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Israeli mobile technology company On Track Innovations (OTI) hopes to cash in on the trend toward fashion-direct payments by embedding transaction functions inside a ring.

Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Uber's Asian rival ups its payments game; European companies push back against new authentication rules; India's cash crisis leads to protests; PayPal benefits from holiday e-commerce boost.

PNC and First Data see a benefit in tailoring the health care experience with a focus on the consumer, and are working to enable that process by funding a cloud-based IT company that digitizes medical office management.

Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple Pay gets a boost from USAT's marketing; R3 looses banks; cross-border mobile money advances in Africa; Cardtronics wins a big cruise ATM contract.

Biometrics has long had an interoperability gap. Visa is trying to address that with a new project that brings flexibility to biometric options.

Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily with the information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Disney updates its Magic Band; Cash still popular in Canada; Samsung expands support for wearable payments; Bitcoin ATMs expand to Scotland.

Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily with the information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: E-commerce eases earnings pain at Target; Instagram adds shopping tools; Uber launches a gift card; a new payment app for pot.

India's abrupt recall of its larger bills — a bid to crack down on tax evasion — was a crash course in how to adapt to a cash shortage. Was this an opportunity for mobile payments or a failing of the overall financial services system?

The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Experts search for a cause for the Tesco breach; classical musicians play at an ATM; the European Commission wants to help banks repond to tech; Nordic countries shed cash.

Prepaid cards are never far from politics and controversy, though the industry's distance from government scrutiny will likely increase in January when Donald Trump assumes the presidency and a new Congress is sworn in.