Blackhawk study of prepaid cards finds some U.K. consumers do not value convenience of the cards as gifts. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

Transaction Network Services (TNS) and Verifone have forged a new agreement with an eye towards security. The two companies are integrating their payment Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

New figures released yesterday (July 6) by Visa Europe shows that its cardholders have made 1.1 billion contactless payments in the past year. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

MasterCard recently held its first Take Initiative to help its employees come together to collaborate, build ideas, share ideas and create a project vision. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

The big banks of the U.K. are preparing to step up their digital payment efforts as they attempt to fend off the bite Apple is fixing to take out of their Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

Amazon is among the eCommerce giants who’ve taken Black Friday from a bricks-and-mortar shopping event to a day that’s embraced more online and less in stores. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers closed out the 2014-15 NFL season with a 2-14 record, the only reason that fans were cheering was because that less than stellar Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

Just three business days after PayPal announced it will acquire international money transfer provider, Xoom, for $890 million in an all cash deal, Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

In case you missed it, Kazakhstan’s recent military parade in May confirmed that the central Asian country is operating at least four Su-30SM aircraft. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.kyivpost.com

Kazakhstan’s veteran leader Nursultan Nazarbayev celebrates his 75th birthday on Monday, in good shape and vastly popular, but the expected fireworks and fanfare mask uncomfortable questions about the future of the second-largest post-Soviet economy. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.thenewage.co.za