At a moment when Kazakhstan's small businesses stand at the edge of broader regional ambitions, two financial institutions have formalized a partnership designed to lower one of the oldest barriers in international commerce: the inability of smaller firms to access the trust instruments that make cross-border trade possible. The International Finance Corporation and Bank CenterCredit have joined the Global Trade Finance Program, making the Kazakh bank the sole IFC partner of its kind in the country, with IFC guarantees absorbing the risks that once kept lenders from saying yes to smaller borro