It comes as no surprise that people tend to share a lot—far too much, most likely—on social media. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Financial institutions are well aware of the heightened threat they face from targeted attacks and malicious software campaigns. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

The terms “augmented reality” and “banking app” are not typically found in the same sentence, but a New Zealand bank app made an exception. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Employers worldwide are warming up to the idea of allowing workers to bring their own identity (BYOID), even when it comes to logging in for work-related functions. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

American Express has given up its bid to wrest total control of the “Black Card” brand name from Netherland’s registered Israel-based coffee producer, which owns the Black Card coffee trademark. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

In the “how cool is this” category comes two separate Apple and iBeacons data-points that are pretty interesting as standalone applications. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has unveiled a new structure of the Kazakhstan government on August 6, 2014. “We need to create an effective system of public administration…. Source: http://www.youtube.com

There is a growing sense that Putin, after what he did to Crimea, has prepared a fine blueprint for similar intervention in Central Asian states should it become a necessary case for protecting Russian interests in these countries. Source: http://www.eurasiareview.com

Energy in Kyrgystan and Uzbekistan is largely influenced by regional power struggles, which are manipulated by Russia. (Stratfor map of existing and proposed natural gas pipelines in Central Asia. Source: http://www.stratfor.com

Until Wednesday, Shkolnik was in charge of national uranium company Kazatomprom. Kazakhstan is the world’s largest producer of uranium. It is also Central Asia’s largest economy and the second-largest ex-Soviet oil producer after Russia. Source: http://www.themoscowtimes.com