FC Astana are a tiny, new club, but they are backed by Kazakhstan’s vast resources. Nick Ames went to see their grand project up close.

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Kazakhstan’s tenge sank the most since the country switched to a free-floating exchange rate as crude oil fell and Halyk Finance said the central bank’s key interest rate is too low to put a floor under the currency’s declines.

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Past weekend #Kazakhstan celebrated 550 years of #Kazakh Khanate! To learn more about #KZ #culture see our blog post http://t.co/16CqPygkHx

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Chase Bank is launching a new ad campaign to unify its SMB product offerings.

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Stripe is looking to revamp the mobile eCommerce experience with the release of its new API tool Relay — its own version of the buy button.

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Fiserv, a provider of financial services technology, announced Sept. 14 that it completed a pilot with VyStar Credit Union to offer CardFree Cash ATM access.

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Lloyds Banking Group will now offer Apple Pay to its customers at its Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland brands.

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Apple’s new iterations of its iPhones are seeing sales at a strong so much so the phones are on track to best 2014’s first weekend sales of 10 million units.

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To keep operations going in Russia, Apple has agreed to store retail information on a Moscow-based server.

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MPD CEO Karen Webster walks thru Apple’s mobile carrier playbook over the last 8 years and draws some interesting parallels to its entry into mobile payments.

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