John Adams is executive editor of payments for American Banker.
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When GDPR went into effect in May, it was expected that the European law would touch a lot of U.S. payment companies because of their international scope. Now it's clear that even purely domestic U.S. firms will have to adhere to some version of the data-privacy law.
July 10 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Cross-border payments attract investors; Court orders a stop to pirate site payments; Stablecoins pick up speed; Western Union's footprint expands in Africa.
July 10 -
Companies of all sizes have attempted to serve kids and teens with prepaid cards or digital wallets with parental controls, but there are very few success stories. GoSave's twist is that it doesn't make a card or an app the focus of its experience.
July 10 -
Paul Galant will leave the CEO post at Verifone in the next few months, following a tenure in which he helped diversify and automate Verifone's merchant acquiring business and led a recovery from a series of strategic and economic missteps.
July 9 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Exxon's new rewards program stumbles out of the gate; Monaco pays big for crypto.com domain; WeChat Pay expands to the French Riviera; Western Union expands in Russia.
July 9 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Facebook moves an additional exec to blockchain project; Sydney Airport tests facial biometrics; Ant invests in WiFi for underground metros; Razer adds a mobile wallet.
July 6 -
Machine learning and voice recognition can ease the many pain points of drive-thru ordering.
July 6 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Paytm's Bollywood ambitions, Dubai turns to the Pays, new companies in the regulatory sandbox, and more.
July 5 -
For stores that don't want such a high-tech makeover, options for automatic checkout options are being built on a much simpler foundation.
July 5 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: PayPal plans further expansion in India; Oracle picks Brussels for tech hub over London; Amex and Concardis add new payment executives; Russian military plans to use blockchain for security.
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