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Yearbook 2025

Project of the year: ITS Ideas, an international conference bringing together the investment community, as well as brokers, regulators and representatives of global financial markets. It provides a platform for dialogue on the future of investment infrastructure in the region.

Accomplishment of the year: ITS’s record operating results – total trading volume exceeded $14 billion (a 70-fold increase versus 2024), the number of investors with access to the platform reached 1.2 million, and the volume of assets held in the ITS CSD surpassed $4 billion. Average monthly turnover has consistently been above $1 billion since March.

Change of the year: In April 2025, ITS joined the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), becoming a full member. This move expanded the platform’s opportunities for international cooperation and strengthened the AIFC’s role in global capital markets.

Word of the year: ETF

Person of the year: Chingiz Kanapyanov, former CEO of ITS, under whose direct leadership the platform’s infrastructure was built, the team was formed, and the foundation was laid for 2025’s record-breaking results.

Member of the year: All professional ITS trading participants, accredited under the jurisdiction of the AIFC: banks and brokerage firms from Kazakhstan, Armenia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Kyrgyzstan, Oman and South Africa, whose trust and efforts made the 2025 results possible.

ITS launches the first money market ETF in Central Asia with daily returns in U.S. dollars

“We consider the launch of the first U.S. dollar money market ETF to be a major milestone for the AIFC and for the financial industry of Kazakhstan and Central Asia as a whole. Along with the diversified index ETFs ITS World and ITS Shariah, as well as the everexpanding range of ITS Single Stock ETFs, this creates virtually limitless opportunities for managing savings for a wide range of retail investors and significantly expands opportunities for institutional investors”

Alexander Diakovsky

Managing Director of ITS.

ITS adds new Single Stock ETFs on dividend stocks of five tech giants

“The new instruments on ITS, together with the ITSW and ITSS index funds and the previously launched non-dividend Single Stock ETFs, significantly expand opportunities for retail investors. Even with $100 in an account, investors can build a diversified portfolio, adjust the share of the world’s most popular ‘Magnificent Seven’ U.S. stocks as they wish, and receive dividends on these securities,”

Alexander Diakovsky

Managing Director of ITS.

• Apple (AAPL/100)

• Microsoft (MSFT/100)

• Nvidia (NVDA/100)

• Alphabet (GOOG/100)

• Meta Platforms (META/100)