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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Uber’s getting a half billion dollar investment from PayPal at a time when the ride-sharing app is prepping a $100 billion IPO and can least afford speed bumps in its user experience and payment process.
April 26 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: PayPal invests in Uber; Tencent invests in payments technology in Argentina; Wirex issues stablecoins; Walmart unveils new retail innovation; The PSD2 vendor market gets larger.
April 26 -
Barclays has been highly active and aggressive in payments innovation on its home turf, giving it insight into which of its projects could find footing as it expands in the U.S.
April 26 -
Less than a day after saying it would work with large core processors in a consolidating industry, Visa has struck a deal to link its B2B platform to FIS' bank clients.
April 25 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Blockchain B2B advances in China; Brave adds new ad incentives; New crypto wallet; New York prosecutors win a bitcoin laundering case.
April 25 -
Visa’s not worried about the massive consolidation that’s sweeping the payments industry, seeing it as a force to extend payments innovation globally.
April 25 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon partners with French supermarket chain; N26 is adding risk experts; Unisys makes an open banking play; Apple Pay is set to launch in Austria.
April 24 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Sony's new ride sharing app; bitcoin advances for debit and e-commerce; eBay may invest in Paytm Mall; Washington Caps add Alipay.
April 23 -
As threats from nimble fintechs and global e-commerce companies abound, Visa’s turning to open development tools to place itself in the middle of the innovation, rather than making a solitary counterplay itself.
April 22 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa's new APIs; Coffee battle in China; PayPal wins a patent to battle ramsonware; Coinbase expands; India leaves crypto out of sandbox.
April 22 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm details payments strategy; New blockchain VC; Surecomp opens an innovation lab; Industry groups join forces.
April 18 -
A Toronto fintech is seeking share for distinct niche — and it thinks a three-year-old technology decision by Visa may be the ticket to its success.
April 18 -
Stripe has updated its products and made an acquisition to prep for new security standards it says will impact more than 300 million people, potentially giving Stripe the same kind of influence over European merchant technology that it enjoys in the U.S.
April 17 -
CV Systems’ COO Randy Schmidt, BHMI Chairman Jack Baldwin and Mickey Goldwasser, vice president of Payrailz, discuss challenges and opportunities, for faster payments, back office gaps, and cross-industry cooperation.
April 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Will Europe act to counter the U.S. and China's influence on payments?; Monzo adds emojis; Google Pay tightens ties to Gmail; A new payments association forms;
April 17 -
By Mastercard’s own reckoning, the point-of-sale financing space is a $1.8 trillion market in the U.S. alone, making its Vyze acquisition a natural way to pursue an opportunity that’s being gobbled up by fintechs and card alternatives.
April 16 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Standard Chartered expands collections; MoneyGram partners for gig economy payments; Copia Kenya delivers to rural areas; Global Payments and Discover bolster merchant acquiring in Asia.
April 16 -
Mastercard’s real-time incentive marketing initiative is an acknowledgement that requiring consumers to take action to seize a special deal won’t work as well in the mobile age.
April 16 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple improves biometric security; Klarna opens at Showfields; Japanese bank will no longer support Money Tap; Dashlane draws investment.
April 15 -
As major payments M&A deals mount, some free agents are awaiting deals of their own — and one area where that’s most apparent is in debit and ATM networks.
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