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: 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 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: HSBC pushes blockchain B2B; MobiKwik turns profitable; Square offers discounts to woo U.K. businesses; Manny Pacquiao sings for crypto.
September 4 -
Legacy retailers are starting to get serious about checkout-free technology, bringing new insights into the challenges inherent in replacing decades-old traditional checkout layouts at stores.
September 4 -
No crypto company wants to be in Facebook's shoes — but many of them want to fill those shoes once the social network's Libra cryptocurrency has is done being pummeled by global regulators.
September 3 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple Pay's still has a small share in the U.S.; Gender gap persists in the payments industry; VCs invest in bank-to-bank payments; TGI Fridays suffers a breach in Australia.
September 3 -
PNC has gone live on RippleNet, giving the blockchain company a major win in its effort to build a real-time cross-border payments network that includes large U.S. banks.
August 30 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm targets health care; Revolut collaborates for Amazon fire fundraise payments; Mobile money in Nigeria; PNC launches on RippleNet.
August 30 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon considers Go-Jek investment; China picks institutions for government crypto; Token hires new CEO; Google Pay targets local stores in India.
August 29 -
Alibaba has added Adyen as a processor, giving the Chinese e-commerce giant an added option to acquire merchants to feed its business for Chinese travelers.
August 28 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: WeChat adopts facial recognition for payments; CaixaBank will issue environmentally friendly gift cards; Facebook courts external developers for Libra; Paytm adds QR codes for train payments.
August 28 -
Processors that rely on cross-border payments to reach new territories are feeling the economic squeeze of the looming Brexit deadline.
August 28 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Grab and Go-Jek's battle; Indian payments app draws investment; Installment options expand for fashion and beauty retailers; Google Pay's adding a dark mode.
August 27 -
It's unclear whether the Trump administration can or will declare a national emergency as part of the trade dispute between the U.S. and China, but the discourse alone could disrupt major business relationships that involve American retailers, payment companies and Chinese firms.
August 26 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Is Libra's regulatory heat too much for the project's partners?; Revlut adds top execs; Venezuelan department store turns to blockchain to combat inflation; InstaRem looks for more corridors.
August 26 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon invests in incentive marketing in India; Ripple adds discount transfer company to network; More signs PSD2's migration is going poorly; New technology emerges for rental payments.
August 23 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Barclays adds literal climate to stores; Australia's real-time pay system suffers a breach; Austrian mobile provider tests crypto pay; DoorDash makes an acquisition.
August 22
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