Briefing

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Santander adds gig economy tech; U.K. calls out open banking laggards; AMC suffers a breach; A new threat for bitcoin fraud.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Facebook pushes crypto; Denver transit teams with Uber for ticketing; Canada and Singapore team on distributed ledger; Simple adds Samsung Pay; Paytm Mall offers auto payments.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple and Cubic extend transit pay; U.K. technology firm debuts biometric card; Alexa's payment skill reaches more countries; How to make a contactless ring.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: U.K. regulators say PayPal's iZettle deal won't hurt competition; Amazon extends its Key service to some Ford brands; Remitly adds to its network; Refundo and BitPay offer cryptocurrency tax refunds.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walmart enables shoppable ads in its streaming service; Another no-cashier store in London; Amazon Pay expands in India; Citi extends business pay in Vietnam.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa extends financial inclusion in Pakistan, Africa; India cracks down on crypto; Sinemia closes; Swedbank responds to AML investigations.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: PayPal invests in Uber; Tencent invests in payments technology in Argentina; Wirex issues stablecoins; Walmart unveils new retail innovation; The PSD2 vendor market gets larger.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Blockchain B2B advances in China; Brave adds new ad incentives; New crypto wallet; New York prosecutors win a bitcoin laundering case.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon partners with French supermarket chain; N26 is adding risk experts; Unisys makes an open banking play; Apple Pay is set to launch in Austria.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Sony's new ride sharing app; bitcoin advances for debit and e-commerce; eBay may invest in Paytm Mall; Washington Caps add Alipay.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa's new APIs; Coffee battle in China; PayPal wins a patent to battle ramsonware; Coinbase expands; India leaves crypto out of sandbox.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm details payments strategy; New blockchain VC; Surecomp opens an innovation lab; Industry groups join forces.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Will Europe act to counter the U.S. and China's influence on payments?; Monzo adds emojis; Google Pay tightens ties to Gmail; A new payments association forms;

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Standard Chartered expands collections; MoneyGram partners for gig economy payments; Copia Kenya delivers to rural areas; Global Payments and Discover bolster merchant acquiring in Asia.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple improves biometric security; Klarna opens at Showfields; Japanese bank will no longer support Money Tap; Dashlane draws investment.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Google Pay supports gold sales in India; German regulators pressure N26; Bakkt adds payment veteran; Amazon acquires robotics company Canvas Technology.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Square opens online store in U.K.; Swift releases new security research; Physical ATM attacks on the rise; Most hotels have a security gap.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walmart expands robot program; Regulators say banks aren't moving fast enough on PSD2; Bitstamp gets New York license; New iPHone attack; Financeit appoints execs for U.S. expansion.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm adds staff for offline initiative; Standard Chartered opens an innovation hub in Kenya; Santander bolsters payment security; PhonePe chases fanstasy cricket payments.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Attackers hit DNS servers at financial companies; Shareholder sues over Fiserv's deal to buy First Data; New sandbox; Digital ID advances in the Philippines; Russia's gas company turns to DLT.