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: Google combines mobile payment services; PayPal plans an acquisition spree; U.K.'s faster payment system slows down; Ticketmaster breach impacted more companies; U.K. football club boosts mobile payments.
July 11 -
Brexit's implications for the U.K.'s technology industry are deepening political fractures, with no clear answer as to how startups fintechs and challenger banks can operate in the U.K. after it leaves the European Union.
July 11 -
When GDPR went into effect in May, it was expected that the European law would touch a lot of U.S. payment companies because of their international scope. Now it's clear that even purely domestic U.S. firms will have to adhere to some version of the data-privacy law.
July 10 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Cross-border payments attract investors; Court orders a stop to pirate site payments; Stablecoins pick up speed; Western Union's footprint expands in Africa.
July 10 -
Companies of all sizes have attempted to serve kids and teens with prepaid cards or digital wallets with parental controls, but there are very few success stories. GoSave's twist is that it doesn't make a card or an app the focus of its experience.
July 10 -
Paul Galant will leave the CEO post at Verifone in the next few months, following a tenure in which he helped diversify and automate Verifone's merchant acquiring business and led a recovery from a series of strategic and economic missteps.
July 9 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Exxon's new rewards program stumbles out of the gate; Monaco pays big for crypto.com domain; WeChat Pay expands to the French Riviera; Western Union expands in Russia.
July 9 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Facebook moves an additional exec to blockchain project; Sydney Airport tests facial biometrics; Ant invests in WiFi for underground metros; Razer adds a mobile wallet.
July 6 -
Machine learning and voice recognition can ease the many pain points of drive-thru ordering.
July 6 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Paytm's Bollywood ambitions, Dubai turns to the Pays, new companies in the regulatory sandbox, and more.
July 5 -
For stores that don't want such a high-tech makeover, options for automatic checkout options are being built on a much simpler foundation.
July 5 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: PayPal plans further expansion in India; Oracle picks Brussels for tech hub over London; Amex and Concardis add new payment executives; Russian military plans to use blockchain for security.
July 3 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: LTE faces attacks; Apple Pay's growing quickly in Poland; Adidas suffers a breach; U.K. centralizes government payment units.
July 2 -
As Nvoicepay expands, the payment automation company is keeping an eye on how it may fall under European data rules that have a knack for requiring compliance even from companies that should be exempt.
July 2 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web, including: Visa's World Cup spending goal, Mastercard's blockchain patents, U.K. stress tests, and more.
June 29 -
U.S. Bank is firmly committed to voice assistant technology, but remains cautious about enabling all forms of money movement via verbal commands.
June 29 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Twitter adds FIDO authentication; A startup serves gig economy workers; Chat app Kik plans its own currency; A mobile money security gap gets exposed in Kenya.
June 28 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Paytm's entertainment unit gets an infusion; Google Pay launches in Germany without full card support; TSYS expands in vision care; European committee supports central bank virtual currency.
June 27 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: A global blockchain remittance market is underway at Alipay; Former GoDaddy execs launch DLT payments firm; Fraud has a wide reach in Europe; Quebec utility sets aside space for cryptocurrency mining.
June 26 -
The Supreme Court is tossing a wrench into online payment processing at a time when tariffs are already threatening popular cross-border e-commerce and online marketplaces.
June 26
