John Adams

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web:. Today: WeChat Pay expands at airports; Mastercard pushes solar initiative in Uganda; Germany has a su ccessful blockchain pilot; British Airways breach gets larger.

A group of large banks is using its considerable size and influence to build standards for trade finance, including agreements on payments processes, documentation and risk—giving the consortium its own ecosystem to counter the myriad forces in technology and e-commerce that threaten to upend traditional practices.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Big financial brands suffer web spoofs; Circle and Coinbase collaborate; NAB, Microsoft build facial-recognition ATM; Clover launches in Canada.

NCR has turned to the acquisition market to shore up its defenses against fintech challengers, a further signal that longtime retail industry staples such as payment hardware and ISOs are going by the wayside as dedicated business models.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon Go picks a spot in Wesfield Place; HTC reveals its blockchain phone; IBM sets up open banking service; Citi invests in Ondot.

Fintechs usually focus on niches rather than trying to be a one-stop shop for every type of merchant. But for Nvoicepay, bigger clients mean bigger opportunities.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Diebold Nixdorf adds partners; Paytm exec gets blackmailed; Swift and Microsoft's cloud advances; Klarna picks up merchant support.

Cryptocurrency companies hope P2P transfers will prove habit-forming enough to convince consumers to try out a new currency.

The gap in attitudes and outlook on gender inclusion is wide enough that women and men in financial services often have entirely different takes on gender in the workforce, with men much more likely to have an outsized positive view on progress in gender inclusion.

With VC favorites such as Square and Stripe nipping at its heels, ATM and terminal manufacturer NCR plans to shell out $184 million for JetPay to add remote software to its acquiring menu.