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One of the big ideas payment technology execs push is the backgrounding of the transaction — often called the "Uberization" because of how well the ride-sharing app Uber accomplishes this feat.

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: Tesco's issues with account numbers; India incents e-payments; clearing house seeks faster-pay partners; Chrome strengthens retail security warnings.

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: Square expands Caviar; the U.K. cracks down on crowdfunding; Canada's payments overhaul advances; IBM exec pushes artificial intelligence.

Mobile app photo IDs have had mixed success, but Credntia's betting an overall spike in mobile technology will lead to robust use of its app.

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: Visa's opens tech in Africa; Pebble phases out; Brazilian card draws funds in a tough market; EU can't meet standards timeline.

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 adds retailers; IBM accelerates blockchain development; U.K. expands payment tech competition; N26 mobile consortium gets larger.

J.G. Wentworth's quirky Broadway-style ads have made it familiar as a structured settlement purchase company, and as it attempts to grab share in the prepaid market it's looking to lottery agencies to make sure its strategy is no gamble.

In short order, Mastercard, Visa and now Amex have made rapid strikes designed to not only bolster identity protection for online commerce, but to make that protection nearly invisible to the consumer.

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: Android Pay's "virtual" prizes; Blockchain group looks for investment; a new tech center in Paris; Russian bank hit by a "SWIFT-style" attack.

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: Researchers hack Visa in six seconds; China's on top of the fintech world; e-commerce mitigates currency woes in Africa; an old smartphone attack is back.

As Starbucks prepares to transition its top executives into new roles, it helps to look back on its history in mobile payments and examine how its management structure helped this plan. Here are a few of the key decisions the company made.

Much like rival Mastercard, which recently took its Decision Intelligence AI product out of pilot, Visa wants to make sure that it isn't turning away legitimate customers when it finds signs of potential fraud.

Investors initially jeered Howard Schultz's decision to step down as Starbucks' CEO, though the famed mobile strategy that's helped spur the coffee chain's high performance over the past couple of years doesn't necessarily require the company's founder to be in its biggest office.

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: Spain becomes Apple Pay's 13th market; a government health care program could help payments; Lithuania recruits fintech in the U.K.; new gaming payment tech.

Visa's growth beyond plastic cards relies heavily on tokenization, a strategy that should get a major boost from its planned acquisition of CardinalCommerce.

Inaccurate rejections of legitimate transactions aren't a new problem, and companies can't always use past transaction data to spot future risk on a large scale. Artificial intelligence can change the game.

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: Bankers say innovation changes ROI; tech giants push Trump on regs; payment tech scores at blockchain event; Fitbit plans to buy Pebble.

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's unhappy holiday; U.K. cash protest; hackers demand Bitcoin ransom; India's cash crisis hurts Euronet Worldwide's ATM earnings.

Consumers aren't just sharing the charming personal moments of their lives on social media — they're producing data that Israeli startup Feelter contends can revolutionize online shopping.

USAA has debuted several new features designed to make its digital wallet more versatile and to cast payments as one of a series of services.