John Adams

Digital assistants are increasingly commonplace, and the trend is pressuring merchants and issuers to figure out how to keep up with consumers' interest in conversational computing.

PayPal has been working to expand Venmo's audience beyond millennials for more than a year, a strategy that it hopes to further with instant transfers.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Ken Chenault joins Airbnb's board; Payoneer goes green; 50 Cent's a bitcoin millionaire; India draws more fintech attention.

Apple is not going to sit idly as Facebook transforms its Messenger app into a platform for P-to-P payments and commerce.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Arsenal signs deal with blockchain company; Connected car tech advances; Cryptocurrency M&A; First Data recruits in Ireland.

E-commerce merchants are juggling several challenges at once, creating potential business-threatening gaps Worldpay and Vantiv say can be bridged by their merger.

Now that bitcoin's market spike has made the alternative currency a household name, it's linked to wild market swings, bubble-level valuations and onerous fees, with the most obvious fixes likely furthering bitcoin's problems rather than solving them.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: ANZ's mobile pay spikes; ABN Amro leaves Dutch wallet group; DDoS attacks on the rise; How well-known is bitcoin?

Much like small businesses, small banks can't take on huge IT projects and rely more on targeted deployments to build a user base for future technology.

Bitcoin has lost touch with its original mission of being an alternative decentralized currency, and Stripe has decided that it is no longer worth supporting for payments.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Researcher finds a potential vulnerability at Uber; Visa bolsters executive ranks; Grab adds tech for bike sharing; The impact of PSD2.

The all-in-one card market is littered with the carcasses of unsuccessful ventures, but Curve's Shachar Bialick insists his initiative has a model and a headstart that will help it fight the market's considerable headwinds.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon Go opens in Seattle; CBA adds voice payments; Instant payments advance in France; SEC targets cryptocurrency manipulation; Why is a consumer group attacking lower ATM fees?

The mix of airlines, hotels and other companies that make up the travel industry have lost an innovative edge, in part because a once-cutting edge system of combined booking and payments has not aged well.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Australia plugs into Alexa; Europe regulates processing; contactless payments in sports; and more.

While Starbucks is making a tentative move into cash refusal at one location, it's unlikely any retailer would widely refuse cash payments in the near term.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa won't support cryptocurrency payments; Blockstream extends virtual currency tech; EMV advances in Ghana; Blockchain becomes art.

The anxiety that a crook is using a lost or stolen card can be a powerful lure to mobile technology, Citigroup has learned.

As mobile commerce matures, consumers are getting more accustomed to the process of populating a shopping cart from a smartphone's screen. It's a process that could translate well to brick-and-mortar stores.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Curve launches its all-in-one card; States push Congress to relax weed regulations; OnePlus gets attacked; Ethereum finds another user; China takes another swipe at cryptocurrency.