ASTANA, Kazakhstan, October 7. In August 2025, 1,170 international money transfers were sent from Kazakhstan totaling 1.461 billion tenge ($2.6 million) via the MoneyGram system.
Data obtained by Trend from the National Bank of Kazakhstan shows that
the number of transactions took a nosedive by 7.1 percent compared
to July 2025 (1,260), while the total value slipped by 1.2 percent
from 1.479 billion tenge ($2.7 million).
In August, MoneyGram made a small splash in the international money
transfer pool, holding onto 0.8 percent of the transaction count
and 2 percent of the value.
Meanwhile, through all international money transfer systems combined, Kazakhstan sent a total of 142,100 transactions abroad worth 72.7 billion tenge ($132.9 million) in August 2025. Compared to July, the number of outgoing transfers grew by 1.8 percent, and the total volume rose by 3.2 percent.
By country, Uzbekistan received the largest share of outgoing funds at 27.9 billion tenge ($51 million), accounting for 38.4 percent of the total. Russia followed with 18.4 billion tenge ($33.6 million, 25.4 percent), Türkiye—11.2 billion tenge ($20.4 million, 15.5 percent), Georgia—4.6 billion tenge ($8.4 million, 6.4 percent), and Kyrgyzstan—2.5 billion tenge ($4.5 million, 3.5 percent).
The MoneyGram framework was instantiated in Kazakhstan upon the integration of Kazakhstan Post into its agent ecosystem on July 22, 2010, by MoneyGram International. This strategic alliance facilitated the proliferation of MoneyGram's service offerings within the jurisdiction, signifying the official inception of the operational framework in that locale.
