ElcardKyrgyzstan's national card and the channel for paying public sector salaries, pensions, and social benefits. A Mir co-badged version exists for migrant workers in Russia.Interbank Processing Center (under the authority of the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (NBKR))
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Kyrgyzstan Payment systems
3 systems listed.
This country doesn’t have a written market analysis yet: e-commerce shares, regulator, and key players are still to be documented. The systems below, however, are verified.
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Card schemes
Wallets
ElsomMobile wallet designed for unbanked populations in rural Kyrgyzstan, distributed through an agent network.KICB (Kyrgyz Investment and Credit Bank)
Interoperable QR
ELQRAn interoperable national QR code running on Kyrgyzstan’s instant payment rail: a single merchant QR accepted by every bank and payment system in the country.National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic · since 2022More than 67,000 QR codes deployed and 121 million cumulative transactions worth KGS 182.4 billion as of April 1, 2025 (ELQR / NBKR).