John Adams

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Nike opens high-tech store; Milan airport deploys contactless payments; Japanese e-payment startup Paidy attracts investors; ICOs perform poorly.

As the trade war ramps up, some cross-border payment companies are steering into the storm by selling lower-cost automated processing as a way to offset expensive supply chains.

About a month after Visa's European outage, Mastercard encountered a similar glitch for a brief period of time on Thursday.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Stripe grabs WordPress share from PayPal; Alipay's travel pay network gets larger; Opera browser supports cryptocurrency; Contactless payments get a test in Norway.

Since Amazon Go's announcement, there has been a rush to duplicate the company's cashierless store concept without the same level of tech investment. The latest competitors are focused on the cameras that identify items as consumers take them off of the shelves.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Google combines mobile payment services; PayPal plans an acquisition spree; U.K.'s faster payment system slows down; Ticketmaster breach impacted more companies; U.K. football club boosts mobile payments.

Brexit's implications for the U.K.'s technology industry are deepening political fractures, with no clear answer as to how startups fintechs and challenger banks can operate in the U.K. after it leaves the European Union.

When GDPR went into effect in May, it was expected that the European law would touch a lot of U.S. payment companies because of their international scope. Now it's clear that even purely domestic U.S. firms will have to adhere to some version of the data-privacy law.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Cross-border payments attract investors; Court orders a stop to pirate site payments; Stablecoins pick up speed; Western Union's footprint expands in Africa.

Companies of all sizes have attempted to serve kids and teens with prepaid cards or digital wallets with parental controls, but there are very few success stories. GoSave's twist is that it doesn't make a card or an app the focus of its experience.