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: 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 -
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.
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