ASTANA, Nov 20, 2,014: Kazakhstan’s former prime minister Serik Akhmetov was charged with corruption and placed under house arrest on court order, the Agency for Civil Service Affairs and Anti-Corruption said on Wednesday. Source: http://www.therakyatpost.com

The current head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has discussed a range of issues including the conflict in Ukraine with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev. Source: http://www.rferl.org

The only female activist jailed on charges of organizing violent protests in Kazakhstan’s southwestern town of Zhanaozen in 2011 has been freed. Source: http://www.rferl.org

Square has gone global. The mobile payments startup announced in London on Thursday (Nov. 20) that its Square Register point-of-sale suite is now available Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Apple made its grand yet disruptive entrance into the payments ecosystem just 30 days ago. Since then, it’s stirred up both good and bad conversations about the Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Intuit’s first-quarter financial earnings released Thursday (Nov. 20) showed the small-business accounting software company is seeing success in attracting new Source: http://www.pymnts.com

MasterCard sees mobile payment security as crucial, but it’s power is relevant only to the point that shoppers are actually using it. And with Apple Pay, that Source: http://www.pymnts.com

The one-month anniversary of Apple Pay’s official launch prompts the payments ecosystem to ask where we were, where we are, and where we’re going. To celebrate, Source: http://www.pymnts.com

In the late 90’s there was a popular bumper sticker “Think Globally, Act Locally,” that had all but disappeared by the mid-2000’s when their original owners Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Snapcash enables P2P payments within popular messaging app. Source: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com