BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s economic growth exceeded expectations in 2017, with GDP growing by 4.5 percent and the recovery encompassing most

ASHGABAT (TCA) — Citizens of Turkmenistan staying abroad have failed to obtain cash, pay for purchases or transfer funds from their bank cards,

ASHGABAT (TCA) — Residents of Turkmenistan continue experiencing serious problems due to the restrictions on foreign currency conversion and

ASTANA (TCA) — The National Bank of Kazakhstan is taking a very hard-line approach toward the regulation of digital currency — or

BISHKEK (TCA) — A quarter of a century ago, on May 10, 1993, Kyrgyzstan was among the first CIS countries to introduce its own

TASHKENT (TCA) — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has issued its inaugural bond in Uzbek national currency, the Soum, raising UZS 80

BISHKEK (TCA) — The Russian ruble should be made the currency of settlements in the Eurasian Economic Union, Board Chairman of the Eurasian

ASTANA (TCA) — The interdependency of Russia’s and Kazakhstan’s economies has caused the Kazakh tenge’s drop following the recent fall of the

ASTANA (TCA) — The new fall of the Kazakh tenge against the US dollar has again hit the pockets and purchasing power of ordinary Kazakhstanis. We

ASTANA (TCA) — At the meeting of the Kazakh Government on September 11, Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev listed to the National Bank two main

ASTANA (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on January 25 said it has raised 30.4688 billion tenge (around $80 million) from two new issues

TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan announced it will no longer restrict citizens from purchasing foreign currencies and will end a cap on the soum's

NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has ordered the oil-rich Central Asian nation's government to cut spending

TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan's central bank has devalued the country’s national currency, the soum, against the U.S. dollar and euro for the

ASHGABAT (TCA) — The Turkmen national currency, the manat, has lost some 10 percent of its value on the black market as citizens scramble to buy

ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan's already battered currency slid sharply as black market rates reached 40 manats to the U.S. dollar, down nearly 50

NUR-SULTAN — Kazakhstan has decided to use Russian rubles for the payment of customs fees in bilateral trade after Western sanctions imposed on

TASHKENT — Uzbekistan's Central Bank has announced it will introduce a new, 200,000-sum banknote as of July 15.