Payments & PSPs in Astana, Kazakhstan: overview
AIFC financial centre and government. That mix of activity is exactly where payments & psps projects usually start.
NNT Software engineers payment platforms for PSPs, acquirers, payment facilitators and merchants — payment gateways, orchestration and smart routing, merchant onboarding, payouts, settlement and reconciliation — with PCI-DSS-aware architecture and local payment rails worldwide.. Delivered remotely from India with full working-day overlap.
Astana at a glance
Business districts
Most of the activity in Astana is concentrated in the AIFC district and Left Bank. We regularly support companies based in these areas.
Economy and key industries
AIFC financial centre and government. These sectors drive most of the software demand we see in Astana.
Talent and universities
Nazarbayev University and Astana IT University. Local teams often pair with our engineers in India to add capacity and specialist skills.
Connectivity and infrastructure
Nursultan Nazarbayev Airport. We plan hosting, latency and integrations with this in mind.
Why Astana companies invest in software
With aIFC financial centre and government, businesses in Astana face growing pressure to digitise operations, serve customers online and integrate with partners. The most common requests we receive from Astana are payments & psps.
Because Astana draws talent from Nazarbayev University and Astana IT University, many companies here run lean in-house teams and use NNT Software to add product engineering, QA, DevOps or AI skills on demand — with delivery scheduled around UTC+5 working hours.
How we would approach a project in Astana
- Start with the workflows that matter most to aIFC financial centre and government — usually settlement engine and payment gateway.
- Meet stakeholders in the AIFC district or online for a one-to-two-week discovery workshop.
- Plan hosting and integrations around nursultan Nazarbayev Airport and the UTC+5 working day.
- Combine your local team — often hired from Nazarbayev University — with NNT engineers for design, development and QA.
- Release in two-week sprints and review results with your Astana team every fortnight.
How Astana businesses use payments & psps
Settlement engine
Fees, splits, reserves and reconciliation. Fintech companies in Astana usually prioritise this first, tracking progress on onboarding completion rate and time to approve an application.
Payment gateway
Hosted checkout, APIs and tokenisation. Fintech companies in Astana usually prioritise this first, tracking progress on onboarding completion rate and time to approve an application.
Orchestration
Smart routing and failover across PSPs. Fintech companies in Astana usually prioritise this first, tracking progress on onboarding completion rate and time to approve an application.
Merchant portal
KYB onboarding, dashboards and payouts. Fintech companies in Astana usually prioritise this first, tracking progress on onboarding completion rate and time to approve an application.
What payments & psps includes for Astana clients
Settlement engine
Fees, splits, reserves and reconciliation.
Payment gateway
Hosted checkout, APIs and tokenisation.
Orchestration
Smart routing and failover across PSPs.
Merchant portal
KYB onboarding, dashboards and payouts.
Hosting for Astana projects
For low latency in Astana and compliance with Law on Personal Data and its Protection, we usually recommend Singapore, Mumbai or Sydney cloud regions.
Localising payments & psps for Astana
Business in Astana is mainly conducted in Kazakh and Russian. We build interfaces, notifications and documents ready for those languages, and plan releases around the UTC+5 working day.
Payments & PSPs pricing for Astana
Priced as per your requirements and budget, quoted in KZT or USD, after a free discovery call.
Working with a Astana team
We work with full working-day overlap (UTC+5). You get a named project manager, weekly demos and written status reports.
Next steps
Ready to discuss payments & psps in Astana? Here is how to get started with NNT Software:
- Share your goals, users, must-have features and timeline through the contact form, email or WhatsApp.
- Join a free 30-minute discovery call with a solution architect — we sign an NDA first if you prefer.
- Receive a written proposal within 48 hours: scope, milestones, team, timeline and fixed estimate.
- Kick off with a discovery workshop and see working software in your first sprint demo.