John Adams

The regulations for legal cannabis are slowly loosening, but whether they have loosened enough to support a “normal” online shopping experience in the U.S. is being put to the test by a new mashup of digital ordering and payment tools.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Ripple and R3 work together; Teen card Current upgrades; Blockchain has a successful test for KYC; Scam targets finance executives.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: The government encourages AI to fight money laundering; Amazon's drones still a work in progress; Klarna's CEO has fighting words for banks; T-Mobile takes another shot at financial services.

Consumers are stuck using outdated or easily compromised means of proving their identities in a world where banks and retailers need something better. Mastercard and Microsoft are teaming up to take on this monumental challenge.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Grab invests in travel IT; The U.S. government considers privacy coin surveillance; Camel expands payments in Latin America; Xinja plans to crowdsource; Fitness companies run a Touch ID scam.

Even as Amazon has expanded its cashierless Amazon Go stores to new cities, it has been careful to limit the size of each store as a concession to the limits of its technology. That constraint may soon be a thing of the past.

Banks are facing the potential of disruption by digital assistants from Apple, Amazon and Google — and are pouring money into machine learning to provide their own option for automating consumers' financial lives.

An invisible payment becomes a lot more visible when it’s compromised, making Marriott’s data breach a threat to one of the most important innovations in retail, which should scare everyone from Uber to Amazon.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm offers enticements to merchants in India; Mastercard pushes development in Poland; Revolut gets regualtory support in Asia; Sinemia adds debit card to movie ticketing.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Cryptocurrency payments advance in Canada and in the U.S. entertainment business; Asian financial inclusion fintech Oriente draws major investment; IBM's distributed ledger cross-border payments technology picks up major bank support.