John Adams

Since Amazon Go's announcement, there has been a rush to duplicate the company's cashierless store concept without the same level of tech investment. The latest competitors are focused on the cameras that identify items as consumers take them off of the shelves.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Google combines mobile payment services; PayPal plans an acquisition spree; U.K.'s faster payment system slows down; Ticketmaster breach impacted more companies; U.K. football club boosts mobile payments.

Brexit's implications for the U.K.'s technology industry are deepening political fractures, with no clear answer as to how startups fintechs and challenger banks can operate in the U.K. after it leaves the European Union.

When GDPR went into effect in May, it was expected that the European law would touch a lot of U.S. payment companies because of their international scope. Now it's clear that even purely domestic U.S. firms will have to adhere to some version of the data-privacy law.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Cross-border payments attract investors; Court orders a stop to pirate site payments; Stablecoins pick up speed; Western Union's footprint expands in Africa.

Companies of all sizes have attempted to serve kids and teens with prepaid cards or digital wallets with parental controls, but there are very few success stories. GoSave's twist is that it doesn't make a card or an app the focus of its experience.

Paul Galant will leave the CEO post at Verifone in the next few months, following a tenure in which he helped diversify and automate Verifone's merchant acquiring business and led a recovery from a series of strategic and economic missteps.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Exxon's new rewards program stumbles out of the gate; Monaco pays big for crypto.com domain; WeChat Pay expands to the French Riviera; Western Union expands in Russia.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Facebook moves an additional exec to blockchain project; Sydney Airport tests facial biometrics; Ant invests in WiFi for underground metros; Razer adds a mobile wallet.

Machine learning and voice recognition can ease the many pain points of drive-thru ordering.