The Launch of Kazakhstan's Digital Tenge

02/07/24 • 17 min

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have the potential to revolutionize the way countries transact their currency. In this episode of Visa Navigate CEMEA podcast, Salvador Perez Galindo, Senior Advisor, Global Government Engagement at Visa, and Binur Zhalenov, CEO of National Payments Corporation (NPC) of Kazakhstan, discuss the launch of Kazakhstan's CBDC, the Digital Tenge.

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