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: Exxon's new rewards program stumbles out of the gate; Monaco pays big for crypto.com domain; WeChat Pay expands to the French Riviera; Western Union expands in Russia.
July 9 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Facebook moves an additional exec to blockchain project; Sydney Airport tests facial biometrics; Ant invests in WiFi for underground metros; Razer adds a mobile wallet.
July 6 -
Machine learning and voice recognition can ease the many pain points of drive-thru ordering.
July 6 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Paytm's Bollywood ambitions, Dubai turns to the Pays, new companies in the regulatory sandbox, and more.
July 5 -
For stores that don't want such a high-tech makeover, options for automatic checkout options are being built on a much simpler foundation.
July 5 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: PayPal plans further expansion in India; Oracle picks Brussels for tech hub over London; Amex and Concardis add new payment executives; Russian military plans to use blockchain for security.
July 3 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: LTE faces attacks; Apple Pay's growing quickly in Poland; Adidas suffers a breach; U.K. centralizes government payment units.
July 2 -
As Nvoicepay expands, the payment automation company is keeping an eye on how it may fall under European data rules that have a knack for requiring compliance even from companies that should be exempt.
July 2 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web, including: Visa's World Cup spending goal, Mastercard's blockchain patents, U.K. stress tests, and more.
June 29 -
U.S. Bank is firmly committed to voice assistant technology, but remains cautious about enabling all forms of money movement via verbal commands.
June 29 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Twitter adds FIDO authentication; A startup serves gig economy workers; Chat app Kik plans its own currency; A mobile money security gap gets exposed in Kenya.
June 28 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm's entertainment unit gets an infusion; Google Pay launches in Germany without full card support; TSYS expands in vision care; European committee supports central bank virtual currency.
June 27 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: A global blockchain remittance market is underway at Alipay; Former GoDaddy execs launch DLT payments firm; Fraud has a wide reach in Europe; Quebec utility sets aside space for cryptocurrency mining.
June 26 -
The Supreme Court is tossing a wrench into online payment processing at a time when tariffs are already threatening popular cross-border e-commerce and online marketplaces.
June 26 -
Despite a reputation for being the go-to P2P app of digital natives, Venmo is once again pushing its market in the opposite direction with the debut of a plastic card.
June 25 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Senate schedules cryptocurrency hearing; More payment problems in Europe; Microsoft deploys AI as U.K. retail chain; Worldpay upgrades behavioral analysis.
June 25 -
Two collaborations in the past week show how office vendors are using automation to free health care patients and office staff from an overwhelmingly paper-heavy process of invoicing and payments.
June 25 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Cyrptocurrency kiosk lands at Amsterdam airport; Dash crypto adds more merchants; U.K. group lobbies for cryptocurrency regulation; Gig economy fintech adds new payroll tools.
June 22 -
Called Mezu, the P2P platform has been live for about a week and uses a location-based code to execute payments, avoiding the need to even share usernames or other identifying information to move money.
June 22 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa developer event targets gender gap; PayPal halts payments for school shooting game; Akon plans his own cryptocoin; Spanish banks push blockchain ID project.
June 21
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