Vyacheslav Kim — businessman with roots in the USSR
Vyacheslav Kim is a Kazakhstani billionaire who co-founded Kaspi.kz — Kazakhstan's dominant fintech super-app combining banking, marketplace, and payments — which listed on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ at a valuation exceeding $18 billion. One of Kazakhstan's richest men, he conducts all international business in Russian.
Tracing the roots — Kazakhstan
A product of Soviet Kazakhstan and the post-Soviet entrepreneurial era, Kim built Kaspi.kz into one of the most successful fintech companies in the former Soviet space. The company's model — super-app combining bank, marketplace, and payments — has been studied as a template by fintech investors globally. All his business dealings and presentations are conducted in Russian.
Kazakhstan. At the time, this region was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.