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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After researchers exposed how hackable mobile point of sale systems are, vendors quickly shored up their defenses — while also blaming some vulnerabilities on payment methods they characterize as outdated.
August 24 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Americans keep more funds in PayPal accounts than their wallets; Coins decline in the U.K.; ZenCash changes its name; Coinbase adds payment support.
August 23 -
Since his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump has loomed over the international payments system with a series of threats that are proving increasingly empty.
August 22 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walmart still doesn't support Apple Pay; Paytm builds a cloud in India; Football clubs support bitcoin; First Data pushes into real estate payments; China cracks down on cryptocurrency news.
August 22 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Payment outage hits Australia; No cashier store opens in San Francisco; Should contactless limits get higher?: Alipay takes paper out of tax refunds.
August 21 -
The subscription payments market is increasingly popular, but acquirers won't get by on only handling the payments.
August 21 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: A new wallet emerges in China; Monzo draws more investment; Ripple expands its exchange network; Ant Financial expands into health care payments.
August 20 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Google Pay adds more banks; Diebold Nixdorf scores a win in patent fight; Ant dominates Asian fintech investment; California may allow cryptocurrency political donations.
August 17 -
Legacy card issuers are facing a huge problem that threatens their relevance. Most of them are trying to launch a spaceship with a steam engine, and many of the solutions to that quandary are expensive, risky — and temporary.
August 17 -
Credit unions are working to turn a distributed ledger-based identity project into a platform for payments and financial services.
August 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Square improves chip payment time; Ant pursues emerging markets in Africa; Pabst Blue Ribbon intros a card; CBA pushes small biz payments.
August 16 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Alipay and WeChat are available at Mall of America; ATM attackers hit bank in India; Faster payments boosts business automation; Square expands bitcoin support.
August 15 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: ATMs and IoT are subject to new attack threats; The Bank of England wants input on faster payments; Russian Mir cards pick up another bank.
August 14 -
Techies find security holes in mobile point of sale devices
August 13 -
Health care's a vertical that keeps coming up over and over as a laggard that sticks to paper, manual forms and other legacy payment methods, mostly because of the number of documents that would need to be digitized for even one part of the process to enter the modern age.
August 13 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: PGA suffers ransomware attack; U.K. consumers don't always know where payments fraud comes from; Apple Pay's usage jumps; Wearables go to beach volleyball; Intuit earns a payment patent.
August 10 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon adds pickup to Whole Foods; Canadians like the no-cashier concept; Ant makes a move into Africa; Fossil adopts wearable payments.
August 9 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Microsoft adds Masterpass; A global fintech sandbox takes shape; Shaq invests in gig economy app; Fast EMV processing gets faster; Blockchain tackles mobile payments.
August 8 -
MakeCents uses a distributed blockchain platform to digitize and decentralize fiat currency. For existing stakeholders, the incentives to cede some control in favor of a blockchain are lower costs, faster transactions and greater volume.
August 8 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Facebook wants more data from banks; Arizona opens a fintech sandbox; Alipay gets fined; Visa offers credit to small businesses.
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