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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Wells Fargo is doing everything in its power to make its app the go-to choice for any interaction that involves money.
May 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Banks push Zelle-style app in France; Hackers hit Mexican banks with payment fraud scheme; African payment app draws investors; Singapore hotels support WeChat.
May 16 -
Four years after leading a charge to make PayPal more nimble by severing it from eBay, investor Carl Icahn is reportedly dissolving his investments in the payment company.
May 15 -
The Supreme Court has sided with states in a dispute over sports gambling, a double victory for payment processors, which can use largely existing tools to serve an entirely new market.
May 15 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon preps new Go stores; Chili's suffers a breach; Softbank mulls its next investment in India; Crypto for tax payments gains steam in Florida.
May 15 -
Freelance payment companies are taking advantage of the Trump administration's immigration policies, which are starting to drive more work to freelancers in the U.S. and overseas.
May 15 -
Fair Square Financial has received a $100 million equity investment from the Orogen Group to fund a credit card designed for underserved U.S. consumer segments.
May 14 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Walmart's mixed response in India; Paytm makes a transit pay deal; Cryptocurrency dash expands in Asia; Bitfury adds DoJ vet.
May 14 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Australia's open banking squabble; Smartwatch payments win adoption in Europe; Canada's central bank pushes for collaboration on data breaches; Ripple finishes near real-time cross-border trial.
May 11 -
Europe's PSD2 data-sharing standards are meant to foster cooperation in the market, but banks are getting more competitive as they seek to plug a revenue drain the new rules threaten.
May 11 -
The irony of the explosive growth of mobile P2P is this: As consumers get more comfortable with paying one another through mobile devices, they're thinking of P2P less as a service that one should find within a bank's app.
May 10 -
China hasn't exactly opened its arms wide to embrace U.S. payments companies, but the nation has gradually become more accepting of the foreign payments businesses that view its tech-savvy population as a lucrative market.
May 10 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Mastercard and Microsoft collaborate on urban technology; Google Pay expands travel payments; Blockchain cross-border grows in South Korea; Flipkart's founders have a past at Amazon.
May 10 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Facebook starts a blockchain unit; New York pushes ahead with cryptocurrency investigation; CPMI pushes security standards; St. Louis Fed recommends government virtual currency; Monzo adds proximity P2P technology.
May 9 -
Both executives assume their new roles as the Citi unit faces competition from both large banks and fintechs in the cross-border payments market.
May 8 -
The restaurant technology is a category-specific move that mirrors a broader strategy at Square, which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the past few months to round out its merchant services products.
May 8 -
The expansion of Visa Direct is designed to speed disbursements for health care patients who can receive an instant payment versus waiting several days to a week for payout.
May 8 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple plans to meet with Toronto transit officials; Cryptocurrency goes to the movies; Swedish startup organizes APIs; Digital billing advances in Pakistan.
May 8 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: JPMorgan files a patent app for transfer tech; Syncapay's looking for fintech investments; Ticketmaster's deploying new biometrics; Richard Branson warns about scams; Cryptocoin tax payments fall out of Arizona bill.
May 7 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Instagram adds payments; Alipay introduces money market funds for spare change; Ireland plans a fintech census; Reddit will resume bitcoin payments; California gets more cyrptocurrency ATMs.
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