John Adams

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: U.K. pressures Diebold Nixdorf; Hungary develops national fast transfers; Shake Shack expands mobile order; a new ATM threat.

The scourge of account takeover isn't lost on Citizens Union Bank, which is involving its business customers — or rather, their biometric traits — in improving the security of their accounts.

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: Consumers use digital to save money more than time; NYC parking goes mobile; charitable gift cards expand in San Francisco; E-bills win at bootcamp.

As long as there has been mobile commerce, there have been calls for different stakeholders to share competitive turf in the name of universal acceptance.

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: Samsung Pay in India; U.K. bar adopts contactless pay; Sydney transit adopts open payments; Rakuten invests in Uber rival.

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: Citi invests in blockchain; 'fast EMV' draws Brookstone; Postmates offers a virtual gift card; the U.K. publishes a guide to payments.

Bluetooth beacons, which communicate with consumers' apps as they enter and leave stores, have been bouncing around the retail industry for a few years looking for the right combination of foot traffic, product and customer experience.

Issuers of prepaid cards often say their products are a good tool for budgeting, but it's rarer to hear merchants market their own branded prepaid cards this way. Walmart is retooling its prepaid strategy to focus on saving in an effort to improve the financial habits of its customers.

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: Yahoo 'believes' card info not hacked; U.K. startup wants 'drone debit'; Ashley Madison settles; Australia loosens fintech rules.

By making tokenization available on each other's digital wallets, Visa and Mastercard are addressing the security concerns of merchants who are happy to accept both brands but nervous about how their wallets can be misused.