John Adams

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: The Netherlands aims at crypto; Payroll scam costs millions; Google shutters Express; Square sues San Francisco; Payment technology firm gets a banking license in Australia.

Mobile order, delivery and payment apps are proliferating at restaurants, but they're also becoming less distinguishable, posing an entirely new challenge as deep discounts become the weapon of choice.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web:. Today: Amtrak adds mobile payment technology; Real-time pay in the Netherlands; Moneycorp gets license in Brazil; PumaPay's crypto system debuts.

Starbucks’ latest innovation doesn’t include camera-driven invisible checkout and doesn’t even come from Seattle. But for rank and file retailers, it may prove even more informative than watching the progress of Amazon Go.

Stripe and JPMorgan Chase are firing rapid shots in their battle to win businesses, with faster payments as the centerpiece of their offerings.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Consumers don't like Sainsbury's scan-and-go; Zippie debuts blockchain wallet in Africa; Swift adds North America exec; Catalonia plans digital ID.

The massive scale of the e-commerce market is burdening community banks with its volume of payments. But there may be strength in numbers.

The large payment processor mergers were meant to give bigger companies a better way to compete against the nimble startups that were luring their customers away for digital services such as mobile point of sale. And post-merger, Fiserv and First Data have fired their first salvo.

Brexit, the U.S.-China trade war, and warning signs of a recession are pressuring cross-border supply chains, accelerating the impetus to streamline payment processing for transactions that are still relatively large, recurring and paper-based.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm makes product and personnel moves; McDonald's adds GrubHub; Fleetcor partners with Nissan; China's government crypto gets closer.