John Adams is executive editor of payments for American Banker.
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Contactless transit fare systems are drawing lots of investment despite several false starts in the U.S. But new numbers out of London show there are clear and multiple benefits if the infrastructure can catch up.
April 10 -
A Cleveland startup’s play in the crowded and noisy P2P market is to nudge the transaction as close to digital version of paper money as possible — without Venmo’s social tools or Zelle’s email model.
April 9 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm adds staff for offline initiative; Standard Chartered opens an innovation hub in Kenya; Santander bolsters payment security; PhonePe chases fanstasy cricket payments.
April 9 -
Traditional U.S. retail is in crisis at the hands of e-commerce. Bankers have a role to play to stop the bleeding through a combination of service, incentives, and payments technology.
April 9 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Attackers hit DNS servers at financial companies; Shareholder sues over Fiserv's deal to buy First Data; New sandbox; Digital ID advances in the Philippines; Russia's gas company turns to DLT.
April 8 -
As Amazon experiments in retail models that remove cash and plastic cards in favor of online and mobile payments, traditional retailers may have an ace up their sleeve: the gift card.
April 8 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Western Union expands in the Philippines; Apple Pay's transit pay reaches Singapore; The SEC issues guidance on ICOs; Sila launches a smart contract program.
April 5 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple Pay jumps in Australia; Blockchain advances for health care payments; A new DLT group in Europe; Facebook suffers another security vulnerability.
April 4 -
Amazon’s incursion into brick and mortar has been aggressive, but not without its share of course corrections. The latest is a new round of price cuts at Whole Foods amid whispers of slow Prime traffic at the high-end grocer.
April 3 -
Large investment houses see an opportunity to improve financial conditions for contract workers, accelerate evolution away from cash to digital payments, expand the smartphone as a commerce device and streamline user experience.
April 3
