Joint Stock Company Regional Financial Center of Almaty (JSC RFCA) was set up under Resolution #65 of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan of January 29, 2007.

Mission. Creating the conditions and an efficient mechanism for the integration of Kazakhstan into the world’s economy, through setting up the successful operation of the financial center, attractive to all the participants of both the domestic market of the country and the world’s community.

Major goals of JSC RFCA are:
* Development of the securities market in Kazakhstan, meeting international standards
* Ensuring the integration of the securities market in Kazakhstan with the international capital markets, and increasing its capitalization and liquidity
*Creating conditions for raising investments in the economy of Kazakhstan, involving the engagement of individuals to work as investors on the securities market

Major objectives of RFCA are:
* Institutional development of the financial center, meeting international standards and adding to the attraction of foreign participants
* Attraction of issuers and professional participants in the person of organizations that carry out brokerage and dealer’s activities, and institutional investors to work at the financial center
* Investing by the population of their savings into securities and other financial instruments through the stock market
* Development and introduction of new financial instruments and stock market technologies
* Increasing the investment attractiveness of Almaty and creating a favorable investment image of the Republic of Kazakhstan overseas
* Organizational and technical support of the financial center’s activities
* Participation in implementation of the Program of Increasing the Population’s Investment Activity and Awareness in Financial Issues in the Republic of Kazakhstan

Principles of RFCA’s operation are:
* Professionalism that is the skilled approach in all areas of activity
* Transparency, involving the transparency of the companies’ operation
* Stability, meaning reliability and preservation of the positive environment for interaction and operation at RFCA through provision of constantly high quality services
* Accessibility that is the creation of an environment for common interaction and the absence of barriers for participation of the partners (customers), irrespective of their geographical location, status etc.
* Equality of rights that is the operation of all the institutes, based on the equality of rights to participation
* Innovation, meaning the application of innovative techniques in work and steady enhancement; encouragement of positive changes and determining the possibilities they create
* Aiming to success that is the making of every effort to maintain the provision of services by RFCA at a high level

JSC RFCA is the large shareholder of JSC Kazakhstan Stock Exchange and the founder of:
* JSC RFCA’s Rating Agency
* JSC RFCA’s Academy
* JSC Commodity Exchange Eurasian Trade System