“Kazakhstan is a land of unity and accord,” reads the billboard looming over the highway to the southern village of Bostandyk, which was hit by ethnic clashes between the Kazakh and Tajik communities Source: http://www.eurasianet.org

Jet.com Inc. has closed $140 million in a new round of financing led by Bain Capital Ventures, bringing its total value to almost $600 million. That makes it Source: http://www.pymnts.com

When Google tapped WePay to tackle its mobile-commerce payments problem, it didn’t just give merchants an easy way to use its two-tap instant Buy system, it Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Though speculating as to whether or not Apple is going to acquire Square has essentially been the payment’s ecosystem’s favorite pastime for the last several Source: http://www.pymnts.com

According to reports from DDaily, Samsung is considering a mandate that would require all accessories of its forthcoming Galaxy S6 handset devices to come Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Two years ago, the Federal Reserve was looking to take a decade to review how to make payments a faster process, commissioning study after study on how best to Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Dubbed the “personal dining concierge,” the restaurant payment app Reserve won’t pay your bill, but it will help pay that bill quicker and more discretely by Source: http://www.pymnts.com

It seems Google might be considering moving beyond NFC in its quest to compete with Apple Pay, according to new data published in The Information. The Source: http://www.pymnts.com

So here’s the good news. Corporate travel managers expect travel volumes to increase in 2015, according to AirPlus’ 2015 International Travel Management Study. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

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