John Adams

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: BigCommerce gets a big investment; Mobile payments get a virtual currency; Monzo's expansion from payments accelerates; Facial authentication gets more sophisticated; A key that opens all of the hotel rooms.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon suffers a hack; The Fed issues new faster payments-related guidance; Paperless B2B payments advance in Indonesia; Contactless transit pay matures in London.

Amazon's increasingly weird ideas for getting products to Prime customers — grocery delivery, in-home delivery and now in-car delivery — point to an unsettling conclusion: Amazon, for all its market dominance, is pushing the limits of who it can reach with traditional package delivery.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Travel agency changes crypto converters; Cross-border payments as a retail recovery play; Bottomline Technologies adds a new API; A bank's rough technology conversion causes data breach.

A few handshakes among a small group of Silicon Valley techies are presenting the best chance yet to wipe out passwords in favor of modern identity protection.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: All four major card brands are on board with a single online "button"; EU tightens prepaid and cryptocurrency regs; PayByPhone appoints a new CEO; Ireland preps to be a Brexit landing spot.

The $219 million deal will expand RealPage's geographic and digital footprint in a market that still relies on paper-based payments.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Square ups delivery game; Allianz turns to blockchain for cross-border transfers; EMV advances globally; Checkout.com expands to Saudi Arabia.

As the cannabis industry has inched toward legitimacy, it hasn't abandoned its roots. And that includes the infamous pot smokers' "holiday," April 20.

It's too soon to tell whether a new button would replace Visa Checkout and Masterpass as brands. It's also unclear why consumers would choose another new payment option over the many options available today — such as PayPal.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon's folding Whole Foods loyalty program into Prime; Mastercard and Visa plan a new payments button; Google Pay extends to private jets; Snapchat adds shopping; Supply chain tech expands in Africa; TranserWise joins the U.K.'s faster payments program.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Interac's in the Middle East; Revolut adds cryptocurrency to round up feature; ActionFraud unwittingly used by fraudsters; WeChat and Alipay extend support for traveler payments.

Zuora's stunning IPO was a victory for the entire subscription payments space, though new competitors and talk of a market bubble stalk the market.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: QR codes expand for payments in the Philippines and checking in the UAE; Worldpay adds support for new integrated point of sale technology; Mastercard applies for a patent for a blockchain identity security system.

The disparities, last-minute additions and disputes in a contractor's payment are giving the business gateway Qualpay a chance to use an invoice fixer as a differentiator in a market filled with payment companies that are morphing into general software sellers.

Artificial intelligence may help rescue donations from paper's retreat, and give a fintech startup an icebreaker with small banks that haven't embraced automated payments.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Australian banks oppose open banking; Louisiana town plots its own currency; No more FOMO for bitcoin; Russia plans its own mobile payment system.

The cashierless Amazon Go concept is inspiring fear in traditional U.S. retailers, but the idea is already mainstream in China — with one chain opening 300 locations in just two years.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: China's version of Amazon Go grows quickly; The cops end a blockchain event in Beijing; Mastercard's hiring AI experts; Will tariffs make POS hardware more expensive?

Apple and Ripple may have a potential idea to remove friction from mobile payments, but the implementation could make for a rough ride.