John Adams

Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Citi invests in blockchain; 'fast EMV' draws Brookstone; Postmates offers a virtual gift card; the U.K. publishes a guide to payments.

Bluetooth beacons, which communicate with consumers' apps as they enter and leave stores, have been bouncing around the retail industry for a few years looking for the right combination of foot traffic, product and customer experience.

Issuers of prepaid cards often say their products are a good tool for budgeting, but it's rarer to hear merchants market their own branded prepaid cards this way. Walmart is retooling its prepaid strategy to focus on saving in an effort to improve the financial habits of its customers.

Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Yahoo 'believes' card info not hacked; U.K. startup wants 'drone debit'; Ashley Madison settles; Australia loosens fintech rules.

By making tokenization available on each other's digital wallets, Visa and Mastercard are addressing the security concerns of merchants who are happy to accept both brands but nervous about how their wallets can be misused.

Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Uber expands "transit pay"; Google embeds bills in smartwatches; Sumitomo tests "face payments"; Microsoft drives Asian blockchain group.

Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: KFC's U.K. loyalty program hacked; Standard Bank acquires mobile pay company; mobile pay at a dance contest; Mastercard says 20% of Europeans are unbanked.

One of the big ideas payment technology execs push is the backgrounding of the transaction — often called the "Uberization" because of how well the ride-sharing app Uber accomplishes this feat.

Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Tesco's issues with account numbers; India incents e-payments; clearing house seeks faster-pay partners; Chrome strengthens retail security warnings.

Welcome to the new PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Square expands Caviar; the U.K. cracks down on crowdfunding; Canada's payments overhaul advances; IBM exec pushes artificial intelligence.