Based on the results of the first half of 2025, subsidiaries of JSC SPK Almaty financed 44 projects worth 4.7 billion tenge under the regional entrepreneurship development program Almaty Business 2025, which created 320 new jobs. Entrepreneurs in the fields of industrial production, processing, medicine, education, tourism, creative economy, sports and social entrepreneurship received financial support. Since the launch of the program in 2019 through July 2025, 750 projects have been financed for a total of 38.3 billion tenge.
The largest number of loans were issued to enterprises in the fields of production and processing (45%), social entrepreneurship (21%), tourism (17%), healthcare (11%), creative industry (6%) and construction of small industrial parks (1%). The leaders in territorial distribution were Bostandyk district - 147 funded initiatives, Alatau - 119, Almalinsky - 87, Auezovsky - 84, Medeu - 83, Nauryzbaisky - 65, Turksibsky - 53 and Zhetysusky - 50. As a result of the projects, 5,276 new jobs were created.
According to Berik Kusainov, Chairman of the Board of Almaty Finance, thanks to the revolving mechanism, 25.6 billion tenge allocated from the budget provided preferential financing for businesses in the total amount of 38.3 billion tenge. The program continues to operate and remains an effective tool for supporting entrepreneurs in Almaty.
Industrial, innovative, export-oriented initiatives, creative industry projects, social entrepreneurship, small manufacturing businesses, as well as business initiatives in the territory of the SEZ and Industrial Zone are subject to financing within the framework of "Almaty Business - 2025".
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The regional program for the development of entrepreneurship "Almaty Business - 2025" was approved by the Almaty city maslikhat in 2019. One of the key areas of the program was to increase the availability of financing for small and medium-sized businesses. To achieve this goal, subsidiaries of SPK "Almaty" were created - "Almaty Finance" and the microfinance organization "Almaty", which today provide preferential loans for starting, developing and supporting businesses.
Financing is carried out at rates of 2% and 6% per annum for up to 7 years. A rate of 2% applies to projects of socially vulnerable categories of citizens - large and low-income families, disabled people of groups I and II, families raising children with disabilities, as well as residents of small industrial parks. A rate of 6% is provided for start-up and existing SMEs registered and operating in Almaty. The maximum loan amount is 500 million tenge in Almaty Finance and 78.64 million tenge in Almaty MFO. Entrepreneurs use the funds received to purchase equipment, raw materials, replenish working capital and other business purposes.