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: Breach at Canadian banks; Indonesian post office offers remittance; Ripple's cross-border tech picks up speed; Fifth Third collaborates on AI to improve merchant services.
May 30 -
Square's taking on hundreds of millions of added debt to battle PayPal, indicating that the simple business model of turning a smartphone into a point of sale terminal is largely a thing of the past.
May 29 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web Today: IBM Watson expands payments in France; Bug bounty discovers weakness at T-Mobile; Chinese city turns to blockchain for municipal payments; U.K. student builds payment device for street performers.
May 29 -
European payment gateway SIA has agreed to acquire First Data's card processing in a group of countries in Eastern Europe.
May 25 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Retailers don't like Mastercard and Visa's buy button; Google Pay adds prepaid options in Japan; Alibaba demos voice ordering for coffee; Australian company plans crypto point of sale; InAuth and ABN Amro push data sharing tech.
May 25 -
The rules that govern data are changing rapidly, creating confusion for the companies that use blockchain to support payments, as well as potential investment opportunities for third parties that can ensure compliance.
May 24 -
When Visa opened its tools to third-party developers two years ago, it was a strong pivot away from a longstanding of operating a closed, proprietary network. Its latest investments indicate this strategy is of growing importance on a global scale.
May 24 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Hyundai collaborates on car pay tech; Fintechs take another crack at cryptocurrency payments; A fifth of Americans think cash payments will fade fast; Paytm puts a financial inclusion army in the field.
May 24 -
In an age of quick processing for digital payments, transaction disputes can still take weeks for a resolution or chargeback — an unacceptable time frame for e-commerce. To hasten dispute resolution, some vendors are beginning to offer financial incentives to merchants that agree to speed up the process.
May 24 -
Starbucks mobile app is reportedly getting more use than Apple Pay, but the comparison is largely meaningless in a market that is increasingly prone to supporting multiple mobile wallets instead of a single victor.
May 23 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Grab develops e-wallet in Malaysia; Argentinian bank expands bitcoin acceptance; Mastercard supports solar energy payments in Africa; Tech group accuses banks of slow walking data sharing.
May 23 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: A big IoT project takes shape in Japan; A crypto ATM opens in Liverpool; Transactive Systems gains faster pay ground; Walmart tries to gain visibility into its resale market.
May 22 -
Traditional credit scoring is under siege from alternative underwriting, and TransUnion is joining the future by investing in other emerging trends such as mobile device security and health care payments.
May 21 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: TransUnion expands on a number of fronts; Selfie pay enters South Africa; Pras' new smartphone will include payments technology; Vota brings back payment sharing; U.S. technology companies push open banking.
May 21 -
E-commerce payment fraud losses are mounting, giving merchants the opportunity to dump responsibility on their technology partners, but there's no surefire way to totally offload the financial hit.
May 21 -
Bank executives say artificial intelligence will create jobs, while analysts say the opposite. Employees are anxious but willing to try to work with it. All agree AI is already making an impact.
May 18 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: U.K. turns to fintech experts to battle Brexit losses; Legal weed e-commerce expands; Monzo apologizes for being "late" with Apple Pay; Ethereum's founder has a new project.
May 18 -
Even though legalized cannabis and cryptocurrency payments are still vexing markets by themselves, WebJoint and Alt Thirty Six are quickly looking to take their combined dispensary play to other businesses.
May 18 -
Both executives have changed the cryptocurrency narrative with supportive statements, but attracting merchants to a payments market will require work.
May 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Google brings wearable payments to more countries; Selfie pay reaches Kuwait; Bitmain invests in Circle; Use cases emerge for government virtual currency.
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