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: IBM Watson moves toward in-car payments; Jamie Dimon discusses crypto and Square; Bahrain issues rules for cryptocurrency; Visa advances transit technology; Facebook's takes a cut of crowdsourced artist content.
February 27 -
Amazon, Accenture and Mastercard are using digital identity, blockchain and mobile payments to crack a window into sustainability and inclusion, but they’re also gaining potential retail benefits by capturing consumers who crave information about the origin of products.
February 26 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Target's using incentives to push third party sales; Android gets FIDO certification; Timex adds wearable pay technology; Merchant lending draws investment in South Africa.
February 26 -
The health care industry yearns for a digital antidote to paper payments, a challenge that awaits an executive who has spent years bringing businesses into the digital light.
February 26 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: BMW and Daimler's mobile plans move ahead; Uber Eats sells Indian unit to Swiggy; Sberbank pushes P2P; Mastercard makes a clearing deal in China.
February 25 -
Every week starts and ends the same way — with meetings where departments can share successes and challenges. It’s one way the payments company ensures cross-collaboration.
February 24 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple partners with Alipay to boost iPhone sales; Form jacking attacks expand; P2P expands in Sri Lanka; California considers expanding breach disclosure law.
February 22 -
Lloyds is paying small merchants to offer cash back, but consumer groups are already casting the move as inadequate to address the decline of branches and ATMs in the U.K.
February 22 -
Immigration restrictions are a threat to London’s status as a fintech hub, enough for Revolut CEO Nikolay Storonsky to demand the U.K.’s government take special steps to prevent the technology talent from going elsewhere.
February 21 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Dutch central bank's processing PSD2 licenses for U.K. firms; Wyoming pushes crypto laws; Citymapper adds prepaid card; Paytm hires former Amazon exec; Bluefin gets PCI certification.
February 21 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Instagram adds donation sticker; Barclays Brexit clinics; Coinbase acquires more blockchain technology; Google Pay gains ground with banks.
February 20 -
States are changing how they regulate bitcoin, but convincing merchants and consumers to jump-start a dreary cryptocurrency payments market is another matter.
February 20 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: EU fee relief; Girl Scouts add Clover; Facebook posts for blockchain talent; Marriott offers hack info.
February 19 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon gains bank support in India; Facial recognition for ATMs in Spain; ATMs are declining in the U.K.; UATP and Conferma Pay offer virtual pay for flights.
February 15 -
Ant Financial, the Chinese payments company that operates Alipay, has a scale that’s almost unimaginable to a U.S. audience. But the giant's ability to build a true empire has already run into regulatory trouble in the U.S.—and it’s affecting Ant's strategy worldwide.
February 14 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Ant agrees to WorldFirst deal; Kroger ups its mobile technology; Sony adds watch upgrade; Starling Bank raises funds for new accounts; DLT moves foward in Italy.
February 14 -
Stripe’s large and quickly expanding valuation enable it to forge connections among many sources of innovation, placing even more pressure on traditional technology providers and financial institutions.
February 14 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walmart loses a delivery partner; Bill.com opens a new office; Jack Dorsey talks up bitcoin; Swiggy's big expansion.
February 13 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Softbank's bullish on driverless vehicles; Pakistan courts PayPal; Monzo adds business services; Japanese consortium cuts paper from transactions.
February 12 -
It’s unusual for a seemingly healthy company’s website to implore its U.S. customers to seek out a competitor with less than a month's notice, but cross-border payment processor WorldFirst has done just that.
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