John Adams

Jenifer Swallow has been here before, feeling the excitement of being in in an industry that was about to change commerce forever.

Whenever Facebook adds something that more closely ties its network to shopping, service or payments, it has an immediate ripple effect. And Marketplace is becoming a major part of Facebook’s influence.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Amazon leads Google in voice commerce; U.K. fintech opens to cross-border payments; Singapore tackles tech regs; and more.

The uncertainty of the modern political climate has created a number of business issues — and a few opportunities for the companies that can guide others through difficult times.

The Bank of England is requiring Visa to appoint PwC as an independent third party to review the card brand’s progress in implementing recommendations that followed a 2018 outage in Europe.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: EU provides some Brexit relief for payment companies; Knowledge of crypto lags in the U.K.; Jumio expands in Latin America; Sinemia changes its payment policy.

The mobile revolution is turning Western Union into a very different company, one that must adjust to new ways to pay while pouring substantial resources into fending off the threat of e-commerce.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm starts premium service; RBI fines banks for Swift violations; U.K. government pressured to protect cash; Google offers perks to watch developer ads.

Small-business projects in India and Latin America will provide a test of how well an open source blockchain can reduce the fraud that can occur when businesses try to free up capital from outstanding payments.

Amazon’s an attention machine, making its reported attention to Mexico’s criticized mobile payment project something banks have little choice but to see as a welcome development instead of a threat.