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: Apple Pay gets a boost from Ripple; HSBC uses AI to fight money laundering; Banco Santander recruits payments vets; Tech help desk fraud.
April 10 -
Bill.com has implemented a strategy to make B2B payments more like Zelle or Venmo, removing the same pain points that those P2P apps do for consumer payments.
April 10 -
Starbucks has reported an impressive number of in-store sales in the U.S. coming through its mobile app, a figure that has climbed quarter after quarter since the 2009 introduction of the Starbucks Card app — until July 2017, when it reached 30% and has not budged from that number since.
April 9 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Starbucks, Samsung team on voice ordering; Spain cracks down on cryptocurrency; Walmart bolsters online order pickup; SEC freezes Longfin's crypto trades; UFO coin.
April 9 -
Checkout.com has used alternative fees and a high-touch approach to build a market for its online payments toolkit in Europe. Now it's come to the U.S., where the likes of Stripe and Braintree already own a sizable chunk of the market.
April 9 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Coinbase launches fund; Sears, Delta suffer a data breach; India cracks down on cryptocurrency; Amazon adds more locks to Key; Zimbabwe automates payment system; U.K. group sets security standards for third parties.
April 6 -
In yet another twist on the idea of a cryptocurrency debit card, MoxyOne has developed its own network as a way to address the setbacks some have faced in relying on Visa and Mastercard.
April 6 -
Companies that aspire to be the Uber of their industry should take a second look at the ride-sharing market, where Grab has become a lightning rod of payments investment and innovation.
April 5 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Russia plots a payments network; South Africa sets up a crytpocurrency unit; Commonwealth Bank suffers an outage; Monzo makes progress with its new accounts.
April 5 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: NatWest uses AI to thwart payments fraud; Apple Pay launches in Brazil; Domino's gamifies loyalty; Currency conversion comes to alternative currency.
April 4 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Panera's data leak; Google cracks down on cryptomining; Seoul plans its own cryptocurrency; People fear the Equifax breach; Amazon expands voice donations.
April 3 -
Alibaba is investing billions into mobile ordering technology in China — but what is more fundamentally American than spending large amounts of money on food?
April 2 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Alibaba pays billions to acquire mobile delivery startup; Waves builds a cryptopay gateway; FINRA warns on screen scraping; Phishing attackers get arrested; Payment fraudsters hit Italian football club.
April 2 -
Like a crime wave, data leaks and vulnerable static identifiers show no sign of abating, as MyFitnessPal became the latest in a string of sites to have users' data exposed trough usernames and hashed passwords.
March 29 -
President Trump's isolationism is colliding head-on with a lucrative trend of Chinese tourists coming to the U.S. looking — and payments companies are caught in the crossfire.
March 29 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Atlanta slowly comes back online after ramsonware attack; Monero's not as "invisible" as its reputation; EU changes its transaction fee rules; More green cryptocurrency.
March 29 -
Uber is clearly doing more to get into payments, but is hampered by a heavy regulatory burden and self-inflicted wounds to its brand.
March 28 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Uber applies for an e-money license; Shyp shuts down; Apple Watch getting a redesign; Massachusetts halts some ICOs.
March 28 -
There are still millions of merchants in the U.S. clinging to relic point of sale methods — and they are not easily swayed by fancy new touchscreens and mobile wallets. This means companies such as Verifone must go to greater lengths, just to meet them halfway.
March 28 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Venmo's new privacy policy; Alipay's boss on blockchain; Jet.com's new president; and more.
March 27
