Kazakhstan’s Agency for Regulation and Development of the Financial Market (ARDFM) is excluding the Principality of Liechtenstein and the U.S. State of Delaware from its list of offshore zones.
The agency has created a list of offshore zones to facilitate banking and insurance activities, operations of professional stock market participants and other types of activities related to stock markets, investment funds and microfinance organizations.
According to a draft of the ARDFM resolution published for public consideration, the change is following the new U.S. Corporate Transparency Act that enters into force starting January 1, 2024. Under this legislation, all companies incorporated...