Freedom Holding to launch crypto card within month - Turlov
ASTANA. April 9 (Interfax) - Freedom Holding Corp. plans to launch a cryptocurrency card within a month that will allow clients to manage cryptocurrency accounts through a brokerage application, CEO Timur Turlov told Interfax.
"The product will be available on our investor cards within a month. It is available to all clients and can be opened together with a Freedom Global brokerage account at the AIFC," Turlov told Interfax on the sidelines of the Freedom Inside 2026 forum on Thursday.
He said that the crypto card was already available to clients in test mode.
"We are currently finishing updating our structures, and I am confident that within the next month, this crypto card will give people an experience of being able to simply add themselves a cryptocurrency-denominated account from within their application," Turlov said.
He said that the card would work with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as the USDT and USDC stablecoins, and that additional assets could also be added.
"We want it to be as native and intuitive to open an account as it is with a regular bank account. Users will be able to exchange currencies within the application, for example, automatically selling Bitcoin for tenge and vice versa, top up the card with cryptocurrency and transfer it to other wallets," Turlov said.
Freedom Holding Corp. is registered in the U.S. and has subsidiaries in more than 20 countries, including Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Poland, Spain, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. The corporation operates in the financial sector, including retail brokerage services, investment consulting, securities trading, market-making, corporate investment banking, underwriting and insurance. As of early 2026, Turlov owned 69.31% of the holding's shares.
Freedom Holding Corp. earned a net profit of $145.4 million in the first nine months of the 2026 fiscal year, from April 1 to December 31, 2025, down almost 37.5% compared to the same period of the 2025 fiscal year.
