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   "standing_position": "Card-scheme and interbank network compliance sits on the NBK Payment Systems Registry (systemically-important/important classifications), with Visa itself classified as an important payment system domestically; PCI DSS applies as the standard scheme-level data-security mandate for any card-data-handling entity, enforced by Visa/Mastercard rather than a domestic regulator.",
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     "finding": "Kazakhstan is assessed by the Eurasian Group (EAG), not FATF directly, under its 2023 Mutual Evaluation Report. The Agency for Financial Monitoring is the FIU/policy lead. Legal-person BO transparency is largely compliant, but legal-arrangement transparency and FI supervision remain weak (R.26 non-compliant). EAEU membership and border-free trade with Russia create structural sanctions-evasion exposure managed unevenly by a domestic Specific Goods Law licensing regime.",
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