Kazakhstan’s delegation headed by KTZ President Askar Mamin took part in a meeting of the Coordination Council of the Ashgabat Agreement including Oman, Iran, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Source: http://www.timesofoman.com

Kazakhstan set to overtake Russia in GDP per capita terms this year and draw level in GDP per capita at PPP. pic.twitter.com/l3XFMRjPMO Source: twitter.com

Talking Payments is a global community of organisations and individuals sharing news and views on the management of payments. This is the profile for an article. Source: http://www.talkingpayments.com

The FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance recently published the specifications for two enhanced authentication standards, paving the way for what hopefully will be widespread industry adoption by online service providers and enterprises during 2015. Source: blog.norsecorp.com

A digital pandemic metastasizes within the boundless frontier of cyberspace. Various retail chains have been hacked. Now Anthem, a huge healthcare organization, storing names, addresses, social security numbers, medical records, etc. Source: http://www.mycentraljersey.com

Cyber criminals compromised more than a billion data records in 2014 in more than 1,500 breaches, according to the latest breach report from Gemalto Source: http://www.computerweekly.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 search-giant has reportedly been quietly testing a contextually-aware mobile, bluetooth-based… Source: http://www.pymnts.com

While the world tries to determine whether social media celebrities count as real celebrities, there is little controversy around the idea that the social media famous have a big role to play in motivating the shopping behaviors of others. Source:…

Apple’s attempts to bring Apple Pay to China have hit a few bumps in the road. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Europe’s answer to Square, iZettle, is introducing its new Card Reader Lite, which is reportedly the world’s first free-­of-charge Chip and PIN reader. Source: http://www.pymnts.com