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By dumping Chase Pay's standalone point of sale app, JPMorgan Chase is handing a victory to the likes of Apple Pay — but it's also eliminating an app that was tangential to the issuer's long-term payments goals.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa fights Indian regs; MoviePass suffers a breach; M&A sparks payment deal record; Square hires a crypto experts; Acorns draws celebrity investors.

More U.S. states are legalizing sports gambling, providing a huge opportunity for payments companies that have been fattened by multibillion-dollar mergers.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: How China's central bank currency could harm Alipay and WeChat Pay; Miami transit turns contactless; PayPal gets deeper into retail; Metal Pay draws investment.

Barclays has jumped on a huge range of technology that brings payments closer to myriad activities, but as competition looms, the bank is working to better organize its projects.

Bank of America has joined the likes of Walmart and Mastercard in seeking patents for blockchain technology that could be used for a digital currency or mobile wallet.

Banks are under competitive and regulatory pressure to either compete or partner with fintechs that support services such as mobile payments, and credit unions are in the same boat — though with a very different challenge at the start.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: How well do voice assistants understand commands?; Hy-Vee suffers a breach; Shared workspace adds biometric payments; London deploys more contactless payment points for donations.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Contactless payments jump in New York subways; Coinbase switches banks; Dovu's green crypto; Ant's impact on the fintech investment market;

Gregor Dobbie is taking on the role of CEO of Vocalink as the company looks to expand its B2B payments business in the U.K.