John Adams is executive editor of payments for American Banker.
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The mobile revolution is turning Western Union into a very different company, one that must adjust to new ways to pay while pouring substantial resources into fending off the threat of e-commerce.
By John AdamsMarch 8 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm starts premium service; RBI fines banks for Swift violations; U.K. government pressured to protect cash; Google offers perks to watch developer ads.
By John AdamsMarch 7 -
Small-business projects in India and Latin America will provide a test of how well an open source blockchain can reduce the fraud that can occur when businesses try to free up capital from outstanding payments.
By John AdamsMarch 7 -
Amazon’s an attention machine, making its reported attention to Mexico’s criticized mobile payment project something banks have little choice but to see as a welcome development instead of a threat.
By John AdamsMarch 6 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon may join Mexico's mobile pay program; Revolut faces another compliance query; Gaming clips company Medal adds payments; Square co-founder Tristan O'Tierney dies.
By John AdamsMarch 6 -
Companies are scrambling to shore up Brexit strategies to ensure their payment systems work, a difficult if not impossible task given the political uncertainty. But it’s also an unavoidable complication, which Tipalti hopes will provide a boost for its service, which is built to expect uncertainty.
By John AdamsMarch 6 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Sam's Club extends scanning technology; New York subways replace newstands with vending machines; W3C and FIDO finish authentication specification; Programmers use radio waves to make cryptocurrency payment.
By John AdamsMarch 5 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Banco Sabadell demos "hand" payments; Amazon plots grocery chain; U.K. consolidates payment groups; Klarna and PayBright collaborate in Canada.
By John AdamsMarch 4 -
Amazon is focusing more on the virtual and voice-powered reordering on its sites and apps, and as a result is no longer producing new plastic Dash buttons.
By John AdamsMarch 1 -
Revolut has caught the attention of U.K. regulators over money laundering compliance, a predicament that sheds light on issues faced by the entire digital financial services industry.
By John AdamsMarch 1