ArcelorMittal Temirtau has temporarily reduced the wages of foreign employees by 50 percent and of local personnel by 25 percent. Source: en.tengrinews.kz

ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Emergency and repair works were completed on the section of Kazakhstan’s main gas pipeline ‘Orenburg-Novopskov’, which suffered an explosion on Feb. 2, according to a message from the Kazakh joint-stock company, KazTransGas. Source: bakken.com

Kazakhmys suspends some operations in Kazakhstan Source: http://www.metal-pages.com

130 KG Gold – Nurmakhan Tinaliyev (Kazakhstan) vs. David Arendt (Marines) at the 2015 Greco-Roman Dave Schultz Memorial International in Colorado Springs, Colo. Source: http://www.youtube.com

Current retailer security for protecting credit card and personal information isn’t strong enough. That’s the takeaway from a Bizrate survey released on Tuesday Source: http://www.pymnts.com

German payments company Wirecard gave the world a first peak at its new wearable device that functions like a digital wallet worn as a wristband. The device, Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Apple has updated its list of financial institutions that fully support Apple Pay with another 15 banks and credit unions, bringing the total to 61, 9to5 Mac Source: http://www.pymnts.com

China has blasted past the half-billion mobile users mark. A report from the Beijing government’s China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) says the Source: http://www.pymnts.com

The number of retailers who offer customers a mobile commerce option has doubled in the past year — but m-commerce fraud is growing even faster, according to a Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Tim Cook may say that 2015 is the “Year of Apple Pay” but 2015 might be the year in which the split between card-present, NFC, in-store, card-not-present, Source: http://www.pymnts.com