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: Researcher finds a potential vulnerability at Uber; Visa bolsters executive ranks; Grab adds tech for bike sharing; The impact of PSD2.
By John AdamsJanuary 23 -
The all-in-one card market is littered with the carcasses of unsuccessful ventures, but Curve's Shachar Bialick insists his initiative has a model and a headstart that will help it fight the market's considerable headwinds.
By John AdamsJanuary 23 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon Go opens in Seattle; CBA adds voice payments; Instant payments advance in France; SEC targets cryptocurrency manipulation; Why is a consumer group attacking lower ATM fees?
By John AdamsJanuary 22 -
The mix of airlines, hotels and other companies that make up the travel industry have lost an innovative edge, in part because a once-cutting edge system of combined booking and payments has not aged well.
By John AdamsJanuary 22 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Australia plugs into Alexa; Europe regulates processing; contactless payments in sports; and more.
By John AdamsJanuary 19 -
While Starbucks is making a tentative move into cash refusal at one location, it's unlikely any retailer would widely refuse cash payments in the near term.
By John AdamsJanuary 18 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa won't support cryptocurrency payments; Blockstream extends virtual currency tech; EMV advances in Ghana; Blockchain becomes art.
By John AdamsJanuary 18 -
The anxiety that a crook is using a lost or stolen card can be a powerful lure to mobile technology, Citigroup has learned.
By John AdamsJanuary 18 -
As mobile commerce matures, consumers are getting more accustomed to the process of populating a shopping cart from a smartphone's screen. It's a process that could translate well to brick-and-mortar stores.
By John AdamsJanuary 18 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Curve launches its all-in-one card; States push Congress to relax weed regulations; OnePlus gets attacked; Ethereum finds another user; China takes another swipe at cryptocurrency.
By John AdamsJanuary 17 -
Most U.S. merchants faced a 2015 deadline for EMV compliance, but gas stations have until 2020. Those extra years bring with them an assortment of new technology that can fundamentally change the ways motorists fuel up.
By John AdamsJanuary 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Bitcoin mining stresses electrical grids; State taxes for cryptocurrency; Facebook payments expand in Africa; A pop song in Japan for cryptocurrency.
By John AdamsJanuary 16 -
Despite the growing legality of marijuana sales, banks have largely written off the industry as being too high-risk. Recent remarks by Attorney General Jeff Sessions would seem to reinforce that position.
By John AdamsJanuary 16 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon opens Dash's tech; Hyundai makes a move into car tech; Faster payments advance in the U.S. and Lithuania.
By John AdamsJanuary 12 -
One of the options for brick and mortar to strike back at e-commerce is real-time in-store analysis, where nascent technology gives consumers the a personalized experience without stopping to pay or engage with staff.
By John AdamsJanuary 11 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Warren Buffett is bearish on bitcoin; Payroll tech draws funds; Turkey pushes contactless; "Clapping" for cryptocurrency.
By John AdamsJanuary 11 -
Petal has received a $13 million funding round from Valar Ventures, a New York-based venture capital fund that specializes in financial technology, to use artificial intelligence to fill holes in legacy risk vetting.
By John AdamsJanuary 10 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: LevelUp's new order ahead app; Mastercard embraces car tech; Garmin adds payments to running band; New rules for ICOs; Singapore company offers 'buy now pay later'; Blockchain Tea cancels stock sale.
By John AdamsJanuary 10 -
A reverse auction service for restaurants is trying to ease the industry's costs through a decentralized payments system.
By John AdamsJanuary 9 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Toyota demos driverless delivery; Venezuela plans oil cryptocurrency; Bango teams with Netflix in Mexico; Vermont may tax cryptocurrency.
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