John Adams

The fallout from this spring’s slate of multibillion-dollar payment company acquisitions began swiftly, as Bank of America on Monday announced plans to end its joint venture with First Data just hours after Fiserv’s acquisition of First Data closed.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Australian banks suffer breaches; U.K. may restrict gambling payments; Movie subscription sites proliferate; Huawei wants China to counter Libra.

As checkout-free stores dramatically reduce — or even eliminate — the need for point-of-sale devices, terminal makers are turning their focus to multichannel services that can keep younger, digital-savvy customers coming into stores.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Salesforce and Alibaba team up; VC funds for Standard Cognition; WeChat adds airborne payments; Cannabis bank gets off the ground; Elavon hires a top exec for Europe.

The mobile point of sale market has grown far beyond its roots as an off-the-shelf dongle for smartphones. The category is now driving major acquisitions, collaborations and international deployments.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: eBay's warehouse and shipping play; Alaska Airlines adds Google Pay for boarding passes; Newegg adds to crypto network; Swiss regulators haven't heard from Libra.

Giant Eagle’s supermarkets go back a century, literally, making the Pittsburgh chain one of the best tests yet for how the supermarket experience can adapt to mobile technology and the de-emphasizing of traditional checkout.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: PayPal complies with India's data storage rules; Uber tests new subscription service; Union Bank of the Philippines tests blockchain payments; Bitcoin Hyper launches.

Libra and Facebook’s huge impact on the conversation around blockchain and cryptocurrency is giving fuel to other blockchain companies that portray their models as alternatives to Facebook’s controversial plans.

Visa’s decision on how or if it will participate in Facebook’s cryptocurrency project will be based on how the social network handles the mountain of criticism and requirements that global regulators and lawmakers are heaping upon it.