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: Amazon pushes grocery subscriptions; Will the inventor of Bitcoin speak?; Trump loses web security experts; South African startup builds payments tech for Messenger.
August 28 -
Ant Financial's Alipay is a big deal in China, and it wants to be a big deal globally. It's got several strategies already in motion, some of which have very big implications for other markets.
August 25 -
Mobile wallets and digital payments apps are erasing the distinction between credit and debit, but many issuers still cling to old practices that treat those audiences differently. SunTrust is working to change that.
August 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: Australia's agenda for payments; developers flock to blockchain; fraud spikes in the U.K.; and more.
August 24 -
Mobile wallets and digital payments apps are erasing the distinction between credit and debit, but many issuers still cling to old practices that treat those audiences differently. SunTrust is working to change that.
August 24 -
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 adds Walmart to voice ordering; PayPal expands gaming payments; Klarna examines young shoppers' habits; Standard Chartered teams with Chinese airline.
August 23 -
Amazon casts a huge shadow over the retail industry, but it can be as much an inspiration as a threat.
August 23 -
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: Walmart's Uber collaboration expands; P-to-P drives digital adoption; Ebix makes acquisitions in India; QR codes push financial inclusion in Africa.
August 22 -
All business categories are vulnerable to breaches, but hotels seem to attract the most attention.
August 22 -
Cardtronics CEO Steven Rathgaber will retire at the end of the year and will be replaced by Edward West, the ATM operator's current chief operations and financial officer.
August 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: Barclays adds Siri payments; WordPress simplifies PayPal link; Australia bolsters AML rules; Gamers caused big 2016 hack.
August 21 -
Payments are getting more complex as business gets more global, adding channels and expanding ways to sell. Part of the strategy at the matchmaker crowdSPRING is to find a match of its own: AliExpress, Alibaba's online marketplace. It’s also considering a foray into virtual currency.
August 21 -
The simple act of moving money can have a big impact on any political movement, so banks and payment networks are often caught up in issues of national importance. Here are some recent instances where payments and politics came head-to-head.
August 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. Today: Alibaba's revenue grows; Simple changes focus; Lunar's new travel cards; Blockchain adds ether.
August 18 -
Billtrust has long relied on its sales force to approach businesses directly with accounts receivable technology, and it's turning to banks to automate more steps in the process of handling payments.
August 17 -
The commercial potential of internet-connected devices appears bound only by imagination and comfort. For security companies, there's a similar broad horizon as watches, refrigerators and other everyday items become tools for payments.
August 17 -
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: Payments innovation advances in Singapore for young and old; Youth payment company Spriggy raises funds; Australia's post office teams with Mastercard for financial inclusion.
August 17 -
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 halts payments to white supremacists; Broadway shows combat scalping; PSD2 leads to more collaboration; Digiliti's woes.
August 16 -
The latest class of the Commerce.Innovated accelerator program run by Silicon Valley Bank and First Data demonstrates a focus on changing industries in addition to streamlining how people pay.
August 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 Pay hits a snag in China; PSD2 births a startup; TerraPay expands in Africa; R3 adds a Middle Eastern bank.
August 15
