The PYMNTS team caught up with experts in the payments field to ask them their views on industry trends, predictions for the coming year and what their ideal payments system looks like. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

When it comes to IPOs, $4 billion is nothing to sneeze at, but when putting that number next to Square, it’s actually a letdown.  Bloomberg reported today (Nov. 6) that the mobile payments company is looking to grab a valuation of…

Sprawling earthen swastika designs, crosses and rings that cover part of Kazakhstan are becoming a little less mysterious: Archaeologists studying the geoglyphs have found when they were created and what their function might have been. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.livescience.com

The end of the commodities supercycle has depressed the economies of resource-reliant countries all over the world. Nowhere is the pain intensifying more quickly than the central Asian nation of Kazakhstan. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.ft.com

Kazakhstan and France have agreed to cooperate in the nuclear energy sector. Kazakhstan’s Kazatomprom National Atomic Company and French company “Électricité de France” signed an agreement on the supply of natural uranium. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.azernews.az

China, Kazakhstan agree to jointly speed up silk road construction—China and Kazakhstan agreed on Friday to establish a joint working group to promote the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt. Sourced through Scoop.it from: news.xinhuanet.com

Kazakhstan’s central bank postponed Friday’s interest-rates meeting and said it would protect foreign currency reserves by cutting the amount of dollars it sells to support the tenge, which weakened to a record low today. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.bloomberg.com

Kazakhstan is looking at widening its debt offerings and plans to sell shares in more than 200 companies to cut its role in the economy by half as it seeks to attract foreign investment to stimulate growth hit by falling…

The presidents of France and Kazakhstan – François Hollande and Nursultan Nazarbayev, respectively – repeated here on Thursday their joint willingness to continue trying to resolve the Ukraine conflict through the continuation of their… Sourced through Scoop.it from: latino.foxnews.com

Four Kazakh Cities Join UNDP-GEF Sustainable Cities Project Sourced through Scoop.it from: astanatimes.com