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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Visa and Mastercard's "single button" for online payments seems like it would most directly threaten PayPal, but the card networks' campaign puts just as much pressure on Amazon's omnichannel push.
May 3 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: CBA cops to old breach; Ulster Bank's day off hurts mobile pay; Token benefits from PSD2; Ripple deepens its relationship with Standard Chartered.
May 3 -
Amazon is trying to acquire Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart, in part to gain control over that country's e-commerce market and in part to make sure Walmart doesn't get hold of the company.
May 2 -
Mastercard's CEO sang the praises of a single "button" for online purchases, a stance that puts heat on online payment leader PayPal without the whiff of a direct attack.
May 2 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: U.K. cryptocurrency firms ask for more regs; Circle boosts its security; Philadelphia adds transit payments tech; Lots of Americans use cards just for the loyalty points.
May 2 -
Like plucking thorns off a flower one by one, Nvoicepay has incrementally built an automated B2B payments chain, this week turning directly to the guts of corporate technology to wring out lingering old-school processing techniques.
May 1 -
American Express has issued a series of deadlines for merchant acquirers in markets outside of the U.S. in an attempt to jolt the global migration.
May 1 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Mastercard pursues another blockchain patent; PSD2's huge global impact; Ride sharing app Pathao launches a digital wallet; A Swift exec joins the U.K.'s Mansion House Consulting.
May 1 -
A Delaware company's plotting to use blockchain to blow the lid off of supply chain inefficiencies and be the main catalyst behind Asia's burgeoning open markets and electronic payments initiative.
May 1 -
Given the scant use of cryptocurrencies for payments relative to their use for investment, some companies are rooting for the kind of government oversight and monetary policy that used to be considered an assault on the alternative currency movement.
May 1 -
PayPal is dusting off the idea of conducting commerce augmented reality glasses, a concept that fell flat five years ago. But a half decade is an epoch in technology time, enough to reevaluate the competitive necessity of AR payments.
April 30 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. PayPal pushes for an AR glasses patent; Mastercard tests contactless in Poland; Ripple adds more partners; Payments technology continues to accelerate in Singapore.
April 30 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Citi, BBVA boost Apple Pay's reach; Mastercard extends financial inclusion deal; Biometrics advances for foreign exchange; Lattesso brews blockchain marketing.
April 27 -
Lacy Morris would seem to be in a tough spot as the main techie for a smaller coffee chain that's deploying mobile technology years after Starbucks dominated the market. But Starbucks has made missteps, he contends, leaving room for rivals to learn from those mistakes.
April 27 -
Square's deal to buy Weebly, a San Francisco-based web design company, is a major weapon in its growing arsenal.
April 26 -
Visa CEO Alfred Kelly is less publicly adversarial toward market rival PayPal than his predecessor Charlie Scharf, even as Visa's push for a "single button" for online payments seems to undermine PayPal's business model.
April 26 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: BigCommerce gets a big investment; Mobile payments get a virtual currency; Monzo's expansion from payments accelerates; Facial authentication gets more sophisticated; A key that opens all of the hotel rooms.
April 26 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon suffers a hack; The Fed issues new faster payments-related guidance; Paperless B2B payments advance in Indonesia; Contactless transit pay matures in London.
April 25 -
Amazon's increasingly weird ideas for getting products to Prime customers — grocery delivery, in-home delivery and now in-car delivery — point to an unsettling conclusion: Amazon, for all its market dominance, is pushing the limits of who it can reach with traditional package delivery.
April 24 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Travel agency changes crypto converters; Cross-border payments as a retail recovery play; Bottomline Technologies adds a new API; A bank's rough technology conversion causes data breach.
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