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: Arsenal signs deal with blockchain company; Connected car tech advances; Cryptocurrency M&A; First Data recruits in Ireland.
January 25 -
E-commerce merchants are juggling several challenges at once, creating potential business-threatening gaps Worldpay and Vantiv say can be bridged by their merger.
January 25 -
Now that bitcoin's market spike has made the alternative currency a household name, it's linked to wild market swings, bubble-level valuations and onerous fees, with the most obvious fixes likely furthering bitcoin's problems rather than solving them.
January 24 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: ANZ's mobile pay spikes; ABN Amro leaves Dutch wallet group; DDoS attacks on the rise; How well-known is bitcoin?
January 24 -
Much like small businesses, small banks can't take on huge IT projects and rely more on targeted deployments to build a user base for future technology.
January 24 -
Bitcoin has lost touch with its original mission of being an alternative decentralized currency, and Stripe has decided that it is no longer worth supporting for payments.
January 23 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Researcher finds a potential vulnerability at Uber; Visa bolsters executive ranks; Grab adds tech for bike sharing; The impact of PSD2.
January 23 -
The all-in-one card market is littered with the carcasses of unsuccessful ventures, but Curve's Shachar Bialick insists his initiative has a model and a headstart that will help it fight the market's considerable headwinds.
January 23 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon Go opens in Seattle; CBA adds voice payments; Instant payments advance in France; SEC targets cryptocurrency manipulation; Why is a consumer group attacking lower ATM fees?
January 22 -
The mix of airlines, hotels and other companies that make up the travel industry have lost an innovative edge, in part because a once-cutting edge system of combined booking and payments has not aged well.
January 22 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Australia plugs into Alexa; Europe regulates processing; contactless payments in sports; and more.
January 19 -
While Starbucks is making a tentative move into cash refusal at one location, it's unlikely any retailer would widely refuse cash payments in the near term.
January 18 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa won't support cryptocurrency payments; Blockstream extends virtual currency tech; EMV advances in Ghana; Blockchain becomes art.
January 18 -
The anxiety that a crook is using a lost or stolen card can be a powerful lure to mobile technology, Citigroup has learned.
January 18 -
As mobile commerce matures, consumers are getting more accustomed to the process of populating a shopping cart from a smartphone's screen. It's a process that could translate well to brick-and-mortar stores.
January 18 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Curve launches its all-in-one card; States push Congress to relax weed regulations; OnePlus gets attacked; Ethereum finds another user; China takes another swipe at cryptocurrency.
January 17 -
Most U.S. merchants faced a 2015 deadline for EMV compliance, but gas stations have until 2020. Those extra years bring with them an assortment of new technology that can fundamentally change the ways motorists fuel up.
January 17 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Bitcoin mining stresses electrical grids; State taxes for cryptocurrency; Facebook payments expand in Africa; A pop song in Japan for cryptocurrency.
January 16 -
Despite the growing legality of marijuana sales, banks have largely written off the industry as being too high-risk. Recent remarks by Attorney General Jeff Sessions would seem to reinforce that position.
January 16 -
The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Amazon opens Dash's tech; Hyundai makes a move into car tech; Faster payments advance in the U.S. and Lithuania.
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