John Adams is executive editor of payments for American Banker. John interviews top executives in the payments, cryptocurrency and fintech industries, hosts podcasts, moderates conference panels and curates the new Payments Intelligence portal.
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John has been with American Banker and related products for 30 years, covering bank technology, advertising, mortgages and capital markets.
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The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Alipay's part of a mobile app bus; Postmates and the Yankees collaborate on mobile payments; Banks are wary of data sharing; Grab and Heineken partner.
September 18 -
Giants like Facebook, JPMorgan Chase and Walmart are all pushing blockchain for myriad use cases, and now Wells Fargo has joined the fray with its own spin on the distributed ledger technology.
September 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Facebook pushes back against Libra critics; HTC adds Bitcoin Cash to blockchain phone; Big banks invest in youth debit card; Ecuador suffers a huge breach.
September 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: More political pushback for Libra; Mastercard expands use of blockchain for supply chains; Meniga powers incentive marketing for climate causes; Swipe debuts its cryptocurrency wallet.
September 16 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Australia pushes open banking; Western Union makes a deal in Canada; Patreon sells product curation company Kit; Uber and Lyft lobby against California "gig economy" bill.
September 13 -
Its newest offering is called Delivery Unlimited, which at $98 a year undercuts Amazon Prime's $119 fee.
September 12 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: The Netherlands aims at crypto; Payroll scam costs millions; Google shutters Express; Square sues San Francisco; Payment technology firm gets a banking license in Australia.
September 12 -
Mobile order, delivery and payment apps are proliferating at restaurants, but they're also becoming less distinguishable, posing an entirely new challenge as deep discounts become the weapon of choice.
September 12 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web:. Today: Amtrak adds mobile payment technology; Real-time pay in the Netherlands; Moneycorp gets license in Brazil; PumaPay's crypto system debuts.
September 11 -
Starbucks’ latest innovation doesn’t include camera-driven invisible checkout and doesn’t even come from Seattle. But for rank and file retailers, it may prove even more informative than watching the progress of Amazon Go.
September 11 -
Stripe and JPMorgan Chase are firing rapid shots in their battle to win businesses, with faster payments as the centerpiece of their offerings.
September 10 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Consumers don't like Sainsbury's scan-and-go; Zippie debuts blockchain wallet in Africa; Swift adds North America exec; Catalonia plans digital ID.
September 10 -
The massive scale of the e-commerce market is burdening community banks with its volume of payments. But there may be strength in numbers.
September 10 -
The large payment processor mergers were meant to give bigger companies a better way to compete against the nimble startups that were luring their customers away for digital services such as mobile point of sale. And post-merger, Fiserv and First Data have fired their first salvo.
September 9 -
Brexit, the U.S.-China trade war, and warning signs of a recession are pressuring cross-border supply chains, accelerating the impetus to streamline payment processing for transactions that are still relatively large, recurring and paper-based.
September 9 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm makes product and personnel moves; McDonald's adds GrubHub; Fleetcor partners with Nissan; China's government crypto gets closer.
September 9 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Is Apple crypto in the works?; New iPhones may have fingerprint readers; Grab invests in AI; Upflow draws funding for invoice tech; Venice's vaporettos support contactless pay.
September 6 -
The patent office is getting buried in applications for distributed ledger systems, a mountain of documents that chart a clear course toward making static identity and password protection irrelevant.
September 6 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Mastercard joins a blockchain project; Alibaba preps an e-commerce acquisition; Jack Dorsey has no plans for his own crypto; Apple Pay adds Southwest support.
September 5 -
Amazon is reportedly testing technology that allows contactless payments via a hand gesture, applying technology that would provide valuable insight to fuel other initiatives such as Amazon Go.
September 4
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