John Adams

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: North Korea-linked hackers go after ATMs; Lyft goes deeper into transit; myPOS opens a store in Paris; Austin IoT crypto payments startup adds to its network.

The major technology companies that have chipped away at incumbent payment businesses face much larger competition from this year’s big processing mergers, but they’ve also bulked up through fundraising and product development.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: Will IBM work with Facebook on cryptocurrency?; Mastercard's new ad campaign; China pushes back on digital currency reports; Glint becomes insolvent.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: British Airways tries new payment standard; New checkout-free store in South Korea; Starbucks and Alibaba add more mobile technology in China; A new digital piggy bank enhances its product line.

Wolverton has been accumulating responsibility and influence at Synovus in recent years and is the highest ranking woman at the company.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: Google Pay adds more services in India; Banco Santander expands digital subsidiary; A tablet that measures shoppers' moods; A new security threat for cryptocurrency.

As incumbent merchant acquirers have gotten larger through massive M&A deals, Stripe has been bulking up as well, including a fresh investment to fuel a cross-border merchant technology stack.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web. Today: Starbucks extends IoT play in Japan; ECB board member calls for collaboration to counter Libra; Contactless transit pay reaches Rome; North debuts web pay for techie glasses.

Online and cloud-hosted B2B services are on the rise, breaking apart traditional payroll and exposing pain points for technology developers to address.

The big payment processor/bank technology mergers that were announced early this year are officially closing, setting the stage for complicated conversions and a fierce battle for customer share.