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 neobank has added tools for payments, booking and other uses, while it's also receiving an influx of customers who fled Silicon Valley Bank.
By John AdamsMarch 22 -
The company is adopting the fast-growing language recognition technology to improve its billing, checkout and subscriptions offerings.
By John AdamsMarch 20 -
Amid the fallout from the Silicon Valley Bank shutdown, some argue that reduced processing time could mitigate systemic disruptions.
By John AdamsMarch 16 -
NatWest joins U.K. banks in limiting crypto, Mastercard teams with fintech in the UAE, and more.
By John AdamsMarch 15 -
Micro-merchants that sell on Etsy and Shopify were briefly unable to accept payments — an issue that could have been catastrophic had it lasted longer.
By John AdamsMarch 14 -
When Circle USDC broke its peg to the dollar days after SVB's crisis, it revealed new uncertainties for cryptocurrency that's designed to resist volatility.
By John AdamsMarch 13 -
Co-Op Solutions, which represents more than 1,800 credit unions, used its scale to negotiate a favorable deal with the STAR Network.
By John AdamsMarch 13 -
Brett Mooney returns to the card network as the country manager for Canada, a digital-forward market that is attracting more competition from banks and fintechs.
By John AdamsMarch 10 -
The card network is examining how to make incentives more personal by using advanced technology to sift through a trove of consumer spending data.
By John AdamsMarch 9 -
This week's global news roundup includes Apple Pay securing a lingering holdout; a CBDC project that targets FX rates, and more.
By John AdamsMarch 8 -
Associate partner Mary Ann Francis is a risk taker — the kind who jumps off a waterfall without a parachute. She brings this same boldness to her work at IBM, where her decades of banking experience help the tech giant find new opportunities for artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
By John AdamsMarch 7 -
This year's Most Influential Women in Payments honorees are uniquely positioned to make the most of disruptive factors such as the advancement of artificial intelligence, central bank digital currencies and real-time payments.
March 7 -
A new product enables consumers to initiate a transaction by typing in a merchant's web domain — even if that business doesn't have an e-commerce site. It's the web-hosting company's latest bid to provide more to small proprietors.
By John AdamsMarch 3 -
Citizens Financial Group, which has offered point-of-sale financing for iPhones sold through Apple since 2015, is finding that as objects such as refrigerators become more complex and internet-connected, they are also more frequently replaced — creating new categories for installment lending.
By John AdamsMarch 1 -
This week's global news roundup include Canada's crackdown on crypto operators, Westpac's cloud project and more.
By John AdamsMarch 1 -
As firms like Klarna and Sezzle attempt to reach profitability, fintechs that offer point-of-sale financing brace for consolidation, regulation and other drastic changes to their market.
February 28 -
The boom in digital commerce led to a boom in hiring, and many payment companies have started cutting back. This is creating an experienced pool of talent for employers that have room to grow.
By John AdamsFebruary 28 -
The fintech added support for Android handsets, giving the company more juice for its brick-and-mortar ambitions and making it more competitive with the many companies trying to transform the point of sale.
By John AdamsFebruary 27 -
The card network is offering incentives to help cash-strapped small businesses eke out savings they can't get on their personal cards.
By John AdamsFebruary 24 -
The terminal maker's collaboration with Splitit, Klarna and biometrics firm Fujitsu Frontech are an attempt to go beyond the limitations of traditional payments hardware.
By John AdamsFebruary 22



















