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Central Bank of Uzbekistan issues new guidelines on pledging primary residences
Kazakhstan to rewrite capital market law for the first time in 23 years
Uzbekistan to ban web-based P2P transfers and tighten bank app logins
Kazakhstan's foreign cashless payments grow 10-fold in six years
Kazakhstan's Unified QR Exposes Bank Tariff Battle for Business
Apple Pay officially launches in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
Freedom Bank agrees to integrate QR payments with China's Weixin Pay
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Two cards in one wallet: How Uzbekistanis pay and transfer money in banking ecosystems
How the incompatibility of Uzcard and Humo and opaque fees prevent Uzbekistanis from managing money in a single app..
"Interbank Blindness": Why Kazakhstanis Manually Shuffle Money Between Banks
QR codes and instant transfers are the norm.
Uzbekistan Prepares to Launch Apple Pay and Google Pay: Central Bank Confirms Start of Technical Work
The regulator has scheduled negotiations for autumn, while banks await bylaws to transfer data to foreign clouds..
Kazakhstan's Freedom Bank Connects to Tajikistan's Unified QR
The bank’s clients can pay for purchases at 31,051 retail locations in the neighboring country via the app.