Asiamoney Best Bank Awards

Excelling at diversity is about much more than naming a couple of women to top jobs.

Creating a version of Silicon Valley in Mongolia has always been the driving force behind LendMN, founded by Anar Chinbaatar, Boldbaatar Ochirsuren, Otgonbayar Uuye and Otgonbayar Purevsuren.

There are few Asiamoney awards categories for Kazakhstan that Halyk Bank doesn’t have a reasonable claim to this year. Its investment and corporate banking franchises are hard to beat, while its role in supporting small and medium-sized enterprises and its prowess in disrupting its own business model deserve a shoutout.

There are few Asiamoney awards categories for Kazakhstan that Halyk Bank doesn’t have a reasonable claim to this year. Its investment and corporate banking franchises are hard to beat, while its role in supporting small and medium-sized enterprises and its prowess in disrupting its own business model deserve a shoutout.

Citi has operated in Kazakhstan for more than 25 years; even so, the challenges posed by the pandemic, geopolitical events and the most aggressive US Federal Reserve tightening cycle in decades still came as quite a shock.

Bank CenterCredit, one of Kazakhstan’s oldest commercial banks, has evolved to form the backbone of the corporate system that stabilizes the economy. Its extensive branch network and its universe of correspondent relationships with more than 40 foreign banks have proved indispensable in these last few years.

Home Credit Bank Kazakhstan has made tech disruption its brand over the years.

Khan Bank’s chief executive, Munkhtuya Rentsenbat, landed the top job at an unusually challenging time: it was December 2020, when the economic cracks due to Covid-19 were appearing and shaking world markets.