John Adams

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon patents wearable tech; Grab expands; New tech for the gig economy; Messenger payments expand in Belgium.

Strong holiday spending was marked by active e-commerce spending, providing an impetus to invest in more digital payment technology.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: eBay hires Adyen to replace PayPal; Samsung's new cyrptocurrency chip; Amazon adds QR code tech; Link pushes ATM discounts; Open banking advances in Australia.

Sage Payment Solutions has spent most of the past half-year separating itself from its former parent company, Sage Group, a break that necessitated a new name as it changed its focus to sell a broader range of technology innovation for merchants and businesses.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Facebook bans bitcoin ads; Western Union opens a tech center in Pune; Apple extends Face ID to help parents control kids' apps; South Africa grapples with the fast pace of fintech.

JPMorgan Chase and Amazon have demonstrated substantial power to digitize their industries, even influencing the strategy of others. But automating and streamlining health care will be a particularly tough task.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon, Buffett and JPMorgan Chase team on health care; VoiceLabs launches new retail tech; Lenovo fixes a security gap; Card fraud's wide impact; Young people struggle with passwords; UnionPay adds to its mobile reach.

Dishonestly taking advantage of false membership in a group to score a discount sounds like something most people wouldn't dare do, but it's enough of a threat to retailers that investors see future returns in technologies that guard against it.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: "Jackpot" attackers hit ATMs; Link opens competition for ATMs in U.K.; Brisbane Airport supports bitcoin; Banks comply with new Swift rules; Robert Shiller warns on bitcoin bubble.

Digital assistants are increasingly commonplace, and the trend is pressuring merchants and issuers to figure out how to keep up with consumers' interest in conversational computing.