John Adams

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple's automatic update adds Apple Pay Cash; Twitter embeds tipping in its Periscope service; Canada pushes centralized digital currency; Wendy's offers mobile delivery; Malta builds national blockchain.

Android Wear introduced a new version of its technology earlier this year.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: ECB pushes instant payments; Mastercard's new innovation class; Payment company launches pot magazine; Atlanta gets more ATMs.

Installment payments for e-commerce purchases are starting to take hold in North America as an alternative to standard credit cards, and PayBright is seeking a niche in Canada.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Samsung files for a social payment platform; Bitcoin jumps up and down; Hackers get smarter; E-commerce comes to the mall; U.K. fintech lobbiest gets help.

Venmo achieved its status by designing its interface like that of a social network. PayPal's version of that comes from Facebook.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: U.K. banks may not be economically ready for PSD2; Arbnb adds trip splitting; U2's campaign with Amazon is less 'forceful' than its Apple past; House of Lords endorses DLT.

As any stressed-out parent knows, kids can be quite bad at communicating what they need for school. Bursari has added a software development kit to improve its ability to accept and process one-time and recurring payments to schools through a variety of means.

One of the world's largest bitcoin exchanges, bitFlyer, has landed in the U.S. with a focus on institutional investors — a move that suggests bitcoin's days as a payments instrument are still a long way off.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Senators grill Uber over breach; PSD2 sets date to end screen scraping; Signs of cash's fade in Europe; Spear phishers get nabbed.