John Adams

The Supreme Court has sided with states in a dispute over sports gambling, a double victory for payment processors, which can use largely existing tools to serve an entirely new market.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon preps new Go stores; Chili's suffers a breach; Softbank mulls its next investment in India; Crypto for tax payments gains steam in Florida.

Freelance payment companies are taking advantage of the Trump administration's immigration policies, which are starting to drive more work to freelancers in the U.S. and overseas.

Fair Square Financial has received a $100 million equity investment from the Orogen Group to fund a credit card designed for underserved U.S. consumer segments.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walmart's mixed response in India; Paytm makes a transit pay deal; Cryptocurrency dash expands in Asia; Bitfury adds DoJ vet.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Australia's open banking squabble; Smartwatch payments win adoption in Europe; Canada's central bank pushes for collaboration on data breaches; Ripple finishes near real-time cross-border trial.

Europe's PSD2 data-sharing standards are meant to foster cooperation in the market, but banks are getting more competitive as they seek to plug a revenue drain the new rules threaten.

The irony of the explosive growth of mobile P2P is this: As consumers get more comfortable with paying one another through mobile devices, they're thinking of P2P less as a service that one should find within a bank's app.

China hasn't exactly opened its arms wide to embrace U.S. payments companies, but the nation has gradually become more accepting of the foreign payments businesses that view its tech-savvy population as a lucrative market.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Mastercard and Microsoft collaborate on urban technology; Google Pay expands travel payments; Blockchain cross-border grows in South Korea; Flipkart's founders have a past at Amazon.