Marketplace fragmentation and the hunt for cashback: why a unified shopping experience is still unavailable.
How the incompatibility of Uzcard and Humo and opaque fees prevent Uzbekistanis from managing money in a single app.
The regulator has formed a team to develop Islamic banking standards. The council includes experts from the Fatwa Center and an auditor with Big4 experience.
The National Agency of Perspective Projects (NAPP) is launching a registry of authorized crypto exchanges to work with non-residents.
The regulator has scheduled negotiations for autumn, while banks await bylaws to transfer data to foreign clouds.
The fintech company has introduced the first token backed by physical 999.9 fine gold, featuring bank storage and the option for physical withdrawal.
The country is launching a decentralized startup financing model: government agencies will receive at least 10 billion soums each to develop AI and digital solutions for their needs.
The local market bypassed the era of traditional branches and moved straight to mobile finance. How this shift looks in the strategy of players building digital ecosystems.
DataVolt will deploy heavy computing infrastructure in Tashkent’s IT Park. The project aims to support the market’s transition from basic outsourcing to exporting complex IT services worth $5 billion by 2030.
Uzbekistan’s UzEx exchange has partnered with Kyrgyzstan’s EVDE exchange to expand trading in the region.
The launch of the Taqsim platform has been delayed due to the technical unreadiness of commercial banks.
The President of Uzbekistan laid the foundation stone for a new complex and visited an artificial intelligence laboratory. For banks and payment services, this signals an expansion of the developer pool beyond the capital.