A first testing payment in the amount of $10,000 was made between Kazakhstani Zaman Bank and Afghani Ghazanfar Bank, Kazakhstan’s Vice Prime Minister Serik Zhumangarin wrote on X.
«A testing payment of $10,000 was made within a day between Kazakhstani Zaman Bank and Afghani Ghazanfar Bank. The next stage is to test transactions with bigger sums and in different currencies, including the euro and yuan. We can boost the trade turnover to $3 billion any time soon,» the official wrote.
Last month, Zhumangarin revealed that Ghazanfar, one of the biggest commercial banks in Afghanistan, opened...