{"id":1748,"date":"2017-04-05T13:52:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T11:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/portfolio-articoli\/accordo_astana_aifc\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T12:04:52","slug":"accordo_astana_aifc","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/portfolio-articoli\/accordo_astana_aifc\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorandum on Cooperation between the LCTA and the Astana International Financial Centre Authority (AIFC &#8211; Kazakhstan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='full_slider_1'  class='avia-fullwidth-slider main_color avia-shadow   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first   container_wrap fullsize'  ><div  class='avia-slideshow av-av_slideshow_full-4f3ef5c0d0c5e5a45e27d5f99336c2be avia-slideshow-featured av_slideshow_full avia-slide-slider av-slideshow-ui av-control-default av-slideshow-manual av-loop-once av-loop-manual-endless av-default-height-applied   avia-slideshow-1' data-slideshow-options=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;slide&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:false,&quot;loop_autoplay&quot;:&quot;once&quot;,&quot;interval&quot;:5,&quot;loop_manual&quot;:&quot;manual-endless&quot;,&quot;autoplay_stopper&quot;:false,&quot;noNavigation&quot;:false,&quot;bg_slider&quot;:false,&quot;keep_padding&quot;:false,&quot;hoverpause&quot;:false,&quot;show_slide_delay&quot;:0}\"  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 28.666666666667%;'><li  class='avia-slideshow-slide av-av_slideshow_full-4f3ef5c0d0c5e5a45e27d5f99336c2be__0  av-single-slide slide-1 slide-odd'><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"wp-image-4003 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-4003\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sld-astana.jpg\" width=\"1500\" height=\"430\" title='sld-astana' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sld-astana.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sld-astana-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sld-astana-768x220.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sld-astana-1030x295.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sld-astana-705x202.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sld-astana-450x129.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-av_section-eec70215690d30212cd8877980ecc158 main_color avia-section-small avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_slideshow_full  el_before_av_one_half  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1748'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1748'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_half-b2d7257554a1b8d10b704baac3f082b1\">\n#top .flex_column.av-av_one_half-b2d7257554a1b8d10b704baac3f082b1{\nmargin-top:0px;\nmargin-bottom:0px;\n}\n.flex_column.av-av_one_half-b2d7257554a1b8d10b704baac3f082b1{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:30 px 30 px 30 px 30 px;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_column.av-av_one_half-b2d7257554a1b8d10b704baac3f082b1{\nmargin-top:0px;\nmargin-bottom:0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_half-b2d7257554a1b8d10b704baac3f082b1 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1><strong>Memorandum<\/strong> <strong>on Cooperation between the Lugano Commodity Trading Association (LCTA &#8211; Switzerland) and<\/strong> <strong>the Astana International Financial Centre Authority (AIFC &#8211; Kazakhstan)<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Astana International Financial Centre Authority (AIFC &#8211; Kazakhstan) and the Lugano Commodity Trading Association (LCTA &#8211; Switzerland) signed a Memorandum with an intent to build a cooperation aimed at fostering the flourishing relationship and developing the mutually fruitful cooperation in the financial sector with particular attention on commodity trade finance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Kairat Kelimbetov, Governor of the AIFC, and Mr. Marco Passalia, General Secretary of LCTA, signed the Memorandum after a personal discussion. At the meeting was present also the Swiss Ambassador in Kazakhstan, Urs Schmid, and underlined the importance of this historical agreement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By the Decree of the President of Kazakhstan, dated 19 May 2015, a new financial centre, called the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), was created in Kazakhstan&#8217;s capital, Astana, with an ambitious goal to become one of the top 10 financial centers in Asia, and one of the top 30 in the world by 2020. The AIFC began operating from 1 January 2016. In order to effectively utilise the premises being constructed for the EXPO-2017 Exhibition, the AIFC will be located within the territory of the EXPO, from 1 January 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Established in 2010, Lugano Commodity Trading Association (LCTA) is a non-profit organization based in Lugano. With this association, the commodity trading companies intend to reinforce Canton Ticino\u2019s favourable business conditions and to pursue common goals, such as fostering personnel training, broadening domain knowledge, creating new international contacts and relations, exchanging opinions and views. Furthermore, LCTA aims at developing a platform composed of commodity trading firms, shipping companies, banks active in co8mmodity financing as well as all consultants and certification companies active in this business branch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cooperation between AIFC and LCTA will go ahead in the next months with the promotion of exchange of information and expertise in the support for the organization of training programs or networking events. At the same time, AIFC and LCTA deem appropriate to embark on an exchange of official delegations and experts in various fields of economic activities for the sake of an active support of official dialogues between the two business communities.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_half-8d21c1931c127e90dfc92eb072ea6df7\">\n#top .flex_column.av-av_one_half-8d21c1931c127e90dfc92eb072ea6df7{\nmargin-top:0px;\nmargin-bottom:0px;\n}\n.flex_column.av-av_one_half-8d21c1931c127e90dfc92eb072ea6df7{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:30 px 30 px 30 px 30 px;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_column.av-av_one_half-8d21c1931c127e90dfc92eb072ea6df7{\nmargin-top:0px;\nmargin-bottom:0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_half-8d21c1931c127e90dfc92eb072ea6df7 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-125ab9053852d8cd95d89a3eea352ff6\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-125ab9053852d8cd95d89a3eea352ff6 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-125ab9053852d8cd95d89a3eea352ff6 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-125ab9053852d8cd95d89a3eea352ff6 av-styling-no-styling av-hover-grow avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-6  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-4001 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-4001 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Passalia_Kelimbetov-495x400.jpg\" alt='' title='Passalia_Kelimbetov'  height=\"400\" width=\"495\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Passalia_Kelimbetov-495x400.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Passalia_Kelimbetov-845x684.jpg 845w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><em>Mr. Kairat Kelimbetov, Governor of the AIFC, and Mr. Marco Passalia, General Secretary of LCTA, signed the Memorandum<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakhstan, April, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[21],"class_list":["post-1748","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-review-en"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}