John Adams

Starbucks’ latest innovation doesn’t include camera-driven invisible checkout and doesn’t even come from Seattle. But for rank and file retailers, it may prove even more informative than watching the progress of Amazon Go.

Stripe and JPMorgan Chase are firing rapid shots in their battle to win businesses, with faster payments as the centerpiece of their offerings.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Consumers don't like Sainsbury's scan-and-go; Zippie debuts blockchain wallet in Africa; Swift adds North America exec; Catalonia plans digital ID.

The massive scale of the e-commerce market is burdening community banks with its volume of payments. But there may be strength in numbers.

The large payment processor mergers were meant to give bigger companies a better way to compete against the nimble startups that were luring their customers away for digital services such as mobile point of sale. And post-merger, Fiserv and First Data have fired their first salvo.

Brexit, the U.S.-China trade war, and warning signs of a recession are pressuring cross-border supply chains, accelerating the impetus to streamline payment processing for transactions that are still relatively large, recurring and paper-based.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm makes product and personnel moves; McDonald's adds GrubHub; Fleetcor partners with Nissan; China's government crypto gets closer.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Is Apple crypto in the works?; New iPhones may have fingerprint readers; Grab invests in AI; Upflow draws funding for invoice tech; Venice's vaporettos support contactless pay.

The patent office is getting buried in applications for distributed ledger systems, a mountain of documents that chart a clear course toward making static identity and password protection irrelevant.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Mastercard joins a blockchain project; Alibaba preps an e-commerce acquisition; Jack Dorsey has no plans for his own crypto; Apple Pay adds Southwest support.