The brutal winter earlier this year may have at least temporarily helped some Americans from falling further into debt Source: http://www.mainstreet.com

SingTel-Optus has partnered with Visa and Heritage Bank for the new mobile wallet that’s funded with a prepaid card. Source: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com

A panel discussion at the recent Fast Casual Executive Summit examined why the restaurant industry needs to focus its efforts on emerging technologies. Source: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com

The Merchants Payments Coalition wants to educate Congress members and their staffs about upcoming innovations in payments. Source: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com

Check has been updated for iOS 8 and comes with some new features exclusive to the iPad. Source: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com

The stop-start nature of Russia’s energy deals with Central Asian countries combined with traditional fears of Russian encroachment stemming from centuries of Russian occupation, has caused many Central Asian countries to view China as a more… Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com

“The victory of pro-Russian forces in Georgia would be a catastrophe not only for Georgia,” Gela Vasadze, the head of the Svobodnaya Zona portal, says, because that development, one actively promoted by Moscow, would also cut off Azerbaijan,… Source: http://www.kyivpost.com

Kazakhstan did not make the decision to annex Crimea or endorse the invasion of Ukraine, so why should they suffer the same economic consequences along with Russia? Why the Eurasian partnership is less comfortable than it seems. Source: http://www.silkroadreporters.com

ASTANA – Five new affordable residential housing complexes offering 1,574 apartments under the Affordable Housing 2020 Programme will be available by the end of the year, according to a Nov. Source: http://www.astanatimes.com

A high-level forum exploring the investment potential of Almaty as the newly redefined financial hub of Central Asia titled Financing Growth in Kazakhstan was held at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Almaty on Nov. Source: http://www.astanatimes.com