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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Hostilities toward the legal U.S. cannabis industry are softening considerably, with signs of further removing cash and digital workarounds from a market that has long been shunned by traditional payment cards.
December 21 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Breach woes for Uber; Australia welcomes Alipay; payment tools for freelancers; and more.
December 21 -
The digital ID market has massive potential, but many fundamental problems that must first be overcome. Among them: The companies best positioned to provide a viable digital ID platform are not the ones best positioned to benefit from it.
December 21 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web Today: Square refiles for a bankiing license; UBS gets an AML fine; P2P for crypto; Digital receipt fintech Flux attracts investors; Coinbase offers cryptocurrency education.
December 20 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Grocers enhance delivery; Apple Pay faces pushback in Switzerland; Western Union teases crypto support; Coinbase adds crypto-to-crypto conversions.
December 19 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon improves Alexa's security; Mobile pay leaps in Australia; Ride sharing app Careem diversifies; Belgian transit pay goes to the cloud.
December 18 -
Neither Amazon nor Starbucks could be described as a traditional retailer. But they both use their shared headquarters city as a playground for developing digital and in-store innovations that all merchants and payment companies will have to respond to the years ahead.
December 18 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Starbucks expands its deal with UberEats; Russia's Sberbank supports QR codes for payments; Nordic software comany Ervy picks up payment contracts; Sephora adds bitcoin rewards.
December 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Big banks win payment contracts in Australia; Revolut gets a banking license; Samsung Pay's on wearables in South Africa; Danske Bank gets open; Bitcoin bomb threat.
December 14 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon Go tries smaller stores; CULedger joins R3; YayPay draws funds; German cryptobank debuts.
December 13 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: EU tackles cybersecurity, finger vein payments expand, Barclays adds payment controls, and more.
December 12 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon Go finds a spot in the U.K.; PayPal offers blockchain incentives to staff; Apple Pay's set for Germany; JD.com and Intel plan an innovation lab.
December 11 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Mastercard's seeking a blockchain anonymity patent; Wearables advance in Russia; GDPR compliance may hit a snag; Open banking takes shape in the Middle East.
December 10 -
Airports would provide a way to bring Amazon Go to spaces beyond the relatively small storefronts at Go’s early locations in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and New York.
December 7 -
Mainstream payment companies are quickly siding with fintechs to dilute the weight of paper on accounts payable and supply chains. American Express is pushing change by making it less of an ordeal.
December 7 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Venmo partners with Hulu; VC funds go to e-payments in Mexico; Wirecard expands airline biz in Europe; Cryptocurrency fraud spikes in Japan.
December 7 -
The regulations for legal cannabis are slowly loosening, but whether they have loosened enough to support a “normal” online shopping experience in the U.S. is being put to the test by a new mashup of digital ordering and payment tools.
December 6 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Ripple and R3 work together; Teen card Current upgrades; Blockchain has a successful test for KYC; Scam targets finance executives.
December 6 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: The government encourages AI to fight money laundering; Amazon's drones still a work in progress; Klarna's CEO has fighting words for banks; T-Mobile takes another shot at financial services.
December 5 -
Consumers are stuck using outdated or easily compromised means of proving their identities in a world where banks and retailers need something better. Mastercard and Microsoft are teaming up to take on this monumental challenge.
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