The AIFC has announced its operational results for 2025.

Key performance highlights and results:

• Investments. Since the launch of the AIFC in 2018, a total of $20bn has been raised through the Centre into Kazakhstan’s economy. In 2025 alone, AIFC participants attracted $6bn (including $4bn in portfolio investments and $2bn in investments by AIFC participants). This is $2.9bn more than in 2024.

• Companies. Between January and December 2025, more than 1,400 new companies joined the AIFC, which is 300 companies more than last year. Of newly registered entities, 33% operate in the financial sector, 12% in information and communications, 14% in professional, scientific, and technical activities, 2% in mining, 2% among ancillary service providers, and 17% in wholesale and retail trade. The remaining 20% represent other non-financial sectors. Overall, more than 4,900 companies from over 90 countries are registered at the AIFC, including firms from the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Turkiye, Singapore, and the UAE. Over 1,500 of these companies provide financial and insurance services.

• Tax Contributions. In the first three quarters of 2025, AIFC participants paid KZT72.8bn in taxes to Kazakhstan’s national budget, representing a 76% year-on-year increase. Over the entire period of the AIFC’s operations, participants have contributed KZT221.2 bn (as of 1 October 2025).

• In 2025, Astana International Exchange (AIX) surpassed several milestones, including $2bn in trading turnover and 200 new listings since the beginning of the year. In 2024, these figures amounted to $1.3bn and 140 listings, respectively.

• Digital asset service providers recorded transaction volumes of $6.8bn during the first three quarters of 2025, with 192,400 clients, compared to $2.9bn and 141,500 clients in 2024.

• The number of investment funds at the AIFC increased from 101 at the beginning of the year to 159, while asset managers grew from 57 to 68. Total assets under management (AUM) at the AIFC exceeded $3bn by the end of the third quarter of 2025.

• In 2025, the AIFC Court and the International Arbitration Centre (IAC) handled 1,282 cases, including 76 court judgments, 303 arbitration proceedings, and 903 mediation cases. While last year the number of cases considered amounted to only more than 1,011.

Renat Bekturov, Governor of the AIFC, commented: 

“2025 became a year of strengthened trust for the AIFC. Investment inflows into the economy increased significantly, and the number of participant companies, including financial service providers, continued to grow. The Centre actively introduced innovative instruments and products, ranging from aviation finance to spot Bitcoin listings, an index-based Islamic ETF, and the world’s first spot ETF with staking functionality. These results provide a solid foundation for attracting both international and domestic capital, further developing Kazakhstan’s financial market, and strengthening the country’s position within the regional financial ecosystem.”

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