Amidst sanctions standoff between the West and Russia, Kazakhstan is concerned with the lack of its own payment system. Experts comment on possibilities and limitations in introducing such a system.
MasterCard on Thursday said it had signed a deal with a Myanmar bank that it hopes will pave the way for electronic payments, in an impoverished country where most transactions are made in cash.
Credit card giants Visa and MasterCard agreed Friday to pay more than $6 billion to millions of merchants which had sued them for allegedly fixing card-use fees.