John Adams is executive editor of payments for American Banker.
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Now that bitcoin's market spike has made the alternative currency a household name, it's linked to wild market swings, bubble-level valuations and onerous fees, with the most obvious fixes likely furthering bitcoin's problems rather than solving them.
January 24 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: ANZ's mobile pay spikes; ABN Amro leaves Dutch wallet group; DDoS attacks on the rise; How well-known is bitcoin?
January 24 -
Much like small businesses, small banks can't take on huge IT projects and rely more on targeted deployments to build a user base for future technology.
January 24 -
Bitcoin has lost touch with its original mission of being an alternative decentralized currency, and Stripe has decided that it is no longer worth supporting for payments.
January 23 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Researcher finds a potential vulnerability at Uber; Visa bolsters executive ranks; Grab adds tech for bike sharing; The impact of PSD2.
January 23 -
The all-in-one card market is littered with the carcasses of unsuccessful ventures, but Curve's Shachar Bialick insists his initiative has a model and a headstart that will help it fight the market's considerable headwinds.
January 23 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon Go opens in Seattle; CBA adds voice payments; Instant payments advance in France; SEC targets cryptocurrency manipulation; Why is a consumer group attacking lower ATM fees?
January 22 -
The mix of airlines, hotels and other companies that make up the travel industry have lost an innovative edge, in part because a once-cutting edge system of combined booking and payments has not aged well.
January 22 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Australia plugs into Alexa; Europe regulates processing; contactless payments in sports; and more.
January 19 -
While Starbucks is making a tentative move into cash refusal at one location, it's unlikely any retailer would widely refuse cash payments in the near term.
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