In 2026, from Dubai to Almaty, from ADGM to AIFC, Klickl is extending its compliant digital financial infrastructure from “Middle East practices” to “Central Asian implementation.” Its strategic partnership with Tansar Capital is not merely a commercial expansion, but a capability transfer driven by regional structural demand.

Article author, source: Klickl

In May 2026, the Tansar Capital 2026 Annual Investor Conference was held at the Swissotel in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

As one of the most prestigious investment summits in Central Asia, this year’s annual meeting brings together top regulatory leaders from Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Trade and Integration, National Bank, and Financial Market Regulation Agency, alongside global leading asset management firms such as BlackRock, Hamilton Lane, Goldman Sachs, Sturgeon Capital, and B Capital, with a focus on institutional investment in Central Asia, digital asset infrastructure, and cross-border financial innovation.

Klickl, a representative institution of the Middle East's Web3 open finance platform, was invited to attend. Dermot Mayes, CEO of Klickl UAE, delivered a keynote speech, systematically sharing Klickl’s experiences in digital asset compliance evolution and institutional-grade infrastructure in the Middle East.

During the summit, Klickl and Kazakhstan’s leading local brokerage, Tansar Capital, officially announced a comprehensive strategic partnership, aiming to build a compliant, efficient, and scalable regional digital financial ecosystem centered on the full-chain development of digital asset services and the end-to-end implementation of stablecoin payments.

Image | Klickl founder Michael Zhao and Yeszhan Birtanov, Chairman of the Board of Tansar Capital

Central Asia window of opportunity: The hub where global capital is being repriced

Over the past several years, Central Asia has often been simplistically labeled as a "resource-based region" or a "geopolitical buffer zone." However, against the backdrop of global supply chain restructuring, shifts in the energy landscape, dramatic changes in cross-border capital flows, and the gradual maturation of digital asset infrastructure, Central Asia is being reinterpreted by global capital markets.

Image | Kazakhstan, connecting East and West, serves as a strategic springboard for businesses going global

Kazakhstan is the economic leader, political stabilizer, and financial hub of Central Asia. The country possesses abundant oil and natural gas resources, a solid real economy, and vibrant cross-border trade. However, a long-standing structural contradiction persists: as an energy powerhouse, Kazakhstan faces persistent dollar liquidity shortages. Exchange rate volatility, high costs of traditional dollar clearing channels, and recurring pressure on the national currency, the tenge, have made solutions such as cross-border stablecoin settlements, digital asset custody, and asset tokenization no longer mere innovations—but practical pathways to resolve the dollar scarcity in resource-rich nations and enhance the efficiency of cross-border capital flows.

The government and central bank of Kazakhstan are actively advancing capital market reforms and digital financial innovation. The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) has built a regulatory framework based on common law, providing a clear institutional space for the establishment of a compliant digital asset ecosystem. It is during this window of opportunity that Klickl is entering Central Asia to address real regional pain points with digital financial infrastructure.

The premier event brings together global capital: Klickl’s industry positioning is validated.

This year's Tansar Capital investor conference, centered on the themes of “Institutional Investment in Central Asia” and “Global Capital Access Strategies,” marks a landmark event in the internationalization of Central Asia’s financial markets.

Dermot Mayes, CEO of Klickl UAE, delivered a keynote speech at the session "Evolution of Regulatory Compliance for Digital Assets." Drawing on Klickl’s practical experience under ADGM/FSRA regulation in the Middle East, he outlined the compliance frameworks required for the integration of open finance in Web3 with traditional finance, real-world use cases for cross-border stablecoin payments, and the core capabilities of institutional-grade digital asset custody and settlement. The speech received significant attention from senior regulators and global institutional investors in attendance.

Photo | Dermot Mayes, CEO of Klickl UAE, delivers a keynote speech

During the summit,Klickl engaged in multiple rounds of in-depth discussions with leading global and regional institutions such as BlackRock, Hamilton Lane, KASE, and Bitbo, reaching broad consensus on digital asset infrastructure, cross-border capital services, and institutional collaboration pathways.These interactions not only affirmed Klickl’s unique position in the global digital financial infrastructure but also laid a solid foundation for future ecosystem collaboration.

Strategic Agreement with Tansar Capital: Klickl's Central Asian Ecosystem Officially Launched

The most milestone-worthy collaboration outcome of this summit is the comprehensive strategic partnership between Klickl and Tansar Capital.

