{"id":59500,"date":"2022-04-01T12:21:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T09:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=59500"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:09:58","slug":"crypto-exchanges-to-operate-at-kazakhstans-astana-international-financial-centre-under-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/crypto-exchanges-to-operate-at-kazakhstans-astana-international-financial-centre-under-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto exchanges to operate at Kazakhstan&#8217;s Astana International Financial Centre under pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), a pilot project to create and develop cryptocurrency exchanges will be launched. This was <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.gov.kz\/memleket\/entities\/ardfm\/press\/news\/details\/349321?lang=ru\\\">reported<\/a> by the local Agency for Regulation and Development of the Financial Market.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Kazakh banks and government bodies are taking part in preparations for the pilot&#8217;s launch, and the issue of opening bank accounts for exchanges based at the AIFC is being worked out.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>To implement the initiative, the regulator drafted amendments to the National Bank&#8217;s resolution, providing for the possibility of carrying out operations in favor of participants of the AIFC&#8217;s crypto exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary screening is planned:<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\\\"wp-block-list\\\">\n<li>the reputation and nature of the participant&#8217;s activities at the AIFC;<\/li>\n<li>sources of funds;<\/li>\n<li>transactions involving the participant&#8217;s funds at the AIFC;<\/li>\n<li>the beneficial owners, and the forwarding of information to the financial monitoring body when suspicious operations are detected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>As for banking transactions with other Bitcoin exchanges, existing requirements remain in force, including banks&#8217; responsibility to develop an internal procedure for refusal to carry out operations with unsecured digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/kazakhstan-to-regulate-the-operations-of-cryptocurrency-exchanges\">reported<\/a> in May last year that crypto exchanges would be launched at the AIFC as part of the pilot.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Later it emerged that Kazakh banks may <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-kazakh-banks-will-be-allowed-to-open-accounts-for-cryptocurrency-companies\">allow opening accounts<\/a> for cryptocurrency companies.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), a pilot project to create and develop cryptocurrency exchanges will be launched, according to the local Agency for Regulation and Development of the Financial Market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1611,1166,153,36],"class_list":["post-59500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-aifc","tag-centralized-exchanges-cex","tag-kazakhstan","tag-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59502,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59500\/revisions\/59502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}