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On February 23, the financial group TAS GROUP celebrated its 16th anniversary. Over these years, the company has financed the economy with 600 billion tenge, supported thousands of entrepreneurs, and become a symbol of maturity and scale in Kazakhstan’s financial sector.
Leadership Proven by Numbers
In recent years, Kazakhstan’s financial market has become significantly more regulated and competitive. Increased requirements for transparency, capital, and risk management have raised the bar for all industry participants.
In such conditions, maintaining growth momentum while retaining leadership is no easy task. However, TAS GROUP has evolved from an ambitious niche player into the undisputed leader in the car-secured lending market. Today, the company helps entrepreneurs quickly and conveniently resolve cash flow gaps and other financial challenges.
Results are measured in numbers. Over 16 years, TAS GROUP has financed the national economy with more than 600 billion tenge. Throughout its history, around 300,000 Kazakh citizens have become the company’s clients, and the total number of contracts has exceeded 370,000.
These figures reflect not only the company’s popularity but also the trust it has earned in the market, as well as the maturity of its processes and the resilience of its business model. Today, the company’s assets have approached 100 billion tenge, confirming its institutional scale and stability.
From Niche to Systemic Player
Over 16 years, TAS GROUP has transformed into a full-fledged ecosystem of financial services. The company has built an effective risk management system, learned to scale without compromising portfolio quality, and formed a strong management team.
The company’s network includes 50 branches across major cities in Kazakhstan and CIS countries. TAS GROUP has built scalable infrastructure that enables it to support clients anywhere in the country. This extensive network demonstrates not only business scale but also the ability to operate systematically with high-quality risk management.
Currently, more than 30,000 clients actively use the company’s financial products. This scale is no longer the story of a startup — it is a systemic infrastructure working in the interests of small and medium-sized businesses.
“Scale Implies Responsibility”
For the founder and head of the group, Dulat Tastekey, this stage also has a personal dimension.
«As a child, I dreamed of creating a large financial company. Back then, it seemed unattainable,» he says. «But over time, I realized that what matters more is not status or branding, but the level of processes and responsibility to clients.»
According to him, the main transformation took place within the company.
«When hundreds of billions of tenge flow through your system, you begin to think differently. It is no longer just a business — it is a responsibility to entrepreneurs and to the country’s economy. Scale implies responsibility.»
Over the years, TAS GROUP has gone through various economic cycles: periods of growth, currency fluctuations, and tightening regulations.
«We have never chased rapid growth at any cost,» notes Dulat Tastekey. «For us, portfolio quality and client trust have always been more important.»
600 billion tenge in financed economy is not just a number. Throughout its existence, TAS GROUP has become one of the country’s key financial players, supporting the development of small and medium-sized businesses, creating jobs, and providing working capital to hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs. In U.S. dollar terms, this amounts to over 1.2 billion, and even more when adjusted for inflation — confirming the company’s real impact on Kazakhstan’s economy.
Fintech of National Scale
16 years ago, TAS GROUP started as an entrepreneurial initiative — essentially a fintech startup in the fast financing segment. The focus was on speed of decision-making, analytics, and process digitalization.
Over time, the startup evolved into a mature fintech platform. Today, a significant portion of processes — from client assessment to decision-making — is automated. The company invests in its own IT developments, scoring models, and digital service channels.
«Fintech ceases to be an experiment when it is backed by real volumes and long-term sustainability,» says Dulat Tastekey. «We see our role as making financial tools accessible, understandable, and technological.»
Financial maturity is the ability to influence the country’s economy. Over 16 years, TAS GROUP has transformed into an independent financial institution of national scale, providing access to capital for hundreds of thousands of Kazakh citizens.
16 years is the point at which TAS GROUP stops proving something to the market and begins shaping its rules.