Tansar Capital, established in 1995, is a leading domestic brokerage and asset management firm in Kazakhstan, with over 30 years of experience in the local financial markets. It provides brokerage, investment banking, and asset management services, and holds key licenses such as those from KASE, serving as a vital bridge between the local market and global capital.

Under the cooperation framework, the two parties will focus on three key areas to build an ecosystem:

1. Digital asset business full-stack empowerment enables Klickl to deliver a mature, compliant digital asset system, technical architecture, and operational expertise, assisting Tansar Capital in building institutional-grade digital asset services covering asset tokenization, token issuance, compliant trading, and custody settlement.

2. The comprehensive deployment of the stablecoin payment ecosystem centers on compliant stablecoins to build an efficient payment system for cross-border trade, commodity settlement, and fund disbursement, directly addressing the pain points of insufficient U.S. dollar liquidity and high cross-border payment costs in Central Asia.

3. Leveraging Klickl’s Middle East and global network alongside Tansar Capital’s local expertise, we establish a two-way capital linkage between the Middle East, Central Asia, and the global market: bringing global capital to local institutions and providing international investors with a compliant gateway to the Central Asian market.

Photo | Michael Zhao and Yeszhan Birtanov sign on-site

At the summit, Michael Zhao, Founder and CEO of Klickl, and Yeszhan Birtanov, Chairman of the Board of Tansar Capital, jointly witnessed the signing. This partnership marks Klickl’s official entry into the Central Asian market, with Kazakhstan as its strategic hub.

Global connectivity, advancing in Central Asia: Klickl’s second strategic pivot

Over the past several years, Klickl has built a comprehensive capability system centered in the UAE, encompassing account management, payments, custody, trading, OTC, card payments, cross-border settlement, and Web3 SaaS—all under a compliant digital financial infrastructure. The Middle East serves as Klickl’s first strategic global foundation: offering an open regulatory environment, strong capital mobility, a geographic position connecting East and West, and a policy window for the integration of traditional and digital finance.

But the Middle East is a starting point, not a boundary.

As the only Web3 company representative in the official delegation from the Abu Dhabi government, Klickl accompanied the delegation on visits to Poland (European Economic Conference), Malaysia, Japan, Qatar, and other countries, actively participating in high-level government, business, and financial dialogues:

Accompanying the Crown Prince to high-level events in Beijing to precisely connect East Asian policy with capital resources;
In frontier African markets such as Nigeria, we have also been among the first to locally deploy digital financial infrastructure.
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Through sustained深耕 across Europe, Asia, and Africa, Klickl has accumulated real-world experience in navigating diverse regulatory systems, market structures, and capital flow requirements, fully validating the cross-regional portability and institutional-grade service capabilities of its compliant digital financial infrastructure.

Image | Klickl actively participates in global market development

Precisely because of this global connectivity network, Central Asia is becoming Klickl’s second strategic hub. The Middle East and Central Asia possess natural strategic complementarity:

The Middle East possesses capital, regulatory innovation, and global financial connectivity;
Central Asia possesses energy resources, trade corridors, a young market, and growing demand for capital market upgrades.

Between the two, what is needed is not just capital flow, but a new financial operating system capable of supporting accounts, payments, clearing, compliance, custody, and asset digitization.

Klickl’s accumulated compliance adaptation capabilities, government engagement experience, and institutional service network across Europe, Asia, and Africa provide a reusable and scalable methodology and resource pool for deep market penetration in Kazakhstan and the broader Central Asian region.

Klickl's opportunity lies in providing compliant, scalable, and actionable digital financial infrastructure for regional financial markets amid this structural shift.

Michael Zhao, founder and CEO of Klickl, said:

Central Asia is not an emerging market, but a vital interface for value flows across Eurasia. As global capital, energy trade, digital assets, and cross-border payment demands converge in this region, Central Asia needs more than just financial products—it needs compliant infrastructure that connects local markets with global capital. From Dubai to Abu Dhabi, from Warsaw, Tokyo, and Beijing to Lagos, and now to Almaty—Klickl has validated its cross-regional capability in compliant digital financial infrastructure across the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Africa. These accumulated capabilities are precisely designed to support market transformations like those in Central Asia.

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