John Adams is executive editor of payments for American Banker.
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The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Regulators criticize Facebook's crypto; India may ease local data storage regs; Distributed ledgers advance in Italy; Real-time rails gain more users in the U.S.
By John AdamsJune 19 -
Facebook is focusing the initial discussions around its cryptocurrency project as a preemptive strike against the privacy and legal concerns the public and politicians have about the huge social network.
By John AdamsJune 18 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Facebook's cryptocurrency gets more detail; Lloyds adds to open banking; Domino's tests driverless cars; Euro messaging moves forward; Billing tech draws investors.
By John AdamsJune 18 -
One of Target's high-profile payment outages this weekend stemmed from a problem at one of NCR's data centers, the big box retailer says.
By John AdamsJune 17 -
As both large payment processors and fintechs are attracted to the market opportunity presented as B2B transactions start to digitize, one vendor hopes to stand out with an AI-based workflow.
By John AdamsJune 17 -
Target in the past 48 hours suffered a pair of unrelated point of sale outages that had at least one thing in common — they resulted in consumers scrambling for a contingency that would have been little problem as recently as four or five years ago.
By John AdamsJune 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Target's troubled weekend; Australia's choppy NPP rollout; Alexa shopping for kids; and more.
By John AdamsJune 17 -
Cashierless stores have generated a lot of attention, but there’s a heavy lift to ensure the concept works outside of the relatively controlled environment of beta tests and proof-of-concept stores.
By John AdamsJune 17 -
Facebook's Libra, or GlobalCoin, will be cryptocurrency's largest test — fueled by a collection of huge investors that will determine if mainstream merchants and consumers will actually use a payment system featuring an alternative currency.
By John AdamsJune 14 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Revolut expands to Australia; Los Angeles upgrades transit; FirstBank signs on for real-time payments; Facebook invests in Meesho.
By John AdamsJune 14