John Adams

Mastercard's strong performance is dampened by threats from trade disputes and Brexit, both of which could cause the company pain in the future.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Square helps merchants fight chargebacks; Paytm's in the middle of political disputes; Air Canada tries to buy back Aeroplan; Coinbase intros crypto gift cards.

The outage that halted a portion of Visa payments in Europe was almost two months ago, but the card brand is still explaining what happened and attempting to isolate the incident.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Worldpay debuts its drone; Alipay's international merchant network gets larger; Singapore health system suffers a breach; U.K. regulators worry about payment monopoly.

With just two partnerships, eBay is cutting off a big opportunity for community banks.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Commerzbank gets help for faster payments; China gets even tougher on cryptocurrency; Game of laundering; Lil' Flip does marketing for Fit Pay.

Maybe it's coincidence, or maybe it's progress — in recent weeks, a number of large payment networks have suffered brief but widespread outages, particularly in Europe.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: More payment problems in Europe; Snapchat shuts down P2P app; Europe and U.S. ease fintech rules; Airline payments technology advance in Saudi Arabia; India delays cryptoban trail.

The recent tariff escalations could cause financial pain for specific shopping corridors, particularly in price-conscious locales.

Merchant acquirers have moved mountains to embrace software and e-commerce over the old model of selling point of sale hardware, but there are signs that transformation is not enough to please investors.