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In financial services today, it seems everyone is interested in how blockchain can be used. Diana Adachi's one of the people making it happen.

MoneyGram's Kamila Chytil is assuming a new position at the company amid major changes. This year for MoneyGram could not be more dynamic.

For one of her bank's largest and most important forays into digital transaction technology, JPMorgan Chase's Jennifer Roberts turned to the people most in tune with the next era of financial services.

The Most Influential Women in Payments are the ones taking risks with new ideas and investments, and developing the technology that will forever change the way people handle money. Not only do they set an example for their peers, they are unafraid to learn from newcomers and are diligent about encouraging a freshness and diversity of ideas.

Kroger payments chief Kathy Hanna is helping to drive a digital transformation of how consumers engage the supermarket chain.

Janet Estep has been one of the most visible figures in the faster payments movement, battling for years to get reluctant banks on board with this vision.

TSYS lured longtime U.S. Bank executive Pam Joseph out of retirement to help steer the company's evolving business strategy as it morphs into a multi-channel merchant services provider.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Not all Irish banks on board with Apple Pay; Feds worried about virtual currency; Monzo insources after third party glitch; New predictions on cash's extinction.

LendingArch is offering what amounts to installment payments for Canadian health care expenses, hoping to take a bite of the credit card market for consumer-direct health care payments.

By now most of the world knows of the disruption India's monetary system has undergone as its government discourages paper cash and pushes digital alternatives, stopping short of outright forcing the issue. But there's another challenge within the market.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Deutsche Bourse's VC focuses on payment compliance; Dash grows quickly; Mobile usage jumps; A new health care installment plan in Canada.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Bank of Japan warns on blockchain; Mastercard debuts bots in Turkey; Toronto incubator grad woos VC investors; U.K. startup lures PayPal exec.

The way people seek and buy music—in a store, online, or a download—is as generational as the art itself. Madrona Venture Group is staking a claim on 'buy' buttons as the next hit.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Pizza Hut's payment shoes; Amazon's cloud glitch hurts e-tailers; a new incubator in Mexico; Alibaba goes international to seek talent.

Apps that allow consumers to order and pay in the same experience are infiltrating the restaurant industry, and Mastercard is arming itself for competition.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon's cloud outage makes waves; Setl sets up in Paris; Dash collaborates with Wall of Coins; nobile money's big decade.

When Visa turned part of its technology shop into an innovator's sandbox, the card brand hoped it would accelerate its evolution from a rail for plastic cards to a diverse commerce enabler.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Barclays suffers a debit glitch; Harbortouch offers merchant credit; fraud dips at Interac; contactless takes off in the U.K.

Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: New CEO at Payveris; Samsung tightens donation policy; Scottish university starts blockchain study; Chain of Points builds a loyalty cryptocurrency.

The payments industry has been overrun with innovation in mobile, wearable and cloud-based digital payments. But many niches are years — if not decades — behind this trend.