Natia Turnava Held a Meeting with Renat Bekturov, Governor of the Astana International Financial Centre

The National Bank of Georgia and the Astana International Financial Centre/Astana Financial Services Authority are signalling closer supervisory cooperation and a possible new route for mutual access to securities markets. For compliance teams, immediate obligations are limited, but the direction of travel matters for firms with Georgian, Kazakh or wider Central Asian exposure. The discussions highlight Georgia’s growing corporate bond market and investment opportunities, suggesting potential future cross-border listing, trading and distribution arrangements.

Compliance and strategy functions should monitor publication of the mutual access framework, assess whether permissions or passporting-like arrangements may emerge, and review cross-border data-sharing and supervisory information-exchange controls. Firms should not assume access rights until formal details are published; early regulatory engagement and local counsel review are advisable before relying on any new market-entry route. Overall impact is informational, with low urgency, but moderate strategic relevance for capital markets participants.