John Adams

Payment technology and card network veteran Lance Johnson is the new executive director of the PCI Security Standards Council, effective January 2018.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon faces regulatory pressure in France; Italian banks build blockchain; Swiss cryptocurrency company seeks bank license; PCI Council adds new director.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: North Korea may be behind cyrptocurrency hacks; Bitcoin ATMs expand; Indonesia and Australia collaborate on fintech; First Data expands contactless in Asia.

One of the indirect offshoots of Brexit is a government program that's designed to keep the U.K. relevant by lending a hand to new companies.
The program, FCA Innovate, may have a global effect by nurturing companies that aim to retire static authentication modes such as usernames and passwords.

In a move designed to strengthen its capabilities for integrated payments, processor and technology provider Total System Services has agreed to acquire Cayan for $1.05 billion. The news shortly follows another deal valued in the billions — Thales agreeing to buy the chip maker Gemalto for $5.4 billion.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Thales agrees to acquire Gemalto; Citi starts a new blockchain project; North Korea's cryptohackers; Airwallex draws funding; ANZ cuts fees for transfers.

The cloud, open development and onboarding tools should get a boost from PSD2, with mandates that banks make it easier to share payment data with fintechs in Europe.

More retailers are accepting mobile wallets, but few agree on what that entails. Many stores are coming up with their own wallets by building on past successes or burying payments deep under the surface of their mobile channel.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: FCC ends net neutrality; Gemalto turns down takeover offer; Australian central banker's bearish on bitcoin; Miami condo sale will only take bitcoin.

Interac's e-transfer system has jumped in usage, and has become a gateway for myriad other services including a collaboration with MoneyGram.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Patreon cancels new fee policy; Coinbase's board adds David Marcus; Mobile pay does the laundry; Japanese company allows bitcoin salaries; Banks team for sustainable supply chains.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: UnionPay builds a bank network for mobile; Lavazza jumps into AI; Breach data winds up in a huge repository; Mastercard's innovation center for younger users.

Banks and fintechs are competing heavily to modernize cross-border payments, and Citi is using its upgraded treasury unit to add speed to its own international cross-border digital payments capabilities in more than 60 countries.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Samsung Pay pushes mobile transit pay in Hong Hong: Russian hack ring steals $10 million; VC flows to bitcoin investment exchanges; Australia's post office adds bill pay technology.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Australia adds cryptocurrency to AML rules; Aeon bank deploys no-hands ATMs; Nanopay bolsters B-to-B tech; GrabPay gets e-money license in Malaysia.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Alan Greenspan weighs in on bitcoin; Saxo's wild bitcoin prediction; Patreon changes its fees; U.K. researchers find another password vulnerability; Credit union blockchain group hires former Mastercard exec.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Travelers from China get more payments tech; Brave adds new content payments; Revolut adds support for more cyrptocurrencies; EMV matures.

Rapid changes in the cryptocurrency's valuation make it hard to properly price content purchases according to Steam.

The collaboration gives Worldpay another e-commerce tool to battle Amazon's encroachment into traditional retail.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Fitbit adds to its payments technology; Bitcoin buys art; GM adds shopping function; Real-time payments boosts IT spending; Payoneer draws investment form China.