John Adams

Mobile money apps have proven to be a major force in building financial services in emerging economies, but under the hood they can be starkly different.

Ever since Apple opened its Siri voice assistant to outside developers late last year, payment companies have been experimenting with the potential of voice-controlled payments. Here's a look at what some of the early adopters have already accomplished.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Singapore embraces distributed ledgers; Uber gets new invoicing; Brexit threatens cross-border payments; Chicago startup tests palm payments.

Innovate Indiana is taking part in a $2.6 million investment in Rippleshot, a company that uses artificial intelligence to detect card fraud.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: U.K. payments tech gets more open; kids' draws investors; Monzo suffers another outage; businesses prefer banks for B-to-B payments.

The app economy has grown big enough now that many of the early rules no longer apply.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Razer adds virtual currency; Singapore and Abu Dhabi partner on fintech; former Square execs go into merchant tech; Loot diversifies.

Verifone is checking into a breach of its computer network, reports security blogger Brian Krebs.

Hoping to remove almost all touch-based input from mobile payments, RBC has launched money transfers with Siri, Apple's voice-activated digital assistant.

Venture capital often moves like a tide. Janet Bannister seeks opportunity that's just a bit farther out.