John Adams

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Mastercard's seeking a blockchain anonymity patent; Wearables advance in Russia; GDPR compliance may hit a snag; Open banking takes shape in the Middle East.

Airports would provide a way to bring Amazon Go to spaces beyond the relatively small storefronts at Go’s early locations in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and New York.

Mainstream payment companies are quickly siding with fintechs to dilute the weight of paper on accounts payable and supply chains. American Express is pushing change by making it less of an ordeal.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Venmo partners with Hulu; VC funds go to e-payments in Mexico; Wirecard expands airline biz in Europe; Cryptocurrency fraud spikes in Japan.

The regulations for legal cannabis are slowly loosening, but whether they have loosened enough to support a “normal” online shopping experience in the U.S. is being put to the test by a new mashup of digital ordering and payment tools.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Ripple and R3 work together; Teen card Current upgrades; Blockchain has a successful test for KYC; Scam targets finance executives.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: The government encourages AI to fight money laundering; Amazon's drones still a work in progress; Klarna's CEO has fighting words for banks; T-Mobile takes another shot at financial services.

Consumers are stuck using outdated or easily compromised means of proving their identities in a world where banks and retailers need something better. Mastercard and Microsoft are teaming up to take on this monumental challenge.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Grab invests in travel IT; The U.S. government considers privacy coin surveillance; Camel expands payments in Latin America; Xinja plans to crowdsource; Fitness companies run a Touch ID scam.

Even as Amazon has expanded its cashierless Amazon Go stores to new cities, it has been careful to limit the size of each store as a concession to the limits of its technology. That constraint may soon be a thing of the past.