John Adams

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Mastercard and N27 advance Nordic real-time payments; Amazon Prime Day gets longer; Swedbank adds watch payments; Minnesota legislators try to ban crypto political donations.

By creating a close tie between digital debit cards and the major third-party mobile wallets, Bank of America is doing something few banks are — and expecting a payoff in broader use of digital financial services and “top of wallet” spending.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: RBC adds business pay tracker; 7-Eleven upgrades deliveries; U.K. open banking fintech adds to its network; U.S. Bank pushes health care payment automation.

This year’s payments industry mergers have exposed numerous corporate, geographic, product and talent gaps, yet perhaps few payment types are more challenging and stuck in the past than health care.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walmart's theft sensors; European regulators show some flexibility on authentication rules; Google and PayPal extend partnership; Desjardins suffers a breach.

Banks are rightly focused on PSD2 as an international gateway for fintechs to disrupt banking, though potential deregulation in Singapore can give digital payment companies another route to take share directly away from banks.

Libra has only been public for a few days, but it has been enough time for regulators around the world to savage the project and schedule hearings. Jorn Lambert, executive vice president of digital solutions for Mastercard, said the project's objectives are aligned with the regulators' concerns.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Alexa adds parking; Flywire adds education pay collaboration; Celero makes two deals; Google bolsters merchant rewards.

Bill Ready, the former CEO of Braintree who helped PayPal build its digital strategy over the past six years, announced plans to leave the company.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Microsoft joins Hyperledger; A global summit for crypto rules; Fintechs build new mPOS in Europe; Paytm rebrands its gaming unit.