John Adams

Amazon Prime Day is a marketing "holiday" that aims to expand Amazon Prime membership, a $119 subscription that's a major part of Amazon's marketing strategy at its core site and Whole Foods.

Citigroup is using tracking and transparency to push back against rivals that paint traditional bank-powered international payments as a costly, time-consuming relic.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple Pay pushes larger payments in ad campaign; Aeon tests palm biometric payments; Bank-led P2P grows in Russia; Mueller indictment details election hackers' bitcoin laundering.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Nike opens high-tech store; Milan airport deploys contactless payments; Japanese e-payment startup Paidy attracts investors; ICOs perform poorly.

As the trade war ramps up, some cross-border payment companies are steering into the storm by selling lower-cost automated processing as a way to offset expensive supply chains.

About a month after Visa's European outage, Mastercard encountered a similar glitch for a brief period of time on Thursday.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Stripe grabs WordPress share from PayPal; Alipay's travel pay network gets larger; Opera browser supports cryptocurrency; Contactless payments get a test in Norway.

Since Amazon Go's announcement, there has been a rush to duplicate the company's cashierless store concept without the same level of tech investment. The latest competitors are focused on the cameras that identify items as consumers take them off of the shelves.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Google combines mobile payment services; PayPal plans an acquisition spree; U.K.'s faster payment system slows down; Ticketmaster breach impacted more companies; U.K. football club boosts mobile payments.

Brexit's implications for the U.K.'s technology industry are deepening political fractures, with no clear answer as to how startups fintechs and challenger banks can operate in the U.K. after it leaves the European Union.