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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Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Timex adds bPay; SAP expands blockchain; Fidelity pushes bitcoin; Overstock looks to benefit from ICOs.
September 29 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: PayPal's acquisition targets; A mall for supply chain logistics; Vendors line up after Equifax breach; Worldpay preps for IoT.
September 28 -
Banks are using pending data-sharing rules in Europe to rethink how proprietary their systems should be, but they likely have little choice in the matter.
September 28 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Sonic suffers a data breach; Cryptocurrency miners slow Showtime; ABN Amro supports a 'stream store'; Japan plans a government virtual currency.
September 27 -
International sourcing is stressing businesses that are already too reliant on paper-based payment methods, argues Hyperwallet's Tomas Likar.
September 27 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Swarovski supports Masterpass payments; Fitbit debuts payments app; Pinterest collaborates with Target for photo shopping; Aussie banks drop ATM fees.
September 26 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web: Marks & Spencer goes digital; a crash course in blockchain programming; ATM M&A in the U.K.; and more.
September 25 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Viking Cruise signs a card deal; Alipay expands in the Nordic region; A new ATM network for cryptocoins; Fime has a new CEO.
September 22 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Target taps Bluetooth marketing; Swiss exchange may sell payments unit; Bluefin adds college ticketing; Brunel U. in London adopts finger pay.
September 21 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: AXA uses smart contracts for flight delay payments; FCA issues PSD2 guidance; ING adds comparisons for transfer apps; iZettle draws investment.
September 20 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Equifax's 'other' breach; China cracks down on bitcoin; Apple Pay has a hard time in Australia; Web group pushes for easier payments.
September 19 -
iMessage funds will come from cards already stored in Apple's digital wallet, and the service will work with Siri, allowing payments via the personal assistant.
September 18 -
In India, dLocal wants to enable global e-commerce companies to accept payments from and make payments to India to serve consumers, contractors and supply chains.
September 18 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Google announces India payment app; Patreon gets funding; Dash expands; Japanese group offers blockchain testing.
September 18 -
Apple's Face ID is turning heads, but it is far from the first use of facial biometrics in payments. Here are several implementations that predate it.
September 15 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Apple's Face ID can be quickly shut off; Moviepass is snail mailing tickets; Investors flock to Hong Kong wallet; Student housing finance lures cryptocurrency.
September 15 -
Despite lowering barriers and eliminating borders for commerce, the internet still makes it clunky comparison-shop for products across multiple sites. E-commerce startup Shoppable aims to solve this by creating a universal shopping cart.
September 15 -
Blockchain is already taking a bite out of the fees traditional financial institutions extract from cross-border transactions by providing a workaround that avoids third parties.
September 14 -
Welcome to the PaymentsSource Morning Briefing, delivered daily. The information you need to start your day, including top headlines from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Google's plans in India; A warning to ATM makers; A glossary for blockchain; Monzo's fee election.
September 14 -
Security professionals have long argued against the use of static identifiers like passwords and Social Security numbers, while consumers have long questioned why a handful of bureaus can claim to be the ultimate judges of their identities.
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