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Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: IBM's cloud blockchain moves forward; Saks' web page exposes customer info; a startup for music payments; India's consumers optimistic.

Biometric authentication has been around for a while, but companies are still finding new uses for it in payments and commerce. Here are some of the latest developments.

In an increasingly digital world, retailers are working to bring transactions closer to the shopper and further away from traditional hardware.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Bank emoji; China's big blockchain; smart jacket; an ISO crawler and more.

Mobile money apps have proven to be a major force in building financial services in emerging economies, but under the hood they can be starkly different.

Ever since Apple opened its Siri voice assistant to outside developers late last year, payment companies have been experimenting with the potential of voice-controlled payments. Here's a look at what some of the early adopters have already accomplished.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Singapore embraces distributed ledgers; Uber gets new invoicing; Brexit threatens cross-border payments; Chicago startup tests palm payments.

Innovate Indiana is taking part in a $2.6 million investment in Rippleshot, a company that uses artificial intelligence to detect card fraud.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: U.K. payments tech gets more open; kids' draws investors; Monzo suffers another outage; businesses prefer banks for B-to-B payments.

The app economy has grown big enough now that many of the early rules no longer apply.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Razer adds virtual currency; Singapore and Abu Dhabi partner on fintech; former Square execs go into merchant tech; Loot diversifies.

Verifone is checking into a breach of its computer network, reports security blogger Brian Krebs.

Hoping to remove almost all touch-based input from mobile payments, RBC has launched money transfers with Siri, Apple's voice-activated digital assistant.

Venture capital often moves like a tide. Janet Bannister seeks opportunity that's just a bit farther out.

In financial services today, it seems everyone is interested in how blockchain can be used. Diana Adachi's one of the people making it happen.

MoneyGram's Kamila Chytil is assuming a new position at the company amid major changes. This year for MoneyGram could not be more dynamic.

For one of her bank's largest and most important forays into digital transaction technology, JPMorgan Chase's Jennifer Roberts turned to the people most in tune with the next era of financial services.

The Most Influential Women in Payments are the ones taking risks with new ideas and investments, and developing the technology that will forever change the way people handle money. Not only do they set an example for their peers, they are unafraid to learn from newcomers and are diligent about encouraging a freshness and diversity of ideas.

Kroger payments chief Kathy Hanna is helping to drive a digital transformation of how consumers engage the supermarket chain.

Janet Estep has been one of the most visible figures in the faster payments movement, battling for years to get reluctant banks on board with this vision.