John Adams

Investors initially jeered Howard Schultz's decision to step down as Starbucks' CEO, though the famed mobile strategy that's helped spur the coffee chain's high performance over the past couple of years doesn't necessarily require the company's founder to be in its biggest office.

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: Spain becomes Apple Pay's 13th market; a government health care program could help payments; Lithuania recruits fintech in the U.K.; new gaming payment tech.

Visa's growth beyond plastic cards relies heavily on tokenization, a strategy that should get a major boost from its planned acquisition of CardinalCommerce.

Inaccurate rejections of legitimate transactions aren't a new problem, and companies can't always use past transaction data to spot future risk on a large scale. Artificial intelligence can change the game.

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: Bankers say innovation changes ROI; tech giants push Trump on regs; payment tech scores at blockchain event; Fitbit plans to buy Pebble.

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: Apple Pay's unhappy holiday; U.K. cash protest; hackers demand Bitcoin ransom; India's cash crisis hurts Euronet Worldwide's ATM earnings.

Consumers aren't just sharing the charming personal moments of their lives on social media — they're producing data that Israeli startup Feelter contends can revolutionize online shopping.

USAA has debuted several new features designed to make its digital wallet more versatile and to cast payments as one of a series of services.

Israeli mobile technology company On Track Innovations (OTI) hopes to cash in on the trend toward fashion-direct payments by embedding transaction functions inside a ring.

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's Asian rival ups its payments game; European companies push back against new authentication rules; India's cash crisis leads to protests; PayPal benefits from holiday e-commerce boost.