzbekistan generated 44 out of 58 venture deals across the CIS, driven by local funds Yoshlar Ventures, Aloqa Ventures, IT Park Ventures, and Imkon Ventures.
Source: t.me/uzbekfintechAkmaral Moldalieva from Aktau has become the first Kazakhstani woman to receive a 20.3 million tenge loan under Otbasy Bank's Umai women's mortgage program to buy a two-room apartment.
Source: kz.kursiv.mediaKazakhstan's financial consumer protection agency reviewed 15,100 complaints between the start of the year and August 1, 2026.
Source: t.me/finregkzIn July 2026, Kazakhstanis sent 56.4 billion tenge abroad via international money transfer systems, down 20% from July 2025, when 70.4 billion tenge was transferred.
Source: kz.kursiv.mediaPresident Kassym-Jomart Tokayev officially endorsed China's initiative to establish a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Development Bank during a meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of State in Bishkek.
Source: kz.kursiv.mediaThe Uzbek payment system is preparing a joint project with Kazakhstan's largest bank
Source: humocard.uzKazakh fintech platform Solva has raised $2.5m in additional capital.
Source: t.me/bull_bellIn January–June 2026, Kazakhstan's National Fund received 1.8 trillion tenge in taxes and payments from the oil sector, virtually flat compared to the same period in 2025.
Source: inbusiness.kzIn the second quarter of 2026, the share of approved loan applications from large Kazakhstani companies rose by 10 percentage points to 65%, said Dinara Tzetdinova, acting director of the National Bank's financial stability and research department.
Source: kapital.kzThe National Bank of Kazakhstan reported that small and medium-sized business lending increased by 29.6% year-on-year, while the corporate portfolio rose by 17.1%, with 22 trillion tenge in loans issued to businesses over the past 12 months.
Source: inbusiness.kzAccording to the Mastercard SME Confidence Index 2026 study, small and medium-sized enterprises in Kazakhstan use online payments at an 85% rate, with 47% of companies accepting mostly cashless payments.
Source: kapital.kzIn the first half of 2026, total remittances to Uzbekistan reached $9.3 billion, up 13% year-on-year, with inflows from EU countries rising 27% to $319 million and from the UK surging 62% to $144 million.
Source: spot.uzKazakhstan's Freedom Insurance has paid out about 9.8 million tenge for the total loss of an ARC Airis 3 drone that crashed into a building in Almaty while delivering groceries.
Source: kapital.kzAlatau City Bank owner Vyacheslav Kim has established United Group Alatau Ltd, an intermediate holding company at the Astana International Financial Centre, through which he now owns JSC United Alatau Group, the entity controlling 100% of the bank's shares.
Source: t.me/finmentorkz
