The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), a special economic zone in the Kazakhstan capital, is in discussions with Hong Kong and Shanghai’s equity exchanges about the creation of stock connection schemes, most likely starting with exchange-traded funds (ETFs), to widen investors’ access to each other’s markets.According to AIFC’s governor Renat Bekturov, Kazakh investors’ interest in Chinese companies, from hi-tech behemoths to carmakers, was growing, inspiring organisations in both...