(Kazinform) - Within the framework of the working trip to Almaty city President of Kazakhstan has visited construction site of a financial center and got acquainted with its architectural conception, reports Trend.
Idea on transformation of the city into the largest regional financial center was defined by the Head of the State in his Message as of March 2006. Almaty has a lot of banks and different financial institutes. There are 70 per cent of such establishments and about 30 per cent of insurance companies. Representations of leading banks of the US, Germany, France, China, Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine work in the city. Besides, Almaty provides significant part of tax revenues into the republican budget.