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: Target's troubled weekend; Australia's choppy NPP rollout; Alexa shopping for kids; and more.
June 17 -
Cashierless stores have generated a lot of attention, but there’s a heavy lift to ensure the concept works outside of the relatively controlled environment of beta tests and proof-of-concept stores.
June 17 -
Facebook's Libra, or GlobalCoin, will be cryptocurrency's largest test — fueled by a collection of huge investors that will determine if mainstream merchants and consumers will actually use a payment system featuring an alternative currency.
June 14 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Revolut expands to Australia; Los Angeles upgrades transit; FirstBank signs on for real-time payments; Facebook invests in Meesho.
June 14 -
A huge portion of European companies will not clear PSD2's regulatory hurdles for digital connections between banks and payment apps, but that hasn't slowed down some companies that see value in open banking and payments.
June 14 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Coinbase extends debit network; Uber plots drone delivery; Alipay targets football event; Ripple beefts up in Brazil; U.K. regulators end probe into PayPal's iZettle deal.
June 13 -
India’s government has taken drastic steps to encourage and standardize digital transactions, and those moves appear to be paying off.
June 13 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon Go adds Starbucks; Paytm wants lighter AML rules; Alipay launches a ride-sharing app; PayByPhone is on Amazon Echo Auto.
June 12 -
The ride-sharing heavyweights Uber and Grab built their markets by making payments seamless, and their expansion plans are similarly hooked into improving payments and other financial services.
June 11 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: New Yorker commuters flock to contactless payments; European software companies develop Bluetooth transit pay; Sberbank and McDonald's team up; Google Pay plans navigation improvements.
June 11 -
Digital payments are creating a wealth of data that can be used to inform other types of financial services for managing debt or promoting financial inclusion — and these services are, in turn, attracting the interest of venture capitalists.
June 11 -
PayPal and Mastercard are independently making high-profile moves to shore up gaps in open banking and data compliance, and both companies are downplaying any competitiveness.
June 10 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walmart boosts delivery technology; MoneyGram partners with Canada's post office; More automation for Singapore's transit; Vancouver cracks down on bitcoin ATMs.
June 10 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: The EMVCo buy button gets more details; Stripe invests in youth financial services startup; Contactless soars in the U.K.; Facebook's cryptocoin gets closer; SEC makes a legal move on ICOs.
June 7 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: How Amazon Go ensures user experience; Rabobank embraces open banking; Russian supermarket launches crypto B2B payments; Swedish department store adds payments for travelers from China.
June 6 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Mastercard and PayPal make moves to address PSD2 compliance and open banking; Axel debuts a new wallet; Digital ID network takes shape in Germany.
June 5 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon gets aggressive in the U.K.; eBay offers small business credit; Quest Diagnostics suffers a breach; Barclays, Nasdaq and UBS invest in a utility coin.
June 4 -
Janet Estep is nearing the end of her tenure as Nacha’s CEO, but she's no less devoted to overcoming the last hurdles to implementing faster payments.
June 4 -
China UnionPay is assembling the relationships it needs to directly issue cards in Europe, but local saturation suggests UnionPay’s best bet is to use European merchant relationships to counter its own domestic rivals in China rather than disrupting Visa and Mastercard.
June 3 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Banks field fintech pitches; Revolut hires PR expert; Ripple tests restaurant payments in Tokyo; German bank official bases blockchain.
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