John Adams

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa's back up in Europe; Apple Pay pushes order ahead at a music festival; Jeep plans in-car payments tech; ABN Amro customers warm to werables; Mastercard wins a blockchain patent.

As more small to medium-sized businesses look to international e-commerce markets to boost sales, differences in tax laws can cause complications for sellers—and an opportunity for payment gateway companies offering workarounds.

Supermarkets and other retailers reported rejected transactions after a network glitch, causing some to quickly deploy cash-only checkouts.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: PayPal makes another investment; Open Payments Cloud picks up support; Crypto firm hires Square's former compliance officer; Mastercard hires a cybercrime expert.

Retailers often try to counter Amazon's dominance by using the e-commerce giant's strengths against it, including its reliance on search engine optimization.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: LG Pay may get delayed; Canadian bank hackers reveal tactics; Brim's consumers face a long wait for launch; South Korean authorities sieze bitcoin.

Ingenico is negotiating a business combination with BS Payone that would boost its profile in parts of central Europe and allow it to counter multichannel moves by other major payment companies.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Breach at Canadian banks; Indonesian post office offers remittance; Ripple's cross-border tech picks up speed; Fifth Third collaborates on AI to improve merchant services.

Square's taking on hundreds of millions of added debt to battle PayPal, indicating that the simple business model of turning a smartphone into a point of sale terminal is largely a thing of the past.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web Today: IBM Watson expands payments in France; Bug bounty discovers weakness at T-Mobile; Chinese city turns to blockchain for municipal payments; U.K. student builds payment device for street performers.