New EBRD Regional Report Predicts Lower Economic Growth for Much of Central Asia

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The India-Central Asia Car Rally that proposes to cover 3,000 km of the most-challenging terrain in the world began its journey on Thursday in Astana, the Kazakh capital with the release of a clutch of colourful hydrog…

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Kazakh sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna will not exert pressure on its companies to convert their dollar holdings into the local tenge currency, CE

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The website of Swedbank was taken offline by hackers in what is being reported as a possible denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

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Wells Fargo tells PYMNTS about its biometrics authentication technology, coming soon for corporate users of its mobile app

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Payments firm ShopKeep may be eyeing an IPO.

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Instagram added a Shop Now button back in early spring, and now the social media platform could be adding some serious functionality to the spots.

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Samsung may use its Samsung Pay mobile payments service to launch the next generation of P2P payments. Phone-to-phone payments, a newly developed technology.

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Apple’s App Store is one of the most popular platforms for disseminating apps, and it just got a little bit bigger with a brand new section.

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What was new this week? We all got we expected from Visa – they bought Visa Europe. The jobs reports was a good surprise Square – the surprise was less good.

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