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: Amazon Go picks a spot in Wesfield Place; HTC reveals its blockchain phone; IBM sets up open banking service; Citi invests in Ondot.
October 24 -
Fintechs usually focus on niches rather than trying to be a one-stop shop for every type of merchant. But for Nvoicepay, bigger clients mean bigger opportunities.
October 24 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Diebold Nixdorf adds partners; Paytm exec gets blackmailed; Swift and Microsoft's cloud advances; Klarna picks up merchant support.
October 23 -
Cryptocurrency companies hope P2P transfers will prove habit-forming enough to convince consumers to try out a new currency.
October 23 -
The gap in attitudes and outlook on gender inclusion is wide enough that women and men in financial services often have entirely different takes on gender in the workforce, with men much more likely to have an outsized positive view on progress in gender inclusion.
October 22 -
With VC favorites such as Square and Stripe nipping at its heels, ATM and terminal manufacturer NCR plans to shell out $184 million for JetPay to add remote software to its acquiring menu.
October 22 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon Go's not the first cashierless store in San Francisco; A new score; JPMorgan's opening a fintech campus; Volvo revs up subscriptions; Western Unoin and banks battle human trafficking.
October 22 -
American Express turned its loss of its Costco card business in 2016 into a pivot to a more technology-heavy strategy, a plan that is paying off with major deals with large partners and solid earnings.
October 19 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Pakistan reaches out to fintechs to help with payment project; Wearable tech gets more flexible; Digital pay becomes a major market; Bill and Melinda Gates invest in blockchain as a financial inclusion tool.
October 19 -
India’s government has been aggressively (and, at times, dramatically) pro-digital commerce — but not necessarily when it involves foreign companies.
October 19 -
PayPal reports it’s adding users to Venmo’s new initiatives quickly, pushing the company’s wish to monetize Venmo to what its CEO calls a “tipping point."
October 18 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: BBVA pushes open banking in the U.S.; Curve plans support for mobile wallets; Civil's first news IPO falls short; Apptizer adds new restaurant technology.
October 18 -
Stripe’s expanding global profile has come with a growing security risk operation, which will now be overseen by former Google security expert Niels Provos.
October 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Sony pursues blockchain for copyright; Twitter sends odd notifications; Facebook Portal could collect data for advertising; Australian banks invest in receipt technology.
October 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: India's payment regs, Westpac's wearables; New Zealand debunks bitcoin claim; and more.
October 15 -
Financial crisis-era rebel Simple is turning to payments innovation — along with its traditional combativeness on fees and rates — to stay relevant against the many fintechs lurking at the edges of the banking world.
October 15 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Chinese payment companies suffer breach; Mumbai transit adds PayPal; Shopify opens a store; Scotland makes contactless art.
October 12 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Google Pay finds a way to reach banks in Germany; Western Union goes after larger payments; U.K. bank lobby pushes fraud recovery tax; Mastercard gets another blockchain patent.
October 11 -
While the fintechs that offer merchant loans usually argue they’re lending to the ultra-small businesses that banks don't serve, competitive forces will bring the technology companies deeper into banks’ domain.
October 11 -
Square CFO Sarah Friar, who helped lead the company's many forays into financial services, is leaving Square to become CEO of Nextdoor, a social network for local neighborhoods.
October 10
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